Name: QCD Tools for LHC Physics: From 8 to 14 TeV. What is needed and why?
Start: 2013-11-14T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2013-11-15T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Fermilab

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

from Thursday 14 November 2013 (08:00) to Friday 15 November 2013 (18:00)

Monday 11 November 2013
Tuesday 12 November 2013
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Thursday 14 November 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

09:00 ATLAS Status of MC tuning - Stefano Camarda (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

09:20 CMS Status of MC tuning - Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:40 Status of diffractive models - Robert Adam Ciesielski (The Rockefeller University)

10:00 Status of RIVET and perspectives on tuning - Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: WH 1 West
11:00 NLO Event Generators
NLO Event Generators
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

11:00 Status of parton showers - Stefan Prestel (Lund University (SE))

11:30 NLO and parton shower matching - Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)

12:00 Matrix-element parton-shower merging - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: WH 1 West
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

14:00 Vector Bosons + Jets: Experiment - Jeffrey Berryhill (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:45 Vector Bosons+ Jets: Theory - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: WH 1 West
16:00 Jet Tools and Substructure
Jet Tools and Substructure
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

16:00 The use of substructure based observables for finding new physics - Jeremy Robert Love (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

16:30 Relation of substructure observables to the structure of the theory - Andrew Larkoski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17:00 A case study of using substructure analysis in new physics searches - Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Friday 15 November 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

09:05 Gluon PDF - Jun Gao (CPPM/USTC) Jun Gao (Southern Methodist University)

09:25 Quark PDFs at the LHC - Ringaile Placakyte (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

09:45 Quark PDFs in non-LHC experiments - Alberto Accardi (Hampton U. and Jefferson Lab)

10:05 LHAPDF6 - Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))

10:15 Discussions
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: WH 1 West
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

11:00 Status of automated NLO calculations - Stefan Hoche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Stefan Hoeche (SLAC) Stefan Hoeche (University of Zurich)

11:30 Status of NNLO calculations - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

12:00 Status of higher-order electroweak calculations - Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: WH 1 West
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: WH 1 West
Contributions

14:00 Coupling measurements at the 14 TeV LHC versus the 8 TeV LHC - Markus Klute (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

14:30 What can be learned from ratios of Higgs cross sections at 14 TeV over 8 TeV - Jon Walsh (UC Berkeley) Jonathan Walsh (University of Washington)

15:00 Taming QCD issues in gg-fusion with gg->ZZ or gg->gammagamma - Fabrizio Caola (Universita' di Milano)
16:00 Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: WH 1 West

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