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

09:30 → 11:00 Welcome and Introduction

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

09:30 Welcome & interest for MC generators in Bucharest group

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

Slides genWorkNov2012RM.pdf

09:45 Scope of the workshop

Speaker: Gloria Corti (CERN)

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

10:00 Generators in LHCb

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

Slides LHCb_MCWorkshop_Bucarest.pdf LHCb_MCWorkshop_Bucarest.pptx

10:30 Discussion

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 13:15 Pythia8

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

11:15 Pythia8 and its tuning parameters (EVO)

Speaker: Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))

Diapositivas buc.pdf

11:45 Status of Pythia8 in LHCb

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

Slides martens.pdf

12:05 Fragmentation models

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

Slides Bucharest221112.pdf

12:25 Pythia8 and Powheg

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

Slides presentation.pdf

12:45 Discussion

13:15 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 EvtGen

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

14:30 EvtGen in LHCb

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

Slides BucharestEvtGen.pdf

15:10 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Sherpa

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

15:30 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 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:30 Sherpa

16:15 Sherpa in LHCb

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

Slides 20121122-MCWorkshop-SherpaInGauss.pdf

16:45 Discussion

Friday 23 November

09:30 → 12:30 Tuning and tuning tools

Convener: Gloria Corti (CERN)

09:45 Tuning needs in LHCb

Speaker: Dr Stefania Vecchi (INFN Ferrara)

Slides LHCb_MCtuning_needs.pdf

10:25 Tuning with Rivet and Professor

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

Slides buckley-mctuning.pdf

11:15 Coffee

11:30 Rivet in LHCb

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

Slides Rivet_in_LHCb.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Herwig++

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

14:00 Herwig++ and its tuning parameters

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

Slides LHCb_Siodmok_Herwig++.pdf

14:30 Herwig++ in LHCb

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

Slides presentation.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:15 → 16:15 Other issues and Closing

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

15:15 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

15:45 Discussion