MC4BSM Workshop @ LPC

18 May 2015, 09:00 → 20 May 2015, 18:00 US/Central

One West (Wilson Hall)

MC4BSM @ LPC is the 9th installment in the series of workshops on Monte Carlo Tools for Physics Beyond the Standard Model. Click here for links to previous workshops in this series. The focus this year is on reviewing recent progress in model building and tool development, and preparing for new physics searches in the Run 2 of the LHC.  (See below for program updates under additional information.)

Organizing committee:
Robin Erbacher (UC Davis), Christophe Grojean (IFAE, Barcelona), Roni Harnik (Fermilab), Boaz Klima (FNAL), Sudhir Malik (University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez), Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida), Stephen Mrenna (Fermilab), Meenakshi Narain (Brown University), Maxim Perelstein (Cornell University), Peter Skands (Monash University), Andrew Whitbeck (Fermilab)

To contact the organizers, please use email: mc4bsm@phys.ufl.edu

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Monday, 18 May

09:00 → 10:45 Monday Morning I

09:00 Welcome to LPC@Fermilab

Speakers: Boaz Klima (Fermilab), Meenakshi Narain (Brown University)

09:05 Welcome to MC4BSM!

Speaker: Roni Harnik (FNAL)

Slides mc4bsm-welcome!.pdf

09:15 Herwig++

Speaker: Alix Wilcock

Slides MC4BSM-Alix.pdf

09:45 Sherpa

Speaker: Silvan KUTTIMALAI

Slides mc4bsm_sherpa.pdf

10:15 Pythia

Speaker: Nishita DESAI

Slides MC4BSM2015.pdf

10:45 → 10:55 Group Photo

10:55 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 Monday Morning II

11:15 Madgraph I

Speaker: Valentin HIRSCHI

Slides MC4BSM_2015_PDF.pdf

11:45 Madgraph II

Speaker: Dr Olivier Mattelaer (IPPP/Durham)

Slides Mattelaer_MC4bsm.pdf

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Monday Afternoon I

14:00 BSM Review

Speaker: Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland)

Slides MCBSM.pdf

14:45 MC Review

Speaker: Stefan PRESTEL

Slides talk20150518.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Monday Afternoon II

16:00 Non-Standard Higgs

Speaker: Dr David Curtin (University of Maryland)

Slides davidcurtin_bsmhiggs_mc4bsm_fermilab_218may2015_v1.key.pdf

16:30 Composite Higgs

Speaker: Ennio Salvioni

Slides Ennio_Talk_Fermilab.pdf

17:00 Excesses at the dawn of Run 2

Speaker: Adam Martin (Fermilab)

Slides amartin_mc4bsm.pdf

17:30 → 19:30 Reception

Tuesday, 19 May

09:00 → 10:30 Tuesday Morning I

09:00 CheckMate

Speaker: Jong Soo Kim

Slides Checkmate_MC4BSM15.pdf

09:30 ATOM/FastLim

Speaker: Kazuki Sakurai

Slides 2015_5_19_MC4BSM_Sakurai.pdf

10:00 MadAnalysis

Speaker: Benjamin Fuks

Slides ma5_fuks.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Tuesday Morning II

11:00 Whizard

Speaker: Juergen Reuter (DESY)

Slides MC4BSM2015.pdf

11:30 MadDM

Speaker: Mr Mihailo Backovic (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides maddm_v2.0.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Tuesday Afternoon I

13:30 Twin Higgs

Speaker: Prof. Nathaniel Craig (UC Santa Barbara)

Slides Craig_MC4BSM_05:19:15.pdf

14:00 Dark Matter at Colliders

Speaker: Prof. Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

Slides tait-MC4BSM.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 18:00 Tutorials I

Checkmate tutorial CheckMATE_tutorial.pdf

Herwig/Pythia/Sherpa VM link http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~shoeche/mc4bsm/2015/

MadAnalysis tutorial http://madanalysis.irmp.ucl.ac.be/wiki/PhysicsAnalysisDatabase

Madgraph tutorial link Madgraph tutorial link

Whizard instructions http://whizard.hepforge.org/mc4bsm-2015

Whizard_v2.2.6(small) http://whizard.hepforge.org/mc4bsm-2015/whizard226.ova

Whizard_v2.2.7(bigger) http://whizard.hepforge.org/mc4bsm-2015/WHIZARD2.ova

19:00 → 21:00 Workshop Dinner (not hosted)

Wednesday, 20 May

09:00 → 10:30 Wednesday Morning I

09:00 ATLAS Exotics/MC Overview

Speaker: stephane willocq (University of Massachusetts)

Slides Exotics_MC4BSM_2015_05_20.pptx.pdf

09:45 CMS BSM/EXO Results

Speaker: Dr Sadia Khalil (Kansas State)

Slides Fermilab_MC4BSM.pdf

10:00 Monte Carlo for BSM issues in CMS

Speaker: Frank Golf (UCSD)

Slides mc4bsm2015_golf.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Wednesday Morning II

11:00 SCET and BSM

Speaker: Christian Bauer

Slides SCET-MC-Bauer-MC4BSM.pdf

11:30 Jet-Finding Algorithm

Speaker: Dr Yang Bai (SLAC)

Slides YangBai_JetFind.pdf

12:00 Boosted Top Tagging

Speaker: Prof. Seung J. Lee (KAIST)

Slides MC4BSM2015_SLEE.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Wednesday Afternoon I

13:30 AEACuS and RHADAManTHUS

Speaker: Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State Unversity)

Slides RHADAManTHUS_MC4BSM.pdf

13:45 Evolving Computing Architecture for the Beyond Standard Model

Speaker: Prof. Kihyeon Cho (KISTI)

Slides mc4bsm_evolving_051815.pdf

14:00 Reweighting for Godot

Speaker: Dr James Gainer (Argonne National Laboratory/ Northwestern University)

Slides Reweighting-for-Godot.pdf

14:15 Calculational algorithms for M2 Variables

Speaker: Dr Doojin Kim (University of Florida)

Slides M2Algorithm_DoojinKim_MC4BSM2015.pdf

14:30 Continuous choice of evolution variables and jet substructure

Speaker: Dr Yasuhito Sakaki (KEK)

Slides MC4BSM2015_Sakaki.pdf

14:45 Automatic NLO simulation for effective field theories in MadGraph

Speaker: Dr Cen Zhang (BNL)

Slides mc4bsm_Zhang.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 18:00 Tutorials II