CERN Workshop on
Monte Carlo tools for the LHC
July 7 - Aug 1 2003
Organizing Committee :
N. Brook,
A. de Roeck, F. Gianotti, E.W.N. Glover, I. Hinchliffe, S. Jadach,
F. Krauss, M. Mangano, A. Morsch, F. Paige, W. Pokorski, A. Presland,
A. Ribon, P. Richardson, E. Richter-Was, P. Skands, B. Webber
Programme:
- Opening day overviews: Programme and transparencies
- Academic Training lectures on MC tools for the LHC, by Mike Seymour: Transparencies
- Matrix element generators: Programme and transparencies
- N(N)LO tools: Programme and transparencies
- Tools for electroweak physics: Programme and transparencies
- Parton Distribution Functions: Programme and transparencies
- MC's for new physics: Programme and transparencies
- Heavy quark and tau decay packages: Programme and transparencies
- Minimum bias, Underlying event, and MC
tunings: Programme and transparencies
- Tools for Heavy Ion Physics: Programme and transparencies
- CLHEP and related tools: Programme and transparencies
- Herwig++, Pythia7, Sherpa: Programme and transparencies
The main goals of the Workshop
are:
-
To
strengthen the cooperation between MC authors and LHC experimental users
- To
review the status of MC tools for LHC physics, including both event
generators and tools ancillary to event generation (e.g. PDF
compilations, decay packages for heavy quarks and taus)
- To
formulate common approaches to technical issues such as software
validation of MC codes (e.g. tools to validate an to automatically
and promptly import in the experiments' software version
updates) - physics validation of MC codes (e.g. tools such as
HZTool HERA, used for the tuning and validation of MC based on
experimental data generation of MC data sets common to all experiments
- To
perform cross-comparisons among different codes describing the same
physics processes
- To
refine, as a result of experimental input, the requirements for
MC event generators
- To
review, update and complement working projects for the coming years