Monte Carlo Tools for
Beyond the Standard Model Physics
and
HEFTI Workshop on
Missing Energy Signals at LHC
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Date: | Apr. 1-4, 2009 |
Location: | University of California Davis |
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Abstract:
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
Program
Friday Apr. 3
- 9:00-9:15 Konstantin Matchev Welcome to MC4BSM
- 9:15-10:00 John Terning BSM Theory Overview mp3
- 10:00-10:30 coffee break
- 10:30-11:15 Stephan Ask BSM in Pythia mp3
- 11:15-12:00 Tanju Gleisberg BSM in Sherpa mp3
- 12:00-12:30 Neil Christensen CompHEP and FeynRules
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch
- 2:00-2:30 John Conway PGS
- 2:30-3:00 Peter Skands Les Houches Accord and Modularity
- 3:00-3:30 coffee break
- Afternoon Tutorials
- 3:30-4:00 Claude Duhr FeynRules and MADGRAPH
- 4:00-4:30 Matt Reece BRIDGE
- 4:30-5:00 Neil Christensen CompHEP
- 7:00-900 Dinner at Bistro 33
Saturday Apr. 4
- 9:00-9:45 Todd Adams BSM in D0
- 9:45-10:30 Tom Wright BSM in CDF
- 10:30-11:00 coffee break
- 11:00-11:45 Kevin Black BSM in ATLAS
- 11:45-12:30 Filip Moortgat BSM in CMS
- 12:00-12:30 Neil Christensen CompHEP and FeynRules
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch
- 2:00-2:15 Yang Bai Measuring the dark force at LHC
- 2:15-2:45 Michael Peskin Parton showers with Hydra
- 2:45-3:15 Matt Reece Signatures of long-lived neutral particles
- 3:15-3:30 GuiYu Huang Pythia simulation of quirks
- 3:30-4:30 coffee break/discussion
- 4:30 workshop ends