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

PDF issues I

1 Welcome and introduction

Slides buckley-hfatlhc-exptintro.pdf

2 Determining the charm PDF

Speaker: Prof. Stefano Forte (Milan University)

Slides durhamhq.pdf

3 Heavy flavour and MSTW/MMHT

Speaker: Prof. Robert Thorne (University College London)

Slides HFIPPPThorne.pdf

4 Heavy flavour and ABKM

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

Slides alekhin.pdf

Coffee break

PDF issues II

5 bbH and 4/5 flavour

Speaker: Maria Ubiali

Slides ubiali_hflhc.pdf

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

Speaker: fabio maltoni (uclouvain)

Slides maltoni-hf.pdf

7 4 and 5 flavour treatment in Sherpa

Speaker: Mr Davide Napoletano (IPPP)

Slides IPPP_Heavies16.pdf

Lunch

Fixed order I

8 Forward heavy flavour production

Speaker: Rhorry Gauld

Slides Gauld_20_4_15.pdf

9 Powheg heavy flavour treatment

Speaker: Paolo Nason

Slides Durham-18-4-2016.pdf

10 Initial state bs in Herwig

Speaker: Graeme Nail

Slides hf-lite.pdf

Coffee break

Experiment I

11 V+HF production @ ATLAS - lessons learned from Run 1

Speaker: Chiara Debenedetti

Slides Debenedetti_VHFrun1.pdf

12 Heavy flavour and top at CMS

Speaker: Chris Neu

Slides HFatLHC_bartosik.pdf

13 HF at LHCb

Speaker: Will Barter

Slides LHCb-Barter.pdf

Thursday 21 April

Parton Showers I

14 Pythia 8 matching and merging

Speaker: Stefan Prestel

Slides talk20160422-a.pdf

15 Heavy flavour in EvtGen

Speaker: John Back

Slides jbEvtGenDurham16.pdf

16 Herwig++ and matching/NLO

Speaker: Simon Pletzer

Slides platzer.pdf

Coffee break

Parton showers II

17 Heavy flavour in Alpgen + MLM

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

Slides durham.pdf

18 Prompt heavy flavour production

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari

Slides cacciari-hf.pdf

Lunch

Experiment I

19 ATLAS HF production - looking towards Run 2

Speaker: Josh McFayden

Slides 2016-04-21_ATLASHF_mcfayden.pdf

20 Flavour tagging at CMS

Speaker: Dr Ivan Marchesini (Hamburg University)

Slides HFatLHC.pdf

21 Heavy flavour and top at ATLAS

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

Slides Talk_HeavyFlavourWorkshop_AndreaKnue_2104.pdf

Coffee break

Experiment II

22 Flavour tagging at ATLAS

Speaker: Hannah Arnold

Slides HFP@LHC_Arnold.pdf

23 Single vs. double b-jet tagging

Speaker: Mr Robin Linten (IPPP Durham)

Slides Heavy_Flavour_Production.pdf

24 V+HF at CMS

Speaker: Phillipe Gras

Slides pgras-20160421.pdf

Dinner

Friday 22 April

Towards Recommendations: Discussion

25 Discussion points

Slides Discussion points on last slide