Matrix Element tools

8 Jul 2003, 08:45 → 1 Aug 2003, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

michelangelo.mangano@cern.ch

Tuesday 8 July

Introduction

Our introductory session will be merged with the introduction of the (N)NLO group. See their agenda for details

Merging of LO ME and showers

Discussion of strategies for the merging of multijet ME codes and shower evolution

1 Introduction

Speaker: Richardson, P (CERN)

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2 Implementation issues in Herwig

Speaker: Richardson, P (CERN)

3 Implementation issues in Pythia

Speaker: Dr Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)

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4 Sherpa

Speaker: Schälicke, A. (ITP. TU Dresden)

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5 Discussion

Speaker: everybody

Wednesday 9 July

ME comparisons

Discussion about benchmarks for comparisons among ME multiparton codes

6 Tevatron comparison experience

Speaker: Tsuno, Soushi

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7 Selection of inputs: parameters/cuts

Speaker: Disc leader: F.Maltoni

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8 Selection of processes

9 Spin correlation benchmarks for decays

10 Tools for comparison validations: MC-tester status report

Speaker: Piotr Golonka (Unknown)

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Thursday 10 July

Gauge invariance issues

11 Intro

Speaker: Piccinini, F

12 Discussion

Speaker: Disc. leader: Kauer, N.

More on CKKW, mergings

MadGraph/Madevent tutorial

Tutorial on Madgraph. Participants are invited to come with questions on the use of the code. It would be useful to forward in advance possible questions to the speaker, so he can prepare adeguate answers.

Friday 11 July

Spin correlations

Wednesday 23 July

ME codes: review continues

13 CompHEP

Speaker: Kryukov, A.

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14 HELAC/JetI

Speaker: Papadopoulos, C

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15 Alpgen

Speaker: Pittau, Roberto

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16 Gr@ppa

Speaker: Tsuno, Soushi (KEK, Tsukuba)

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Thursday 24 July

Update on ME comparisons

We shall take a first look at the status of the ongoing ME comparison tests. All those who have results, please bring them along

17 ME Comparison

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Friday 25 July

More studies of CKKW and mergings

We'll discuss new results on CKKM in hadronic collisions obtained during the Workshop

18 CKKW anatomy

Speaker: Mangano, M

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