Name: QCD at the LHC
Start: 2011-08-22T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-08-26T18:00:00+01:00
Location: St Andrews, Scotland

QCD at the LHC

from Monday, August 22, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 26, 2011 (6:00 PM)

Monday, August 22, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Soft QCD results from Atlas

9:50 AM Soft QCD results from CMS

11:20 AM Hard QCD results from Atlas

12:10 PM Hard QCD results from CMS
2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Parton Showers and Multiple Parton Interactions - Zoltan Nagy

2:45 PM Discussion

2:55 PM The universality of Monte Carlo tunes - Rick Field

3:25 PM Discussion

3:35 PM Double Parton Scattering Theory - Jonathan Gaunt

4:30 PM Soft physics corrections to Jets - Mrinal Dasgupta

5:00 PM Discussion

5:10 PM Color flow in hard scattering processes - Simone Marzani

5:40 PM Discussion
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM W/Z + jet production at CMS - Michael Cutajar (Imperial College London)

2:55 PM W/Z + jet production at ATLAS - Erik Devetak (Stony Brook)

3:20 PM W/Z production at LHCb - Simone Bifani (University College Dublin)

3:45 PM W/Z + jet production at Tevatron - Stefano Camrada (IFAE Barcelona)

4:30 PM NNPDF update - Luigi Del Debbio (Edinburgh)

4:55 PM HERAPDF update - Voica Radescu (Heidelberg Physikalisches Institut)

5:20 PM CTEQ PDFs update - Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

7:30 PM Discussion
8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM PDFs - Robert Thorne (UCL)

9:50 AM Theory of Jets - Mrinal Dasgupta (Manchester)

11:20 AM Higher Order Calculations - Zoltan Kunszt (ETH Zurich)

12:10 PM Monte Carlo - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 8:55 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM MSTW PDFs update - Robert Thorne (University College London)

2:25 PM Review of recent HERA data - Matthew Wing (UCL)

2:55 PM Overview of the FFNS and VFNS in DIS - Pedro Jimenes-Delgado (ITP Zurich)

3:25 PM NNLO corrections to the heavy-quark electroproduction - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

4:25 PM VFNS in the MSTW fit - Robert Thorne (UCL)

4:55 PM Running-mass definition in the heavy-quark electroproduction - Sergey Alekhin (Protvino)

5:25 PM ACOT in the NNLO - Pavel Nadolsky (SMU)

7:25 PM Discussion
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Status of NNLO calculations - Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

3:00 PM Discussion

3:15 PM Recent progress in matching shower MC's and ME's - Marek Schoenherr

3:45 PM Discussion

4:30 PM Boosted jet physics - Peter Loch

5:00 PM Discussion

5:15 PM W+multi-jets - Joey Huston

5:45 PM Discussion
2:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Soft QCD and Correlations results from ALICE - Klaus Reygers

3:00 PM Correlations at the LHC - Craig Buttar

3:30 PM Minireview on models for diffractive excitations and the Lund cascade model DIPSY - Gosta Gustafson

4:30 PM Forward and Diffractive reslts from CMS and ATLAS - Benoit Roland

5:00 PM Discussion on Future of Soft QCD/Correlations
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Resummation - Lorenzo Magnea (Torino)

9:50 AM Top Physics - Peter Uwer (HU Berlin)

11:20 AM Higgs Physics - Giampiero Passarino (INFN Torino)

12:10 PM QCD 4 BSM - Michael Spannowsky (Oregon)
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, August 25, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Use of PDF's in MC generators - Zoltan Nagy

9:30 AM Discussion

9:50 AM Uncertainties in prompt photon predictions - Ciaran Williams

10:20 AM Discussion

11:15 AM Impact of jet data on PDF's and standard candles - Sergey Alekhin

11:35 AM PDF dependence on the Higgs cross section - Robert Thorne

11:55 AM Discussion

12:15 PM Re-weighting PDF's using experimental data - Richard Ball

12:45 PM Discussion
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Soft QCD results from LHCb - Andrea Contu (University of Oxford)

2:30 PM ATLAS MC Tuning effort - A. Buckley

3:00 PM CMS MC Tunning effort - Rick Field (University of Florida)

3:30 PM PYTHIA MC Status - Richard Corke

4:30 PM HERWIG MC Status - Christian Roehr

5:00 PM Discussion on MC and Tuning
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Tensor reductions of Feynman integrals - Tord Riemann

3:00 PM Discussion

3:10 PM Numerical evaluation of loop corrections - Christian Reuschle

3:40 PM Discussion

3:50 PM Comments on CKKW-L and truncated showers - Stefan Prestel (Lund)

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM Soft-gluon resummation in t-tbar production at hadron colliders - Ben Pecjak

4:50 PM Resummation effects in hard QCD events - Thomas Becher

5:10 PM Discussion

5:25 PM Next 5 years of QCD measurements at the LHC (discussion)
2:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Overview of Alpha_s measurement - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

3:00 PM Determination of \alpha_s from event shapes - Thomas Becher (Bern)

3:30 PM Value of Alpha_s from the HERA data - Voica Radescu (Heidelberg Physikalisches Institut)

4:30 PM Value of Alpha_s from the NNPDF fit - Richard Ball (Edinburgh)

5:00 PM Benchmarking of fitting codes - Joey Huston (MSU)

5:30 PM Benchmarking of the PDFs and Alpha_s correlation - Joey Huston (MSU)

7:30 PM Discussion on the NLO/NNLO PDFs bechmarking
Friday, August 26, 2011
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Summary of "Hard QCD" - Michael Begel (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Summary of "Soft QCD"

10:00 AM Summary of "PDFs"

11:00 AM Concluding remarks - Keith Ellis (Fermilab)

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