Name: MPI@LHC'08
Start: 2008-10-26T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2008-10-31T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Perugia

MPI@LHC'08

from Sunday 26 October 2008 (20:00) to Friday 31 October 2008 (14:00)

Monday 20 October 2008
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Thursday 23 October 2008
Friday 24 October 2008
Saturday 25 October 2008
Sunday 26 October 2008

20:00

20:00 - 22:00

Monday 27 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Local Organization - Livio Fano' (PG)

09:10 Welcome from Perugia Authorities

09:15 Welcome from University of Perugia - Physics dept. - Claudio Ciofi Degli Atti (PG)

09:20 Welcome from INFN and CMS - Perugia - Giancarlo Mantovani (PG)

09:25 Introduction to the workshop - Paolo Bartalini (NTU)
09:30
09:30 - 12:40
Contributions

09:30 Higgs Search at Tevatron - Ralf Bernhard

10:10 CDF: The Underlying Event and Comparisons with MC - Rick Field

11:10 Monte Carlo Generators for the LHC - Roberto Chierici

11:40 Total cross sections at the LHC - Rohini Godbole

12:10 Progress in jet search algorithms - Matteo Cacciari
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:00
Contributions

14:30 W's as tools to probe multiparton interaction dynamics - Daniele Treleani

15:00 Multijet production and S-channel unitarity - Ted Rogers

15:30 QCD Mini-jet contribution to the total cross-section - Andrea Achilli

16:30 CDF: Min-Bias Studies at CDF and Comparisons with MC - Niccolo' Moggi

17:00 HERA: MPI in photoproduction - Lluis Marti
Tuesday 28 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 CMS: Minimum Bias studies - Ferenc Sikler

09:30 CMS: Underlying Event studies - Filippo Ambroglini

10:00 CMS: Study of Double Hard MPI in 3jet+gamma - Florian Bechtel

11:00 ATLAS: Status of the minimum bias events - William Bell

11:30 ATLAS: Underlying Event Studies - Alessandro Tricoli

12:00 ATLAS: Tuning of the QCD Monte Carlo Models - Arthur Moraes
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 ALICE: Min-bias Studies at ALICE - Raffaele Grosso

15:00 LHCb: Minimum Bias at LHCb - Umberto Marconi

15:30 TOTEM: “TOTEM Early Measuremnets” - Fabrizio Ferro
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Small x pdfs - experimental review - Ronan McNulty

17:00 Small x pdfs - diffractive/not diffractive integrated/unintegrated - Victor Lendermann

17:30 Vector meson and dijet production - Henri Kowalski
Wednesday 29 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 CDF experimental results on diffraction - Michele Gallinaro

09:30 Theoretical estimates of gap survival - Leonid Frankfurt

10:00 Gap survival probability and rescattering in diffraction - Ada Solano

11:00 Gap survival probability and rescattering in diffraction (LHC) - Michele Arneodo

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

12:00 New phenomena in DIS at very high energies and it's impact on LHC - Boris Bloc
12:30

12:30 - 17:30
Thursday 30 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Contributions

09:00 Soft interactions in Herwig++ - Manuel Bähr

09:45 Pythia 8 - Richard Corke

11:00 Sherpa - Stefan Höche

11:45 Color connections, Multijets - Peter Skands

12:15 MC event generators: look from hard core QCD theorists - Zoltan Nagy
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 17:30
Contributions

14:30 EPOS and others - Klaus Werner

15:10 Comparison between tuned generators - Hendrik Hoeth

15:50 MCs based on the Regge-Gribov approach - Ralph Engel

17:00 Monte Carlo Implementation of Saturation - Krzysztof Kutak
17:30
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:30 High parton densities and saturation scale - Cyrille Marquet

18:00 Antishadowing and multiparton scattering in hard-nucl collisions - Mark Strikman
20:30

20:30 - 22:30
Friday 31 October 2008
09:00
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:00 Quarkonia production (production through MPI followed by final state heavy-quark recombination) - Andre Mischke

09:30 Jets in heavy-ion collisions (emphasis on UE bg subtraction) - Magali Estienne

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

11:00 Heavy-ion perspectives at the LHC - Julia Velkovska
11:30

11:30 - 12:30