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

Arrival and individual project discussions

12:00 Lunch

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

Individual project discussions

16:00 Coffee break

Common discussion

Thursday, 7 January

Discussion of new Sherpa developments

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

1 Welcome

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

2 (N)NLO matching and merging (tbc)

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

3 Resummation accuracy in the shower (tbc)

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

dresden_16-01_1.pdf

4 BSM modelling with UFO (tbc)

Speaker: Silvan Kuttimalai (Durham University)

main.pdf

5 Systematic uncertainties on-the-fly (tbc)

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

ScaleVars.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

6 Shower scale choices and uncertainties (tbc)

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

sherpa_meeting_2015_EB.pdf

7 Loop-induced processes

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

loop_ind.pdf

8 Handling perturbative decay cascades efficiently (tbc)

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

12:30 Lunch

Catering in ASB/E19

Feedback from Sherpa users

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

9 CMS experience and wishlist

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

lenzip_07012016.pdf

10 ATLAS experience and wishlist

Speaker: Christian Gutschow (TU Dresden (DE))

cg_atlas_feedback.pdf

11 Feedback from OpenLoops

Speaker: Philipp Maierhöfer (Durham University)

sherpa_2016.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

EW corrections

12 Implementation of NLO EW corrections

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

EWSubtraction.pdf

13 Applications of NLO EW corrections

Speaker: Jonas Lindert

JL_Sherpa_Dresden.pdf

14 Analytic EW Sudakovs

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

EWSudakov.pdf

15 Discussion on EW scheme

16 Discussion on QED resummation

Friday, 8 January

Common discussion

12:30 Lunch

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

Individual project discussions