Aim of the workshop:
The Large Hadron Collider has so far performed extremely well and led in 2012 to the milestone discovery of the Higgs boson; however, no signal of new physics has shown up yet. For the sake of carrying out searches for physics Beyond the Standard Model and reliable estimates of the backgrounds, precise calculations and Monte Carlo generators have been of paramount importance. In this mini-workshop, we shall present novel improvements in the matching of parton showers with exact NLO matrix elements, as well as progresses in the fits of parton distribution functions, including small-x resummation. New strategies to measure the top-quark mass and CP violation in top events at the LHC will also be presented.

Speakers:

Benjamin Fuks (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
"Next-to-leading order calculations matched to parton showers for supersymmetry and dark matter"

Umberto De Sanctis (Università di Roma `Tor Vergata')
"Top physics with soft muons in ATLAS"

Marco Bonvini (Università di Roma `La Sapienza')
"Small-x resummation in PDF fits"