LHC West Coast

Friday Dec 8, 2006, 9:15 AM → 6:30 PM Europe/Zurich

Alpha Gamma Rho (UC Davis Alumni and Visitor's Center)

John Terning (University of California, Davis)

Meeting at UC Davis of US West Coast physicists interested in LHC physics, Friday, 8 December 2006 Video on ESnet H.323
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9:15 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome

Winston Ko (UCD)

9:30 AM → 10:15 AM SUSY tau and lepton signatures

Max Chertok (UCD)

Speaker: Maxwell Chertok (Department of Physics)

Slides Chertok.pdf

10:15 AM → 11:00 AM Jet Definitions

Infrared safety in definitions of observables for short distance physics and why it is important. Cone definitions of jets. The basic definition and some of the variations. Are these OK? KT definition. Advantages and potential disadvantages.

Speaker: Prof. Davison Soper (U. Oregon)

slides http://physics.uoregon.edu/~soper/JetDefs.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:15 AM coffee

11:15 AM → 12:00 PM A practical jet primer

Steve Ellis (U. Wash.) What have been the issues with jet algorithms in real experiments? What do all the buzz-words mean? What are the issues likely to be at the LHC?

Speaker: Prof. Steve Ellis (U. Wash.)

Slides WestCoast_sde.pdf WestCoast_sde.ppt

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM lunch

1:00 PM → 1:45 PM Jets at the LHC: an experimental perspective

Joey Huston (MSU)

Speaker: Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides davis_huston.pdf davis_huston.pdf

1:45 PM → 2:30 PM Event Generation from Effective Field Theory

Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Prof. Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)

Slides PStalk.pdf

2:30 PM → 2:45 PM discussion

2:45 PM → 3:15 PM coffee

3:15 PM → 4:00 PM MadGraph/MadEvent v. 4

Johan Alwall (SLAC)

Speaker: Dr Johan Alwall (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Slides Alwall-Davis081206.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:45 PM MARMOSET: Signal-Based Monte Carlo for the LHC

Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)

Speaker: Dr Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)

Slides jthaler_WCLHC.pdf

4:45 PM → 5:30 PM Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Unknowns

Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)

Speaker: Prof. Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)