ATLAS-CMS Monte Carlo Generators Workshop

from Monday, 11 January 2016 (08:30) to Tuesday, 12 January 2016 (18:15)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Jan 2016
12 Jan 2016
AM
09:00 Opening   (222/R-001)
09:10
NLO + multileg generators (until 10:30) (222/R-001)
09:10 Status of POWHEG and MINLO (15'+5') - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))   (222/R-001)
09:30 Status of MadGraph5_aMC@NLO (15'+5') - Stefano Frixione (Universita e INFN Genova (IT))   (222/R-001)
09:50 Status of SherpaNLO (15'+5') - Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))   (222/R-001)
10:10 Status of AlpGen (15'+5') - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (222/R-001)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Multi-purpose generators and generator integration (until 12:45) (222/R-001)
11:00 Status of Pythia8 (15'+5') - Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Stephen Mrenna (FERMILAB)   (222/R-001)
11:20 Status of Herwig (15'+5') - Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)) Simon Plätzer (DESY)   (222/R-001)
11:40 ATLAS: generator integration into software and production (15'+5') - Josh McFayden (University College London (UK))   (222/R-001)
12:00 CMS: generator integration into software and production (15'+5') - Josh Bendavid (California Institute of Technology (US))   (222/R-001)
12:20 Underlying-event and multiple-parton scattering tunes (20'+5') - Paolo Gunnellini (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (222/R-001)
09:00
Use of MC for SM processes: top (until 10:40) (222/R-001)
09:00 Report from Top LHC Working Group - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (222/R-001)
09:15 ATLAS and CMS: Measurements and perspectives for top physics (30+10) - Andrea Helen Knue (University of Glasgow (GB))   (222/R-001)
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))   (222/R-001)
10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Discussion session: heavy flavours and overlap removal   (222/R-001)
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Use of MC for SM processes: vector bosons (until 16:00) (222/R-001)
14:00 MC generators for final states including vector bosons (30'+10') - Emanuele Re (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))   (222/R-001)
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)   (222/R-001)
15:20 Perspectives for Di-boson + jets physics at LHC Run 2 (30'+10') - Ximo Poveda Torres (CERN)   (222/R-001)
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Use of MC for SM processes: multijet and loop processes (until 18:00) (222/R-001)
16:30 ATLAS and CMS: multijet / photon+jet / multiphoton processes (30'+10') - Christopher Young (CERN)   (222/R-001)
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)   (222/R-001)
12:00
PDFs and theoretical uncertainties (until 13:00) (222/R-001)
12:00 Status of PDFs (20'+10') - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))   (222/R-001)
12:30 Discussion: use of theoretical uncertainties in data analysis   (222/R-001)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Use of MC in BSM physics: SUSY and exotic signatures (until 15:25) (222/R-001)
14:00 EFT: the analysis approach and implementation in generators (20'+5') - Cen Zhang (CP3 Université catholique de Louvain)   (222/R-001)
14:25 Status and progress of SUSY processes modeling at NLO QCD (25'+5') - Michael KRAEMER (GSI) Michael Kraemer (Particle Physics)   (222/R-001)
14:55 Exotica MC and formats for reporting results (20'+5') - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)   (222/R-001)
15:25 --- Coffee ---
15:45
Use of MC in BSM physics: EFT and boosted signatures (until 17:25) (222/R-001)
15:50 SUSY MC and formats for reporting results (20'+10') - Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (222/R-001)
16:20 Theoretical status and progress of jet substructure (20'+5') - Gavin Salam (CERN) Gavin Salam (C)   (222/R-001)
16:45 CMS: Boosted searches and MC for merged-jet techniques (15'+5') - Matthias Ulrich Mozer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (222/R-001)
17:05 ATLAS: Boosted searches and merged-jet techniques (15'+5') - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))   (222/R-001)
17:25 Closing discussion   (222/R-001)