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Summary of Chamonix 2012
02/03/2012

Summary of the LHC performance Workshop, held in Chamonix on Febr 7-13 2012. Main Auditorium, Wed Febr 15, 2pm-6pm.

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=170230

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2012 European School of High-Energy Physics
01/30/2012

The 2012 event will be held in Anjou, France, from 6 to 19 June 2012
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 17 FEBRUARY 2012.

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Workshop on Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics
09/23/2011

Mailing lists have been setup for the various working groups.  Self-subscription is active, by clicking on
- https://simba3.web.cern.ch/simba3/SelfSubscription.aspx?groupName=bsm-lhc (general workshop announcements, automatically includes members of any of the above mailing lists)

 

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MCPLOTS release
02/17/2011

MCPLOTS is a new cern-based website for Monte Carlo comparisons, intended as a simple browsable repository of plots comparing HEP event generators to a wide variety of available experimental data, mainly based on the RIVET analysis tool.

For more details:

Apart from individual plots contained in papers and presentations, there has so far not been any central database where people can quickly see how tune X of version Y of generator Z looks on distribution D. The idea with mcplots is to provide such a repository. A first public version of the site was unveiled at the LHC UE/MB working group meeting last week at CERN. The contents so far span min-bias, underlying events, jets, Drell-Yan, and LEP distributions, showing the Herwig++, Pythia 6, Pythia 8, Sherpa, and Vincia generators. More plots, generators, and tunes are constantly being added, so check back or write the developers if you don't find what you're looking for. The site is developed as a collaboration between CERN TH, MCnet, CERN's Generator Services Project, and the LPCC.

Support is available to fund short-term stays at CERN to incorporate new analyses, new tools, or other new features on the site. Write to P. Skands (peter.skands.AT.cern.ch) if you are interested in this possibility.

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Forthcoming events

Next 2 weeks

Searches for new physics: recommendations for the presentation of LHC results
02/13/2012 || 09:00 => 02/13/2012 || 18:30

Miniworkshop dedicated to the discussion of a set of possible recommendations on how to document the LHC searches, to facilitate the interpretation of the results in a wide class of BSM models. Monday 13 Feb 2012, TH conference room, 9am-6:30pm.

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=173341

PH-LHC seminar
02/14/2012 || 11:00 => 02/14/2012 || 12:00

"Search for supersymmetry in events involving third generation squarks and sleptons with ATLAS". Speaker: Ximo Poveda Torres, Tue Febr 14, 11am, Council Chamber.

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=175617

Beyond 2 weeks

NLO and parton showers miniWorkshop
02/27/2012 || 09:00 => 02/28/2012 || 18:00

A review of different approaches and formulations, and a discussion of accuracy, systematic uncertainties, validation with data, and future developments. Registration at:

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=167536

LHC Lumi Days 2012
02/29/2012 || 09:00 => 03/01/2012 || 18:00

An update of the 2011 Workshop, dedicated to the status and progress of the luminosity measurements at the LHC, from the perspective of the physics programme and of the experimental and accelerator challenges. Registrations at:

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=162948

Implications of LHC results for TeV scale physics
03/25/2012 || 14:00 => 03/30/2012 || 18:00

Second plenary meeting of the Workshop. Registrations at

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=162621

Top physics: from charge asymmetry to the boosted regime
05/03/2012 || 09:00 => 05/04/2012 || 18:00

Workshop on the theoretical aspects of the forward backward asymmetry (A_FB) and of the description and use of boosted tops. TH conference room, May 3-4 2012. More details and registration at

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=175916

The case of a large-mass Higgs
05/14/2012 || 09:00 => 05/15/2012 || 18:00

A review of the scope of the searches for a heavy Higgs bosonand the current strategies used to compute Higgs cross sections,in the case when the Higgs mass grows large, and width effects become significant. More details and registration at:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=174430

Latest results from the LHC
07/12/2012 || 14:00 => 07/12/2012 || 18:00

An overview of the new LHC measurements presented at the ICHEP 2012 conference. Event web page:

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=166286

Implications of LHC results for TeV scale physics
07/13/2012 || 09:00 => 07/17/2012 || 18:00

Third plenary meeting of the Workshop. Registrations at

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=173388