Sixth Network Meeting

Tuesday Jun 30, 2009, 9:00 AM → 7:00 PM Europe/Zurich

Department of Theoretical Physics (Lund)

Mike Seymour (CERN/University of Manchester)

The sixth annual meeting of the MCnet network, held in conjunction with the MCnet summer school in Lund

9:00 AM → 12:30 PM Presentations and Discussions

9:00 AM NLO event generation in Sherpa

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr

Slides marek_lund_20090630.pdf.pdf

9:15 AM NLO Matching and Dipole-type Showers

Speaker: Simon Plätzer

Slides Platzer.pdf.pdf

9:30 AM Matching VBF at NLO with parton showers

Speaker: Luca D’Errico

Slides D'Errico_talk.pdf

9:45 AM A modified CKKW matrix element merging algorithm for angular-ordered parton showers

Speaker: Jon Tully

Slides TullyLun09.pdf

10:00 AM NLO EW corrections in Sherpa

Speaker: Jennifer Archibald

Slides Archibald.pdf

10:15 AM W/Z-Gamma Production at NLO in Powheg Method

Speaker: Dart-yin Soh

Slides Powheg.ppt WgammaPowheg.pdf

10:30 AM break

11:00 AM Prospect for precision measurements of MW+ - MW- & MW at the LHC (Shortcuts revisited)

Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok

Slides Siodmok_MCnet_ZCandle_29_07_09.pdf

11:15 AM Progress of final states in DIPSY

Speaker: Christoffer Flensburg

Slides DIPSY.pdf

11:30 AM Heavy quarks associated with electroweak gauge boson production in Herwig and Herwig++ and in kt-factorisation in Cascade

Speaker: Michal Deak

Slides MCnetMeetingPresentation.pdf

11:45 AM CKKW-L merging and PhD plans

Speaker: Stefan Prestel

Slides talk_prestel.pdf

12:00 PM ???

Speaker: Alexander Richards

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Presentations and Discussions

2:00 PM Implementation of Z' models in Herwig++ (Work in Progress)

Speaker: Ilan Fridman Rojas

Slides Presentation_Ilan.pdf

2:15 PM LO ME+PS merging; Tuning with early Atlas data

Speaker: Frank Siegert

Slides Siegert.pdf

2:30 PM ???

Speaker: Yichun Xu

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM break

3:30 PM → 6:00 PM Project meetings