LHC Precision Predictions for Pedestrians (LPPP 2011)

10 Oct 2011, 08:00 → 13 Oct 2011, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Freiburg

Alberto Guffanti (University of Freiburg), Markus Schumacher (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Markus Warsinsky (Universität Freiburg), Oliver Brein (University of Freiburg), Stefan Dittmaier (MPI Munich), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY), Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

The 2011 School on "LHC Precision Predictions for Pedestrians" (LPPP11) is aimed at advanced Ph.D. students and young postdocs who want to learn more about the structure of predictions implemented in Monte Carlo generators or fixed-order calculations. The school - which takes place from 10 to 13 October 2011 in Freiburg - comprises lectures and hands-on tutorials on the following subjects: - multi-purpose MC generators - parton showers - fixed-order calculations at NLO in QED, QCD, and the EW Standard Model - matching of matrix elements and parton showers at LO and NLO - PDFs and their usage in MC programmes and NLO calculations - PDF error evaluation - first LHC physics results The exercises will be performed on the participants' laptops using a virtual machine image. Please see the VM topic in the left side bar for more details. In any case a laptop is necessary. Details will be announced in due time. Setup of the computing environment prior to the school is mandatory. The school fee is 50 Euro and covers participation in the lectures and tutorials, all breaks and the school dinner; registration is via this web page. For more information on the school, send an email to the Analysis Centre: anacen@desy.de .

Monday 10 October

1 Registration

12:30 Lunch break

2 Welcome and introduction

Speakers: Prof. Markus Schumacher (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Stefan Dittmaier (Freiburg), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

3 Lecture: Structure of theoretical predictions 1

Speaker: Prof. Michael Krämer (RWTH Aachen)

Slides mkraemer_LPPP.pdf

15:45 Coffee break

4 Lecture: Structure of theoretical predictions 2

Speaker: Prof. Michael Krämer (RWTH Aachen)

5 Questions and discussion

6 Tutorial: Computer and software setup

Instructions https://indico.desy.de/internalPage.py?pageId=1&confId=3245

Tuesday 11 October

7 Lecture: MC tools and their properties

Speaker: Peter Loch (University of Arizona)

Slides MCTools.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

8 Lecture: Parton shower, matrix elements and their matching

Speaker: Bryan Webber (Cambridge)

Slides WebberPSMEM.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

9 Lecture and tutorial on MCs tools at NLO and matching

Speakers: Stefan Gieseke (KIT), Steffen Schumann (ITP Heidelberg)

Slides FR-school_Herwig++.pdf FR-school_Sherpa.pdf

Wednesday 12 October

10 Lecture: EW and QCD calculations at NLO

Speaker: Ansgar Denner (Würzburg)

Slides lppp_denner.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11 Lecture: NLO, NNLO, resummation and further

Speaker: Thomas Gehrmann (Universitaet Zuerich)

Slides LPPP_Gerhmann.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

12 Lecture: PDFs and error evaluation

Speaker: Alberto Guffanti (University of Freiburg)

Slides LPPP2011_guffanti.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

13 Tutorial: PDF error evaluation

Speaker: Alberto Guffanti (University of Freiburg)

14 Questions and discussion

19:00 School dinner

Thursday 13 October

15 Lecture: ME+PS matching at NLO

Speaker: Keith Hamilton

Slides hamilton_Freiburg.pdf

16 Evaluation session

11:00 Coffee break

17 Lecture: Results from the LHC

Speaker: Chiara Mariotti

Slides LPPP_chiara.pdf