LHCb Generators Tuning mini-Workshop in Bucharest (LHCb-MC)

22 Nov 2012, 09:00 → 23 Nov 2012, 19:00 Europe/Bucharest

Horia Hulubei Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering

Gloria Corti (CERN), Raluca Muresan (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

Meeting of LHCb experts and theorists on generator tuning. Major new generation generators, Pythia8, Herwig++ and Sherpa, and their tuning will be discussed as well as the Rivet/Professor tuning tools.

Thursday 22 November

Welcome and Introduction

Conveners: Gloria Corti (CERN), Raluca Muresan (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

1 Welcome & interest for MC generators in Bucharest group

Speaker: Raluca Muresan (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

Slides genWorkNov2012RM.pdf

2 Scope of the workshop

Speaker: Gloria Corti (CERN)

Slides Introduction-GCorti-Bucarest-20121123.pdf Introduction-GCorti-Bucarest-20121123.pptx

3 Generators in LHCb

Speaker: Patrick Robbe (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Slides LHCb_MCWorkshop_Bucarest.pdf LHCb_MCWorkshop_Bucarest.pptx

4 Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

Pythia8

Convener: Raluca Muresan (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

5 Pythia8 and its tuning parameters (EVO)

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))

Diapositivas buc.pdf

6 Status of Pythia8 in LHCb

Speaker: Aurelien Martens (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))

Slides martens.pdf

7 Fragmentation models

Speaker: Eli Ben Haim (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))

Slides Bucharest221112.pdf

8 Pythia8 and Powheg

Speaker: Philip James Ilten (University College Dublin (IE))

Slides presentation.pdf

9 Discussion

13:15 Lunch

EvtGen

Convener: Patrick Robbe (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

10 EvtGen in LHCb

Speaker: Michal Kreps (University of Warwick (GB))

Slides BucharestEvtGen.pdf

11 Discussion

Sherpa

Convener: Alex Grecu (<a href="http://www.nipne.ro" target="_blank">HH-NIPNE</a>, Bucharest (RO))

12 Sherpa: production and decays

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth (University of Durham (GB))

Slides

• hoeth.pdf
• http://users.hepforge.org/~hoeth/bucharest/py6_perugia2011.pdf
• http://users.hepforge.org/~hoeth/bucharest/sherpa_shrimps_prelim.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

Sherpa

13 Sherpa in LHCb

Speaker: Julian Wishahi (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

Slides 20121122-MCWorkshop-SherpaInGauss.pdf

14 Discussion

Friday 23 November

Tuning and tuning tools

Convener: Gloria Corti (CERN)

15 Tuning needs in LHCb

Speaker: Dr Stefania Vecchi (INFN Ferrara)

Slides LHCb_MCtuning_needs.pdf

16 Tuning with Rivet and Professor

Speaker: Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))

Slides buckley-mctuning.pdf

11:15 Coffee

17 Rivet in LHCb

Speaker: Alex Grecu (<a href="http://www.nipne.ro" target="_blank">HH-NIPNE</a>, Bucharest (RO))

Slides Rivet_in_LHCb.pdf

18 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

Herwig++

Convener: Marco Adinolfi (University of Bristol (GB))

19 Herwig++ and its tuning parameters

Speaker: Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides LHCb_Siodmok_Herwig++.pdf

20 Herwig++ in LHCb

Speaker: Philip James Ilten (University College Dublin (IE))

Slides presentation.pdf

21 Discussion

Other issues and Closing

Convener: Raluca Muresan (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

22 Impact of PDF on tuning

Speakers: Philip James Ilten (University College Dublin (IE)), on behalf of Tara Shears and the QEE group

Slides presentation.pdf

23 Discussion