Monte Carlo School 2018

9 Apr 2018, 13:00 → 13 Apr 2018, 14:30 Europe/Berlin

BAH 1 (DESY Hamburg)

The Terascale alliance Monte Carlo school (April 9-13) at DESY Hamburg is designed for master/PhD students and young postdocs.

The tentative programme comprises lectures and a tutorial:
Lectures:
- Introduction (Hard scattering, matrix element, Parton showers, Sudakov form factor, underlying event (QCD radiation and MPI) and hadronization, weighting, integration, phase space, random numbers, veto,...)
- NLO and higher-order calculations
- Parton shower matching at NLO
- Resummation    
- Parton branching and evolution equation
- Theory uncertainties
- MC-data tuning and validation

 

During the hands-on tutorial you will learn how Monte Carlo methods can be applied and write a small program to evolve a parton density (forward evolution) using Sudakov form factors to finally obtain the pt-spectrum of Higgs boson.

Registration fee: 50 Euro (this includes all nutrition costs for coffee and cookies and the school dinner on one of the evenings. The fee is to be paid in cash during the registration).

Organizing Committee:
H. Jung, J. Katzy, I. Melzer-Pellmann, Z. Nagy, J. Reuter

Monday 9 April

13:30 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 14:10 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Isabell-A. Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)

Slides Welcome_MC2018.pdf

14:10 → 14:25 Computing set-up

Speaker: Dr Yves Kemp (DESY)

Slides NAF-montecarlo-2018.pdf

14:25 → 16:00 Introduction

Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)

Slides DESY18_1_2.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 17:50 Introduction (part II)

Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)

Tuesday 10 April

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction (III)

Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)

Slides DESY18_2_2.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:15 MC-data validation and tuning

Speaker: Judith Katzy

Slides MCSchoolDESY2018.pdf MCSchoolDESY2018.pptx

12:15 → 13:00 Parton branching and evolution equation

Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Ral/Oxford)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Tutorial

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Exercise sheet exercise-1.pdf

Slides exercise-1-slides.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 18:00 Tutorial

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Wednesday 11 April

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction (IV)

Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)

Slides DESY18_4.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:15 Parton Shower Matching at NLO

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (CERN)

Slides frederix.pdf

12:15 → 13:00 Parton branching and evolution equation (II)

Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Ral/Oxford)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Tutorial

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Exercise sheet exercise-2.pdf

Slides exercise-2-slides.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 18:00 Tutorial

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

19:00 → 21:00 School dinner

Thursday 12 April

09:00 → 10:30 Parton Shower Matching at NLO

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (CERN)

Slides frederix_2.pdf

10:30 → 10:45 coffee break

10:45 → 12:15 NLO and Higher Order Calculations

Speakers: Mr Jonas Lindert (RWTH Aachen), Dr Jonas Lindert (University of Zurich), Mr Jonas Lindert (MPP)

Slides Desy_MCschool_JL.pdf

12:15 → 13:00 Parton branching and evolution equation (III)

Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Ral/Oxford)

Slides FH-PB-MCschool2018.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Tutorial

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Exercise sheet exercise-3.pdf

Slides exercise-3-slides.pdf

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 18:00 Tutorial

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Friday 13 April

09:00 → 10:30 Resummation

Speaker: Dr Anna Kulesza (University of Muenster)

Slides mcschool18.pptx

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:30 Tutorial wrap up

Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)

Slides Wrapping_up_Exercises.pdf