PDF4LHC Meeting

Friday May 29, 2009, 9:30 AM → 6:40 PM 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 AM → 10:30 AM News from CTEQ

Speaker: Jon Pumplin

Slides cern09talk1.pdf

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

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides PDF4LHC09al-3.pdf

10:50 AM → 11:10 AM News from NNPDFs

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo_nnpdf_pdf4lhc.pdf

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

Speaker: Alexandre Glazov (DESY)

Slides glazov.pdf.pdf

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

Speaker: Mandy Cooper-Sarkar

Slides pdf4lhc_may29_09.pdf pdf4lhc_may29_09.ppt

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Discussion

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 2:00 PM MC vs Hessian way of computing uncertainties

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)

Slides forte.pdf.pdf

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM MSTW uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides PDF4LHC09err.pdf

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM PDF uncertainties

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

Slides cern09talk2.pdf

2:40 PM → 2:55 PM Uncertainties using LHCb pseudo data

Speaker: Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

Slides mcnulty_pdf_may09.pdf mcnulty_pdf_may09.ppt

2:55 PM → 3:10 PM Comparing CTEQ errors with the ones of NNPDFs

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

Slides Venturi_pdf4lhc_2009.pdf.pdf

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Discussion on uncertainties

3:30 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee break

3:45 PM → 4:05 PM New results from the PDF4MC fits

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

Slides PDF4LHC-29.5-final.pdf

4:05 PM → 4:35 PM plans for a new LHAPDF version

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

Slides buckley-lhapdf.pdf

4:35 PM → 4:55 PM LO* PDFs in CTEQ

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides pdf4lhc_huston.pdf

4:55 PM → 5:10 PM Generator tuning with LO* sets

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

Slides buckley-prof-py6-mlo.pdf

5:30 PM → 5:50 PM Discussion on Generator PDFs

5:50 PM → 6:20 PM Precision EW measurements with the WBPB at the LHC

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

Slides Krasny-CERN-PDF4LHC-seminar.pdf

6:20 PM → 6:40 PM AOB

Slides slhc_slac2.pdf slhc_slac2.ppt