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

US/Central
WH 1 West (Fermilab)

WH 1 West

Fermilab

Description
Main workshop web page: http://tigger.uic.edu/~varelas/cteq_workshop_2013/ Previous workshop page: https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=159191 Note: Please upload your talks to indico at least 3 hours prior to your talk. If you have trouble uploading your talk, please send it to hatake@fnal.gov and/or nikos@fnal.gov. Webcast: http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/VMS_Site_2/000Return/video/r_live.xsl Vidyo: http://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=KgscfQanG3Ek
Participants
  • Ajay Kumar
  • Alberto Accardi
  • Aleksander Kusina
  • Alessandra Lucà
  • Alexey Ferapontov
  • Andrew Larkoski
  • Andrew Warren Askew
  • Andy Buckley
  • Anna Driutti
  • Anna Mazzacane
  • Ashish Kumar
  • Bennie Ward
  • Bibhuti Parida
  • C.-P. Yuan
  • Christian Bauer
  • Costas Vellidis
  • Cynthia Keppel
  • Daniele Pedrini
  • David Clark
  • David Mason
  • Davison Soper
  • Doreen Wackeroth
  • Duong Nguyen
  • Edmond Berger
  • Elisabetta Furlan
  • Fabio Maltoni
  • Fredrick Olness
  • Gabriele Chiodini
  • Gabriele Chiodini
  • Heidi Schellman
  • Indira D. Vergara-Quispe
  • Inga Bucinskaite
  • James Dolen
  • JEAN- MAURICE COANGA
  • Jeff Owens
  • Jeffrey Berryhill
  • Jeremy Robert Love
  • Jonathan Walsh
  • Joshua Isaacson
  • Juan Rojo
  • Jun Gao
  • Kadir Ocalan
  • Kalanand Mishra
  • Keith Rose
  • Kenichi Hatakeyama
  • Kihyeon Cho
  • Konstantin Goulianos
  • Leonard Apanasevich
  • Lovedeep Kaur Saini
  • Marek Zielinski
  • Markus Klute
  • Matthew Low
  • Michelangelo Mangano
  • Nhan Viet Tran
  • Nicola Orlando
  • Nikos Varelas
  • Nobuo Sato
  • Pushpa Bhat
  • Rahmat Rahmat
  • Ram Lal Awasthi
  • Richard Cavanaugh
  • Richard Kriske
  • Ringaile Placakyte
  • Robert Blair
  • Robert Ciesielski
  • Sanmay Ganguly
  • Seema Sharma
  • Simone Alioli
  • Stefan Hoeche
  • Stefan Prestel
  • Stefano Camarda
  • Stephen Mrenna
  • Sudha Ahuja
  • Suvadeep Bose
  • Titas Roy
  • Tutanon Sinthuprasith
  • Vadim Oreshkin
  • Victor Kim
  • Ye Li
  • Zack Sullivan
  • 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
      • 2
        CMS Status of MC tuning
        Speaker: Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 3
        Status of diffractive models
        Speaker: Dr Robert Adam Ciesielski (The Rockefeller University)
        Slides
      • 4
        Status of RIVET and perspectives on tuning
        Speaker: Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))
        Slides
    • 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
      • 6
        NLO and parton shower matching
        Speaker: Prof. Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)
        Slides
      • 7
        Matrix-element parton-shower merging
        Speaker: Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))
        Slides
    • 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
      • 9
        Vector Bosons+ Jets: Theory
        (20'+25')
        Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
        Slides
    • 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
      • 11
        Relation of substructure observables to the structure of the theory
        Speaker: Andrew Larkoski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        Slides
      • 12
        A case study of using substructure analysis in new physics searches
        Speaker: Nhan Viet Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
  • 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
      • 14
        Gluon PDF
        Speakers: Jun Gao (CPPM/USTC), Jun Gao (Southern Methodist University)
        Slides
      • 15
        Quark PDFs at the LHC
        Speaker: Ringaile Placakyte (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
        Slides
      • 16
        Quark PDFs in non-LHC experiments
        Speaker: Alberto Accardi (Hampton U. and Jefferson Lab)
        Slides
      • 17
        LHAPDF6
        Speaker: Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh (GB))
        Slides
      • 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
      • 20
        Status of NNLO calculations
        Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)
        Slides
      • 21
        Status of higher-order electroweak calculations
        Speaker: Prof. Doreen Wackeroth (SUNY Buffalo)
        Slides
    • 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
      • 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
      • 24
        Taming QCD issues in gg-fusion with gg->ZZ or gg->gammagamma
        Speaker: Fabrizio Caola (Universita' di Milano)
        Slides
    • W&C seminar: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
      slides