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
Plenary Session
1
Opening and goals of the meeting
Speaker
:
Albert De Roeck
Slides
2
Introduction to PDF4LHC
Speaker
:
Bryan Webber
Slides
3
CTEQ PDF developements
Speaker
:
Pavel Nadolsky
Slides
4
MRST/MSTW PDF developements
Speaker
:
Robert Thorne
Slides
10:55
break
5
Comparisons of PDFs
Speaker
:
Mandy Cooper
Slides
6
Input data for PDF
Speaker
:
Sasha Glazov
Slides
7
LHC needs for PDFs
Speaker
:
Joey Huston
Slides
12:45
Lunch break
Technical Session: Needs for and input from first data of the LHC to PDF Determination
Session chair: A. Cooper-Sarkar
PROVISIONAL AGENDA!
8
Introduction and Aims
Speaker
:
Amanda Sarkar
(
University of Oxford
)
Slides
9
Extracting PDF from LHC data: The ApplGrid project
Speaker
:
Pavel Starovoitov
Slides
10
ATLAS studies on W mass and Drell-Yan
Speaker
:
Maarten Boonekamp
Slides
11
Drell-Yan processes at the LHC
Speaker
:
Alessandro Vicini
Slides
12
Z, gamma* and W at LHCb
Speaker
:
Jonathan Anderson
Slides
13
CMS studies
Speaker
:
Roberto Tenchini
Slides
14
Tea Break
Speaker
:
All
15
Global analysis of nuclear PDFs
Speaker
:
Hannu Paukkunen
Slides
16
LHAPDF status and plans
Speaker
:
Dr
Mike Whalley
(
IPPP, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
)
Slides
17
Discussion
Speaker
:
All
Technical Session : PDF Uncertainties (first part)
18
Introduction
Speaker
:
Joël Feltesse
Slides
19
Implicit Error Blow up
Speaker
:
Bob Cousins
Slides
20
Tolerance in Global PDF Analysis
Speaker
:
Graeme Watt
Slides
21
PDF Correlations
Speaker
:
Pavel Nadolsky
Slides
Saturday, 23 February
Fri, 22 Feb
Sat, 23 Feb
Technical session: PDF Uncertainties (second part)
22
Errors in PDFS
Speaker
:
Serguey Alekhin
Slides
23
Offset/Hessian Methods
Speaker
:
A.M. Cooper-Sarkar
Slides
24
Averaging data sets before the QCD analysis
Speaker
:
Sasha Glazov
Slides
25
Benchmark test on error propagations
Speaker
:
Voica Radescu
Slides
26
Benchmark test on error propagations with MC
Speaker
:
Alberto Guffanti
Slides
27
Beyond Correlations
Speaker
:
Lars Sonnenschein
Slides
28
General discussion aiming to agree on further tests of the various methods
29
COFFEE BREAK
Speaker
:
All
30
Input parameterisation and Neural Network
Speaker
:
Alberto Guffanti
Slides
31
Theoretical uncertainties and inaccuracies
Speaker
:
Robert Thorne
Slides
32
Uncertainties on corrections to DGLAP and resummation
Speaker
:
Stefano Forte
Slides
33
Short general discussion on further studies to reduce theoretical uncertainties
Technical session: PDFs for MC generators
34
Welcome
35
MC author's perspective
Speaker
:
Dr
Stephen Mrenna
(
FERMILAB
)
Slides
36
MRSTLO* modified PDFs
Speaker
:
Dr
Robert Thorne
(
UCL
)
Slides
37
CTEQ LO plans
Speakers
:
Joey Huston
(
Department of Physics and Astronomy
)
,
Mr
Pavel Nadolsky
(
Argonne National Laboratory
)
Slides
38
Diffractive, generalised and unintegrated PDFs
Speaker
:
Dr
Graeme Watt
(
University College London
)
Slides
39
DESY LO4MC plans
Speaker
:
Krzysztof Kutak
(
Hamburg University
)
Slides
40
Unintegrated PDF's
Speaker
:
Krzysztof Kutak
(
Hamburg University
)
41
Further contributions and discussions