MC4BSM 2017
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
MC4BSM is a series of workshops aiming to gather theorists and experimentalists interested in developing Monte Carlo tools to simulate collider signatures of Beyond the Standard Model Physics, and to use such tools in phenomenological studies and in searches for new physics at energy frontier colliders. Since 2006, ten workshops have been held in this series, hosted in the USA, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Korea and China. The focus of MC4BSM 2017 will include: 1) to report new features and new developments of general-purpose Monte Carlo tools; 2) to discuss the experimental needs from the LHC, from dark matter experiments, and from physics studies of future colliders; 3) to offer tutorials to senior PhD students, postdocs, and young faculty interested in using MC tools in their research.
Related workshops of interest include Pheno 2017, held at the University of Pittsburgh, May 8-10, and BLV 2017, held at Case Western Reserve University, May 15-18.
MC4BSM 2017 will include a limited number of contributed talks. The organizers encourage the submission of abstracts for 15-minute presentations. In selecting the talks to be presented, we will give priority to attendees who are in the early stages of their career.
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WelcomeSpeaker: JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
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Plenary: MC & BSM Overview Redwood Conference Rooms
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Coffee
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Plenary: Experimental Requirements & Jets Redwood Conference Rooms
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Experimental requirements - CMSSpeaker: Steve Mrenna (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Plenary: MC Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
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PythiaSpeaker: Nishita Dattatray Desai (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
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Tutorial Redwood Conference Rooms
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Convener: Silvan Kuttimalai
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Plenary: Dark Matter and Artificial Intelligence Redwood Conference Rooms
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Machine learning in particle physicsSpeaker: Ben Nachman (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
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Applications of boosted decision treesSpeaker: Josh Bendavid (California Institute of Technology (US))
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10:15
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Plenary: MC & Analysis Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
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MadAnalysisSpeaker: Benjamin Fuks (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (FR))
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Rivet / ProfessorSpeaker: Holger Schulz (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))
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SLAC TourSpeaker: Michael Peskin
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Plenary: Limit Setting Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
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Contributed Talks: A Madrone Conference Room
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Toward Kinematic Measurements of the Gluino MassSpeaker: James Gainer (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
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Improving mass measurement in cascade decay with Voronoid tessellationsSpeaker: Yuan-Pao Yang (University of Texas at Austin)
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Multidimensional phase space methods for mass and decay topology determinationSpeaker: Matthew Klimek (University of Texas)
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Collinear Splitting Functions and Parton Showering for Electroweak InteractionsSpeaker: Mr Junmou Chen (University of Pittsburgh)
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Understanding the impact of Pythia hadronization in top quark mass determinations at the LHCSpeaker: Doojin Kim (CERN)
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Non-standard Higgs bosons searches at Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC)Speaker: Dr Siba Prasad Das (University de Los Andes)
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Contributed Talks: B Redwood Conference Rooms
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Implementation of MUED model in event generators and current LHC boundsSpeaker: Ms Dipsikha Debnath (University of Florida)
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Dark photons at LHCbSpeaker: Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
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Probing the chirality of dark matter at colliders with dark photon showeringSpeaker: Myeonghun Park (Institute for basic Science (KR))
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Dark sectors and enhanced $h\to \tau \mu$ transitionsSpeaker: Iftah Galon (University of California, Irvine)
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MadDM: Dark Matter Phenomenology in the MG5_aMC@NLO FrameworkSpeaker: Gopolang Mohlabeng (University of Kansas)
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Improving LHC searches for electron lepton jetsSpeaker: Bryan Ostdiek (University of Oregon)
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Plenary: MC Development Redwood Conference Rooms
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Higher-order parton showersSpeaker: Sebastian Piotr Sapeta (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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Simulation of long-lived particle decaysSpeaker: Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
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Plenary: BSM Hot Topics Redwood Conference Rooms
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Electroweak Precision Tests at Hadron CollidersSpeaker: Marco Farina (Rutgers University)
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Plenary: Fixed-Order Tools Redwood Conference Rooms
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Tutorial Redwood Conference Rooms
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Convener: Silvan Kuttimalai
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