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Physics of gluons and heavy quarks from HERA to the LHC: Activities

  • Heavy flavour physics at HERA
      Study of charm fragmentation using D* meson production in DIS (M. Dobre / K.Daum)
      Combination of results on heavy quark production at HERA (K. Lipka). Preliminary Result released. Publication expected Spring 2011.

  • Phenomenology of charm quark production in DIS at HERA
      Fragmentation model in NLO calculation HVQIS (A. Kadeer)
      Development of the NLO calculation of charm production in the GMVFNS (H. Spiesberger/A. Kadeer)
      Development of the MC@NLO for charm production in DIS (A. Kadeer)

  • Determination of the Parton Density Functions at HERA and impact on the LHC physics
      PDF Fits using the HERA F2cc data (R. Placakyte). Preliminary Result released.
      PDF Fits in FFNS (R. Placakyte). Preliminary Result for the combined F2cc paper.
      Test of different schemes of heavy flavour treatment in PDF fits(R. Placakyte/K. Lipka). Preliminary Result released.
      Prediction for W/Z cross sections at the LHC. Role of the mc in the PDFs (R. Placakyte/K. Lipka). Preliminary Result released.
      PDF fits using the inclusive, charm and jets data (K. Nowak)
      PDF and alpha_strong fits using the inclusive, charm and jets data at HERA (H1+ ZEUS)(K. Nowak) Preliminary for DIS2011.

  • Physics with the CMS Experiment
      B-tagging and vertex validation at CMS (M. Aldaya) Officially in CMS SW.
      Simulations for Pixel Upgrade Phase 1 (M. Aldaya) Officially in CMS SW 3.6.3_SLHC1.