Sherpa Annual Meeting 2016 Dresden

6 Jan 2016, 09:00 → 8 Jan 2016, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Andreas-Schubert Bau E19 (TU Dresden, IKTP)

Wednesday 6 January

09:00 → 12:00 Arrival and individual project discussions

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

http://www.studentenwerk-dresden.de/mensen/speiseplan/

13:00 → 16:00 Individual project discussions

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Common discussion

Thursday 7 January

09:00 → 12:30 Discussion of new Sherpa developments

Convener: Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

09:10 (N)NLO matching and merging (tbc)

Speakers: Stefan Hoche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

09:30 Resummation accuracy in the shower (tbc)

Speakers: Stefan Hoche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

dresden_16-01_1.pdf

09:50 BSM modelling with UFO (tbc)

Speaker: Silvan Kuttimalai (Durham University)

main.pdf

10:10 Systematic uncertainties on-the-fly (tbc)

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

ScaleVars.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

10:50 Shower scale choices and uncertainties (tbc)

Speaker: Enrico Bothmann (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

sherpa_meeting_2015_EB.pdf

11:10 Loop-induced processes

Speaker: Dorival Goncalves (Max-Planck-Institut for Physics)

loop_ind.pdf

11:30 Handling perturbative decay cascades efficiently (tbc)

Speaker: Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

Catering in ASB/E19

13:30 → 15:30 Feedback from Sherpa users

Convener: Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))

13:30 CMS experience and wishlist

Speaker: Piergiulio Lenzi (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

lenzip_07012016.pdf

14:15 ATLAS experience and wishlist

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (TU Dresden (DE))

cg_atlas_feedback.pdf

15:00 Feedback from OpenLoops

Speaker: Philipp Maierhöfer (Durham University)

sherpa_2016.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 EW corrections

16:00 Implementation of NLO EW corrections

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

EWSubtraction.pdf

16:20 Applications of NLO EW corrections

Speaker: Jonas Lindert

JL_Sherpa_Dresden.pdf

16:40 Analytic EW Sudakovs

Speakers: Jennifer Mary Thompson (Fachbereich C / Physik-Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal), Jennifer Thompson (Durham University)

EWSudakov.pdf

17:00 Discussion on EW scheme

17:20 Discussion on QED resummation

Friday 8 January

09:00 → 12:30 Common discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

http://www.studentenwerk-dresden.de/mensen/speiseplan/

13:30 → 18:00 Individual project discussions