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

1 News from CTEQ

Speaker: Jon Pumplin

Slides cern09talk1.pdf

2 News from MSTW & combined studies of PDFs and alpha_s

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides PDF4LHC09al-3.pdf

3 News from NNPDFs

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo_nnpdf_pdf4lhc.pdf

4 News from HERA and data in HERAPDF 0.2 set

Speaker: Alexandre Glazov (DESY)

Slides glazov.pdf.pdf

5 HERAPDF 0.2 fit and predictions for LHC

Speaker: Mandy Cooper-Sarkar

Slides pdf4lhc_may29_09.pdf pdf4lhc_may29_09.ppt

6 Discussion

12:30 Lunch break

7 MC vs Hessian way of computing uncertainties

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Univ. + INFN)

Slides forte.pdf.pdf

8 MSTW uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Robert Thorne (UCL)

Slides PDF4LHC09err.pdf

9 PDF uncertainties

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

Slides cern09talk2.pdf

10 Uncertainties using LHCb pseudo data

Speaker: Dr Ronan McNulty (University College Dublin)

Slides mcnulty_pdf_may09.pdf mcnulty_pdf_may09.ppt

11 Comparing CTEQ errors with the ones of NNPDFs

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

Slides Venturi_pdf4lhc_2009.pdf.pdf

12 Discussion on uncertainties

15:30 Coffee break

13 New results from the PDF4MC fits

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

Slides PDF4LHC-29.5-final.pdf

14 plans for a new LHAPDF version

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

Slides buckley-lhapdf.pdf

15 LO* PDFs in CTEQ

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides pdf4lhc_huston.pdf

16 Generator tuning with LO* sets

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (Durham University)

Slides buckley-prof-py6-mlo.pdf

17 Discussion on Generator PDFs

18 Precision EW measurements with the WBPB at the LHC

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

Slides Krasny-CERN-PDF4LHC-seminar.pdf

19 AOB

Slides slhc_slac2.pdf slhc_slac2.ppt