MPI@LHC'08

Oct 26, 2008, 8:00 PM → Oct 31, 2008, 2:00 PM Europe/Rome

Perugia

First international workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC Modification Password: MPILHC08 (the speakers are kindly requested to upload their material at least one hour before their session starts)

Sunday, October 26

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Welcome Party

Monday, October 27

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome & Introduction

9:00 AM Local Organization

Speaker: Livio Fano' (PG)

9:10 AM Welcome from Perugia Authorities

9:15 AM Welcome from University of Perugia - Physics dept.

Speaker: Claudio Ciofi Degli Atti (PG)

9:20 AM Welcome from INFN and CMS - Perugia

Speaker: Giancarlo Mantovani (PG)

9:25 AM Introduction to the workshop

Speaker: Dr Paolo Bartalini (NTU)

Slides Paolo_MPI08.ppt

9:30 AM → 12:40 PM Hot Topics

9:30 AM Higgs Search at Tevatron

Speaker: Ralf Bernhard

Slides RalfHiggsMPI@LHC08.pdf

10:10 AM CDF: The Underlying Event and Comparisons with MC

Speaker: Rick Field

Slides MPI@LHC_RickField_10-27-08.ppt

10:40 AM Coffee break

11:10 AM Monte Carlo Generators for the LHC

Speaker: Roberto Chierici

Slides MPI08.ppt

11:40 AM Total cross sections at the LHC

Speaker: Rohini Godbole

Slides rohini_mpi08.pdf

12:10 PM Progress in jet search algorithms

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari

Slides cacciari-mpi.pdf

12:40 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 6:00 PM Soft & Hard Multiple Parton Interactions

2:30 PM W's as tools to probe multiparton interaction dynamics

Speaker: Daniele Treleani

Slides treleani_.pdf

3:00 PM Multijet production and S-channel unitarity

Speaker: Ted Rogers

Slides Ted_Perugia08.pdf

3:30 PM QCD Mini-jet contribution to the total cross-section

Speaker: Andrea Achilli

Slides mpiLHC_achilli.pdf

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM CDF: Min-Bias Studies at CDF and Comparisons with MC

Speaker: Niccolo' Moggi

Slides Moggi_MPI08.pdf

5:00 PM HERA: MPI in photoproduction

Speaker: Lluis Marti

Slides marti.pdf

Tuesday, October 28

9:00 AM → 12:30 PM Soft & Hard Multiple Parton Interactions

9:00 AM CMS: Minimum Bias studies

Speaker: Ferenc Sikler

Slides cms_sikler_mpi08.pdf

9:30 AM CMS: Underlying Event studies

Speaker: Filippo Ambroglini

Slides MPI@LHC08_UECMS.pdf

10:00 AM CMS: Study of Double Hard MPI in 3jet+gamma

Speaker: Florian Bechtel

Slides bechtel_MPIatLHC_27Oct08.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM ATLAS: Status of the minimum bias events

Speaker: William Bell

Slides Bell_MPI-Minbias-20081028.pdf

11:30 AM ATLAS: Underlying Event Studies

Speaker: Alessandro Tricoli

Slides Tricoli_ATLASUE_MPIPerugia_27Oct08.ppt

12:00 PM ATLAS: Tuning of the QCD Monte Carlo Models

Speaker: Arthur Moraes

Slides moraes-mctuning-perugia08.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM Soft & Hard Multiple Parton Interactions

2:30 PM ALICE: Min-bias Studies at ALICE

Speaker: Raffaele Grosso

Slides mpiAlice.pdf

3:00 PM LHCb: Minimum Bias at LHCb

Speaker: Umberto Marconi

Slides Marconi_LHCb.pdf

3:30 PM TOTEM: “TOTEM Early Measuremnets”

Speaker: Fabrizio Ferro

Slides TOTEM-MPI-2008.ppt

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM Small x physics and diffraction

4:00 PM Small x pdfs - experimental review

Speaker: Ronan McNulty

Slides mcnulty.ppt

4:30 PM Coffee break

5:00 PM Small x pdfs - diffractive/not diffractive integrated/unintegrated

Speaker: Victor Lendermann

Slides Victor_talk_perugia.pdf

5:30 PM Vector meson and dijet production

Speaker: Henri Kowalski

Slides kowalski_Perugia2008.pdf

Wednesday, October 29

9:00 AM → 12:30 PM Small x physics and diffraction

9:00 AM CDF experimental results on diffraction

Speaker: Michele Gallinaro

Slides Gallinaro.pdf

9:30 AM Theoretical estimates of gap survival

Speaker: Leonid Frankfurt

Slides leonid_PERUGIA1.pdf

10:00 AM Gap survival probability and rescattering in diffraction

Speaker: Ada Solano

Slides Solano-MPI08.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Gap survival probability and rescattering in diffraction (LHC)

Speaker: Michele Arneodo

Slides perugia-mpi-upl.pdf

11:30 AM Forward jet close to rapidity gaps & Muller Navelet jets at the LHC

Speaker: Mario Campanelli

Slides perugia.pdf

12:00 PM New phenomena in DIS at very high energies and it's impact on LHC

Speaker: Boris Bloc

12:30 PM → 5:30 PM Social Programme

Thursday, October 30

9:00 AM → 12:45 PM Monte Carlo Models

9:00 AM Soft interactions in Herwig++

Speaker: Manuel Bähr

Slides bahr_perugia.pdf

9:45 AM Pythia 8

Speaker: Richard Corke

Slides Corke-Rescatter.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Sherpa

Speaker: Stefan Höche

Slides stefan_perugia.pdf

11:45 AM Color connections, Multijets

Speaker: Peter Skands

Slides skands-perugia-oct08.ppt

12:15 PM MC event generators: look from hard core QCD theorists

Speaker: Zoltan Nagy

Slides Zoltan_MPI08.pdf

12:45 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 5:30 PM Monte Carlo Models

2:30 PM EPOS and others

Speaker: Klaus Werner

Slides werner_perugia.pdf

3:10 PM Comparison between tuned generators

Speaker: Hendrik Hoeth

Slides hoeth.pdf.pdf

3:50 PM MCs based on the Regge-Gribov approach

Speaker: Ralph Engel

4:30 PM Coffee break

5:00 PM Monte Carlo Implementation of Saturation

Speaker: Krzysztof Kutak

Slides kutakMPI2.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:30 PM Heavy Ions

5:30 PM High parton densities and saturation scale

Speaker: Cyrille Marquet

Slides marquet.ppt

6:00 PM Antishadowing and multiparton scattering in hard-nucl collisions

Speaker: Mark Strikman

Slides mpiperugia_strikman.pdf

8:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social Dinner

Friday, October 31

9:00 AM → 11:30 AM Heay Ions

9:00 AM Quarkonia production (production through MPI followed by final state heavy-quark recombination)

Speaker: Andre Mischke

Slides MPIatLHC_HF_A.Mischke.ppt

9:30 AM Jets in heavy-ion collisions (emphasis on UE bg subtraction)

Speaker: Magali Estienne

Slides MPI08_Estienne.ppt

10:00 AM Incoherent parton-parton scattering, nuclear PDFs, and hard pQCD yields in nucleus-nucleus collisions

Speaker: Klaus Reygers

Slides reygers_mpi_2008.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Heavy-ion perspectives at the LHC

Speaker: Julia Velkovska

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Conclusions & Highlights & Round Table

slides round.ppt