LHC EW precision sub-group meeting

Wednesday 12 December 2018 - 09:00
CERN (40/S2-B01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Dec 2018
AM
10:00 Introduction - Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
10:10 First attempt at producing run-2 pseudodata in ATLAS and CMS for s2w measurement - Aaron James Armbruster (CERN) Aleko Khukhunaishvili (University of Rochester (US))  
10:30 Update on flavour dependent TMD PDFs and their impact on W mass measurement - Dr Giuseppe Bozzi (Università degli Studi di Pavia)  
11:00 PDF benchmarking proposal for PDF4LHC forum - Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:20 Proposal for correcting pQCD predictions for resummation/parton shower effects in DY production - Maarten Boonekamp (CEA/Saclay) Maarten Boonekamp (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
11:30 Discussion of PDF benchmarking proposal  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 pTW/Z benchmarking: recap of November discussion and next steps - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham) Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB)) Marek Schoenherr (CERN)  
15:00 Photon-induced processes and their impact on precision DY measurements using HORACE - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
15:20 QED/EW issues related to DY measurements: how to link recent results with previous reports and update on virtual EW effects from DIZET/POWHEG/MC-SANC - Elzbieta Richter-Was (Jagiellonian University (PL))  
16:00 Impact of QED PDFs on observables measured in ATLAS and CMS - Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Aaron James Armbruster (CERN)  
16:20 --- Coffee break ---
16:45 Update on QED ISR and IFI benchmarking by MC-SANC - Serge Bondarenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
17:15 Update on QED ISR and IFI benchmarking by Powheg-EW - Fulvio Piccinini (Universita and INFN (IT))  
17:45 Update on QED ISR and IFI benchmarking by KKMC-hh - Scott Yost (The Citadel) Scott Alan Yost (The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina (US))  
18:15 Discussion on QED benchmarking: NLO vs LO QCD, QED PDFs, and next steps - All