Terascale Monte Carlo School 2011

14 Mar 2011, 08:00 → 18 Mar 2011, 12:20 Europe/Berlin

DESY Hamburg

Albert Knutsson (DESY), Simon Plätzer (DESY), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY), Zoltan Nagy (DESY)

Tutorial Sheets Tutorial Sheets

URL ATLAS MC tutorial TWiki

Monday 14 March

1 Registration - Seminar room 2

2 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

Slides Welcome.pdf

3 Physics at the LHC: Basics

Speaker: Christian Sander (University of Hamburg)

Slides 110314_PhysicsAtTheLHC.pdf

4 Parton Showers: Basics - what, how and why

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

Slides MC1.pdf

15:45 Coffee break

5 Physics at the LHC: Measurements

Speaker: Christian Sander (University of Hamburg)

6 Parton Shower: Implementations and Caveats

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

Slides MC2.pdf

7 Laptop preparations for tutorials

Tuesday 15 March

8 Introduction to Monte Carlo methods and Monte Carlo generators

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

Slides MC3.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

9 Hadronisation, MC frameworks and assorted issues

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

Slides MC4.pdf

10 The HepMC Analysis Tool

Speaker: Sebastian Johnert (DESY)

Slides MCSchool2011_HepMCAnalysisTool_Johnert.pdf

12:30 Lunch

11 MC generators: Tutorial (with coffee break)

Speakers: Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Simon Plätzer (DESY), Stefan Gieseke (KIT), Stefan Prestel (Lund)

Wednesday 16 March

12 Jet Physics: Basics of jets and jet algorithms

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

Slides lectures.pdf

13 Jet Physics: More fun with jets, physics with jets, and jetography

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

10:30 Coffee break

14 The underlying event: Modelling in theory

Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)

Slides lect1.pdf

15 The underlying event: Basics and introduction

Speaker: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)

Slides lect2.pdf

12:30 Lunch

16 The underlying event: Recent results and MC tunings

Speaker: Albert Knutsson (DESY)

Slides 110316_ue_desymcschool_knutsson.pdf

17 The underlying event: Tutorial (with coffe break)

19:15 Dinner

Thursday 17 March

18 Jet Physics: Tutorial (with coffee break)

Speaker: Sebastian Sapeta (Paris)

Slides jets-tutorial.pdf

12:30 Lunch

19 Evaluation and feedback discussion and good bye

ATLAS MC Tutorial

Convener: Wolfgang Ehrenfeld

Slides introduction.pdf

20 NAF Introduction

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

Slides naf.pdf

21 NAF exercise

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

TWiki TWiki

22 Event Generation in ATLAS

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)

Slides EvGen_slides_prop.pdf EvGen_slides_prop.pdf

16:15 Coffee

23 Pythia6 Exercise

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)

Slides Pythia_Tut.pdf

TWiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT11Pythia

24 Exercise with Sherpa

Speaker: Frank Siegert (Freiburg)

TWiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT11Sherpa

CMS MC Tutorial

Slides

• cmsDriver_debug.pdf
• CMSTutorial_Final.pdf
• Desy_MC2011.pdf

25 Event Generation in CMS

Speaker: Dr Altan Cakir (DESY)

16:15 Coffee

26 Pythia6 Exercise in CMSSW

Speaker: Dr Altan Cakir (DESY)

27 MC/Detector Simulation

Friday 18 March

ATLAS MC Tutorial

Convener: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

Slides introduction.pdf

28 Herwig++ Exercise

Speaker: Jan Kotanski (DESY)

Slides HwA.pdf

TWiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT11Herwig

10:00 Coffee

29 Simple Event Analysis

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

TWiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT11Athena

30 Event Analysis with HepMCAnalysisTool

Speaker: Sebastian Johnert (DESY)

Slides MCSchool_ATLASTutorial_HepMCAnalysisToolInAtlas_Johnert.pdf

TWiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT11HepMCAnalysis

CMS MC Tutorial

Slides

• cmsDriver_debug.pdf
• CMSTutorial_Final.pdf
• Desy_MC2011.pdf

31 Pythia exercises with MadGraph/SOFTSUSY

Speaker: Dr Altan Cakir (DESY)

10:00 Coffee

32 Simple Event Analysis and SUSY Scan

Speaker: Dr Altan Cakir (DESY)

33 Using Rivet in CMSSW

Speaker: Dr Albert Knutsson (DESY)

Slides knutsson_rivettutorialcmssw_110318.pdf