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

PDF4LHC Meeting

from Friday 22 February 2008 (08:00) to Saturday 23 February 2008 (18:00)
CERN (40-S2-B01)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

22 Feb 2008

23 Feb 2008

08:00	Plenary Session (until 14:00)
09:00	Opening and goals of the meeting - Albert De Roeck Slides
09:10	Introduction to PDF4LHC - Bryan Webber Slides
09:55	CTEQ PDF developements - Pavel Nadolsky Slides
10:25	MRST/MSTW PDF developements - Robert Thorne Slides
10:55	--- break ---
11:15	Comparisons of PDFs - Mandy Cooper Slides
11:45	Input data for PDF - Sasha Glazov Slides
12:15	LHC needs for PDFs - Joey Huston Slides
12:45	--- Lunch break ---

09:00	Technical session: PDF Uncertainties (second part) (until 12:40)
09:00	Errors in PDFS - Serguey Alekhin Slides
09:25	Offset/Hessian Methods - A.M. Cooper-Sarkar Slides
09:45	Averaging data sets before the QCD analysis - Sasha Glazov Slides
10:05	Benchmark test on error propagations - Voica Radescu Slides
10:25	Benchmark test on error propagations with MC - Alberto Guffanti Slides
10:45	Beyond Correlations - Lars Sonnenschein Slides
10:55	General discussion aiming to agree on further tests of the various methods
11:15	COFFEE BREAK - All
11:45	Input parameterisation and Neural Network - Alberto Guffanti Slides
12:00	Theoretical uncertainties and inaccuracies - Robert Thorne Slides
12:15	Uncertainties on corrections to DGLAP and resummation - Stefano Forte Slides
12:25	Short general discussion on further studies to reduce theoretical uncertainties

14:00	Technical Session: Needs for and input from first data of the LHC to PDF Determination (until 17:25)
14:00	Introduction and Aims - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford) Slides
14:15	Extracting PDF from LHC data: The ApplGrid project - Pavel Starovoitov Slides
14:35	ATLAS studies on W mass and Drell-Yan - Maarten Boonekamp Slides
14:50	Drell-Yan processes at the LHC - Alessandro Vicini Slides
15:10	Z, gamma* and W at LHCb - Jonathan Anderson Slides
15:30	CMS studies - Roberto Tenchini Slides
15:50	Tea Break - All
16:10	Global analysis of nuclear PDFs - Hannu Paukkunen Slides
16:35	LHAPDF status and plans - Dr Mike Whalley (IPPP, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM) Slides
16:55	Discussion - All
17:30	Technical Session : PDF Uncertainties (first part) (until 19:00)
17:30	Introduction - Joël Feltesse Slides
17:40	Implicit Error Blow up - Bob Cousins Slides
17:50	Tolerance in Global PDF Analysis - Graeme Watt Slides
18:15	PDF Correlations - Pavel Nadolsky Slides

14:00	Technical session: PDFs for MC generators (until 17:00)
14:00	Welcome
14:05	MC author's perspective - Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB) Slides
14:20	MRSTLO* modified PDFs - Dr Robert Thorne (UCL) Slides
14:50	CTEQ LO plans - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy) Mr Pavel Nadolsky (Argonne National Laboratory) Slides
15:10	Diffractive, generalised and unintegrated PDFs - Dr Graeme Watt (University College London) Slides
15:30	DESY LO4MC plans - Krzysztof Kutak (Hamburg University) Slides
15:45	Unintegrated PDF's - Krzysztof Kutak (Hamburg University)
16:00	Further contributions and discussions

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