Monte Carlo School 2018

Europe/Berlin
BAH 1 (DESY Hamburg)

BAH 1

DESY Hamburg

Description

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

Participants
    • 1
      Registration BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 2
      Welcome BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Dr Isabell-A. Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)
      Slides
    • 3
      Computing set-up BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Dr Yves Kemp (DESY)
      Slides
    • 4
      Introduction BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)
      Slides
    • 16:00
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 5
      Introduction (part II) BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)
    • 6
      Introduction (III) BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 7
      MC-data validation and tuning BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Judith Katzy
      Slides
    • 8
      Parton branching and evolution equation BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Ral/Oxford)
    • 13:00
      Lunch break Canteen

      Canteen

      DESY Hamburg

    • 9
      Tutorial BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
      Exercise sheet
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 10
      Tutorial BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
    • 11
      Introduction (IV) BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Andrzej Siodmok (The University of Manchester)
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 12
      Parton Shower Matching at NLO BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (CERN)
      Slides
    • 13
      Parton branching and evolution equation (II) BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Ral/Oxford)
    • 13:00
      Lunch break Canteen

      Canteen

      DESY Hamburg

    • 14
      Tutorial BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
      Exercise sheet
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 15
      Tutorial BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
    • 19:00
      School dinner Canteen extension

      Canteen extension

      DESY Hamburg

    • 16
      Parton Shower Matching at NLO BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (CERN)
      Slides
    • 10:30
      coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 17
      NLO and Higher Order Calculations BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speakers: Mr Jonas Lindert (RWTH Aachen), Dr Jonas Lindert (University of Zurich), Mr Jonas Lindert (MPP)
      Slides
    • 18
      Parton branching and evolution equation (III) BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Francesco Hautmann (Ral/Oxford)
      Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch break Canteen

      Canteen

      DESY Hamburg

    • 19
      Tutorial BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
      Exercise sheet
      Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 20
      Tutorial BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
    • 21
      Resummation BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Dr Anna Kulesza (University of Muenster)
      Slides
    • 10:30
      Coffee break BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

    • 22
      Tutorial wrap up BAH 1

      BAH 1

      DESY Hamburg

      Speaker: Hannes Jung (DESY)
      Slides