Home of QCD Working Group for TeV4LHC
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Conveners: Frank Chlebana, Steve Ellis, Walter Giele, Joey Huston, Bill Kilgore, Steve  Mrenna, Wu-Ki Tung, Markus Wobisch, Marek Zielinski
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Goals of QCD working group
Steve Mrenna's summary talk at Sept  meeting
Seminar on TeV4LHC and HERALHC given by Joey Huston at MSU

A list of projects that we are currently working on.

Meetings
  Our last working group meeting was on Dec. 1 at Fermilab. Copies of the talks are provided in
  the links below.

Dec. 1 TeV4LHC QCD-related meetings:  Agenda

Morning 9-12 1-East (QCD alone):

1.   CDF Run 2 jet algorithms     Jay Dittmann  20' + 10'
2.   D0 Run 2 jet algorithms        Emmanuel Busato  20' + 10'
3.   Discussion                 30'
4.   hadronization + underlying event corrections     Joey Huston 20' + 10'


Afternoon 1-5 10-West (joint with top/ew):

1.   Run 2 cross sections that need to be measured (and may not be)      Wu Ki Tung 15'+10'
2.   ME/MC matching from CDF: "the Zeppenfeld plots"     Joey Huston  20'+10'
3.   ME/PS  Matching Studies in D0  Daniel Wicke  20'+10'
4.   Jimmy tuning for Herwig             Rick Field   20'+10'
5.   Pythia showering  in 6.3               Peter Skands   20'+10'
6.   pdf re-weighting and parton showering   Joey Huston   20'+10'
7.   LHC issues that need to be addressed (and may not be)   Jimmy Proudfoot   20'+10'
8.   Planning for Brookhaven meeting

NEW NEW NEW Agenda for Feb. meeting at Brookhaven (link to Brookhaven info)

Parallel Session I: Thursday 1:30-3:30 pm (joint with top-EW WG)
Large Seminar Room
30'+5'
W/Z rapidity distributions at NNLO QCD Kirill Melnikov
30'+5'
Multiple photon corrections (and more) to single W and Z production Carlo Carloni Calame
25'+5'
 Theoretical model for nonperturbative pT contributions Pavel Nadolsky
15'+5'
 Heavy flavor pdf uncertainties and Higgs production Chris Jackson

Parallel Session II: Thursday 4:00-6:00 pm Small Seminar Room
<30'
 Introduction/discussion of group projects
 Joey Huston
20'+10'
Jet Algorithms in ATLAS
 Peter Loch
10
Introductory comments on diffraction
 Mike Albrow
20'+10'
Diffraction from CDF2LHC
 Dino Goulianos
15'+5'
 Exclusive dijets from CDF2LHC
 Michele Gallinaro

Parallel Session III: Friday 1:30-3:30 pm (joint with top-EW WG)
Large Seminar Room
20'+10'
 Single top production Steve Ellis
20'+10'
Single top at the Tevatron Gordon Watts
20'+10'
ME/MC matching in D0 Michael Begel
20'+10'
 Sudakov uncertainties and Monte Carlos Stefan Gieseke


Parallel diffractive session: Friday 1:30-3:30 pm   Room 2-160
15'+5'
 Diffractive and DPE production of hard color singlets
 Mike Albrow
15'+5'
Tests of QCD and the BFKL Pomeron with forward jets
 Christophe Royon
15'+5'
Inelastic diffraction at heavy ion colliders
 Sebastian White
15'+5'
 Dynamics of small impact parameter pp collisions
 Mark Strikman
15'+5'
 Gap survival and transverse structure of the nucleon
 C. Weiss

Parallel Session IV-1: Friday 4:00-5:20 pm
Room 3-192
20'
 Diffractive physics at D0
 Andrew Brandt
20'
 Diffraction beyond the Standard Model
 Albert de Roeck
20'
Central Exclusive Production of Higgs and Other States
 Brian Cox
20'
s-dependent studies at the Tevatron and LHC
 Greg Snow

Parallel Session IV-2: Friday 5:20-6:00 pm
Small Seminar Room
40'
 Working group topics



Sub-groups

PDF's and PDF Uncertainties at the Tevatron and LHC   
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Jet Algorithms and Event Structure

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New

A stand-alone CDF Fortran/C++ jet clustering routine is available here.
Some descriptive text from Matthias Tonnesmann is available here.

The Monte Carlo events that resulted in "fat jets" or "dark towers" in the
CDF clustering are available here (along with some descriptive text from Matthias).

Matrix element/Monte Carlo/NLO matching

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Hadronization Corrections and  UE tunes

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Diffractive Physics

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Please send an email to huston@msu.edu indicating which subgroups you are interested in and what type of work you would like to do and you will be added to the appropriate list(s).