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

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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.

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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

LHC WG on Electroweak precision measurements
05/21/2012 || 09:00 => 05/22/2012 || 18:00

Meeting of the WG, May 21-22 2012. Registration at

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=178469

PDF4LHC meeting
05/23/2012 || 09:00 => 05/23/2012 || 18:00

Meeting of the PDF4LHC working group

Higgs Cross section Working Group
05/24/2012 || 09:00 => 05/25/2012 || 18:00

Meeting of the Higgs cross section WG. Topics: the new re-organization, new cross sections at 8 TeV, new issues like heavy Higgs line shape (report from the 'The case of a large mass workshop'), and progress reports from the subgroups.

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=182952

Beyond 2 weeks

Fast Simulators for the LHC
06/11/2012 || 09:00 => 06/12/2012 || 18:00

A discussion of the status and the requirements for further developments of fast detector simulations, to be used in phenomenological modeling of LHC collisions, as discussed in the "Les Houches Recommendations for the presentation of LHC results", arXiv:1203.2489. June 11-12 2012, TH conference room. More details and registration at

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=187127

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 || 13:00

Third plenary meeting of the Workshop. Registrations at

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

Tools for precision and discovery physics with top quarks
07/17/2012 || 14:00 => 07/18/2012 || 18:00

This workshop, organized in collaboration with CTEQ and Fermilab\'s LPC, is dedicated to the top quark as a tool for the discovery of new physics, including a discussion of both the experimental and theoretical aspects.
Registration and details at:

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=189613

Immediately following the Workshop, on Thursday July 19 the TOP LHC WG will hold its first plenary meeting, focused on SM studies of top quark production and properties.

LHC top quark working group
07/19/2012 || 09:00 => 07/19/2012 || 18:00

First plenary meeting of the top LHC WG. For details, see:

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=189617