MC4BSM KickOff

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MC4BSM Kick-Off

• Konstantin Matchev
• University of Florida

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Motivation for the MC4BSM Workshops

• Generic problems
• Experimentalists complaints
• This model is very nice, but do you have an
  event generator for it? Is this model in PYTHIA?
  
• Lack of manpower among MC writers
• Too many/too active model builders
• As a result,
• Actually it is even worse

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Organization of the Workshops

• The first MC4BSM workshop already
• introduced some of the main MC tools
• HERWIG and PYTHIA (Richardson)
• PANDORA (Peskin)
• CalcHEP and CompHEP (Pukhov)
• reviewed several classes of models
• Warped Extra Dimensions (Agashe, Sundrum)
• Little Higgs (Schmaltz)
• Universal Extra Dimensions (Cheng)
• Z and Higgsless models (Simmons)
• This second workshop aims to produce concrete
  results! It has a different format more of a
  workshop, less of a conference.

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Format of MC4BSM-2

• The organizers prior to the workshop, recruit
  teams of writers, assign homework, and solicit
  testers
• The writers commit to the following
• Choose a theory model of their liking
• Implement the model in one of the MC tools
• Write documentation about the implementation
• Make the implementation public (maintain a web
  page)
• All of this should be done prior to the workshop
• At the workshop give a talk about the
  implementation
• The testers are invited to try out the available
  implementations and provide feedback (before,
  during and after the workshop) about bugs,
  user-friendliness
• 11 teams of writers volunteered, 10 talks.

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Team Reports Friday March 23 1050 am 1230
pm

• Ethan Dolle, Hock-Seng Goh, Shufang Su
• Left-Right Twin Higgs Model in Calchep
• Jay Hubisz, Andrew Noble, Maxim Perelstein
• A Madgraph-4.0 implementation of Little Higgs
• models with T parity
• Johan Alwall, Stephen Mrenna, Matt Schwartz
• A MadGraph implementation of SCET matching
• Patrick Meade, Matthew Reece
• BRIDGE a calculator for widths and decays
• Philip Schuster, Jesse Thaler, Natalia Toro,
  Liantao Wang
• MARMOSET Signal-Based Monte Carlo for the LHC

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Team Reports Saturday March 24 1040 am
1220 pm

• Michel Herquet
• The generic 2HDM implementation in MG/ME v4
• Alexander Belyaev, Neil Christensen
• A CalcHEP implementation of a 3-site model
• Michael Davenport and Michael Peskin
• UED KK-quark decays in PANDORA
• Bogdan Dobrescu, Kyoungchul Kong, Rakhi Mahbubani
• 2 UEDs in CalcHEP
• AseshKrishna Datta, Kyoungchul Kong, Konstantin
  Matchev
• Minimal UED in CalcHEP/CompHEP

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What Can You Do to Help?

• Sign up to be a writer
• Join an existing teams
• Set up your own team to implement your favorite
  model
• Sign up to be a tester
• Try out the codes (all are linked to the workshop
  website)
• Provide feedback to the authors
• Join the round table tomorrow at 2pm