A Joint Meeting of

CTEQ

&

The Matrix Element/Monte Carlo Tuning Working Group

Dates: 29-30 April 2003

Location: Wilson Hall, One West

Fourth in the series of meetings:

addressing issues related to event generation

and Run II physics


 

Schedule
Live streaming is available 
here

 

 
TUES:  29 April
Morning Session 9-12:30
ME/MC Tools
9am Principles of vetoed parton showers and intro to AMEGIC++ and APACIC++ 30'+10' (talk+questions) talk 
Frank Krauss (CERN/Dresden)
9:40am Implementations into current ME/MC programs (I):  Pythia 30'+10' talk 
Stephen Mrenna 
(FNAL)
10:20am Implementations into current ME/MC programs (II):  Herwig 30'+10' talk 
Peter Richardson 
(CERN)
11am
11-11:30
BREAK
11:30am ALPGEN Update 20'+10' talk 
Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
12pm MCFM Update 20'+10' talk 
John Campbell
(Argonne)
12:30pm
12:30-1:30
LUNCH
Afternoon Session 1:30-3:50
Run 2 Data
1:30pm A Les Houches Standard for Data Files 10'+10' talk  Henry Frisch
(Chicago)
1:50pm CDF W+jets/heavy flavor (including top, single top, Higgs) 30'+10' talk 
Ken Bloom 
(Michigan)
2:30pm D0
W+jets/heavy flavor (including top, single top, Higgs)		 30'+10' talk 
Aurelio Juste 
3:10pm Heavy Flavor content of Jets produced in association with W bosons 20'+20' talk 
Fotis Ptohos
(Fermilab)
5pm CTEQ meeting in Comitium
 
WED: 30 April
Morning Session 9-12
Tunings and Uncertainties
9am JetWeb 30'+10' talk 
Ben Waugh 
(University College, London)
9:40am Underlying-Event Studies/Tunes for Run 2 20'+10' talk 
Rick Field 
(Florida)
10:10am PDF Uncertainties 
at Run 2 		 20'+10' talk 
J. Huston 
(Mich. State)
10:40am The LHAPDF program for calculating PDFs and uncertainties as a Fermi product 15'+5' talk 
Lynn Garren 
(FNAL)
11am
11:00-11:30
   BREAK
11:30am Luminosity uncertainties and the use of W/Z cross sections for normalization 30'+10' talk 
Sergei Klimenko
 (Florida)
12pm
12:00-1:00 
  LUNCH
Afternoon Session 1:00-3:30
 Heavy Flavors
1pm *Special*
Making NLO Calculations
Suitable for Parton Showering 		30'+10' talk 
  D. Soper
(Oregon)
1:40pm Bottom quark+antiquark production and correlations  20'+10' talk 
Rick Field
(Florida)
2:10pm CDF heavy flavor studies (with some D0 results)  30'+10'(x2) talk 
Kevin Lannon 
(UIUC)
5pm CTEQ meeting (if necessary)