Minimum Bias and Underlying Event Working Group

Monday 31 May 2010, 08:00 → 20:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Minutes May31-minutes.pdf

09:00 → 13:00 Minimum bias and diffraction

09:00 Coffee break

Served in teh TH common room, in front of the TH secretariat

09:30 Minimum-bias measurements with ALICE

Speaker: Chiara Zampolli (CERN)

Slides

• C_Zampolli_MBUE.pdf
• C_Zampolli_MBUE.ppt
• C_Zampolli_MBUE.pptx

10:00 Recent MinBias Results from ATLAS

Speaker: Maaike Limper (University of Iowa)

Slides MBworkshop_atlas_minbias_mlimper.pdf MBworkshop_atlas_minbias_mlimper.ppt

10:30 CMS Min-Bias and Diffraction Measurements

Speaker: Gabor Veres (Conseil Europeen Recherche Nucl. (CERN))

Slides MBUE2010May31_vg.pdf MBUE2010May31_vg.ppt

11:00 Ks production in LHCb

Speaker: Mr Manuel Schiller (Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg)

Slides schiller-lhcb-ks.pdf

11:30 Forward Physics at LHCb? Prospects for the study of diffractive interactions

Speaker: Michael Schmelling

Slides MBUE_LHCbFwd.pdf

12:00 Hard diffraction and its influence on MB&UE

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Slides diffraction-mc.pdf

12:30 Update on tuning-support tools

Speaker: Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Slides genserMBWG.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 17:45 Underlying event and tunes

14:00 CMS: First Measurement of the Underlying Event Activity in Proton-Proton Collisions at 900 GeV at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Klaus Rabbertz (UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE)

Slides

• LHC_MBUE_WG_31052010.odp
• LHC_MBUE_WG_31052010.pdf
• LHC_MBUE_WG_31052010.ppt

14:30 ATLAS: First Underlying Event Results at 900 GeV and 7 TeV

Speaker: Gabriel Hare (Unknown)

Slides TrackUnderlyingEvent_ghare_31_05_2010.pdf

15:00 Event shape and underlying event with ALICE

Speaker: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)

Slides MbWorkshopMorsch.pdf

15:30 CMS Cluster Analysis in Min-Bias Events

Speaker: Mr Wei Li (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT)-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides MBUEWorkshop-2PCorr-05312010_v3.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 First Pythia tune to the ATLAS MB and UE data

Speaker: Judith Katzy (Unknown)

Slides MBWorkshopMay2010.pdf

16:45 The Early CMS Min-Bias and Underlying Event Measurements: What have we learned?

Speaker: Rick Field (Univ. of Florida)

Slides LPCC_RickField_5-31-10.pdf LPCC_RickField_5-31-10.ppt

17:15 Discussion

Speaker: Peter Skands (CERN)

Slides skands-lhc1.pdf

17:45 → 18:30 Conveners' meeting