PDF School 2009

20 Oct 2009, 08:00 → 23 Oct 2009, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

DESY (Hamburg)

Alexander Glazov (DESY), Johannes Bluemlein (DESY), Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

The PDF school 2009 covers hard scattering reactions at colliders, both from the theoretical and the experimental side. Emphasis is put on the current information on parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their impact on predcitions and measurements of cross sections at the terascale. The lectures are targeted at Ph.D. students and young postdocs. In addition to the lectures, exercises on the usage of PDFs, PDF error evaluations and related issues will help to deepen the understanding of the topics covered in the lectures. The final day of the school is devoted to a PDF4LHC workshop meeting in which new developments on PDFs for the Large Hadron Collider will be discussed. The school fee is 50 Euros and has to be paid during the registration. On Thursday evening, a conference dinner will be organised. Participants are supposed to arrange for their own accomodation. We recommend starting with the DESY hostel - see http://guest-services.desy.de/hostel_in_hamburg/

more information additional_info.pdf

Tuesday, 20 October

1 Registration

2 Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Dr Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

Slides pdf09.introduction.pdf

3 Introduction to QCD 1

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

Slides pdf09-I.pdf

10:30 coffee

4 Introduction to QCD 2

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

11:45 Lunch

5 Exercises: recursive methods for scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Simon Badger (DESY)

Slides pdfschool2010.pdf

16:00 Coffee

6 QCD Fits

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (Michigan State University)

Slides hamburg.pdf

Wednesday, 21 October

7 Introduction to QCD 3

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

Slides pdf09-II.pdf

10:30 Coffee

8 Introduction to QCD 4

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

12:00 Lunch

9 Exercises: alpha_s Evolution

Speaker: Ulrich Langenfeld (HU Berlin)

Maple file alphasevolution.mw

Slides pdfex.pdf

16:00 Coffee

10 Deep Inelastic Scattering

Speaker: Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford University)

Slides desy_oct21_09.pdf desy_oct21_09.ppt

Thursday, 22 October

11 PDFs and Physics at Tevatron and LHC

Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides desy_morning.ppt

10:00 break

Coffee

12 PDF uncertainties and LHC predictions

Speaker: Alberto Guffanti (Freiburg University)

Slides guffanti_pdfschool09.pdf

11:30 Lunch

13 PDFs in MC, PDF libraries

Speaker: Zoltan Nagy (DESY)

Slides pdf-znagy.pdf

15:00 Coffee

14 Exercises: PDF error evaluation

15 Predictions and PDFs for the LHC

Speaker: Joey Huston (Michigan State University)

Slides desy_seminar.ppt

16 School Dinner

... in a restaurant in walking distance from DESY

Friday, 23 October

PDF4LHC Workshop

See agenda at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=70709