1. MCnetITN Mid-Term Review Coordinator’s Report Mike Seymour October 7 th 2014

2. MCnetITN FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network for Monte Carlo event generator –development –validation and tuning Approved for four years from 1st Jan 2013

3. Why Monte Carlo? Experimental –Planning of future experiments –Planning/preparation of analysis –Simulating signals (response, efficiency) –Simulating backgrounds ( when they cannot be measured, efficiency/extrapolation when they can )

4. Why Monte Carlo? July 4 th 2012 – Higgs discovery

5. Why Monte Carlo? July 4 th 2012 – Higgs discovery

6. Why Monte Carlo? Experimental –Planning of future experiments –Planning/preparation of analysis –Simulating signals (response, efficiency) –Simulating backgrounds ( when they cannot be measured, efficiency/extrapolation when they can ) Theoretical –QCD cannot be solved; more from calculation ⇒ less modelling ⇒ deeper understanding

7. Why Monte Carlo?

8. MCnetITN

9. PYTHIA Herwig Ariadne SHERPA MadGraph

10. MCnetITN

11. Göttingen Emma Kuwertz Simone Amoroso Jan Winter Andreas Papaefstathiou Korinna Zapp MCnetITN CERN Durham UCL Karlsruhe Lund Peter Skands Giulia Zanderighi Stefan Gieseke Leif Lönnblad Torbjörn Sjöstrand Malin Sjödahl Jon Butterworth Emily Nurse Andy Buckley Keith Hamilton Gavin Hesketh Tomas Hapola Olivier Mattelaer Celine Degrande Holger Schulz Ilan Fridman Rojas Oliver Hall Jennifer Thompson Alix Wilcock Helen Brooks Claude Dühr Stefan Höche Silvan Kuttimalai Peter Schichtel Sabrina Sacerdoti Emanuele Ré Marek Schönherr Gösta Gustafson Johan Rathsman Stephen Mrenna Christian Bierlich Christine Rasmussen Ilkka Helenius Spyridon Argyropoulos Peter Richardson Frank Krauss David Grellscheid Jeppe Andersen Hendrik Mantler Jesper Christiansen Manchester Mike Seymour Steffen Schumann Louvain Fabio Maltoni Robert Thorne Ben Waugh Matthew Wing Bryan Webber Jonathan Da Silva Gagik Vardanyan Andrzej Siódmok Graeme Nail Tilman Plehn Piero Ferrarese Nathan Hartland Tim Stelzer Eleni Vryonidou Faten Hariri Frashër Loshaj Simon Plätzer Christian Reuschle Christian Röhr Johannes Bellm Nadine Fischer Marek Sirendi Stefan Prestel Philip Ilten Johan Thorén Mario Campanelli Heiko Lacker Stefan Richter Nicola Orlando Nishita Desai James Monk Stephen Bieniek Stephen Jiggins Mark Sutton Witold Pokorski Beate Heinemann Filip Moortgat Andreas Morsch Gloria Corti Hannes Jung External Advisors Rikkert Frederix Johan Alwall Ioannis Tsinikos Frank Siegert Torben Schell Fabian Schwarzendahl

12. Training: –To train a large section of the user base in the physics and techniques of event generators –To train the next generation of event generator developers –To provide broader training in transferable skills Through Research: –To develop and support the new generation of event generators intended for use throughout the LHC data analysis era and beyond –To play a central rôle in the analysis of LHC data and the discovery of new physics there –To extract the maximum potential from existing data to constrain the modeling of the data from the LHC and future experiments  Stefan Gieseke  Leif Lönnblad MCnetITN objectives

13. Coordinator’s Report Scientific Progress Report –Leif Lönnblad Training Progress Report –Stefan Gieseke

14. Networking Three network meetings –Manchester October 2013 –CERN April 2014 –Karlsruhe (tomorrow) –typical attendance ~35 ~60 of the 80 members attended at least 1 Short collaborative visits

15. Networking All projects multi-institute Most institutes multi-project 21/53 papers jointly by network members from different institutions [1] A. Alloul, N.D. Christensen, C. Degrande, C. Duhr and B. Fuks, FeynRules 2.0 – A complete toolbox for tree-level phenomenology, Comput. Phys. Commun. 185 (2014) 2250, [arXiv:1310.1921 [hep-ph]], 94 citations. [2] J. Alwall et al., The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations, JHEP 1407 (2014) 079 [arXiv:1405.0301 [hep-ph]], 84 citations. [3] S. Hoeche, J. Huang, G. Luisoni, M. Schoenherr and J. Winter, Zero and one jet combined next-to-leading order analysis of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry, Phys. Rev. D88 (2013) 1, [arXiv:1306.2703 [hep-ph]], 27 citations [4] J. Bellm et al., Herwig++ 2.7 Release Note, arXiv:1310.6877 [hep-ph], 23 citations [5] F. Cascioli et al., Precise Higgs-background predictions: merging NLO QCD and squared quark-loop corrections to four-lepton + 0,1 jet production, JHEP 1401 (2014) 046, [arXiv:1309.0500 [hep-ph]], 22 citations

17. as necessary Meets monthly, uses password-protected internal web Management Committee (eighteen tenured academics) Management Group (eight team leaders) Management Scientist in Charge and Network Project Manager Student & postdoc committee (three students, two postdocs) External advisory committee (four expters, one theorist, GENSER, industry) Administrative departments

18. Management Manchester project co-ordination –Seymour: Scientist-in-charge and Network Project Manager –University has recently advertised half-time Network Project Manager position for the remainder of the network period