Joint MC4BSM and LPC "data challenge" (post MC4BSM workshop)

21 May 2015, 08:30 → 22 May 2015, 00:30 US/Central

Sunrise (WH11NE) (FNAL)

Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida (US)), Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US)), Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

Thursday, 21 May

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Andrew James Whitbeck (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Robin Erbacher (University of California Davis (US)), Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico (US))

09:10 → 10:30 MC4BSM/LPC Data Challenge

Speakers: Doojin Kim (University of Florida), Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida (US)), Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB), Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides

• CMS_data_challenge.pdf
• DataAnalysis_DoojinKim_DataChallenge2015.pdf
• mc4bsm_lpc.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Data Challenge Finale

Speakers: Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida (US)), Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB), Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 New Physics Searches: Signal MC Generation in CMS

Speaker: Frank Golf (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))

Slides postMC4BSM2015_golf.pdf

13:30 → 14:00 Overview of CMS-ATLAS joint dark matter working group

Speakers: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB), Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides mrenna_lhcdm.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 Matrix Element Method for new physics discovery

Speaker: James Gainer (ANL/ Northwestern)

Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7129 http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5879

Slides MEM-Talk-5-21-15.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee

15:00 → 15:20 Recast 1: Status report and wish list from Checkmate

Speaker: Jong Soo Kim

Slides Fermilab_MC4BSM15.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 Recast 2: Status report and wish list from ATOM and Fastlim

Speakers: Kazuki Sakurai (University of London (GB)), Dr Kazuki Sakurai (King's College London)

Slides 2015_5_21_CMSworkshop_Sakurai.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Recast 3: Status report and wish list from Madanalysis

Speaker: Benjamin Fuks (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

Slides ma5_fuks.pdf

16:00 → 16:15 Discussion of Wishlist

Speaker: Benjamin Fuks (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))

Slides wishlist.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Recast discussion

Paper recast-wishlist-sep14.pdf

16:30 → 17:30 Informal gathering at FNAL Users' Center