Terascale MC School 2009

20 Apr 2009, 14:00 → 23 Apr 2009, 12:35 Europe/Berlin

Sem 4 (DESY)

Hannes Jung (DESY), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

Monday 20 April

14:00 → 14:15 Welcome & Introduction

Slides mcschool.einleitung.apr09.pdf welcome.pdf

14:15 → 15:00 Monte Carlo techniques and standard physics

Speaker: S. Gieseke

Slides lect1.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_1a.rm

15:00 → 15:15 Coffee

15:15 → 16:00 Monte Carlo techniques and standard physics

Speaker: S. Gieseke

Slides lect2.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_1b.rm

16:00 → 16:45 Automatic matrix element calculations (mathem.background)

Speaker: T. Ohl

Slides mcs2009-ohl-handout.pdf mcs2009-ohl.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_1c.rm

16:45 → 17:30 BSM Physics (models)

Speaker: J. Reuter

Slides HGF_BSM.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_1d.rm

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 21 April

09:00 → 09:45 Monte Carlo techniques and standard physics

Speaker: S. Gieseke

Slides lect3.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_2a.rm

09:45 → 10:30 BSM processes in HERWIG++

Speaker: P. Richardson

Slides Desy09.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_2b.rm

10:30 → 10:45 coffee

10:45 → 11:05 Generators: PYTHIA8

Speaker: R. Corke

Slides pythia8-desy.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_2b.rm

11:05 → 11:25 Generators: SHERPA

Speaker: S. Schumann

Slides sherpa.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_2d.rm

11:25 → 11:45 Generators: MadEvent

Speaker: R. Frederix

Slides frederix_DESY.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_2e.rm

11:45 → 12:05 Generators: HepMCAnalyser

Speaker: J. Katzy

Slides HepMCAnalysisTalk.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_2f.rm

14:00 → 18:00 Exercises on MCGenerators + standard model background

Wednesday 22 April

08:59 → 09:00 Announcements

Slides announcements210409.pdf

09:00 → 10:00 Simulation of multi-jet background

Speaker: M. Worek

Slides mworek_desy.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_3a.rm

10:00 → 10:15 Coffee

10:15 → 11:15 BSM Physics (phenomenology)

Speaker: W. Kilian

Slides wk_bsm.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_3b.rm

11:15 → 11:35 Generators: WHIZARD

Speaker: J. Reuter

Slides whizard_tutorial.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_3c.rm

11:35 → 12:20 Exercises on MCGenerators + standard model background

14:00 → 18:00 Exercises on MCGenerators + standard model background

19:00 → 22:00 Common Dinner & Discussion

Thursday 23 April

09:00 → 10:00 Searches

Speaker: V. Buescher

Slides buescher_MC_School.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_4a.rm

10:00 → 10:15 Coffee

10:30 → 11:40 Student reports from exercises

video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint4/Archive/mc_school_2009/MCS2009_4b.rm

10:30 Sherpa Z'

Speaker: Th. Schwindt

Slides sherpa.pdf

10:35 Signal & Background

Speaker: E. Quattor

Slides 20090423-TerascaleGeneratorComparison.pdf

10:55 Background

Speaker: S. Schmitt

Slides background.pdf

11:15 signal

Slides mcComparison.pdf

11:20 WHIZARD

Slides whizard.pdf

11:40 → 12:00 Closing of the school

Slides closing.pdf