11th MCnet Meeting

Oct 8, 2014, 2:00 PM → Oct 10, 2014, 12:30 PM Europe/Berlin

6-1 (KIT Karlsruhe Physics Highrise)

Wednesday, October 8

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Student/postdoc reports

3:00 PM Higgs Pair Production at the LHC

Speaker: Eleni Vryonidou (UC Louvain)

Slides vryonidouMCnet.pdf

3:30 PM MCnet at the LHC HXSWG

Speaker: Simon Plätzer (DESY Hamburg)

Slides platzer.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Discussion session

Thursday, October 9

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Student/postdoc reports

9:00 AM A Pythia8 tune of ttbar observables

Speaker: Simone Amoroso (University of Freiburg)

Slides Amoroso_MCnet-09-10-2014.pdf

9:30 AM Rope Hadronization

Speaker: Christian Bierlich (Lund University)

Slides christian_bierlich.pdf

10:00 AM Real-time Dynamics of the Confining String

Speaker: Frasher Loshaj (KIT Karlsruhe)

Slides loshaj.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Student/postdoc reports

11:00 AM A new colour reconnection model within Pythia

Speaker: Jesper Roy Christiansen (Lund University)

Slides presentationJesper.pdf

11:30 AM Effects of colour reconnection on tt final states at the LHC

Speaker: Spyridon Argyropoulos (Lund University)

Slides Argyropoulos-MCnetKarlsruhe.pdf

12:00 PM Higgs production with high energy jets

Speaker: Helen Brooks (IPPP Durham)

Slides Brooks.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Individual Projects' discussion

3:45 PM → 4:45 PM Seminar

4:45 PM → 5:15 PM Coffee break

5:15 PM → 6:15 PM Highlight from Industrial Partner

5:15 PM Big Data

Speaker: Michael Feindt (Blue Yonder/KIT)

Slides MCnet_Feindt.pdf

8:15 PM → 11:55 PM Common dinner

The Dinner will be at "Alte Schmiede" in Durlach (see map). Take Tram No 1 from "Kronenplatz" or "KIT/Campus Sued" direction "Durlach" (East) to "Durlach Schlossplatz". The Restaurant is 100 m into "Ochsentorstrasse" opposite the Tram stop. We meet there no earlier than 8:15 pm.

Link to google maps https://www.google.de/maps/place/Alte+Schmiede/@48.999536,8.472945,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xd8fb750173c17789

Friday, October 10

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Student/postdoc reports

9:00 AM Finite heavy quark mass effects in gluon fusion Higgs production

Speaker: Silvan Kuttimalai (IPPP Durham)

Slides kuttimalai.pdf

9:30 AM Sensitivity of direct photons to small-x gluon nPDFs in HIC at the LHC

Speaker: Ilkka Helenius (Lund University)

Slides MCnet_helenius.pdf

10:00 AM Recursion Relations in Multiplet Bases

Speaker: Johan Thoren (Lund University)

Slides Thoren-Color_Karlsruhe.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Discussion session