Minimum Bias and Underlying Event Working Group

from Monday 1 March 2010 (08:00) to Tuesday 2 March 2010 (18:00)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Mar 2010
2 Mar 2010
AM
09:30
Minimum Bias, LHC experimental results (until 13:00)
09:30 --- Welcome coffee ---
10:00 Introduction - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
Slides
10:20 ALICE - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN)  
Slides
11:00 ATLAS - Emily Nurse William H. Bell (Universite de Geneve)  
Slides
11:40 CMS - Mr Edward Allen Wenger (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))  
Slides
12:20 LHCb - Michael Schmelling  
Slides
09:00
Underlying event issues (until 10:30)
09:00 Current status of our understanding of the UE and its relationship to MB - Richard D. Field  
Slides
09:40 On the characterisation of the underlying event - Sebastian Sapeta  
Slides
10:00 Discussion  
10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00
Tuning issues (until 13:00)
11:00 Introduction - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
Slides
11:15 Remarks from ATLAS - Dr Judith Katzy (DESY, HAMBURG)  
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11:30 Remarks from CMS - paolo bartalini  
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11:50 Remarks from LHCb - Raluca Muresan  
Slides
12:10 More Remarks - Dr Andy Buckley (University of Edinburgh)  
Text notes
PM
13:00 --- lunch break ---
14:00
Modeling of MB and diffraction (until 16:30)
14:00 Min-Bias Models - The modeling of SD, DD, and ND - Peter Skands (CERN)  
Slides
14:45 Discriminating power of forward calorimetric observables for MB&UE modeling - Hannes Jung  
Slides
15:05 Discussion  
Slides
16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30
Modeling of MB and diffraction (until 18:30)
16:30 MC studies - Dr Beate Heinemann (LBNL and UC Berkeley)  
Paper
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Executive session (until 16:30) (40/R-B10)