LHC EW Precision sub-group workshop (IPPP Durham UK)

from Tuesday 2 April 2019 (00:10) to Friday 5 April 2019 (23:00)
IPPP Durham

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Apr 2019
3 Apr 2019
4 Apr 2019
5 Apr 2019
AM
00:10
QCD predictions and calculations of pTW/pTZ (until 19:10)
09:00 --- Registration ---
10:00 General introduction and organisational matters - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham (GB))  
10:10 Workshop introduction - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB)) Daniel Froidevaux (CERN) Fulvio Piccinini (Universita and INFN (IT)) Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham (GB))  
10:20 Benchmarking of parton shower for pTW/Z predictions and QCD predictions from Sherpa - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham (GB))  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 QCD predictions from Herwig7 - Peter Richardson (CERN & IPPP, Durham University)  
12:10 General discussion  
12:30 Predictions of qT spectrum of Z boson using TMDs - Dr Valerio Bertone (Università degli studi di Pavia) Valerio Bertone giuseppe bozzi (universita' degli studi di milano)  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Updated proposal for benchmarking pure resummation and summary of discussion on March 13th - Aram Apyan (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
14:30 Resummation calculations and benchmarking based on Resbos2 - Joshua Isaacson (Fermilab)  
15:00 Resummation calculations and benchmarking based on Radish - Luca Rottoli (University of Milan-Bicocca)  
15:30 Resummation calculations and benchmarking based on SCETlib - Frank Tackmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 General discussion on benchmarking plans and theoretical uncertainties - All  
09:00
QED/EW corrections relevant for weak mixing angle measurements and how to properly include LHC measurements of mW and s2weff in global EW fits (until 12:30)
09:00 Summary of March meeting: results achieved and issues raised - Daniel Froidevaux (CERN)  
09:30 QED corrections and their impact on asymmetries at the Z pole for precision physics at FCCee - Staszek Jadach (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Update on Powheg EW on ISR and IFI estimates - Fulvio Piccinini (Universita and INFN (IT))  
11:30 Update on KKMC-hh calculations for QED ISR and IFI - Scott Alan Yost (The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina (US))  
09:00
Progress in experimental measurements and predictions in precision EW physics (until 11:30)
09:00 Update on W mass combination - Nansi Andari (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Maarten Boonekamp (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:25 Update on prospects for W mass measurement in LHCb - Mika Anton Vesterinen (University of Warwick (GB))  
09:50 Prospects for weak mixing angle measurement in LHCb - William James Barter (Imperial College (GB))  
10:15 Statistical considerations for weak mixing angle interpretation at the LHC - Aaron James Armbruster (CERN)  
10:40 Workshop proposal for follow-up on HL-LHC and LHeC potential for precision EW measurements - Maarten Boonekamp (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
QED/EW corrections relevant for weak mixing angle measurements and how to properly include LHC measurements of mW and s2weff in global EW fits (until 15:00)
11:30 YFS versus Photos QED FSR studies - Christian Gutschow (University College London (UK))  
12:00 Matching of YFS resummation to NNLO QED + NLO EW in Sherpa - Jonas Lindert Jonas Lindert  
12:30 Photon-induced processes: convergence between HORACE and MC-SANC estimates of their impact on Z lineshape and AFB - Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) Serge Bondarenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))  
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Recap of where we stand with EW corrections: Delta_alpha^had corrections and higher order corrections - Elzbieta Richter-Was (Jagiellonian University (PL))  
09:00
PDF issues related to precision DY measurements (until 10:30)
09:00 Update on impact from resummation/parton shower on fixed-order predictions used for PDF fits in DY measurements - Maarten Boonekamp (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:30 Discussion on correlation benchmarking - All  
10:30
MC tuning and underlying event modelling (until 12:15)
10:30 MC tuning in ATLAS for precision DY measurements - Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)  
10:50 MC tuning in CMS for precision DY measurements - Gurpreet Singh Chahal (Imperial College and IPPP Durham University (GB))  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Introduction to discussion: can one produce meaningful MC tunes for W/Z precision physics? - Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham) Marek Schoenherr (University of Durham (GB))  
PM
15:00
PDF issues related to precision DY measurements (until 19:00)
15:00 Update on ABM fits and precision DY measurements at the LHC - Sergey Alekhin (DESY-Zeuthen)  
15:30 Update on CT fits and precision DY measurements at the LHC - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Update on MMHT fits and precision DY measurements at the LHC - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))  
17:00 Update on NNPDF fits and precision DY measurements at the LHC - Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Nikhef)  
17:30 Overview of xFitter framework and introduction to PDF correlation benchmarking discussion: a concrete proposal on first steps - Dr Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
12:15
Concluding remarks and plans for next meetings in May and June (until 12:45)