QCD Tools for LHC Physics: From 8 to 14 TeV. What is needed and why?

14 Nov 2013, 08:00 → 15 Nov 2013, 18:00 US/Central

WH 1 West (Fermilab)

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Thursday 14 November

Event Generator Tuning

Conveners: Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

1 ATLAS Status of MC tuning

Speaker: Stefano Camarda (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides ATLAS_tunes.pdf

2 CMS Status of MC tuning

Speaker: Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides cteq_cms_tuning.pdf

3 Status of diffractive models

Speaker: Dr Robert Adam Ciesielski (The Rockefeller University)

Slides CTEQ13diffraction.pdf

4 Status of RIVET and perspectives on tuning

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

Slides buckley-tuningtools.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

NLO Event Generators

Conveners: Simone Alioli (LBNL & UC Berkeley), Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

5 Status of parton showers

Speaker: Stefan Prestel (Lund University (SE))

Slides talk-prestel-20131114.pdf Added reference to HERWIRI

6 NLO and parton shower matching

Speaker: Prof. Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)

Slides Fermilab2013Fixed.pdf

7 Matrix-element parton-shower merging

Speaker: Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))

Slides Fermilab13.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

W/Z/photon+Jets

Conveners: Dr Andrew Warren Askew (Florida State University (US)), Joseph Owens (Florida State University)

8 Vector Bosons + Jets: Experiment

(20'+25')

Speaker: Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides berryhill_cteqws_smpvj_20131114.pdf berryhill_cteqws_smpvj_20131114.pptx

9 Vector Bosons+ Jets: Theory

(20'+25')

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides Mangano_CTEQ13.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

Jet Tools and Substructure

Conveners: David Miller (University of Chicago (US)), Prof. Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

10 The use of substructure based observables for finding new physics

Speaker: Jeremy Robert Love (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

Slides CTEQ_Substructure4Searches.pdf

11 Relation of substructure observables to the structure of the theory

Speaker: Andrew Larkoski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Slides CTEQ_Larkoski.pdf

12 A case study of using substructure analysis in new physics searches

Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides QCD_131114.pdf

Friday 15 November

Parton Distribution Functions

Conveners: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN), Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

13 Introduction

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-QCDtools-PDFintro.pdf rojo-QCDtools-PDFintro.ps

14 Gluon PDF

Speakers: Jun Gao (CPPM/USTC), Jun Gao (Southern Methodist University)

Slides PDF_gluon_11_15.pdf PDF_gluon_11_15.pptx

15 Quark PDFs at the LHC

Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides placakyte_qcdtools.pdf

16 Quark PDFs in non-LHC experiments

Speaker: Alberto Accardi (Hampton U. and Jefferson Lab)

Slides Accardi_-_non-LHC_quarks.pdf

17 LHAPDF6

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

Slides buckley-lhapdf6.pdf

18 Discussions

10:30 Coffee break

NLO and NNLO Predictions

Conveners: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Prof. Stefan Dittmaier (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

19 Status of automated NLO calculations

Speakers: Stefan Hoche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Stefan Hoeche (SLAC), Stefan Hoeche (University of Zurich)

Slides fnal_13-11.pdf

20 Status of NNLO calculations

Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

Slides AlexanderMitov-Fermilab_CTEQ-2013.pdf

21 Status of higher-order electroweak calculations

Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)

Slides QCDcteq.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

Higgs Production

Conveners: Andrey Korytov (University of Florida (US)), Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

22 Coupling measurements at the 14 TeV LHC versus the 8 TeV LHC

Speaker: Markus Klute (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

Slides 2013-11-15-mk-cteq.pdf

23 What can be learned from ratios of Higgs cross sections at 14 TeV over 8 TeV

Speakers: Jon Walsh (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Walsh (University of Washington)

Slides CTEQworkshop2013.pdf

24 Taming QCD issues in gg-fusion with gg->ZZ or gg->gammagamma

Speaker: Fabrizio Caola (Universita' di Milano)

Slides VV_Higgs.pdf

W&C seminar: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

slides Mangano_WineCheese.pdf