PDF4LHC Meeting
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