WHIZARD - Event Generation for LHC, ILC, CLIC

21 Nov 2011, 08:00 → 23 Nov 2011, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

SR 1 + SR 3 (DESY, Hamburg site)

Christian Speckner, Jürgen Reuter, Thorsten Ohl, Wolfgang Kilian

Welcome to the Workshop "WHIZARD - Event Generation for LHC, ILC, CLIC"!

Monday 21 November

13:15 Welcome remarks by J. Mnich (DESY Research Director)

Introduction to WHIZARD

1 WHIZARD: History and Overview

Speaker: Wolfgang Kilian (University of Siegen)

Slides kilian.pdf

2 Physics with WHIZARD - SM and beyond

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides reuter.pdf

14:30 Coffee break

NLO Calculations and Simulations

Convener: Prof. Thorsten Ohl (University of Wuerzburg)

3 Automated One-Loop Calculations with GoSam

Speaker: Mr Thomas Reiter (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München)

Slides 111121-reiter-thomas.pdf

4 NLO development in WHIZARD

Speaker: Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg)

Slides nlo_whizard.pdf

5 Discussion

16:30 Coffee break

WHIZARD Tutorial

Conveners: Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

Tuesday 22 November

Experimental Analyses and Studies I

Convener: Prof. Wolfgang Kilian (University of Siegen)

6 Study of Weak Boson Scattering

Speaker: Ms Ulrike Schnoor (IKTP TU Dresden)

Slides whizardworkshop_11-22-2011_VBS_UlrikeSchnoor.pdf

7 Investigation of electroweak top quark couplings with the ATLAS detector: Measurement of the ttA cross section and further projects

Speaker: Mr Marcus Rammes (Univ. of Siegen)

Slides rammes.pdf

8 Anomalous top couplings in WHIZARD

Speaker: Mr Fabian Bach (Universität Würzburg)

Slides slides.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

Experimental Analyses and Studies II

Convener: Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg)

9 WHIZARD in past and future mass production for the ILC

Speaker: Dr Mikael Berggren (DESY)

Slides whizard_ws_nov11.pdf

10 Using WHIZARD in CLIC CDR mass production

Speaker: Stephane Poss (CERN)

Slides SPossCLICProd.pdf

11 Discussion

12:30 Lunch break

Matrix elements and performance

Convener: Daniel Wiesler (DESY)

12 Optimizing Optimal Matrix Elements from O'Mega

Speaker: Prof. Thorsten Ohl (University of Wuerzburg)

Slides Handoout version (no overlays)

13 Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

LHC, year 2: where we stand

Automatized Beyond the Standard Model Physics

Convener: Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

14 Feynrules -> WHIZARD

Speaker: Dr Neil Christensen (PITTsburgh Particle physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center, University of PIttsburgh)

Slides christensen.pdf

15 Using SARAH, SPheno and WHIZARD to study extensions of the MSSM

Speaker: Dr Florian Staub (University of Bonn)

Slides sarah_spheno_whizard.pdf

16 Discussion

19:30 Joint Dinner at Restaurant Bolero

http://ottensen.bolerobar.de/

Wednesday 23 November

WHIZARD in a QCD environment

Convener: Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

17 WHIZARD Shower and Matching

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Schmidt (DESY)

Slides schmidt.pdf

18 Multiple Parton Interactions in WHIZARD

Speaker: Mr Hans-Werner Boschmann (Universität Siegen)

Slides whizard-mpi-talk-boschmann.pdf

19 Discussion

10:30 Coffee break

Plans and Projects for the Future: Round-table discussion

WHIZARD Tutorial 2

Conveners: Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)