"ZPW2014 Monte Carlo Simulation" and "2nd Mini-Workshop on Advances in the Matrix Element Methods"

8 Jan 2014, 09:00 → 10 Jan 2014, 16:50 Europe/Zurich

KOL-F-121 (University of Zürich)

Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich), Adrian Signer (Paul Scherrer Institut), Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH, Zurich), Charalampos Anastasiou (ETH Zurich), Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE)), Florencia Maria Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)), John Campbell, Kyle Stuart Cranmer (New York University (US)), Massimiliano Grazzini (Universita e INFN (IT)), Michael Spira (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH)), Stefano Pozzorini, Thomas Gehrmann, Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

General-purpose Monte Carlo simulation programs are at the heart of all phenomenological analyses performed at the LHC, and recent developments of these tools have led to substantial improvements in accuracy and predictive power. Matrix element methods have become an invaluable statistical tool for the extraction of physics signals in the presence of challenging backgrounds. They are a developing tool at the interface of theory and experiment. This years' ZPW will team up with the 2nd Workshop on Matrix Element Methods. It will take place at UZH on 8.1.-10.1.2014, and aims to bring together Monte Carlo developers, data analysis experts, practitioners and theorists working on event simulation and matrix-element based techniques. For practical details (maps and directions to the venue) see the website of ZPW2014

Wednesday 8 January

09:30 Registration and Coffee

1 Monte Carlo simulations in measurements and searches done with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Dr Giovanni Siragusa (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))

Slides 20140108_ZPW14_siragusa.pdf

2 CMS results versus generator predictions

Speaker: Vitaliano Ciulli (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides CMS_ZPW2014.pdf

12:10 Lunch break

3 MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

Speaker: Stefano Frixione (CERN)

Slides MG5_aMC.pdf

4 Sherpa

Speaker: Marek Schoennher

Slides MarekSchoenherrZPW.pdf

16:00 coffee break

5 Matrix elements + PYTHIA 8

Speaker: Stefan Prestel (CERN - PH/TH)

Slides prestel.pdf

6 Higher-order QCD Improvements in Herwig++

Speaker: Mr Simon Plaetzer (ITP, Universitaet Karlsruhe)

Slides platzer.pdf

7 Towards LHC Phenomenology with Vincia

Speaker: Mathias Ritzmann

Slides Mathias_Ritzmann_ZPW.pdf

Thursday 9 January

8 NNLOPS with POWHEG & MiNLO

Speaker: Dr Emanuele Re

Slides talk_Z14.pdf

9 BlackHat

Speaker: Daniel Maitre

Slides BlackHat.pdf

10:30 cofee break

10 Multi-Jet production at next- to-leading order with NJet

Speaker: Benedikt Biedermann (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

Slides Biedermann.Zuerich2014.pdf

11 Recent developments in GoSam

Speaker: Gionata Luisoni (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Slides luisoni_ZPW.pdf

12 Loop amplitudes and NLO simulations with OpenLoops

Speaker: Stefano Augusto Pozzorini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

Slides openloops_zurich14.pdf

12:30 Lunch

13 Best analysis tools

Speaker: Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)

Slides Gilad_Perez_ZPW14.pdf

14 Some summits reached and the climb ahead

Speaker: James Gainer (University of Florida (US))

Slides Gainer-MEM-Workshop-9-1-2014.pdf

16:00 coffee break

15 Search for ttH(→bb) using the Matrix Element Method

Speaker: Lorenzo Bianchini (Eidgenoessische Tech. Hochschule Zuerich (CH))

Slides bianchini_ttH_final.pdf

16 New MEM tool

Speaker: Patrick Rieck (CERN - PH/UAT)

Slides MemZurichHUBerlin.pdf

17 Top-squark search with MEM

Speaker: Pierre Artoisenet (Nikhef)

Slides stop_project-pdf.pdf

Friday 10 January

18 MadMax

Speaker: Peter Schichtel (ITP)

Slides madmax.pdf

19 Higgs spin/CP and couplings with MEM

Speaker: Eric Feng (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

Slides FengEric_20140110_HiggsSpinCPMEM_ZPW.pdf

20 Constraining masses from peaks

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (University of Maryland (US))

Slides Exported_-_Invariance_Short_-_ZURICH_20140110.pdf

10:30 coffee break

21 "MT2" observables : where to?

Speaker: Christopher Gorham Lester (University of Cambridge (GB))

Slides Zurich-Kinematics-NewFormat-8.pdf Zurich-Kinematics-NewFormat-8.pptx

22 ttbar spin correlations with MEM

Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))

Slides SpinCorMEM_Zurich2014.pdf

23 The importance of FAST simulation for the MEM

Speaker: Michele Selvaggi (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

Slides delphes_mem.pdf

12:20 Lunch

24 ZH->llbb higgs search with MEM

Speaker: Jesus Manuel Vizan Garcia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

Slides MEWorkshopZurichJan2014_final.pdf

25 S-MEM application to Z to ttbar

Speaker: Michael Spannowsky (Durham University)

Slides EventDec_Spannowsky.pdf

15:00 coffee break

26 UPdate of MEM@NLO

Speaker: Ciaran Williams (Fermilab)

Slides MEM2CW.pdf

27 Prospects and discussion on the MEM

Speakers: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE)), Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

Slides mem_discussion.pdf

28 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Florencia Maria Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))