PDF4LHC Meeting

Friday 29 May 2009, 09:30 → 18:40 Europe/Zurich

40-S2-B01 (CERN)

Meeting of the PDF4LHC Study group Topics for this meeting - HERAPDF2.0 sets - News from MSTW/CTEQ - ways of estimating uncertainties in the PDFs - results on more complete uncertainties for LHC predictions - combined study of PDF and \alpha_S - Tevatron jet measurements - follow up on the exercises of the last meeting manage key pdf4lhc EV0: Universe/PDF4LHC

10:00 → 10:30 News from CTEQ

Speaker: Jon Pumplin

Slides cern09talk1.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 News from MSTW & combined studies of PDFs and alpha_s

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides PDF4LHC09al-3.pdf

10:50 → 11:10 News from NNPDFs

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo_nnpdf_pdf4lhc.pdf

11:10 → 11:35 News from HERA and data in HERAPDF 0.2 set

Speaker: Alexandre Glazov (DESY)

Slides glazov.pdf.pdf

11:35 → 12:00 HERAPDF 0.2 fit and predictions for LHC

Speaker: Mandy Cooper-Sarkar

Slides pdf4lhc_may29_09.pdf pdf4lhc_may29_09.ppt

12:00 → 12:30 Discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:00 MC vs Hessian way of computing uncertainties

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)

Slides forte.pdf.pdf

14:00 → 14:20 MSTW uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides PDF4LHC09err.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 PDF uncertainties

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

Slides cern09talk2.pdf

14:40 → 14:55 Uncertainties using LHCb pseudo data

Speaker: Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

Slides mcnulty_pdf_may09.pdf mcnulty_pdf_may09.ppt

14:55 → 15:10 Comparing CTEQ errors with the ones of NNPDFs

Speaker: Manuela Venturi (INFN and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)

Slides Venturi_pdf4lhc_2009.pdf.pdf

15:10 → 15:30 Discussion on uncertainties

15:30 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:05 New results from the PDF4MC fits

Speaker: F.v.Samson-Himmelstjerna (DESY/MC Group)

Slides PDF4LHC-29.5-final.pdf

16:05 → 16:35 plans for a new LHAPDF version

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

Slides buckley-lhapdf.pdf

16:35 → 16:55 LO* PDFs in CTEQ

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides pdf4lhc_huston.pdf

16:55 → 17:10 Generator tuning with LO* sets

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

Slides buckley-prof-py6-mlo.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 Discussion on Generator PDFs

17:50 → 18:20 Precision EW measurements with the WBPB at the LHC

Speaker: Mieczyslaw Krasny (Universites de Paris VI et VII)

Slides Krasny-CERN-PDF4LHC-seminar.pdf

18:20 → 18:40 AOB

Slides slhc_slac2.pdf slhc_slac2.ppt