Monte Carlo School 2012

Europe/Berlin
SR4/Flash hall (DESY Hamburg)

SR4/Flash hall

DESY Hamburg

Notkestr. 85 D-22607 Hamburg Germany
Description
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
Slides
Participants
  • Andrii Gizhko
  • Björn Sarrazin
  • Claudia Seitz
  • Colin Baus
  • Farah Noreen Afzal
  • Florian Hartmann
  • HADDAD Nacim
  • Hale Sert
  • Hannah Arnold
  • Heiner Tholen
  • Helge Hass
  • IDRISSI ZINEB
  • Jörn Lange
  • Kadri Ozdemir
  • Katarzyna Romanowska-Rybinska
  • Kilian Nickel
  • Krzysztof Rolbiecki
  • Leonid Serkin
  • Lukas Mitzka
  • Marco Bonvini
  • Marco Sekulla
  • Marcos Correa Martins Junior
  • Markus Seidel
  • Martin Görner
  • Metin Ata
  • Muhammad Shoaib
  • Nataliia Kondrashova
  • Paolo Gunnellini
  • Pedro Cipriano
  • Philip Sommer
  • Reza Yoosoofmiya
  • Ritesh Kshetri
  • Samantha Dooling
  • Shingo Kazama
  • Tamara Vázquez Schröder
  • Thomas Rössler
  • Tobias Verlage
  • Valerie Lang
  • Walter Luiz Aldá Júnior
  • Wei Wang
  • Wojciech Kotlarski
  • Yuichi Sasaki
  • Yuriy Davygora
  • Yvonne Kuessel
    • 12:30 14:00
      Registration 1h 30m SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

    • 14:00 14:15
      Welcome 15m SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

    • 14:15 15:00
      Physics at the LHC SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Kerstin Tackmann (DESY)
      slides
    • 15:00 15:45
      Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)
    • 15:45 16:15
      Coffee break 30m SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

    • 16:15 17:00
      Physics at the LHC SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Kerstin Tackmann (DESY)
    • 17:00 17:45
      Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)
    • 17:45 18:30
      Laptop Preparations for Tutorials Flash Hall (DESY)

      Flash Hall

      DESY

      Conveners: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)
    • 09:45 10:30
      Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods SR4 (Universe)

      SR4

      Universe

      Convener: Stefan Gieseke (KIT)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

    • 11:00 11:45
      NLO Calculations SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)
      slides
    • 11:45 12:30
      BSM Physics and Searches SR4 (Universe)

      SR4

      Universe

      Convener: Dr Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)
      slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m Canteen (DESY)

      Canteen

      DESY

    • 14:00 18:00
      Hands on: Event Generators and Monte Carlo Methods Flash Hall (DESY)

      Flash Hall

      DESY

      Conveners: Mr Christian Roehr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Dr Christian Speckner (Uni Freiburg), Frank Siegert (Freiburg), Mr Stefan Prestel (Lund University)
      slides
    • 09:00 09:45
      NLO Matching SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)
    • 09:45 10:30
      Higgs Physics: Standard Model and Beyond SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Dr Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)
      slides
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

    • 11:00 11:45
      Multijet Merging SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)
    • 11:45 12:30
      Higgs Physics: Standard Model and Beyond SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

      Convener: Dr Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m Canteen (DESY)

      Canteen

      DESY

    • 14:00 18:00
      Hands on: Simulating BSM Signals and Backgrounds Flash Hall (DESY)

      Flash Hall

      DESY

      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 2h Canteen extension

      Canteen extension

      DESY Hamburg

    • 09:00 12:30
      Hands on: Final project Flash Hall (DESY)

      Flash Hall

      DESY

      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 1h 30m Canteen (DESY)

      Canteen

      DESY

    • 14:00 15:00
      Discussion and Goodbye 1h SR4 (DESY)

      SR4

      DESY

    • 09:00 14:00
      ATLAS Tutorial Seminar Room 1b

      Seminar Room 1b

      DESY Hamburg

      Convener: Wolfgang Ehrenfeld
      • 09:00
        Introduction 20m
        Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Event Generation 25m
        Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Pythia8 1h
        Speaker: Liza Mijovic (DESY)
        TWIKI
      • 10:45
        Coffee 20m
      • 11:05
        Herwig++ 30m
        Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)
        TWIKI
      • 11:35
        MC information in athena 1h
        Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)
        TWIKI
      • 12:35
        Discussion 40m
        Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld (DESY)
    • 09:00 14:00
      CMS Tutorial Seminar Room 4

      Seminar Room 4

      DESY Hamburg

      Notkestr. 85 D-22607 Hamburg Germany
      Conveners: Albert Knutsson (DESY), Altan Cakir, Panos Katsas