Name: MC4LHC readiness
Start: 2010-03-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2010-04-01T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

MC4LHC readiness

from Monday, 29 March 2010 (08:00) to Thursday, 1 April 2010 (18:00)

Monday, 29 March 2010
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

09:00 PYTHIA 6 - Peter Skands (CERN)

09:20 PYTHIA 8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Department of Theoretical Physics)

10:00 HERWIG - Peter Richardson (Durham University)

11:15 Sherpa - frank krauss (Durham University)

12:15 Ariadne - Leif Lonnblad (Lund University)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 13:45
Room: Monday-Wednesday: Salle Bohr, 40-S-B01 Thursday: TH Auditorium
13:45
13:45 - 17:25
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

13:45 CASCADE and small-x final states - Hannes Jung (DESY)

14:05 Study of PYTHIA tunings with CDF jet-shape data - Angela Barbaro Galtieri (Physics Division-Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL)-Unknown)

14:25 LHCf: sensitivity to modeling of diffraction - Menjo Hiroaki

14:50 Theoretical analysis of data on soft diffraction - Martin Poghosyan (Universita & INFN, Torino)

15:35 Diffraction model in HERWIG++ - Pavel Ruzicka

15:55 MB/UE and diffraction modeling in Sherpa - frank krauss (Durham University)

16:25 Diffraction modeling in EPOS - Tanguy Pierog

16:55 Proposal for operational definition of diffraction - Peter Skands (CERN)
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
08:45
08:45 - 12:40
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

09:00 ALPGEN - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

09:35 MadGraph/MadEvent - Michel Herquet

10:20 The Binoth-Les Houches NLO accord - Frederix Rikkert

11:10 MC@NLO - Stefano Frixione (CERN and EPFL)

11:55 POWHEG - Carlo Oleari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)

12:20 POWHEG - Keith Hamilton
13:45
13:45 - 18:45
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

13:45 MCFM - Francesco Tramontano

14:15 Black Hat - Darren Forde

14:45 HELAC - Costas Papadopoulos (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

15:45 DYNNLO - Giancarlo Ferrera

16:05 First results and plans for NLO in Sherpa - Stefan Hoeche (University of Zurich)

16:25 The GOLEM project - Thomas Reiter
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
09:00
09:00 - 13:00
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

09:00 PDF tools: report from PDF4LHC - Albert De Roeck (CERN) Alexandre Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

09:30 LHAPDF: status report - Mike Whalley

10:00 BSM tools: report from MC4BSM - Peter Skands (CERN)

10:30 Jet clustering tools - Gavin Salam

11:30 Decay packages: EVTGEN - Anders Ryd

12:00 EVTGEN: status and plans in LHCb - Paul Harrison (University of Warwick)

12:30 Decay packages: tauola - Zbigniew Was (High Energy Department - Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Phys)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:30
Room: 40/S2-B01 - Salle Bohr
Contributions

14:00 Validation/tuning tools: Rivet & Professor - Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh)

14:45 Validation/tuning tools: Profit - Albert Knutsson (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

15:15 MC tuning with genetic algorithms - Sami Kama (DESY)

15:30 Status and plans of the Generator services project (Genser) - Witold Pokorski (CERN)
Thursday, 1 April 2010
08:30
08:30 - 13:30
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 CDF studies of V+jets - Mario Martinez-Perez (IFAE-Barcelona)

10:00 D0 studies of V+jets - Sabine Lammers (Indiana University)

11:15 UE systematics in V+jets MC predictions, Tevatron comparisons and LHC extrapolation - Andrea Messina (CERN) Ben Cooper (Queen Mary University of London)

11:45 ATLAS: plans for V+jets studies - Thorsten Kuhl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

12:30 Review of preparations for V+jets in CMS - Piergiulio Lenzi (Dipartimento di Fisica) Vitaliano Ciulli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))
13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:30
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Contributions

14:30 Sherpa validationa and tuning on Tevatron data - Steffen Schumann

15:00 Blackhat studies of V+jets - David Kosower

15:20 W+3jets at NLO at the LHC - Giulia Zanderighi (University of Oxford)

15:40 Radiation-pattern observables in W+multijets - Jeppe Andersen (Unknown)

16:00 Plans of the CDF/D0 WG on V+jets - Sabine Lammers (Indiana University)

16:20 Discussion