MC4BSM - Monte Carlo for Physics beyond the Standard Model

18 Apr 2013, 08:00 → 20 Apr 2013, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Main auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Juergen Reuter (DESY)

This workshop is intended to bring together experimentalists, model builders, phenomenologists, and tool builders to discuss new roads on the way for a possible discovery of physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC (and future colliders/experiments).

Thursday 18 April

Motivation, Searches and Overview I

1 Welcome and Kick-Off

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides MC4BSM2013_JRR.pdf

2 BSM Motivation

Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC)

Slides MC4BSM_Peskin.pdf

3 ATLAS Searches

Speaker: Erez Etzion (Tel Aviv U.)

Slides etzion.pdf

4 Discussion

10:45 Coffee break

Motivation, Searches and Overview II

5 CMS Searches

Speaker: Filip Moortgat (ETH Zürich)

Slides MC4BSM_Filip.pdf

6 Monte Carlo Overview

Speaker: fabio maltoni (UCLouvain)

Slides maltoni_mc4bsm.pdf

7 Discussion

13:00 Lunch break

Jets and all that

HGF Theorist of the Week

8 Jets at the LHC

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)

Slides jets-lhc.pdf

9 Discussion

MC Generators I

10 Sherpa

Speaker: Prof. Steffen Schumann (Uni Goettingen)

Slides sherpa.pdf

11 Pythia

Speaker: Nishita Desai (CERN)

Slides Py8-BSM.pdf

12 Herwig++

Speaker: Dr Peter Richardson (IPPP, Durham University)

Slides MC4BSM-2013.pptx

16:30 Coffee break

MC Generators II

13 WHIZARD

Speaker: Wolfgang Kilian (U. Siegen)

Slides mc4bsm2013_whizard.pdf

14 MadGraph

Speaker: Priscila de Aquino (U. Louvain)

Slides MC4BSM_Madgraph.pdf

15 CalcHep

Speaker: Alexander Belyaev (U. Southampton / RAL)

Slides mc4bsm_2013_calchep_belyaev.pdf

16 CompHep

Speaker: Michail Dubinin (SINP, Moscow State University)

Slides MC4BSM_2013_dubinin.pdf

17 Discussion

20:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 19 April

Software and Simulation

18 CMS Event Generation

Speaker: Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

Slides PIERINI.pdf

19 ATLAS Event Generation

Speaker: Renaud Bruneliere (U. of Freiburg)

Slides MC4BSM_bruneliere.pdf

20 DELPHES FastSim

Speaker: Christophe Delaere (CERN)

Slides Delphes_MC4BSM130419.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

NLO, BSM and Automation

21 GoSAM

Speaker: Gavin Cullen (DESY Zeuthen)

Slides MC4BSM.pdf

22 aMC@NLO / MadLoop

Speaker: Valentin Hirschi (U. Lausanne)

Slides MC4BSM_vHirschi.pdf

23 MadGolem

Speaker: David Lopez-Val (U. Heidelberg)

Slides lopezval-mc4bsm.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

BSM model building and automation

24 BSM model building

Speaker: Dr Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann Institute Rehovot)

Slides Gilad_Perez_MC4BSM_Apr_13.pdf

25 SUSY models and SARAH

Speaker: Dr Florian Staub (University of Bonn)

Slides staub_sarah.pdf

26 FeynRules / MadAnalysis

Speaker: Benjamin Fuks (CERN)

Slides mc4bsm_fuks.pdf

27 Discussion

16:00 Coffee break

Tutorial session

slides

• https://herwig.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/MC4BSM-2013
• http://www.desy.de/~whizard/whizard_turial_vm_2.1.0.ova
• sherpa_tutorial.pdf

28 Tutorials

Speaker: Jürgen Reuter

Slides

• DelphesTutorialRequirements.pdf
• https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/wiki/MC4BSM2013
• https://herwig.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/MC4BSM-2013
• http://www.desy.de/~whizard/whizard_turial_vm_2.1.0.ova
• instant-whizard.sh
• pythia_tutorial.pdf
• SARAH_tutorial.tar.gz
• sherpa_tutorial.pdf
• whizard-handout.pdf

Saturday 20 April

Searches, Analyses, Model testing I

29 TemplateTagger 1.0 - a C++ cide for jet substructure using the Template Overlay Method

Speaker: Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute)

Slides Backovic_MC4BSM_2013.pdf

30 Deriving Approximate Likelihood maps for direct SUSY searches from the LHC

Speaker: Enrico-Maria Sessolo (U. of Warsaw)

Slides SessoloDESY20Apr13.pdf

31 Automated mass spectrum generation for New Physics

Speaker: Karen de Causmaecker (Vriije Universiteit Brussels)

Slides KARENDECAUSMAECKER.pdf

32 KaBoom: A New Dark Matter Tool for the LHC

Speaker: Mat McCaskey (U. of Kansas)

Slides KaBooM-McCaskey-mc4bsm.pdf

33 Discussion

10:30 Coffee break

Searches, Analyses, Model testing II

34 Automated Model Testing: ATOM

Speaker: Michele Papucci (LBL Berkeley)

Slides MC4BSM.pdf

35 Study of a Newly discovered particle using a LO Matrix Element in a 4-lepton channel

Speaker: Myeonghun Park (CERN)

Slides MC4BSM2013_PARK.pdf

36 Characterizing a BEH-like resonance at the LHC

Speaker: Kentarou Mawatari (Vriije Universiteit Brussels)

Slides 1304_desy_mawatari.pdf

37 Discussion and Summary