10th MCnet meeting

31 Mar 2014, 08:00 → 2 Apr 2014, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

The 10th meeting of the MCnet network. Default location is the TH Auditorium (Building 4, 3rd floor). The discussion session on Tuesday will be in the TH common room (Building 4, 2nd floor, across from the TH secretariat).

Monday, 31 March

09:30 → 12:00 MCnet Management Meeting: Note Room: 4-S-030

Restricted participation: MCnet management committee. Room 4-S-030 in the basement of building 4.

Conveners: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester (GB)), Peter Skands (CERN)

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch break

Lunch in R1

13:15 → 13:40 Welcome + Activities at CERN

Speaker: Peter Skands (CERN)

Slides 14-MCnet-CERN.pdf

13:40 → 14:00 Activities in Karlsruhe + DESY

Speaker: Simon Plätzer (DESY)

Slides platzer.pdf

14:00 → 14:20 Activities in Durham

Speaker: Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))

Slides management_March_2014.pdf

14:20 → 14:50 IBA

Speaker: Frederic Stichelbaut (IBA)

Slides Stichelbaut-MCNet_Workshop_at_CERN_-_FST_-_31-03-2014.pdf

14:50 → 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 → 15:35 Activities at UCL

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

Slides MCnet-March-2014-UCL.pdf

15:35 → 15:55 Activities at Gottingen

Speaker: Steffen Schumann (U Goettingen)

Slides goe_mcnet.pdf

15:55 → 16:15 Activities in Lund

Speaker: Leif Lönnblad (Lund University (SE))

Slides CERN-MCnet-14.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Activities at Manchester

Speaker: Mike Seymour (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides ManchesterOverview.pptx

16:30 → 16:50 Activities in Louvain

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Slides mcnet_maltoni.pdf

Tuesday, 1 April

09:30 → 09:50 The POWHEG method in Herwig++ for BSM processes

Speaker: Alexandra Wilcock

Slides AW_MCNet.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 Higgs pair production at the LHC

Speaker: Eleni Vryonidou (UC Louvain)

Slides Vryonidou.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Finite heavy quark mass effects in gluon fusion Higgs production

Speaker: Silvan Kuttimalai (IPPP Durham)

Slides silvan-main.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Uncertainties in h+jets production

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)

Slides MarekSchoenherr_MCnet_20140401.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:30 d-fine

Speaker: Mark Beinker (d-fine GmbH)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch Break

Lunch in R1 (on your own)

14:00 → 15:00 Discussion on MC Uncertainties

Note location: TH Common Room

Conveners: Peter Skands (CERN), Simon Plätzer (DESY)

15:00 → 15:20 Rope Hadronization

Speaker: Mr Christian Bierlich (Lund University (SE))

Slides christian_bierlich.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 HepMC 3 plans

Speaker: David Grellscheid

Slides HepMC3.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 GENSER Activities

Speakers: Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU)), Mikhail Kirsanov (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

Slides GENSER_MCNET.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 16:50 WH Production and its Heavy Boson Background

Speaker: Jennifer Mary Thompson (Durham University)

Slides MCnet.pdf

16:50 → 17:20 5' self-introductions about projects just started

Speakers: Hendrik Mantler (CERN), Jesper Roy Christiansen (Lund University (SE)), Piero Ferrarese (U Goettingen), Simone Amoroso (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

Slides

• Amoroso
• Ferrarese.pdf
• jesper-presentation.pdf
• mantler.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Working Dinner

for meeting participants, tentatively at Restaurant de l'Aviation.

Wednesday, 2 April

09:30 → 09:50 Interfaces for Matchbox

Speaker: Johannes Bellm (KIT)

Slides KIT-Folien-de.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 Having fun with jets in heavy ions

Speaker: Korinna Christine Zapp (CERN)

Slides mcnet_1404.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Decomposing color structure into multiplet bases

Speaker: Per Johan Hakan Thoren

Slides ColorDecomp_JohanThoren.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Herwig++: Mass effects in the initial state shower

Speaker: Graeme Nail (Manchester U)

Slides NAIL_MCnet.pdf

10:50 → 10:55 ICTP and EPLANET

Speaker: David Grellscheid

Slides ICTPandEPlanetSlide.pdf