Agenda of first QCD working group meeting 21 Jan. 1999

The meeting will take place in the TH auditorium, building 4 for the morning session and for the afternoon session in room 40-SS-C01 (Salle Curie), which is in the cellar of building 40 (the ATLAS/CMS building, next to the hostel (bldg. 39)).

1. Introduction to the QCD working group (9:00 - 9:10)

   • S. Catani / D. Soper: Welcome and organizational matters (10')

2. Theoretical Status (9:10 - 9:40)

   • Z. Kunszt: Forcast for progress in higher order corrections in QCD (PDF) (25')

3. Experimental Status (9:40 - 10:40)

   • A. de Roeck: Present and future HERA results relevant for QCD at LHC (PDF)(25')
   • W. Tung / J. Huston: Present and future Tevatron results relevant for QCD at LHC (PDF) (25')

   coffee break

4. Parton Distribution Functions (11:00 - 12:30)

   • J. Stirling: Forcast for progress in parton distribution functions (PDF) (15')
   • W. Tung: Forcast for progress in parton distribution functions (PDF) (15')
   • J. Owens: Photons and partons (PDF) (10')
   • J.-P. Guillet: Photons and partons (PDF) (10')
   • P. Nason: Soft gluon resummation (10')
   • all: discussion on partons

   lunch

5. Final States and Monte Carlo's (14:00 - 16:20)

   • R. Engel: QCD Monte-Carlo's: high p_T and diffraction / minimum bias (PDF) (25')
   • S. Tapprogge: The CMS and ATLAS detectors (15')
   • M. Moretti: A new approach to multijet calculations in hadron collisions (PDF) (10')
   • G. Corcella: Radiative corrections to Monte Carlo simulations of Drell-Yan processes (PDF) (10')
   • J. Stirling: Very forward jet pair production as a possible measure of `BFKL' at LHC (PDF) (10')
   • S. Ilyin: CompHEP calculation of LHC processes with multiple production of hard b-jets (PDF) (10')
   • all: discussion on MC / final state

   coffee break

6. QCD processes as background (16:40 - 17:30)

   • M. Dittmar: ATLAS and CMS studies of QCD as background process (PDF) (15')
   • Round table discussion on our knowledge of QCD processes as background to beyond the SM searches (and other SM measurements)

7. Summary and further steps (17:30 - end)

   • List of topics to be addressed during the workshop
   • Assignment of tasks
   • Next meetings
   • AOB