This is the 4th MC4BSM workshop, which aims to gather together theorists and experimentalists interested in developing and using Monte Carlo tools for Beyond the Standard Model Physics in an attempt to be prepared for the analysis of data focusing on the Large Hadron Collider. Since a large number of excellent tools already exist for the study of low energy supersymmetry and the MSSM in particular, this workshop will instead focus on tools for alternative TeV-scale physics models. The main goals of the workshop are:

• To survey what is available. To provide feedback on user experiences with Monte Carlo tools for BSM.
• To identify promising models (or processes) for which the tools have not yet been constructed and start filling up these gaps.
• To propose ways to streamline the process of going from models to events, i.e. to make the process more user-friendly so that more people can get involved and perform serious collider studies outside of the MSSM.

We envision small but intensive workshops with a small number of talks and ample time for discussions between model builders, Monte Carlo experts, and experimentalists interested in exotics searches at the Tevatron and the LHC.

In conjunction with MC4BSM, we will also hold a HEFTI workshop which focuses on collider signals of jets/leptons plus missing energy. The purpose is to discuss the strategies to search for new physics with missing energy signals and how to identify the new physics if such experimental signals are discovered. We hope the workshop can bring the experimentalists and theorists working in this area together to develop the best approaches to these problems.

To contact the organizers, please send email to
mc4bsm@particle.physics.ucdavis.edu.

Organizing committee: Hsin-Chia Cheng, Max Chertok, John Conway, Robin Erbacher, Christophe Grojean, Jack Gunion, Markus Luty, Konstantin Matchev, Steve Mrenna, Maxim Perelstein, Peter Skands, John Terning.

If you have written new programs for MC4BSM, e.g., incorporation of a new model into an event generator, etc, or there are things that you wish to be done, please report them at the workshop wiki page. You are invited to submit questions/topics for discussion through the workshop wiki regardless of whether you plan to attend the workshops in person,

Wiki: programs and the wishlist

Friday Apr. 3

• 9:00-9:15 Welcome to MC4BSM (ppt)- Matchev
• 9:15-10:00 BSM Theory Overview - Terning

• 10:00-10:30 coffee

• 10:30-11:15 BSM in Pythia - Ask
• 11:15-12:00 BSM in Sherpa - Gleisberg
• 12:00-12:30 CompHEP and FeynRules - Christensen

• 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

• 2:00 - 2:30 PGS - Conway
• 2:30 - 3:00 Les Houches Accord and Modularity - Skands

• 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee

• 3:30 - 6:30 Tutorials: FeynRules → MG/ME → Pythia → PGS

• 7:00 - 9:00 Dinner at Bistro 33 (Markus Luty)

Saturday Apr. 4

• 9:00-9:45 BSM in D0 - Adams
• 9:45-10:30 BSM in CDF - Wright

• 10:30-11:00 coffee

• 11:00-11:45 BSM in ATLAS - Black
• 11:45-12:30 BSM in CMS - Moortgat

• 12:30-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-3:30 Short talks-
• Measuring the dark force at LHC - Bai
• Parton showers with Hydra - Peskin
• Signatures of long-lived neutral particles - Reece
• Pythia simulation of quirks - Huang
• 3:30-4:30 Coffee, Discussion
• 4:30 End of Workshop

slides and mp3s will be stored here

The following people are registered:

• Peter Skands (Fermilab)
• Bruce Mellado (CERN)
• Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers)
• Jason Nielsen (UC Santa Cruz)
• Johan Alwall (SLAC)
• Greg Landsberg (Brown University)
• Andy Haas (SLAC)
• Stefan Ask (University of Manchester)
• Claude Duhr (Universite catholique de Louvain)
• Maxim Perelstein (Cornell University)
• Ignacio Aracena (SLAC)
• Neil Christensen (Michigan State University)
• Natalia Toro (Stanford University)
• Tao Han (Univ. of Wisconsin)
• Matt Reece (Princeton University)
• Jay Wacker (Slac)
• Diego Casadei (New York University and CERN)
• Albert De Roeck (CERN)
• Peter Loch (University of Arizona)
• Ariel Schwartzman (SLAC)
• Todd Adams (Florida State University)
• K.C. Kong (Fermilab)
• Gordon Watts (University of Washington, Seattle)
• Martin Schmaltz (Berkeley / Boston U.)
• Partha Konar (University of Florida )
• Philip Schuster (SLAC)
• Can Kilic (Johns Hopkins University)
• Michael Peskin (SLAC, Stanford University)
• Mariangela Lisanti (Stanford University/SLAC)
• Rouven Essig (SLAC)
• Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC)
• Tom Rizzo (SLAC)
• Tom Wright (University of Michigan)
• Wai-Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Shufang Su (University of Arizona)
• Adam Martin (Yale University)
• Hai-Bo Yu (UCIrvine)
• Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)
• Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida)
• Yang Bai (Fermilab)
• Filip Moortgat (ETH Zurich)
• Anyes Taffard (UC Irvine)
• Jay Hubisz (Syracuse University)
• Tanju Gleisberg (SLAC)
• Hock Seng Goh (UC Berkeley)
• David Stuart (UC Santa Barbara)
• Kevin Black (Harvard University)
• Ian-Woo Kim (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
• Gordon Watts (University of Washington)
• James Gainer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• John Conley (SLAC)
• Lian-Tao Wang (Princeton University)
• Randel Cotta (SLAC)

Local participants:

• Haiying Cai (UCD)
• Yi Cai (UCD)
• Spencer Chang (UCD)
• Hsin-Chia Cheng (UCD)
• Max Chertok (UCD)
• Robin Erbacher (UCD)
• John Conway (UCD)
• Jamison Galloway (UCD)
• Jack Gunion (UCD)
• Zhenyu Han (UCD)
• Nemanja Kaloper (UCD)
• Markus Luty (UCD)
• John McRaven (UCD)
• David Stancato (UCD)
• John Terning (UCD)
• Carley Kopecky (UCD)
• Tia Miceli (UC Davis)
• James Dolen (UC Davis)
• Dick Lander (UCED)