Sixth Network Meeting

Tuesday 30 Jun 2009, 09:00 → 19:00 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

Presentations and Discussions

1 NLO event generation in Sherpa

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr

Slides marek_lund_20090630.pdf.pdf

2 NLO Matching and Dipole-type Showers

Speaker: Simon Plätzer

Slides Platzer.pdf.pdf

3 Matching VBF at NLO with parton showers

Speaker: Luca D’Errico

Slides D'Errico_talk.pdf

4 A modified CKKW matrix element merging algorithm for angular-ordered parton showers

Speaker: Jon Tully

Slides TullyLun09.pdf

5 NLO EW corrections in Sherpa

Speaker: Jennifer Archibald

Slides Archibald.pdf

6 W/Z-Gamma Production at NLO in Powheg Method

Speaker: Dart-yin Soh

Slides Powheg.ppt WgammaPowheg.pdf

10:30 break

7 Prospect for precision measurements of MW+ - MW- & MW at the LHC (Shortcuts revisited)

Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok

Slides Siodmok_MCnet_ZCandle_29_07_09.pdf

8 Progress of final states in DIPSY

Speaker: Christoffer Flensburg

Slides DIPSY.pdf

9 Heavy quarks associated with electroweak gauge boson production in Herwig and Herwig++ and in kt-factorisation in Cascade

Speaker: Michal Deak

Slides MCnetMeetingPresentation.pdf

10 CKKW-L merging and PhD plans

Speaker: Stefan Prestel

Slides talk_prestel.pdf

11 ???

Speaker: Alexander Richards

Presentations and Discussions

12 Implementation of Z' models in Herwig++ (Work in Progress)

Speaker: Ilan Fridman Rojas

Slides Presentation_Ilan.pdf

13 LO ME+PS merging; Tuning with early Atlas data

Speaker: Frank Siegert

Slides Siegert.pdf

14 ???

Speaker: Yichun Xu

15:00 break

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