Standard model discoveries with early LHC data

30 Mar 2009, 10:00 → 1 Apr 2009, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

Massey theatre (University College London)

Mario Campanelli (University College London)

Much of the emphasis on physics at the LHC has been so far put on physics beyond the Standard Model, or Higgs searches. On the other hand, the unprecedented energy and the wide eta reach of the LHC detectors will allow new and interesting measurements even with the limited amount of data we are likely to collect in 2009. The aim of this workshop is to collect and discuss ideas on how to make the best use of these data, and on which results the LHC collaborations should concentrate on for the first data.

Monday 30 March

1 Welcome

A welcome and introduction from the the head of UCL physics department

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Tennyson (University College London)

Vector Boson fusion and PDFs

2 CTEQ update

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides london_huston.pdf london_huston.ppt

3 MSTW update

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides shorthf.pdf thornesmlhc.pdf

4 ATLAS PDF issues

Speaker: Prof. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)

Slides london_2009.pdf london_2009.ppt

5 NNPDF update

Speaker: Dr Maria Ubiali (Edinburgh)

Slides ubiali_london.pdf

12:10 DISCUSSION: Experimental requirements for PDFs for the LHC

12:55 DISCUSSION: Treatment of heavy quarks

Forward and diffractive physics

6 Theory overview

Speaker: Prof. Alan Martin (Durham)

Slides UCL09.pdf UCL09.ppt

7 ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Andy Pilkington (Manchester)

Slides LondonWorkshopMarch09.pdf

8 CMS

Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (UC Louvaine)

Slides ucl.pdf

15:55 TEA

9 ALICE

Speaker: Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)

Slides schicker_ucl09.pdf schicker_ucl09.ppt

10 TOTEM

Speaker: Stefano Lami (Universita' Degli Studi di Siena INFN, Sezione di Pisa)

Slides

• London09_Totem.pdf
• London09_Totem.ppt
• London09_Totem.pptx

11 Gaps between jets

Speaker: Simone Marzani (Manchester)

Slides marzaniucl.pdf

12 Photoproduction of Vector Mesons and Z

Speaker: Dr Graeme Watt (University College London)

Slides smlhc_GraemeWatt.pdf

Tuesday 31 March

Top Physics

13 Top as tool: the early days

Speakers: Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester), Dr Thorsten Wengler (University of Manchester)

Slides StModWs-UCL-31mar09.pdf StModWs-UCL-31mar09.ppt

14 Top cross section calculations

Speaker: Dr Alexander Mitov (YITP, Stony Brook University)

Slides AlexanderMitov-UCL.pdf

15 Top cross section measurements

Speaker: Dr Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)

Slides talk.pdf

09:55 DISCUSSION

10:15 COFFEE BREAK

16 Top properties overview (theory)

Speaker: Prof. Werner Bernreuther (RWTH Aachen)

17 Top properties (except mass)

Speaker: Prof. Richard Hawkings (CERN)

Slides london09_slides.pdf london09_slides.ppt

18 Top Mass measurements

Speaker: Dr Liza Shabalina (UIC)

Slides top_mass_SMLHC.pdf

19 t tbar invariant mass

Speaker: Dr Rikkert Frederix (UCLouvain)

Slides frederix.pdf

20 Searches for new physics in the top sector

Speaker: Dr Su-Jung Park (University of Göttingen)

Slides sjpark.pdf

12:15 DISCUSSION

Tools

Conveners: Dr James Monk (University College London), Dr Matteo Cacciari (INFN)

21 Jets

Speaker: Dr Gavin Salam (LPTHE)

Slides ucl-jets.pdf

22 Discussion

15:10 Coffee break

23 Monte Carlo

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham)

Slides buckley-mc.pdf

24 Discussion

25 Simulation

Speaker: Dr Simon Dean (University College London)

Slides Simulation_SMLHC_31032009.pdf Simulation_SMLHC_31032009.ppt

26 Discussion

19:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

http://www.54farringdon.com/menu_index.htm

Wednesday 1 April

QCD

27 Higgs Boson production with multiple hard jets

Speaker: Chris White (NIKHEF)

Slides SMLHC_white.pdf

10:00 DISCUSSION

28 Non-perturbative QCD of jets at hadron colliders

Speaker: Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester)

Slides Dasgupta.pdf

10:45 DISCUSSION

11:00 COFFEE

29 QCD matrix elements and truncated showers

Speaker: Stefan Hoeche (Zurich)

Slides stefan_london_09-04_1.pdf

11:50 DISCUSSION

13:00 Visit the Petrie Museum

Underlying event

30 MPI and generators, tuning with early data

Speaker: Dr Stefan Hoeche (Durham)

15:00 DISCUSSION

31 Underlying Event studies at Tevatron

Speaker: Dr Deepak Kar (TU Dresden)

Slides dkar_ucl.pdf.pdf

15:50 DISCUSSION

32 Underlying Event studies at LHC

Speaker: Dr Gabe Hare (UCSC)

Slides ATLAS_CMS_UEMeasurePlans_GHare.key ATLAS_CMS_UEMeasurePlans_GHare.pdf

16:40 DISCUSSION

33 Jets and subtraction techniques

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Sapeta (Jagiellonian University)

Slides ue-london09.pdf

17:30 DISCUSSION