LHC EW Precision sub-group meeting

from Tuesday 13 November 2018 (00:10) to Thursday 15 November 2018 (19:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
13 Nov 2018
14 Nov 2018
15 Nov 2018
AM
09:00
Overview of experimental progress on precision EW measurements (until 12:50)
09:00 Overview of DY measurements in LHCb and of their relevance to PDFs - Hang Yin (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))  
09:40 Overview of DY measurements in CMS and of their relevance to PDFs - Dr Dimitri Bourilkov (University of Florida (US))  
10:40 Overview of DY measurements in ATLAS and of their relevance to PDFs - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:40 Strangeness un-suppression in epWZ2016 ATLAS PDF set - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))  
12:10 General discussion of experimental results and of experiment-related PDFs  
10:00
QCD issues related to precision DY measurements (until 12:30)
10:00 Update on W/Z pT predictions with Radish/NNLOJET - Luca Rottoli (University of Milan-Bicocca)  
11:00 Predictions of W/Z pT with DYTurbo - Stefano Camarda (CERN)  
12:00 Progress on W mass combination - Nansi Andari (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
PM
14:00
PDF issues related to precision DY measurements (until 19:15)
14:00 Introduction - Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Daniel Froidevaux (CERN)  
14:10 MMHT fits and DY precision measurements at the LHC - Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University) Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)  
15:05 NNPDF fits and DY precision measurements at the LHC, intrinsic charm - Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
16:00 CTEQ fits and DY precision measurements at the LHC - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University) Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy) TIMOTHY J HOBBS (Southern Methodist University) Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))  
16:55 --- Coffee break ---
17:15 ABM fits and DY precision measurements at the LHC - Sergey Alekhin (DESY-Zeuthen)  
17:55 Use of ePump to update PDFs for precision measurements of the weak mixing angle - Siqi Yang (The University of Iowa (US))  
18:25 General discussion and next steps towards December meeting  
15:30
QCD issues related to precision DY measurements (until 19:30)
15:30 Predictions of W/Z pT with Resbos2 - Joshua Isaacson (Fermilab)  
16:30 Resummed calculations of W/Z pT with nuisance parameters - Frank Tackmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Frank Tackmann  
17:30 Introduction to benchmarking discussion (follow-up on earlier discussions on this topic) - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
17:45 Discussion: benchmarking calculations and MC predictions, uncertainty treatment, etc.  
14:00
QED/EW issues related to DY measurements (until 19:00)
14:00 Overview of LUXqed PDFs and their uncertainties - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
14:50 Examples of user tools with PHOTOS - Sergii Antropov (Krakow)  
15:20 Update on DIZET predictions and comparisons - Elzbieta Richter-Was (Jagiellonian University (PL)) Fulvio Piccinini (Universita and INFN (IT))  
15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Wrap-up of discussion on PDFs and on pTW/Z and next steps towards December meeting with PDF4LHC forum - Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
16:40 IFI and ISR effects for Z Drell-Yan observables using Powheg EW - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) Fulvio Piccinini (Universita and INFN (IT))  
17:30 IFI and ISR effects for Z Drell-Yan observables using KKMC-hh - Scott Yost (The Citadel) Scott Alan Yost (The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina (US))  
18:20 IFI and ISR effects for Z Drell-Yan observables using MC-SANC and general discussion on next steps - Lidia Kalinovskaya (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU)) Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Serge Bondarenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))