QCD@LHC 2024

7 Oct 2024, 08:00 → 11 Oct 2024, 16:00 Europe/Berlin

University of Freiburg

                                                                                                   

Scientific program:

The 14th edition of QCD@LHC, aiming at fostering discussions and collaboration between experimenters and theorists working on strong interactions at the LHC, will be held in Freiburg, Germany

Conference poster

Topics and conveners:

• Perturbative and resummed predictions for LHC
  Conveners: Ben Page, Johannes Michel, Vieri Candelise, Stefano Camarda
• Parton showers and event generators 
  Conveners: Christian Preuss, Melissa van Beekveld, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Ana Rosario Cueto Gomez
• Parton distribution functions 
  Conveners: Kay Schönwald, Yong Zhao, Simone Amoroso, Eimear Conroy
• Soft interactions, non-perturbative QCD 
  Conveners: Stefan Gieseke, Tuomas Lappi, Michael Pitt, Lydia Beresford
• Higgs, electroweak, BSM physics
  Conveners: Mathieu Pellen, Eleni Vryonidou, Roberto Covarelli, Tatsuya Masubuchi
• Heavy Quarks (including top and flavour physics)
  Conveners: Rui-Lin Zhu, Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi, Baptiste Ravina, Lorenzo Capriotti

International Advisory Committee:

Sergey Alekhin (DESY), Johannes Blümlein (DESY), Claude Duhr (Bonn), Keith Ellis (Durham), Thomas Gehrmann (Zürich), Nigel Glover (Durham), Joey Huston (Michigan State), Judith Katzy (DESY), Frank Krauss (Durham), Jean-Philippe Lansberg (Orsay), Fabio Maltoni (Louvain), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Zoltan Nagy (DESY), Eram Syed Rizvi (QMUL), Frank Siegert (Dresden), Dominik Stöckinger (Dresden), Zoltan Trocsanyi (Budapest), Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo), Ciaran Williams (Buffalo), 

Local Organizing Committee:

Stefan Dittmaier, Karl Jakobs, Heidi Rzehak, Markus Schumacher, Maximilian Stahlhofen, Christian Weiser, Christina Skorek (secr.), Susanne Trauth (secr.)

 

Previous editions:

• 2023 Durham, UK
• 2022 Orsay, France
• 2020 (virtual)
• 2019 Buffalo, USA
• 2018 Dresden, Germany
• 2017 Debrecen, Hungary 
• 2016 Zürich, Switzerland 
• 2015 QMUL, UK 
• 2014 Suzdal, Russian Federation
• 2013 DESY Hamburg, Germany 
• 2012 Michigan State University, USA 
• 2011 St Andrews, Scotland
• 2010 Trento, Italy

Poster_QCDatLHC2024.pdf

Monday, 7 October

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:40 Plenary session

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Stefan Dittmaier (University of Freiburg)

09:10 Overview of higher-order calculations

Speaker: Lorenzo Tancredi (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

09:40 Advances in resummed calculations

Speaker: Thomas Becher (University of Bern)

10:10 Strong coupling measurements at the LHC

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary session

11:00 Transverse momentum spectra in W/Z production

11:30 Event generators (recent developments)

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

12:00 Parton showers (recent developments)

Speaker: Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Higgs, EW, BSM physics

14:00 → 15:30 PDFs

14:00 → 15:30 Perturbative and resummed predictions in QCD

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Heavy quarks

16:00 → 17:30 Higgs, EW, BSM physics

16:00 → 17:30 Perturbative and resummed predictions in QCD

Tuesday, 8 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary session

09:00 Precision Higgs calculations

Speaker: Gudrun Heinrich (KIT)

09:30 Status of Higgs precision measurements

10:00 Status of electroweak parameter measurements

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary session

11:00 Electroweak multi-boson production and scattering

Speaker: Ansgar Denner (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))

11:30 EFT fits and interpretations

Speaker: Anke Biekoetter (JGU Mainz)

12:00 Overview on BSM searches

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 PDFs

14:00 → 15:30 Parton showers and event generators

14:00 → 15:30 Perturbative and resummed predictions in QCD

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Heavy quarks

16:00 → 17:30 Higgs, EW, BSM physics

16:00 → 17:30 Soft interactions, non-perturbative QCD

Wednesday, 9 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary session

09:00 Precision calculations for heavy-quark production

Speaker: Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)

09:30 Recent experimental results on top and heavy-flavour production

10:00 Flavour-sensitive jet algorithms

Speaker: Alexander Yohei Huss (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary session

11:00 Experimental B anomalies?

11:30 Discovery of exotic states at the LHC

12:00 plenary talk

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 19:00 Social event

Thursday, 10 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary session

09:00 Impact of QCD and PDF uncertainties on SM precision measurements

09:30 Impact of QCD and PDF uncertainties on BSM searches

10:00 PDF constraints from new data and expectations from future experiments

Speaker: Dr Juan M. Cruz Martinez (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary session

11:00 Recent advances in PDFs from lattice QCD

Speaker: Prof. Martha Constantinou

11:30 Highlights of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Enrico Fragiacomo (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

12:00 plenary talk

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Heavy quarks

14:00 → 15:30 Higgs, EW, BSM physics

14:00 → 15:30 Soft interactions, non-perturbative QCD

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 PDFs

16:00 → 17:30 Parton showers and event generators

16:00 → 17:30 Perturbative and resummed predictions in QCD

19:00 → 23:00 Conference dinner

Friday, 11 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary session

09:00 Soft QCD in MC event generators, multi-parton interactions

Speaker: Jonathan Richard Gaunt (University of Manchester (GB))

09:30 Soft QCD measurements, diffractive processes

10:00 Status of QCD calculations for g-2 predictions

Speaker: Aida El-Khadra

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Plenary session

11:00 Concluding talk

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))