Name: ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators Workshop
Start: 2016-01-11T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2016-01-12T18:15:00+01:00
Location: CERN

ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators Workshop

from Monday, 11 January 2016 (08:30) to Tuesday, 12 January 2016 (18:15)

Monday, 11 January 2016

09:00 Opening
Opening
09:00 - 09:10
Room: 222/R-001
09:10
09:10 - 10:30
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:10 Status of POWHEG and MINLO (15'+5') - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

09:30 Status of MadGraph5_aMC@NLO (15'+5') - Stefano Frixione (Universita e INFN Genova (IT))

09:50 Status of SherpaNLO (15'+5') - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

10:10 Status of AlpGen (15'+5') - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:00 Status of Pythia8 (15'+5') - Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB) Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:20 Status of Herwig (15'+5') - Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)) Simon Plätzer (DESY)

11:40 ATLAS: generator integration into software and production (15'+5') - Josh McFayden (University College London (UK))

12:00 CMS: generator integration into software and production (15'+5') - Josh Bendavid (California Institute of Technology (US))

12:20 Underlying-event and multiple-parton scattering tunes (20'+5') - Paolo Gunnellini (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 MC generators for final states including vector bosons (30'+10') - Emanuele Re (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

14:40 Perspectives for vector-boson + jets physics at LHC Run 2 (30'+10') - Simon De Visscher (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Simon De Visscher (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

15:20 Perspectives for Di-boson + jets physics at LHC Run 2 (30'+10') - Ximo Poveda Torres (CERN)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 222/R-001
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

16:30 ATLAS and CMS: multijet / photon+jet / multiphoton processes (30'+10') - Christopher Young (CERN)

17:10 Status and perspectives on loop-induced processes (30'+10') - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH)) Marek Schoenherr (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)) Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham)
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

09:00 Report from Top LHC Working Group - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

09:15 ATLAS and CMS: Measurements and perspectives for top physics (30+10) - Andrea Helen Knue (University of Glasgow (GB))

09:55 ATLAS and CMS: Measurements and perspectives for ttbar+X physics (30+10) - Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:00
Room: 222/R-001

11:00 Discussion session: heavy flavours and overlap removal
Discussion session: heavy flavours and overlap removal
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 222/R-001
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

12:00 Status of PDFs (20'+10') - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

12:30 Discussion: use of theoretical uncertainties in data analysis
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: 222/R-001
14:00
14:00 - 15:25
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

14:00 EFT: the analysis approach and implementation in generators (20'+5') - Cen Zhang (CP3 Université catholique de Louvain)

14:25 Status and progress of SUSY processes modeling at NLO QCD (25'+5') - Michael KRAEMER (GSI) Michael Kraemer (Particle Physics)

14:55 Exotica MC and formats for reporting results (20'+5') - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)
15:25 Coffee
Coffee
15:25 - 15:45
Room: 222/R-001
15:45
15:45 - 17:25
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

15:50 SUSY MC and formats for reporting results (20'+10') - Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

16:20 Theoretical status and progress of jet substructure (20'+5') - Gavin Salam (CERN) Gavin Salam (C)

16:45 CMS: Boosted searches and MC for merged-jet techniques (15'+5') - Matthias Ulrich Mozer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

17:05 ATLAS: Boosted searches and merged-jet techniques (15'+5') - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
17:25 Closing discussion
Closing discussion
17:25 - 18:00
Room: 222/R-001