Agenda

Jan. 16 West Coast LHC Theory meeting

9:00 am Realities of Missing Energy Experiments at Hadron Colliders
(Ariel Schwartzmann - SLAC/ATLAS)
9:45 am Coffee
10:15 am W, Z, t background generation for Tevatron experiments
(Johan Alwall - SLAC)
11:00 am Experience with simulated W, Z, t background samples and their verification with data in CDF
(Rainer Wallny - UCLA/CDF)
11:45 am Data-driven estimation of LHC backgrounds: What can theorists do?
(Philip Schuster - SLAC)
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Discussion of production of LHC background samples for theorists. What would be useful? How would people use it?
2:15 pm GenEvA: A New Framework for Event Generation
(Frank Tackmann - LBL)
3:00 pm Coffee
3:30 pm Markus Luty (U C Davis)
UC Davis LHC Frontier Center Proposal.
3:40 pm Short contributions
 
3:40 pm Daniel Maitre (SLAC)
NLO QCD Wish List and the Black Hat Collaboration
4:00 pm Yorgos Sofianatos (SLAC)
Higgs + 4 quark amplitudes at 1 loop
4:20 pm Michael Trott (UC San Diego)
A sinister scalar doublet scenario