West Coast LHC Theory Network - UC Davis Meeting

Program

• 9:15 - 9:30 : Welcome - Winston Ko (UCD)
• 9:30 - 10:15 : SUSY tau and lepton signatures - Max Chertok (UCD) pdf
• 10:15 - 11:00 : Jet Definitions - Dave Soper (U. Oregon) pdf
  • Infrared safety in definitions of observables for short distance physics and why it is important.
  • Cone definitions of jets. The basic definition and some of the variations. Are these OK?
  • KT definition. Advantages and potential disadvantages.
• 11:00 - 11:15 : coffee

• 11:15 - 12:00 : A practical jet primer - Steve Ellis (U. Wash.) pdf, ppt
  • What have been the issues with jet algorithms in real experiments?
  • What do all the buzz-words mean?
  • What are the issues likely to be at the LHC?
• 12:00 - 1:00 : lunch

• 1:00 - 1:45 : Jets at the LHC: an experimental perspective - Joey Huston (MSU) pdf
• 1:45 - 2:30 : Event Generation from Effective Field Theory - Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley) pdf
• 2:30 - 2:45 : Discussion
• 2:45 - 3:15 : coffee

• 3:15 - 4:00 : MadGraph/MadEvent v. 4 - Johan Alwall (SLAC) pdf
• 4:00 - 4:45 : MARMOSET: Signal-Based Monte Carlo for the LHC- Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley) pdf
• 4:45 - 5:30 : Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Unknowns - Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)

• 5:30 : adjourn