Monte Carlo School 2012

12 Mar 2012, 08:00 → 16 Mar 2012, 16:00 Europe/Berlin

SR4/Flash hall (DESY Hamburg)

The 2011 Monte Carlo school aims mainly at Ph.D. students and young postdocs wishing to learn about the basics of Monte Carlo generators. It focuses on simulating Higgs and beyond the standard model signals, as well as the accurate description of backgrounds by higher order matching and multijet merging. Lectures and tutorials will be given on the following subjects:
-Monte Carlo Methods and Event Generators (Stefan Gieseke)
-Basics of Parton Showers, Hadronization, and the Underlying Event
-Higgs Physics in and beyond the Standard Model (Margarete Mühlleitner)
-NLO Matching and Multijet Merging (Stefan Weinzierl)
-Simulating New Physics Signals and Backgrounds: Hands-on tutorials on
Herwig++, Pythia, Sherpa and Whizard

Poster 2012-03-Monte_Carlo_School_JPG_klein.jpg

Slides Welcome.MCSchool2012.pdf

Monday 12 March

12:30 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 14:15 Welcome

14:15 → 15:00 Physics at the LHC

Convener: Kerstin Tackmann (DESY)

slides PhysicsAtTheLHC1.pdf PhysicsAtTheLHC2.pdf

15:00 → 15:45 Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods

Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)

slides

• lect1.pdf
• lect2.pdf
• lect3.pdf
• lect4.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 17:00 Physics at the LHC

Convener: Kerstin Tackmann (DESY)

17:00 → 17:45 Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods

Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)

17:45 → 18:30 Laptop Preparations for Tutorials

Conveners: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)

Tuesday 13 March

09:00 → 09:45 Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods

Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)

09:45 → 10:30 Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods

Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 NLO Calculations

Convener: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)

slides desy4.pdf

11:45 → 12:30 BSM Physics and Searches

Convener: Dr Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)

slides muehlleitnersusy.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Hands on: Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods

Conveners: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)

slides mc-tutorial.pdf mount-samples

Wednesday 14 March

09:00 → 09:45 NLO Matching

Convener: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)

09:45 → 10:30 Higgs Physics: Standard Model and Beyond

Convener: Dr Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)

slides muehlleitnerhiggs.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 Multijet Merging

Convener: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)

11:45 → 12:30 Higgs Physics: Standard Model and Beyond

Convener: Dr Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Hands on: Simulating BSM Signals and Backgrounds

Conveners: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Thursday 15 March

09:00 → 12:30 Hands on: Final project

Conveners: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Discussion and Goodbye

Friday 16 March

09:00 → 14:00 ATLAS Tutorial

Convener: Wolfgang Ehrenfeld

09:00 Introduction

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

Slides introduction.pdf naf.pdf

09:20 Event Generation

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)

Slides EventGeneration_ATLAStut.pdf

09:45 Pythia8

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)

TWIKI https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT12Pythia

10:45 Coffee

11:05 Herwig++

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

TWIKI https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT12Herwig

11:35 MC information in athena

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

TWIKI https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/TutorialsMCSAT12Athena

12:35 Discussion

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)

09:00 → 14:00 CMS Tutorial

Conveners: Albert Knutsson (DESY), Altan Cakir, Panos Katsas

slides

• Cakir_DESYMC_2012.pdf
• cmssw_tutorial_pk.pdf
• knutsson_rivettutorialcmssw_120316.pdf