Hard QCD: from the Tevatron to the LHC

• Keith Ellis

RPM Seminar on Tuesday, 03/25 at 4pm. Abstract: The theoretical ingredients required to make predictions for hard processes at the Tevatron and the LHC are reviewed. Recent progress in the determination of alpha_s and parton distributions is described. To make predictions for hard processes at the 10% level at hadron colliders, calculations at next-to-leading (or higher) are required. Recent theoretical progress in making NLO predictions is presented, along with results for specific processes.

Welcome to Berkeley

• Bob Cahn (LBNL)

Information about Logistics of the Workshop and Berkeley

• Christian Bauer
• Beate Heinemann

Z+jets Cross Section Measurement at CDF

• Monica d'Onofrio (IFAE Barcelona)

W+jets Cross Section Measurement at CDF

• Andrea Messina (CERN)

Recent D0 Measurements of W and Z+jet Production

• Gregorio Bernardi (LPNHE-Paris VI-VII)

Discussions

• All

W+charm Cross Section Measurement

• Lucio Cerrito (Queen Mary University of London)

Measurements of F2cc and F2bb from HERA

• Andrew Mehta (Univ. of Liverpool)

W+b-jets Cross Section Measurement at CDF

• Chris Neu (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Cross Sections of Z+b-jet and Photon+b-jet Production

• Andrew Mehta (University of Liverpool)

Discussions

• All

Heavy Flavor Backgrounds in view of Top Quark Measurements and Higgs Searches at D0

• Elizaveta Shabalina (U. of Illinois, Chicago)

W/Z+heavy flavor backgrounds to Single Top and Associated Higgs Production at CDF

• Jason Nielsen (UC Santa Cruz)

Discussions

• All

Matching W+jets with MadEvent and Pythia

• Johan Alwall (SLAC)

MCFM and techniques for one-loop diagrams

• Keith Ellis (FNAL)

A review is given of the Vector boson + jet processes in MCFM. The QCDLoop project which provides results for divergent one-loop integrals will be described.

Alpgen: MC/data comparisons at the Tevatron

• Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Discussions

• All

Herwig V+jets and V+heavy flavor Production

• Mike Seymour (CERN/U. of Manchester)

New algorithms for parton showers

• Jan Winter (FNAL)

Problems with Matching

• Nils Lavesson (Lund University)

Heavy-quark densities: massless vs massive approach to V+heavy-quark production

• Fabio Maltoni (UC Louvain)

Colloquium: Astronomical Implications of Stable Quantum Black Holes

• Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Room: Auditorium We analyze the possible macroscopic manifestations of TeV-scale quantum black holes, in what is regarded as an extremely hypothetical scenario in which they are stable against Hawking radiation, and initiate an accretion process.

BBQ

• All

New Tools for NLO Calculations

• Tanju Gleisberg (SLAC)

GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation

• Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

Discussions

• All

ATLAS Prospects for W/Z+jets Measurements

• Mario Martinez-Perez (IFAE-Barcelona)

CMS Prospects for W/Z+jets Cross Section Measurements

• Haifeng Pi (UCSD)

Vector-boson +Jets Background as Background to Top at the LHC

• Ayana Holloway Arce (LBNL)

Vector-boson +Jets Background as Background to Supersymmetry Searches at CMS

• Taylan Yetkin (Univ. of Iowa)

Discussions

• All

Discussions