Parton Showers, Event Generators and Resummation 2017

27 Mar 2017, 08:00 → 29 Mar 2017, 18:00 Europe/London

The Queen’s Building (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)

With the large statistics rapidly accumulating at the LHC, the need for reliable event generators and predictions that go beyond fixed-order perturbation theory becomes ever more pressing.  The aim of the PSR workshop is to achieve advances in this direction by bringing together the QCD communities involved in analytic resummations and parton shower event generators. In particular, it will cover the following topics:

• Different resummation techniques and their relations
• Different parton-shower formalisms and their relations
• The connection between parton showers and resummation
• Matching of showers and resummations with fixed-order results

The workshop will continue the successful series of meetings at DESY Hamburg (2009, 2012), Manchester (2010), Durham (2013), Munster (2014), Krakow (2015) and Paris (2016).

Organizers: J. Andersen, M. Cacciari, M. Dasgupta, S. Jadach, F. Krauss, A. Kulesza, E. Laenen, L. Lönnblad, A. Mitov, Z. Nagy, M. Schönherr, A. Siodmok, G. Soyez, B. Webber

Contact: PSR2017@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk

 

PSR2017.pdf

Monday 27 March

09:00 Registration

1 Welcome

Speaker: Bryan Webber (University of Cambridge (GB))

principia.pdf

PSR2017.pdf

2 An amplitude-level parton shower algorithm

Speaker: Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)

forshaw.pdf

forshaw.pdf

forshaw.pptx

11:00 Coffee

3 New results of the KrkNLO method

Speaker: Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

siodmok-PSR17.pdf

4 Universality of the MC factorization scheme

Speaker: Staszek Jadach (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

2017-psr-jadach.pdf

12:30 Lunch

5 Recent results in fixed order calculations

Speaker: Nigel Glover (Durham University)

glover-PSR2017.pdf

6 Soft and Coulomb effects in top-quark pair production beyond NNLO

Speaker: Christian Schwinn (RWTH Aachen University)

n3lo_psr17.pdf

15:30 Coffee

7 (Hard) jet production at high-energy colliders

Speaker: Jennifer Smillie (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Edin. U.)

PSR17_Smillie.pdf

8 QED radiation in antenna showers

Speaker: Rob Verheyen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Rob_Verheyen_PSR2017.pdf

17:00 Wren Library visit

Tuesday 28 March

9 Parton showers at very high energies: effects of electroweak radiation

Speaker: Christian Bauer

BauerPSR2017.pdf

10 GENEVA status report

Speaker: Simone Alioli (CERN)

PSR_2017.pdf

11:00 Coffee

11 Herwig7 status report

Speaker: Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB))

slides-expanded.pdf

12 Sherpa status report

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

Hoechecambridge_17-03.pdf

12:30 Lunch

13 NLO+PS with decaying resonances, the top case

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Cambridge-27-3-2017.pdf

14 Merging WW and WW+1 jet with MiNLO

Speaker: Giulia Zanderighi (CERN)

Zanderighi.pdf

15 NNLO+PS simulation with POWHEG+MiNLO: associated Higgs

Speaker: Wojciech Jozef Bizon

Bizon_psr2017.pdf

15:40 Coffee

16 Computing jet shapes in the boosted jet limit

Speaker: Gregory Soyez (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

dichroic.pdf

17 NNLL resummations with the ARES method

Speaker: Andrea Banfi (University of Sussex)

banfi_psr17.pdf

18 Soft Gluon Resummation beyond NLL for associated $t\bar{t}H$ production at the LHC

Speaker: Vincent Theeuwes (SUNY, Buffalo)

Vincent-PSR17.pdf

19 Resummation for top quark pair production at the LHC at NNLO+NNLL

Speaker: Darren Scott (Durham University)

PSR2017_darrenScott.pdf

20 Top-quark pair production and decay beyond NLO

Speaker: Andrew Papanastasiou (University of Cambridge)

papanastasiou_psr17.pdf

19:00 Reception

19:30 Conference dinner

Wednesday 29 March

21 Recent developments in jet shapes and substructure

Speaker: Mrinal Dasgupta (University of Manchester (GB))

dasgupta-substructure-psr17.pdf

22 Recursive soft drop

Speaker: Frederic Alexandre Dreyer (MIT)

talk_psr17.pdf

11:00 Coffee

23 Four-jet production and double parton scattering effects in high-energy factorization matched to parton showers

Speaker: Mirko Serino

Serino_PSR2017.pdf

24 Studies of jet axes and universal transverse-momentum dependent fragmentation

Speaker: Andreas Papaefstathiou (University of Amsterdam (NL))

Cambridge_PSR17_Papaefstathiou.pdf

12:30 Lunch

25 Monte Carlo top quark mass calibration

Speaker: Vicent Mateu (MPI for Physics, Munich)

Mateu-Parton-2017.pdf

26 Towards precision jet substructure

Speaker: Matthew Schwartz

Cambridge-MC-Schwartz-split.pdf

27 Hadronization at the amplitude level using light front holography

Speaker: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)

SJB CAMBRIDGE Hadronization 3-29-2017 .pdf

15:30 Coffee and close