Name: QCD@LHC 2015, London
Start: 2015-09-01T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-09-05T14:30:00+01:00
Location: Queen Mary University of London

QCD@LHC 2015, London

from Tuesday, September 1, 2015 (9:00 AM) to Saturday, September 5, 2015 (2:30 PM)

Monday, August 31, 2015
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

10:00 AM Welcome - Eram Syed Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)

10:10 AM Introduction - Simon Gaskell (Principal QMUL)

10:20 AM LHC Experimental Overview and Prospects (50+10) - Jonathan Butterworth (University College London (UK))

11:20 AM Theoretical Developments in Hard QCD Predictions (50+10) - Nigel Glover (Durham University)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Mucci's
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent QCD results from the LHC - Roberta Arcidiacono (Universita Del Piemonte Orientale (IT))

2:40 PM Soft QCD and multi-parton interactions - Richard Dryden Field (University of Florida (US))

3:20 PM Soft QCD measurements from the LHC - Alessia Bruni (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
4:30 PM Jets and Photons
Jets and Photons
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: UG1
Contributions

4:30 PM Measurements of jet and photon production in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector (20+10min) - Hector De La Torre (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid-Unknown-Unknown) Hector De La Torre Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))

5:00 PM Measurement of the Inclusive Isolated Prompt Photon production cross section in ppbar collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96TeV using the full CDF dataset (20+10min) - ALESSANDRA LUCA' (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics) Alessandra Luca

5:30 PM Numerical multi-loop calculations based on the program SecDec (15+5min) - Gudrun Heinrich (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

5:50 PM Five-point two-loop master integrals in QCD (15+5min) - Nicola Adriano Lo Presti (University of Zurich)

6:10 PM Color and Kinematic Decomposition for QCD Amplitudes (15+5min) - Alexander Ochirov (University of Edinburgh)
4:30 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: LG1
Contributions

4:30 PM Heavy flavour production with the ATLAS experiment - David Martin Bjergaard (Duke University (US))

4:55 PM Quarkonia results in heavy ions from CMS - Jason Adrian Kamin (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

5:20 PM Heavy quark spectroscopy - Marco Pappagallo (University of Glasgow (GB))

5:45 PM Spectroscopy and decay properties with b-hadrons at the ATLAS experiment - Konstantin Toms (University of New Mexico (US))

6:10 PM LHCb early measurements focusing on B and Charm production - Matthew David Needham (University of Edinburgh (GB))
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 208
Contributions

4:30 PM Hard Diffraction at HERA - Daniel Britzger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))

5:00 PM Results on total pp cross sections, diffractive and exclusive final states from ATLAS - Miguel Ignacio Arratia Munoz (University of Cambridge (GB))

5:30 PM Results on minimum bias interactions, underlying event and particle production from ATLAS - Valentina Cairo (Universita della Calabria (IT))

6:00 PM Associated quarkonium production at ATLAS as a new probe of QCD - David Edwin Bertsche (University of Oklahoma (US))
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:30 PM MMHT14 PDFs: updates and outlook (20+10min) - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

5:00 PM The CT14 Global Analysis of QCD (20+10min) - Daniel Stump (Michigan State University)

5:30 PM On the impact of lepton PDFs (20+10min) - Stefano Carrazza (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

6:00 PM Self Organizing Maps Parameterization of Parton Distribution Functions - liuti simonetta
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Senior Common Room (1st floor)
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:00 AM EW corrections at high energy - Ansgar Denner (Bayerische Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))

9:40 AM Developments in QCD analytic resummation - Eric Laenen (Nikhef)

10:20 AM QCD in Higgs and BSM - Lauren Alexandra Tompkins (Stanford University (US))
11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
11:25 AM
11:25 AM - 1:20 PM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:25 AM Status of PDFs - Sergey Alekhin

12:05 PM Proton structure and hard QCD at HERA - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

12:45 PM QCD at the LHeC - Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))
1:20 PM

1:20 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Mucci's
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

2:10 PM Studies of PDF sensitivity relevant for ATLAS measurements (20+10min) - Remie Hanna (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

2:40 PM Jet measurements, alpha_s and PDF results from CMS (20+10min) - Klaus Rabbertz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

3:10 PM Subleading Logarithms in High Energy Jets (15+5min) - Helen Brooks (IPPP/Durham University)

3:30 PM Recent developments in the fast reproduction of QCD calculations with the APPLgrid project (15+5min) - Mark Sutton (University of Sussex (GB))

3:50 PM fastNLO v2 Developments (15+5min) - Klaus Rabbertz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
Heavy Quarks
Heavy Quarks
2:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: LG1
Contributions

2:10 PM t tbar + isolated photon production at NLO accuracy matched with parton shower - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))

2:35 PM On NLL soft gluon corrections to the t-tbar-Higgs boson production at the LHC - Leszek Motyka

3:00 PM Top quark pair production measurements using the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Katsuya Yamauchi (Nagoya University (JP))

3:25 PM Top quark pair properties using the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Mark Levy (University of Birmingham (GB))

3:50 PM Measurement of t-channel single top quark production in pp collisions - Steffen Rocker (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
Multi-parton dynamics
Multi-parton dynamics
2:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 208
Contributions

2:10 PM Exclusive processes at HERA - Alessia Bruni (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

2:40 PM Small-x Physics at the LHeC - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

3:10 PM Di-photon and photon-hadron correlations at the LHC - Amir Rezaeian (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

3:40 PM Data-driven approaches to pile-up treatment at the LHC - Hans Van Haevermaet (University of Antwerp (BE))
4:10 PM

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
4:30 PM Higgs - Session I
Higgs - Session I
4:30 PM - 6:55 PM
Room: UG1
Contributions

4:30 PM Higgs measurements from CMS (20+10min) - Amina Zghiche (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Amina Zghiche (LAPP-CNRS-France)

5:00 PM Higgs measurements from ATLAS (20+10min) - Bo Liu (Academia Sinica (TW)/Shandong University(CN)) Bo Liu Bo.Bo Liu (Tsinghua University (CN))

5:30 PM NNLO cross sections using the jettiness method (15+5min) - Walter Giele

5:50 PM Higgs + jet at NNLO QCD: Fiducial cross sections (15+5min) - Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)

6:10 PM Approximate N3LO: Higgs and more (15+5min) - Marco Bonvini (University of Oxford)

6:30 PM Analytic NNNLO corrections to the total Higgs production cross section in the qq'-Channel (15+5min) - Alexander Hasselhuhn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Heavy Quarks
Heavy Quarks
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: LG1
Contributions

4:30 PM 3-loop heavy flavor non-singlet contributions to different observabels - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

4:55 PM Decay rate of the SM Higgs boson to bottom quarks at O(alpha alphas) - Luminita Mihaila

5:20 PM Heavy quark production asymmetries at LHCb - Rhorry Graham Gauld

5:45 PM Searches for top/bottom partners and new phenomena in top/bottom quark pair signatures in CMS - Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

6:10 PM Single Top quark production cross section and properties using the ATLAS detector at the LHC - Sebastian Pedraza Lopez (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES))
Multi-parton dynamics
Multi-parton dynamics
4:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: 208
Contributions

4:30 PM Searches for resonant and non-resonant new phenomena in CMS - Hwi Dong Yoo (Seoul National University (KR))

5:00 PM Searches for resonant and non-resonant new phenomena from ATLAS - Alison Elliot (University of Victoria (CA))

5:30 PM Precision calculations for squark and gluino production at threshold - Christoph Borschensky (WWU Münster)

6:00 PM Hadronization processes in neutrino interactions for oscillation physics - Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London)
PDFs
PDFs
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:30 PM Measurements of $W$ charge asymmetry (20+10min) - Bjoern Penning (Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))

5:00 PM HERAFitter project and its related studies (20+10min) - Andrey Sapronov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

5:30 PM Nuclear PDFs in eA collisions at the LHeC (20+10min) - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

6:00 PM Proton PDFs at the LHeC (20+10min) - Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford (GB))
Thursday, September 3, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Heavy flavour theory developments - Abilio De Freitas (DESY - Zeuthen)

9:40 AM Heavy quark production results - Matthew David Needham (University of Edinburgh (GB))

10:20 AM Top quark production at the LHC - Javier Cuevas Maestro (Universidad de Oviedo)
11:00 AM Coffee
Coffee
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
11:30 AM Higgs - Session II
Higgs - Session II
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: UG1
Contributions

11:30 AM Fully differential decay rate of a standard model Higgs boson into a b-quark pair at NNLO accuracy (15+5min) - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))

11:50 AM Fully differential VBF Higgs production at NNLO (15+5min) - Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (LPTHE & CERN)

12:10 PM Higgs production in gluon fusion in association with jets (15+5min) - Nicolas Greiner (DESY)

12:30 PM Electroweak and QCD corrections with MadGraph5_aMC@NLO: top quark pair production in association with heavy bosons (15+5min) - Huasheng Shao (CERN)
Heavy Quarks
Heavy Quarks
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: LG1
Contributions

11:30 AM LHCb CP Violation in B decays - Lucia Grillo (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

11:55 AM LHCb rare decays - Harry Victor Cliff (University of Cambridge (GB))

12:20 PM LHCb exotics - Marco Pappagallo (University of Glasgow (GB))
PDFs
PDFs
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 AM Parton Distributions for the LHC Run II (20+10min) - Luca Rottoli

12:00 PM Reduction strategies for the combination of PDF sets (20+10min) - Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))

12:30 PM New PDF4LHC recommendations for parton distribution uncertainties for the LHC run-II era (20+10min) - Albert De Roeck (CERN)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Mucci's

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Room: Queens' Building - Octogon
Friday, September 4, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Frontiers of QCD: new insights from SCET - Wouter Waalewijn (Nikhef / UvA)

9:40 AM Multiboson production at the LHC (theory) - Andreas von Manteuffel (University of Zürich)

10:20 AM Multiboson production at the LHC - Chiara Ilaria Rovelli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
11:30 AM W/Z +jets
W/Z +jets
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: UG1
Contributions

11:30 AM Vector boson plus jets measurements with the ATLAS detector (20+10min) - Benjamin Tannenwald (University of Kansas) Benjamin Tannenwald (Ohio State University (US))

12:00 PM Automated NLO QCD+EW corrections for V+multijet production (15+5min) - Jonas Lindert

12:20 PM Z boson production in association with a jet at NNLO QCD (15+5min) - Thomas Morgan (IPPP Durham University)

12:40 PM Loop-tree duality and its application to NLO computations (15+5min) - German Sborlini (IFIC-Valencia)
Heavy Quarks
Heavy Quarks
11:30 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: LG1
Contributions

11:30 AM Measurements of heavy-flavour production in pp and p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Minjung Kim (Inha University (KR))

11:55 AM Higgs production in association with top quarks in CMS - Fabrizio Margaroli (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

12:20 PM Recent V+charm/beauty jets measurements from DZero - Darren Price (University of Manchester (GB))
PDFs
PDFs
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 AM New CTEQ-Jefferson Lab (CJ15) analysis of parton distributions (20+10min) - Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab)

12:00 PM Impact of heavy-flavour production cross sections measured by the LHCb experiment on parton distribution functions at low x (20+10min) - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

12:30 PM Forward charm production and the small-x gluon PDF (20+10min) - Rhorry Gauld (IPPP Durham University)
1:15 PM

1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Mucci's
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

2:00 PM Measurements of Drell-Yan transverse momentum, lepton azimuthal decorrelation and angular distributions with the ATLAS detector (20+10min) - Tai-Hua Lin (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

2:30 PM W/Z results from CMS (20+10min) - Jay Lawhorn (California Institute of Technology (US))
3:00 PM W/Z Theory Session
W/Z Theory Session
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: UG1
Contributions

3:00 PM NNLOPS Simulations of Higgs and Vector Boson Production (20+10min) - Keith Hamilton (UCL)

3:30 PM Combining parton showers with NNLO matrix elements (20+10min) - Ye Li (SLAC)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

3:00 PM A Variable Flavour Number Scheme with Intrinsic Charm (20+10min) - Marco Bonvini (University of Oxford)

3:30 PM EW and quarkonia production studies in the forward acceptance (20+10min) - Ronan James Wallace (University College Dublin (IE))
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
4:30 PM Electroweak
Electroweak
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: UG1
Contributions

4:30 PM Recent electroweak results from ATLAS (20+10min) - Alessandra Baas (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

5:00 PM Diboson production at NNLO (20+10min) - Massimiliano Grazzini (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

5:30 PM Automated NNLL+NLO Resummation for Jet-Veto Cross Sections (20+10min) - Lorena Rothen (University of Bern)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Physics Lecture Theatre
Contributions

4:30 PM Measurements of heavy flavour production in association with W and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector (20+10min) - Alexander Law (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))

5:00 PM Vector boson production in association with jets and heavy flavor quarks from CMS (20+10min) - Jelena Luetic (Institute Rudjer Boskovic (HR))

5:30 PM Jets in the forward acceptance (20+10min) - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
7:00 PM (Physics comedy show)
(Physics comedy show)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: G.O.Jones Building - Physics Lecture Theatre
Saturday, September 5, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent developments in QCD MCs - Davison Soper (University of Oregon)

9:40 AM Overview of MC tuning to LHC data - Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

10:20 AM QCD in Heavy Ion Collisions - Andreas Morsch (CERN)
11:00 AM

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Arts 2 Building Foyer
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Arts 2 Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 AM Theory summary and outlook - Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich)

12:20 PM Experimental summary and outlook - Hannes Jung (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))

1:10 PM Close-out - Eram Syed Rizvi (Queen Mary, University of London)
1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Mucci's

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