Heavy Flavour Production at the LHC

20 Apr 2016, 08:00 → 22 Apr 2016, 18:00 Europe/London

Oc 218 (IPPP)

Andy Buckley (IPPP, Durham University), frank krauss (ippp durham)

A workshop for experimenters and theorists to discuss successes and failures in the description and simulation of heavy flavour production at the LHC and relevant aspects of their decays.

Wednesday, 20 April

09:30 → 11:20 PDF issues I

09:30 Welcome and introduction

Slides buckley-hfatlhc-exptintro.pdf

10:00 Determining the charm PDF

Speaker: Prof. Stefano Forte (Milan University)

Slides durhamhq.pdf

10:25 Heavy flavour and MSTW/MMHT

Speaker: Prof. Robert Thorne (University College London)

Slides HFIPPPThorne.pdf

10:50 Heavy flavour and ABKM

Speaker: Dr Sergey Alekhin (Institute for High Energy Physics)

Slides alekhin.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 → 13:00 PDF issues II

11:40 bbH and 4/5 flavour

Speaker: Maria Ubiali

Slides ubiali_hflhc.pdf

12:05 Anatomy of heavy-quark initiated processes: implications for LHC simulations

Speaker: fabio maltoni (uclouvain)

Slides maltoni-hf.pdf

12:30 4 and 5 flavour treatment in Sherpa

Speaker: Mr Davide Napoletano (IPPP)

Slides IPPP_Heavies16.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Fixed order I

14:30 Forward heavy flavour production

Speaker: Rhorry Gauld

Slides Gauld_20_4_15.pdf

15:00 Powheg heavy flavour treatment

Speaker: Paolo Nason

Slides Durham-18-4-2016.pdf

15:30 Initial state bs in Herwig

Speaker: Graeme Nail

Slides hf-lite.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Experiment I

16:30 V+HF production @ ATLAS - lessons learned from Run 1

Speaker: Chiara Debenedetti

Slides Debenedetti_VHFrun1.pdf

17:00 Heavy flavour and top at CMS

Speaker: Chris Neu

Slides HFatLHC_bartosik.pdf

17:30 HF at LHCb

Speaker: Will Barter

Slides LHCb-Barter.pdf

Thursday, 21 April

09:30 → 11:00 Parton Showers I

09:30 Pythia 8 matching and merging

Speaker: Stefan Prestel

Slides talk20160422-a.pdf

10:00 Heavy flavour in EvtGen

Speaker: John Back

Slides jbEvtGenDurham16.pdf

10:30 Herwig++ and matching/NLO

Speaker: Simon Pletzer

Slides platzer.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 Parton showers II

11:30 Heavy flavour in Alpgen + MLM

Speaker: mauro moretti (Department of Physics, Ferrara University)

Slides durham.pdf

12:00 Prompt heavy flavour production

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari

Slides cacciari-hf.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Experiment I

14:30 ATLAS HF production - looking towards Run 2

Speaker: Josh McFayden

Slides 2016-04-21_ATLASHF_mcfayden.pdf

15:00 Flavour tagging at CMS

Speaker: Dr Ivan Marchesini (Hamburg University)

Slides HFatLHC.pdf

15:30 Heavy flavour and top at ATLAS

Speaker: Ms Andrea Knue (Max-Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)

Slides Talk_HeavyFlavourWorkshop_AndreaKnue_2104.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Experiment II

16:30 Flavour tagging at ATLAS

Speaker: Hannah Arnold

Slides HFP@LHC_Arnold.pdf

17:00 Single vs. double b-jet tagging

Speaker: Mr Robin Linten (IPPP Durham)

Slides Heavy_Flavour_Production.pdf

17:20 V+HF at CMS

Speaker: Phillipe Gras

Slides pgras-20160421.pdf

19:30 → 22:00 Dinner

Friday, 22 April

10:00 → 12:00 Towards Recommendations: Discussion

11:00 Discussion points

Slides Discussion points on last slide