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 → 13:30 Welcome remarks by J. Mnich (DESY Research Director)

13:30 → 14:30 Introduction to WHIZARD

13:30 WHIZARD: History and Overview

Speaker: Wolfgang Kilian (University of Siegen)

Slides kilian.pdf

14:00 Physics with WHIZARD - SM and beyond

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides reuter.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:30 NLO Calculations and Simulations

Convener: Prof. Thorsten Ohl (University of Wuerzburg)

15:00 Automated One-Loop Calculations with GoSam

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

Slides 111121-reiter-thomas.pdf

15:45 NLO development in WHIZARD

Speaker: Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg)

Slides nlo_whizard.pdf

16:15 Discussion

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 19:00 WHIZARD Tutorial

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

Tuesday, 22 November

09:00 → 10:30 Experimental Analyses and Studies I

Convener: Prof. Wolfgang Kilian (University of Siegen)

09:00 Study of Weak Boson Scattering

Speaker: Ms Ulrike Schnoor (IKTP TU Dresden)

Slides whizardworkshop_11-22-2011_VBS_UlrikeSchnoor.pdf

09:30 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

10:00 Anomalous top couplings in WHIZARD

Speaker: Mr Fabian Bach (Universität Würzburg)

Slides slides.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Experimental Analyses and Studies II

Convener: Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg)

11:00 WHIZARD in past and future mass production for the ILC

Speaker: Dr Mikael Berggren (DESY)

Slides whizard_ws_nov11.pdf

11:30 Using WHIZARD in CLIC CDR mass production

Speaker: Stephane Poss (CERN)

Slides SPossCLICProd.pdf

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Matrix elements and performance

Convener: Daniel Wiesler (DESY)

14:00 Optimizing Optimal Matrix Elements from O'Mega

Speaker: Prof. Thorsten Ohl (University of Wuerzburg)

Slides Handoout version (no overlays)

14:45 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 LHC, year 2: where we stand

17:30 → 19:00 Automatized Beyond the Standard Model Physics

Convener: Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

17:30 Feynrules -> WHIZARD

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

Slides christensen.pdf

18:00 Using SARAH, SPheno and WHIZARD to study extensions of the MSSM

Speaker: Dr Florian Staub (University of Bonn)

Slides sarah_spheno_whizard.pdf

18:30 Discussion

19:30 → 23:59 Joint Dinner at Restaurant Bolero

http://ottensen.bolerobar.de/

Wednesday, 23 November

09:00 → 10:30 WHIZARD in a QCD environment

Convener: Juergen Reuter (University of Freiburg)

09:00 WHIZARD Shower and Matching

Speaker: Mr Sebastian Schmidt (DESY)

Slides schmidt.pdf

09:30 Multiple Parton Interactions in WHIZARD

Speaker: Mr Hans-Werner Boschmann (Universität Siegen)

Slides whizard-mpi-talk-boschmann.pdf

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Plans and Projects for the Future: Round-table discussion

14:00 → 17:00 WHIZARD Tutorial 2

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