MC4LHC: from Parton Showers to NNLO

4 May 2009, 09:00 → 8 May 2009, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Costas Papadopoulos (Demokritos), Michael Seymour (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Training event co-organized by MCnet and HEPTOOLS, for the ESR and ER of the two Networks, as well as people from ARTEMIS.

Monday 4 May

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to parton shower MCs

Speaker: Michael Seymour

Slides

• MC4LHC1.pdf
• MC4LHC2.pdf
• MC4LHC3.pdf
• MC4LHC4.pdf

10:15 → 11:15 NLO tools and results

Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt

Slides kunszt-May4.pdf

11:30 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 MC at NLO tools

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Unknown)

Slides NasonMCNet.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Sherpa, status and results

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche

Slides stefan_geneva_09-05.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Discussion session

Tuesday 5 May

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to parton shower MCs, part 2

10:15 → 11:15 NLO tools and results, part 2

11:30 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 MC at NLO tools, part 2

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Experimental techniques and their impact on phenomenological analyses

Speaker: Jonathan Butterworth (University College London)

Slides

• durham.pdf
• exp-pheno.pdf
• exp-pheno.pptx

15:30 → 17:30 Discussion session

Wednesday 6 May

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to parton shower MCs, part 3

10:15 → 11:15 Experimental techniques and their impact on phenomenological analyses, part 2

11:30 → 11:45 Coffee break

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 Discussion session

Thursday 7 May

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to parton shower MCs, part 4

10:15 → 11:15 EW radiative corrections for the LHC

Speaker: Ansgar Denner

Slides EWRC@LHC_1.pdf EWRC@LHC_2.pdf

11:30 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 Madevent, status and results

Speaker: Michel Herquet

Slides herquet.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:30 Helac, status and results

Speaker: Costas Papadopoulos (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides babis_CERN_NNLO_2009.pdf cern09.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Discussion session

Friday 8 May

09:00 → 10:00 EW radiative corrections for the LHC, part 2

10:15 → 11:15 NNLO tools and results

Speaker: Anastasiou Charalampos

11:30 → 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 → 12:45 NNLO tools and results, part 2

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 Automatizing 1-loop multi-leg calculations for LHC (and ILC) physics.

The bottle-neck problems in the automation of multi-leg calculations at 1-loop have been recently solved thanks to the discovery of new computational algorithms. I review, also by means of explicit examples, the basic ideas, techniques and tools that are nowadays at our disposal to build an automatic 1-loop multi-leg event generator for LHC and ILC physics.

Speaker: Roberto Pittau

Slides talk_cern.pdf