HEFTI Workshops
West Coast LHC Theory Network - UC Davis Meeting
Date:
Dec. 8th, 2006
Location:
University of California Davis
Building:
Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center
Program
9:15 - 9:30 : Welcome - Winston Ko (UCD)
9:30 - 10:15 : SUSY tau and lepton signatures - Max Chertok (UCD)
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10:15 - 11:00 : Jet Definitions - Dave Soper (U. Oregon)
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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.)
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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)
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1:45 - 2:30 : Event Generation from Effective Field Theory - Christian Bauer (UC Berkeley)
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2:30 - 2:45 : Discussion
2:45 - 3:15 : coffee
3:15 - 4:00 : MadGraph/MadEvent v. 4 - Johan Alwall (SLAC)
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4:00 - 4:45 : MARMOSET: Signal-Based Monte Carlo for the LHC- Jesse Thaler (UC Berkeley)
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4:45 - 5:30 : Turning Unknown Unknowns into Known Unknowns - Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)
5:30 : adjourn
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