PDF4LHC Meeting

Name: PDF4LHC Meeting
Start: 2008-02-22T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2008-02-23T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

22 Feb 2008, 08:00 → 23 Feb 2008, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

40-S2-B01 (CERN)

40-S2-B01

CERN

Description

Meeting on PDFs for the LHC

Friday 22 February
- Fri 22 Feb
- Sat 23 Feb
- 08:00 → 14:00
  Plenary Session
  - 09:00
    
    Opening and goals of the meeting 10m
    
    Speaker: Albert De Roeck
    
    Slides
  - 09:10
    
    Introduction to PDF4LHC 45m
    
    Speaker: Bryan Webber
    
    Slides
  - 09:55
    
    CTEQ PDF developements 30m
    
    Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky
    
    Slides
  - 10:25
    
    MRST/MSTW PDF developements 30m
    
    Speaker: Robert Thorne
    
    Slides
  - 10:55
    
    break 15m
  - 11:15
    
    Comparisons of PDFs 30m
    
    Speaker: Mandy Cooper
    
    Slides
  - 11:45
    
    Input data for PDF 30m
    
    Speaker: Sasha Glazov
    
    Slides
  - 12:15
    
    LHC needs for PDFs 30m
    
    Speaker: Joey Huston
    
    Slides
  - 12:45
    
    Lunch break 1h 15m
- 14:00 → 17:25
  Technical Session: Needs for and input from first data of the LHC to PDF Determination
  
  Session chair: A. Cooper-Sarkar
  
  PROVISIONAL AGENDA!
  - 14:00
    
    Introduction and Aims 15m
    
    Speaker: Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford)
    
    Slides
  - 14:15
    
    Extracting PDF from LHC data: The ApplGrid project 20m
    
    Speaker: Pavel Starovoitov
    
    Slides
  - 14:35
    
    ATLAS studies on W mass and Drell-Yan 15m
    
    Speaker: Maarten Boonekamp
    
    Slides
  - 14:50
    
    Drell-Yan processes at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Vicini
    
    Slides
  - 15:10
    
    Z, gamma* and W at LHCb 20m
    
    Speaker: Jonathan Anderson
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    CMS studies 20m
    
    Speaker: Roberto Tenchini
    
    Slides
  - 15:50
    
    Tea Break 20m
    
    Speaker: All
  - 16:10
    
    Global analysis of nuclear PDFs 25m
    
    Speaker: Hannu Paukkunen
    
    Slides
  - 16:35
    
    LHAPDF status and plans 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mike Whalley (IPPP, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM)
    
    Slides
  - 16:55
    
    Discussion 20m
    
    Speaker: All
- 17:30 → 19:00
  Technical Session : PDF Uncertainties (first part)
  - 17:30
    
    Introduction 5m
    
    Speaker: Joël Feltesse
    
    Slides
  - 17:40
    
    Implicit Error Blow up 5m
    
    Speaker: Bob Cousins
    
    Slides
  - 17:50
    
    Tolerance in Global PDF Analysis 20m
    
    Speaker: Graeme Watt
    
    Slides
  - 18:15
    
    PDF Correlations 20m
    
    Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky
    
    Slides
Saturday 23 February
- Fri 22 Feb
- Sat 23 Feb
- 09:00 → 12:40
  Technical session: PDF Uncertainties (second part)
  - 09:00
    
    Errors in PDFS 20m
    
    Speaker: Serguey Alekhin
    
    Slides
  - 09:25
    
    Offset/Hessian Methods 15m
    
    Speaker: A.M. Cooper-Sarkar
    
    Slides
  - 09:45
    
    Averaging data sets before the QCD analysis 15m
    
    Speaker: Sasha Glazov
    
    Slides
  - 10:05
    
    Benchmark test on error propagations 15m
    
    Speaker: Voica Radescu
    
    Slides
  - 10:25
    
    Benchmark test on error propagations with MC 15m
    
    Speaker: Alberto Guffanti
    
    Slides
  - 10:45
    
    Beyond Correlations 5m
    
    Speaker: Lars Sonnenschein
    
    Slides
  - 10:55
    
    General discussion aiming to agree on further tests of the various methods 20m
  - 11:15
    
    COFFEE BREAK 30m
    
    Speaker: All
  - 11:45
    
    Input parameterisation and Neural Network 10m
    
    Speaker: Alberto Guffanti
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    Theoretical uncertainties and inaccuracies 10m
    
    Speaker: Robert Thorne
    
    Slides
  - 12:15
    
    Uncertainties on corrections to DGLAP and resummation 10m
    
    Speaker: Stefano Forte
    
    Slides
  - 12:25
    
    Short general discussion on further studies to reduce theoretical uncertainties 15m
- 14:00 → 17:00
  Technical session: PDFs for MC generators
  - 14:00
    
    Welcome 5m
  - 14:05
    
    MC author's perspective 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)
    
    Slides
  - 14:20
    
    MRSTLO* modified PDFs 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)
    
    Slides
  - 14:50
    
    CTEQ LO plans 20m
    
    Speakers: Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Mr Pavel Nadolsky (Argonne National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 15:10
    
    Diffractive, generalised and unintegrated PDFs 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Graeme Watt (University College London)
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    DESY LO4MC plans 15m
    
    Speaker: Krzysztof Kutak (Hamburg University)
    
    Slides
  - 15:45
    
    Unintegrated PDF's 15m
    
    Speaker: Krzysztof Kutak (Hamburg University)
  - 16:00
    
    Further contributions and discussions 1h