PDF4LHC meeting

Monday 13 Apr 2015, 09:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

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

Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Periodic meeting of the PDF4LHC forum. 

VIDYO connection will be available
 

For information relative to housing, access to CERN for those not holding a CERN card and laptop registration, please check
http://lpcc.web.cern.ch/LPCC/index.php?page=visit

IMPORTANT NOTE: Material added during/after the meeting

-A NOTE was added with requirements on PDFs to be considerd for future combined PDF data sets in the section on META/CMC PDFS  (thanks Pavel Nadolsky)

- A first version of a NOTE with all raw material of the PDF@LHC information and proposects was added to the agenda of the last section, for comments. We need now to extract a crisp message from these data. Input welcome!!

 

 

Updates and progress on PDFs

1 Update on MMHT

Speaker: Prof. Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

Slides PDF4LHCApr15.pdf

2 Update on ABM

Speaker: Serguei Alekhin (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))

Slides alekhin.pdf

3 Statistical PDFs

Speaker: Jacques Francis Soffer (Temple University (US))

Slides soffer-PDF4LHC.pdf

10:45 coffee break

4 Update on NNPDF

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides 1504-PDF4LHC-nnpdf.pdf

5 Update on CT

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

Slides huston_CT14_pdf4lhc_april_2015.pdf huston_CT14_pdf4lhc_april_2015.pptx

6 News from Herafitter

Speaker: Stefano Camarda (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides herafitter.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

META/CMC PDFs

7 Tool for conversion of MC pdf sets into Hessian

Speaker: Stefano Carrazza (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

Slides stalk.pdf

8 Update on the META and CMC PDFs

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides f413.CMCvsMETA_rev.pdf rojo-pdf4lhc-cmcpdfs.pdf

9 Discussion on the new PDF4LHC recommendation

10 Requirements for PDFs to be considered for including in future combinations

Slides PDF-combination.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

Input from the experiments

11 PDF Prospects for Run II at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Katerina Lipka (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides PDF4LHC_April_2015.pdf PDF4LHC_April_2015.pdf

12 New CMS results on PDF extraction.

Speaker: Ping Tan (University of Iowa (US))

Slides Recent_CMS_results.pdf

LHC PDF document discussion

13 The document for comments

Slides pdf4lhc.v1.pdf