LHC West Coast

Contribution List

1. SUSY tau and lepton signatures

Maxwell Chertok (Department of Physics)

08/12/2006, 09:30

Max Chertok (UCD)

0. Jet Definitions

Prof. Davison Soper (U. Oregon)

08/12/2006, 10:15

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.

2. A practical jet primer

Prof. Steve Ellis (U. Wash.)

08/12/2006, 11:15

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?

3. Jets at the LHC: an experimental perspective

Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

08/12/2006, 13:00

Joey Huston (MSU)

4. Event Generation from Effective Field Theory

Prof. Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)

08/12/2006, 13:45

Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)

5. MadGraph/MadEvent v. 4

Dr Johan Alwall (Université Catholique de Louvain)

08/12/2006, 15:15

Johan Alwall (SLAC)

6. MARMOSET: Signal-Based Monte Carlo for the LHC

Dr Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)

08/12/2006, 16:00

Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)

7. Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Unknowns

Prof. Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)

08/12/2006, 16:45

Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)

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