1999 CERN WORKSHOP ON STANDARD MODEL PHYSICS (AND MORE) AT THE LHC

               DRAFT AGENDA FOR THE OCTOBER 14-15 PLENARY MEETING


THURSDAY OCTOBER 14
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MAIN AUDITORIUM

9-10.30 TOP
 *  Recent progress in the studies of:
  - Single top production and top polarization (D. O'Neil, ATLAS)  20 min
  - Top mass determination, spin correlations and 
    t-tbar asymmetries (L. Sonnenschien) 20 min
  - FCNC-induced production and decays (S. Slabospitsky, ATLAS) 20 min
  - MC tools for signals and backgrounds (M. Mangano) 20 min
 * Plans for the writing of the Final Report (Convenors) 10 min

10.30-11:00 TOP: Discussion

11.00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 EWK:
- Drell Yan Production of Lepton Pairs - Dimitri Bourilkov (CMS)
- NLO Corrections for Diboson Production - Dario Zuercher (CMS)
- Higgs Production via Vector Boson Fusion, with Decay to Tau Pairs - Bob Orr
   (ATLAS)
- Vector Boson Scattering - Rachid Mazini (ATLAS)


12:30-14 Lunch


MAIN AUDITORIUM

14-15:00 EWK:
- Triple Gauge Boson Couplings, M. Dobbs and W. Thuemmel (25')
- DY production of W,Z with electroweak corrections, S. Dittmaier (15')
- Vector boson self-couplings and Effective field theory, J.R. Pelaez (15')
- Recent theoretical progress (Z. Kunszt) (5')

15:00-15:30 EWK: Discussion

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

COUNCIL ROOM

16:00-17:30 B PRODUCTION

- G. Ridolfi, Recent theoretical progress in b production   25'
- S. Gennai, Studies on b production                        15'
- A. Kharchilava,  Comparison of most recent b-production   20'
                 theoretical computations with PYTHIA	
- P. Vikas, Possibilities for b production measurements     30'

17:30-18:00 BPRODUCTION: discussion

FRIDAY OCTOBER  15
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MAIN AUDITORIUM

9:00-10:30 B DECAYS
-  Theoretical overview of CP violation                 - Robert Fleischer
   measurements at the LHC                                20 min
-  Experimental feasibility of 'new approaches'       
					-	Claire.Shepherd-Themistocleous
                                                          20 min
-  B->h+h- revisited and the extraction of the angles alpha and gamma 
                                                        - David Rousseau
                                                          20 min
-   Flavour tagging strategy at LHC, with                - Yves Lemoigne
    special reference to CMS                               20 mins


10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 B DECAYS

-   Remarks on controlling systematic uncertainties in   - Guy Wilkinson
    CP measurements                                        15 min
    
-   B->D*pi/a1 as a clean measurement of gamma           - Jonas Rademacker
                                                           20 min
-   Measuring the angle alpha with B->3pi                - Jim Libby
                                                           15 min

12:00-12:30 BDECAYS: discussion

12:30-14:00 Lunch

MAIN AUDITORIUM

14:00-15:20  QCD
- James Stirling (40 min.),
  "Parton distributions: today, tomorrow and at the LHC" 
- Stefano Frixione (20 min.),
  "Production of isolated photons"  
- Daniele Treleani (20 min.),
  "Double-parton scattering"

15.20-15:50 coffee break

15:50-17:00 QCD
- Dimitri Bourilkov (15 min.),
   "Production of Drell-Yan: PYTHIA vs. NLO QCD"
- Dave Soper (25 min.),
  "Jet definitions and algorithms" 
- Stefano Catani (30 min.),
  "Selected results from the QCD Working Group"

17:00-17:30 QCD: Discussion

17:30-17.45 Conclusions
- M. Mangano, Plans and instructions for the Yellow Report