Projects in the MC Tools Group of the HERA-LHC Workshop

PDF libraries

• LHAPDF development
  • inclusion of the H1 and ZEUS PDF fits
  • inclusion of photon and pion PDFs from PDFLIB
  M. Whalley, D. Bourilkov
• Diffractive PDF library
  F.-P. Schilling



MC event generators

• PYTHIA 6.2 development
  • make MI complex model work for γp
    J. Butterworth, L. Lönnblad
• CASCADE development
  • inclusion of quark lines into parton cascades
  • inclusion of multiple interactions
  H. Jung
• Comparisons of CASCADE and leading order MCs at LHC
  • jet veto efficiency for gg->h with different MC's at CMS
    G. Davatz, A. Nikitenko
• RAPGAP Development
  • inclusion of low mass hadronisation models
    H. Jung, S. Vinokurova
  • inclusion of Les Houches Accord interface for fragmentation models
    H. Jung
• MC tuning to describe leading proton distributions
  G. Iacobucci



MC running and tuning frameworks

• HzTool/JetWeb development
  
  • inclusion of HERA results useful for tuning of UE/MI models
    J. Butterworth, ?; D. Beneckenstein, S. Lausberg, V. Lendermann, K. Lohwasser, S. Maxfield
  • inclusion of HERA results useful for tuning of heavy flavour production
    A.W. Jung, P. Thompson, A. Geiser, O. Gutsche
• RunMC - C++ object-oriented framework for running MC models
  
  • interface/front-end to HzTool
  • interface to all major MC generators
  S. Chekanov
• NLOLIB development
  
  • inclusion of NLOJET, general development
    K. Rabbertz
  • inclusion of JetViP
    T. Schörner-Sadenius
  • inclusion of programs for heavy flavours (FMNR, HVQDIS)
    ??? (help wanted)
  • inclusion of pp programs
    ??? (help wanted)



Analysis tools

• Sbumps - C++ framework for automatic peak searching and identification
  S. Chekanov
• General searches for new phenomena
  S. Caron



Long term projects

• MC@NLO Development - making an ep version
  S. Frixione, ?
• MC generators with non-Markovian algorithm for QCD evolution
  S. Jadach, M. Skrzypek
• OO Generators (ep versions will not be available during this Workshop)
  • Pythia 7
    L. Lönnblad, T. Sjöstrand
  • Herwig++
    S. Gieseke, A. Ribon, P. Richardson, M. Seymour, P. Stephens, B. Webber
  • Ariadne, LDC
    L. Lönnblad, N. Lavesson
  • Sherpa
    T. Gleisberg, S. Höche, F. Krauss, A. Schälicke, S. Schumann, J. Winter
• OO versions of MC tuning tools, interfaces to OO generators
  • CEDAR