Name: Proton Structure in the LHC Era - School and Workshop
Start: 2014-09-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-10-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

Proton Structure in the LHC Era - School and Workshop

from Monday, September 29, 2014 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, October 2, 2014 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 29, 2014

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: SR 4a/b
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

9:30 AM Enhancing discovery potential: QCD precision measurements at the LHC (A. Cooper-Sarkar, University of Oxford) - A. Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford) Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford University)

10:30 AM Determinations of the strong coupling constant at the LHC, and the role of PDFs in there (G. Dissertori, ETH Zuerich)

12:00 PM The tricky part of the factorization: Parton Distribution Functions (D. Soper, University of Oregon)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

2:30 PM Introduction to HERAFitter - Ringaile Placakyte (DESY)

4:30 PM HERAFItter: PDF determination using DIS data - Hayk Pirumov (DESY)
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

9:30 AM The precise part of the factorization: theory calculations at NLO and NNLO (M. Schulze, CERN )

11:00 AM Jets in hadron collider at highest order (Z. Nagy, DESY) - Zoltan Nagy (DESY)

12:00 PM The number of flavors and the quark masses (S.-O. Moch, University of Hamburg) - Sven-Olaf Moch (UHH)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

2:30 PM Reweighting as an alternative to fitting - Alberto Guffanti (University of Freiburg) Kristin Lohwasser (Universität Freiburg)

4:00 PM Fast grids techniques. FastNLO - Daniel Britzger (DESY) Klaus Rabbertz (KIT)

5:30 PM Top-pair production in the fits: Difftop - Marco Guzzi (DESY)
7:30 PM Event Dinner
Event Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

9:30 AM Fast grid techniques: APPLGrid - Mark Sutton (University of Sussex) Pavel Starovoitov (DESY)
11:00 AM break
break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: SR 4a/b
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

11:30 AM HERAFitter: PDF determination using LHC data - Voica Radescu (DESY) Voica Radescu (DESY)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
2:15 PM Discussions along the results of the PDF school
Discussions along the results of the PDF school
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

2:15 PM Discussions along the HERAFitter Results at the school
2:45 PM break
break
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
3:00 PM https://indico.cern.ch/event/342871/
https://indico.cern.ch/event/342871/
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

3:00 PM HERAFitter Users' Meeting
Thursday, October 2, 2014
9:30 AM Vidyo access: http://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=QpFaaSZLsTe1
Vidyo access: http://vidyoportal.cern.ch/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=QpFaaSZLsTe1
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b
Contributions

9:30 AM Theoretical uncertainties in PDF analysis: scale variations: chair S. Moch - Sven-Olaf Moch (UHH)

9:50 AM Treatment of errors in PDF fits. Chair S. Camarda - Stefano Camarda (DESY)

10:10 AM Which number of flavours to use for which data? Flavour separation and Strange PDF. Chair F. Olness - Fred Olness (SMU)

10:30 AM Review of the benchmarking exercise and METAPDF: chair P. Nadolsky - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)

10:50 AM Ongoing developments towards new prescription by PDF4LHC group: chair A. Cooper-Sarkar - A. Cooper-Sarkar (Oxford)

11:10 AM Transverse Momentum Distributions for LHC: chair H. Jung - Hannes Jung (DESY)

11:30 AM AOB: all
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: SR 4a/b

1:30 PM PROSA network meeting (internal)
PROSA network meeting (internal)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: SR 4a/b For PROSA members, please find the agenda on the PROSA wiki page: https://prosa.desy.de