7th MCnet meeting

12 Jan 2010, 14:00 → 14 Jan 2010, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Mike Seymour, Peter Skands

7th Meeting of the

MCnet European Network

Participation is open to anyone (except for the management meeting session).

Meeting Secretary : Michelle Connor (michelle.connor@cern.ch)

Tuesday, 12 January

15:30 → 18:30 MCnet Management Meeting: (closed session)

Closed Meeting of MCnet Management

Wednesday, 13 January

09:15 → 12:15 7th MCnet Meeting: Time Reserved for Collaboration Meetings

14:00 → 18:00 7th MCnet Meeting: MCnet Projects 1/2

14:00 TH Seminar on Multijet Matching

Speaker: Leif Lonnblad (Lund University)

Slides CERN10a.pdf

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Update on Rivet

Speaker: Dr Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh)

slides buckley-rivet.pdf

15:45 Tuning Status

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)

Slides hoeth.pdf

16:00 Estimating Tuning uncertainties with Professor

Speaker: Holger Schulz (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin)

Slides MCnetCERN.pdf

16:15 QED FSR effects on Z pT measurements at the Tevatron

Speaker: Gavin Hesketh (CERN)

slides MCnet_hesketh.pdf

16:30 A Study of MC Tuning in the Presence of Matching

Speaker: Piergiulio Lenzi (Dipartimento di Fisica)

Slides lenzi_13012010.pdf

16:45 Are Nc=3 effects important in parton showers?

Speaker: Malin Sjödahl

Slides CERN1001.pdf

17:00 Improved Parton Showers at Large Transverse Momenta and Status of Pythia 8

Speaker: Richard Corke (Lund University)

Slides mcnet-rcorke.pdf.pdf

17:20 Introduction

Speaker: Kenneth Gibb Wraight (University of Glasgow)

slides MCnet_Jan.pdf MCnet_Jan.ppt

Thursday, 14 January

09:15 → 12:15 7th MCnet meeting: MC/LHC Session

09:15 Report from ATLAS

Speaker: Dr Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)

slides MCnetTalkJan2010_1.pdf

09:45 Report from CMS

Speaker: Dr Fabio Cossutti (INFN Trieste)

slides MCNet_Workshop_20100114.pdf

10:15 Report from LHCb (qcd)

Speaker: Raluca Muresan (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne)

Slides RalucaMuresanMCNetJan2009.pdf

10:45 coffee break

11:15 Some Theory Lessons from the O(1TeV) LHC Runs

Speaker: Peter Skands (CERN)

Slides MCnet7-skands.pdf

11:45 Report from ALICE (pp)

Speaker: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)

slides MCnet_14_01_10.pdf MCnet_14_01_10.ppt

14:00 → 18:00 7th MCnet meeting: MCnet Projects 2/2

14:00 Status Report

Speaker: Mr Noam Hod (HEP Department, Tel Aviv University)

slides noamMCnet7thSlides.pdf

14:15 Hard photon production and ME/PS merging, and status of SHERPA

Speaker: Frank Siegert

slides fsiegert.pdf

14:35 Radiative Corrections to Semileptonic Meson Decays

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr

Slides MCnet_Schoenherr.pdf.pdf

14:50 Colour Reconnection within Herwig++

Speaker: Christian Roehr

slides mcnet-cern-roehr.pdf

15:05 Coffee

15:35 Status Report

Speaker: Dart-Yin Soh (Institute of Physics-Academia Sinica)

Slides WGammaPowheg_-.pdf WGammaPowheg_-.ppt

15:50 Status Report

Speaker: Irais Bautista Guzman

slides MCnet-irais.pdf

16:05 Composite vectors at the LHC with CalcHEP

Speaker: Riccardo Torre

Slides Slides.pdf

16:20 Status Report

Speaker: Christoffer Flensburg

slides christofferflensburg.pdf

16:35 Applications of the POWHEG Method to Drell-Yan Processes in HERWIG++

Speaker: Ilan Fridman Rojas

Slides Beamer.pdf

16:50 CKKW-L merging in Pythia8: Status Report

Speaker: Stefan Prestel

Slides status_ckkwl_in_pythia.pdf

17:05 LED Graviton and Unparticle Processes in Pythia8

Speaker: Stefan Ask (University of Manchester)

Slides ask_mcnet_jan10.pdf ask_mcnet_jan10.ppt

17:15 The new minimum bias and underlying event model in SHERPA

Speaker: Korinna Zapp

slides mcnet_1001_kczapp.pdf

17:30 Introduction

Speaker: Giordano Cattani

Slides GCattani_7thMCNetMeeting.pdf