THUTF: Missing higher orders and PDF uncertainties

Monday 20 May 2013, 15:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F) (CERN)

Andre Tinoco Mendes (CERN), Gian Piero Passarino (Universita e INFN (IT)), Michael Duehrssen-Debling (CERN)

Agenda of first ever THUTF meeting (includes scope and goals) http://indico.cern.ch/event/THUTF00

1 Bayesian approach to missing higher orders

Speakers: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris), Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Jussieu)

Slides thutf.pdf

2 Simple remarks on theory uncertainty shapes and on scale variation

Speaker: Gavin Salam (CERN)

Slides salam-scale-thoughts.pdf

3 Parton distributions functions, missing higher orders and their interplay

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

Slides thunc13.pdf

4 Theory uncertainties to the PDF fits and the use of meta-PDFs

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

Slides cema.pdf

5 On dependence and independence of uncertainties

Speakers: Andre Tinoco Mendes (CERN), Michael Duehrssen-Debling (CERN)

Slides 130520_THUTF_keep_separate.pdf