'Physics at the Terascale' Kick-off Workshop

3 Dec 2007, 13:00 → 5 Dec 2007, 17:10 Europe/Berlin

DESY

Peter Mättig (Wuppertal), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (DESY)

Monday, 3 December

13:00 → 20:00 Plenary Session

13:00 Opening

Speakers: Dr Albrecht Wagner, Dr Rainer NICOLAY, Dr Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207a01.rm

13:40 SUSY at LHC (theory)

Speaker: Dr Ian Hinchcliffe

Slides desy.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207a02.rm

14:10 SUSY at LHC (experiment)

Speaker: Dr Giacomo Polesello

Slides gphamburg.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207a03.rm

14:40 Physics Highlights at the ILC

Speaker: Dr Ariane Frey

Slides ILC-Physics2.pdf ILC-Physics2.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207a04.rm

15:10 Coffee break

15:30 Monte Carlo Simulations (1)

Speaker: Dr Torbjorn Sjostrand

Slides vision.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207b01.rm

16:00 QCD at LHC (theory)

Speaker: Dr Nigel Glover

Slides gloverhelmholtz.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207b02.rm

16:30 QCD at LHC (experiment)

Speaker: Dr Tom LeCompte

Slides Early_LHC_QCD.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207b03.rm

17:00 Coffee break

17:20 LHC status report

Speaker: Dr Roger Bailey

Slides DESYDec2007.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207c01.rm

18:00 Detector development (SLHC)

Speaker: Dr Steinar Stapnes

Slides detector-r-and-d-for_SLHC-DESY-Dec07.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207c02.rm

18:30 Electroweak at LHC (theory)

Speaker: Dr Ansgar Denner

Slides denner_hha.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207c03.rm

19:00 Electroweak at LHC (experiment)

Speaker: Dr Gigi Rolandi

Slides Terascale_EW_Gigi.pdf Terascale_EW_Gigi.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale031207c04.rm

19:30 break

20:00 → 22:00 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 4 December

08:30 → 11:45 Plenary Session

08:30 Introduction to the Helmholtz Alliance

Speaker: Ian Brock (University of Bonn)

Slides kickoff_071204.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207a01.rm

08:50 The Analysis Centre in the Alliance

Speaker: Klaus Moenig (DESY)

Slides analysis_kickoff.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207a02.rm

09:25 The Analysis Network in the Alliance

Speaker: Dr Michael Kraemer

Slides kraemer_kickoff_071204.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207a03.rm

09:45 Grid Computing and the National Analysis Facility (NAF)

Speaker: Dr Volker Guelzow

Slides kickoff-grid.pdf kickoff-grid.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207a04.rm

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 The Virtual Laboratory for Detector Technology

Speaker: Dr Ariane Frey

Slides VLDT-Det.pdf VLDT-Det.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207b01.rm

11:00 Accelerator Physics in the Alliance

Speaker: Dr Eckhard Elsen (DESY)

Slides elsen_kickoff_071204.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207b02.rm

11:15 Grid Computing

Speaker: Dr Juergen Knobloch

Slides Grid_Terascale_08.pptx Grid_Terascale.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207b03.rm

11:45 → 12:40 Lunch Break

12:40 → 17:00 LHC-D parallel session: BSM

12:40 Narrow-width approximation for BSM physics: limitations and improvements

Speaker: Dr Nikolas Kauer (Universita"t Wu"rzburg)

Slides kauer_desy_2007.pdf

12:55 Mini Black Holes in ATLAS

Speaker: Victor Lendermann (Heidelberg)

Slides talk_lhc-d-bsm.pdf

13:10 LFV tau decays at the LHC

Speaker: Ben O'Leary (Aachen)

Slides BOL_tau_LFV_at_LHC_Terascale_Hamburg.pdf

13:25 Electroweak contributions to squark production

Speaker: Jong Soo Kim (Bonn)

Slides vortragsusy07.pdf

13:40 Electroweak NLO Contributions to Top-Squark Pair Production at the LHC

Speaker: Maike Trenkel (MPI Muenchen)

Slides trenkel.pdf

13:55 SUSY QCD corrections to squark loops in Higgs boson production via gluon gluon fusion

Speaker: Margarete Muehlleitner (CERN)

Slides muehlleitnerhh.pdf

14:10 SUSY searches at CMS in the fully hadronic channel

Speaker: Dr Christian Sander (University of Hamburg)

Slides susy_hadr_cms.pdf

14:25 Data driven estimation of SUSY backgrounds

Speaker: Vadym Zhuravlov (MPI Munich)

Slides VadymZhuravlov.ppt

14:40 Searches for SUSY and Beyond using leptons in CMS

Speaker: Daniel Teyssier (Aachen)

Slides Terascale_041207_teyssier.pdf Terascale_041207_teyssier.ppt

14:55 Search for SUSY with ATLAS

Speaker: Christian Kummer

Slides talk_kummer.pdf

15:10 Coffee break

15:30 Constraints on the Lightest Neutralino Mass

Speaker: Olaf Kittel (Bonn)

Slides olaf_kittel.pdf

15:45 Neutralino Mass Measurement in Dilepton Final States at CMS

Speaker: Niklas Mohr (RWTH Aachen)

Slides Mohr_HGFKickoffHH.pdf

16:00 SUSY in tau-lepton final states

Speaker: Peter Wienemann (University of Bonn)

Slides lhcd-dec2007.pdf

16:15 Update on SFitter

Speaker: Dirk Zerwas (Orsay)

Slides 071204_DESY.ppt

16:30 Discussion

12:40 → 17:00 LHC-D parallel session: EW/QCD

12:40 Gauge Boson plus Jet Production at large p_T

Speaker: Markus Schulze (TTP, University of Karlsruhe)

Slides Talk.Desy07.pdf

13:05 Production and properties of Z to mu mu with ATLAS

Speaker: Matthias Schott (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen)

Slides ZBosons@Terascale2007_MSchott.pdf ZBosons@Terascale2007_MSchott.ppt

13:30 Forward-backward charge asymmetry with Z --> ee with ATLAS

Speaker: Mohamed Aharrouche (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz)

Slides mohamedDESY041207.ppt

13:55 Calibration with Z + jet

Speaker: Volker Buege (IEKP, University of Karlsruhe)

14:20 SM Fits using Gfitter

Speaker: Goebel Martin (Universität Hamburg)

pdf Gfitter_Helmholtz.pdf

Slides Gfitter_Helmholtz.ppt

14:45 A HepMC ROOT file format for MC Generators

Speaker: Oliver Oberst (IEKP, Uni Karlsruhe)

Slides HepMCOliverOberst.pdf

15:10 Coffee Break

15:30 A parton shower algorithm based on the dipole formalism

Speaker: Stefan Weinzierl (Uni Mainz)

Slides heralhc.pdf

15:55 QCD in NNLO

Speaker: Nigel Glover (University of Durham)

Slides gloverLHCD.pdf

16:20 Discussion on future development

Speakers: Johann Kühn (TTP, Uni Karlsruhe), Klaus Rabbertz (IEKP, Uni Karlsruhe), Stefan Dittmaier (MPI Physik, München), Stefan Tapprogge (Uni Mainz), Thomas Gehrmann (Uni Zürich)

12:40 → 15:30 LHC-D parallel session: Top: WG1 (ttbar and single top x-sections, top decay,...) and WG3 (BSM, top as background)

12:40 Cross-section for top quark production at LHC

theo

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch

Slides lhcd-hh.pdf

13:00 W helicity in NNLO

theo

Speaker: Juergen Koerner

13:20 NLO corrections to top pair production + jet

theo

Speaker: Dr Stefan Weinzierl (Univ. Mainz)

Slides kickoff_allianz.pdf

13:40 tt-bar mass at CMS

CMS, Aachen

Speaker: Jan Steggemann

Slides ttbarmass.pdf

14:00 Top quark activities

Atlas, Bonn

Speaker: Markus Cristinziani (Uni Bonn)

Slides

• Cristinziani0.ppt
• Cristinziani.pdf
• Cristinziani.pptx

14:20 Single Top Search at CMS

CMS, Karlsruhe

Speaker: Julia Weinelt

Slides SingleTopSearch.pdf

14:40 Top Trigger studies at ATLAS

Atlas, DESY

Speaker: Marcello Barisonzi

Slides top_trigger_helmholtz.ppt

15:10 Coffee break

13:00 → 15:10 IAB internal meeting

13:00 → 16:30 Parallel session: Grid and Analysis Facilities

13:00 End-User Analysis with Proof

Speaker: Dr Peter Malzacher (GSI Darmstadt)

Slides EndUserAnalysisWithProof.ppt

13:30 Physics Tools in ATLAS

Speaker: Johannes Elmsheuser

Slides d_041207.pdf

14:00 End-user requirements for physics analysis

Speaker: Dr Wolfgang Ehrenfeld

Slides naf_user_efeld.pdf

14:30 Technical Concept of the DESY NAF

Speaker: Dr Yves Kemp

Slides KickOffNAF_Intro_kemp.pdf

15:10 Coffee break

15:30 Discussion of DESY NAF concept

Slides

• KickoffNAF_Batch.pdf
• KickOffNAF_OpenQuestions_kemp.pdf
• KickOffNAF_SW.pdf
• NAF-interactive-04-12-07.pdf
• Storage_Folien_ensslin.pdf

15:30 → 17:00 Institutsversammlung

agenda https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=589

15:30 → 17:00 LHC-D parallel session: Top: WG2 (top quark mass)

15:30 Top quark activities in RWTH III B

CMS, Aachen

Speaker: Sergey Kalinin

Slides top_Aachen_dec_2007.pdf top_Aachen_dec_2007.ppt

15:50 Top Mass studies in Goettingen

Atlas, Goettingen

Speaker: Kevin Kroeninger

Slides top_goettingen_KK.pdf

16:10 The Decay Length Method For Top Quark Mass Measurement

Atlas, Dortmund

Speaker: Joerg Walbersloh

Slides Walbersloh_Decay_Length.pdf.pdf

16:30 Discussion on Working groups

17:00 → 18:00 DESY Seminar

17:00 Big Questions in Particle Physics and Cosmology

Speaker: Dr John Ellis

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale041207c01.rm

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 5 December

09:00 → 15:30 Plenary Session

09:00 Top at LHC (theory)

Speaker: Dr Eric Laenen

Slides TopTheory.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207a01.rm

09:30 Top at LHC (experiment)

Speaker: Dr Joe Incandela

Slides Incandela_DESY_071205.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207a02.rm

10:00 Monte Carlo Simulations (2)

Speaker: Dr Peter Richardson

Slides DESY.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207a03.rm

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 HERA and the LHC

Speaker: Dr Albert DeRoeck

Slides heralhc_desy4.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207b01.rm

11:30 Exotics

Speaker: Dr JoAnne Hewett

Slides DESY07.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207b02.rm

12:00 Lunch break

13:00 Open Access Publishing

Speaker: Ruediger Voss

Slides OA_Terascale.pdf OA_Terascale.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207c01.rm

13:10 ILC Collider Project

Speaker: Dr Brian Foster

Slides BrianFoster_ILC_Terascale.ppt.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207c02.rm

13:50 Detector Development (ILC)

Speaker: Dr Jim Brau

Slides Alliance_brau.pdf

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207c03.rm

14:20 Higgs at LHC (theory and experiment)

Speaker: Dr Sally Dawson

Slides desy07.ppt

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207c04.rm

15:00 Closing remarks

Speakers: Prof. Peter Maettig (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Dr Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Video http://zitwebcast.desy.de:8080/ramgen/mountpoint3/Archive/Terascale031207/Terascale051207c05.rm

15:30 → 17:00 IAB meeting with the Management Board

agenda https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=596