Meetings

Uncertainties in collider predictions

The first meeting

It is proposed that a working group be set up for this and meet in March to produce the next level of detail in the problem specification. People who join this working group will take responsibility for finalizing a detailed report for various processes.

Each report should be of length of about four standard LaTeX pages (more when needed, less if sufficient) and summarize the state of the art, contain a comprehensive bibliography, and, if consistency of notation is lacking in the literature, then, select a standardized notation. Since the reports will be used by the collaboration later, they will be circulated for questions and comments before finalizing the draft.

The topics

The running coupling ($\alpha$_s)

D. Indumathi

Evolution equations

Deep-inelastic scattering

M. C. Kumar

Inclusive Drell-Yan (including vector boson production)

Anurag Tripathy, Neelima Tripathy

Heavy-flavour production

Fragmentation functions

Higgs

V. Ravindran, Asesh Krishna Datta

Jets

Prakash Mathews

Vector bosons plus jets

Manoranjan Guchait

Photons