Name: Taming Unphysical Scales for Physical Predictions
Start: 2017-03-30T09:55:00+01:00
End: 2017-03-31T18:10:00+01:00
Location: Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Taming Unphysical Scales for Physical Predictions

from Thursday 30 March 2017 (09:55) to Friday 31 March 2017 (18:10)

Monday 27 March 2017
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Wednesday 29 March 2017
Thursday 30 March 2017
09:55
09:55 - 12:20
Contributions

09:55 Welcome - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))

10:00 Scale choices, uncertainties and correlations for jet observables - Bogdan Malaescu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

10:50 Scales for single jet inclusive production at the LHC through NNLO - James Currie

11:35 Scales for differential top-quark pair production through NNLO - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)
12:20

12:20 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 16:00
Contributions

13:45 Scales for top quark production with a jet including decays and off-shell effects through NLO - Malgorzata Maria Worek (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

14:25 Lessons from Measurements of W/Z/H+jets production - Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

15:15 Scales for Z/H in association with a jet through NNLO - Nigel Glover (Durham University)
16:00

16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:05
Contributions

16:30 Optimal choice of factorisation scales for the description of jet production at the LHC - Alan Martin Mikhail Ryskin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute) Nigel Glover (Durham University)

16:50 BLM/PMC scale setting and its applications to collider physics - Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)

17:20 BLM/PMC in top-pair production - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB)) Herschel Chawdhry
19:00

19:00 - 19:30

19:30

19:30 - 21:30
Friday 31 March 2017
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 Scale variation and PDF uncertainties - Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

09:40 Scale variation and scale error determination in ratios - Fernando Febres Cordero (University of Freiburg)
10:20

10:20 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:20
Contributions

10:50 Scale-related issues in parton showers - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))

11:40 Scale variation for the ratio of W/Z pT's - Jonas Lindert
12:20

12:20 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:50
Contributions

13:30 Scales for merging of jet multiplicities in top, H and W production - Stefan Hoche (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)

14:15 Profile scales in the context of resummed distributions - Frank Tackmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

15:05 Scales in SCET - Matthew Schwartz
15:50

15:50 - 16:20