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
- 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