Tools for precision and discovery physics with top quarks

chaired by Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Richard Cavanaugh (FNAL), Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)), Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)), Markus Cristinziani (Universitaet Bonn (DE)), Eric Laenen (NIKHEF)

from Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 14:00 to Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 18:00 (Europe/Zurich)
at CERN

Council Chamber (Tue Afternoon) Filtration Plant (Wednesday sessions)

Description

This workshop, organized in collaboration with CTEQ and Fermilab's LPC, is dedicated to the top quark as a tool for the discovery of new physics, including a discussion of both the experimental and theoretical aspects.

Immediately following the Workshop, on Thursday July 19 the TOP LHC WG will hold its first plenary meeting, focused on SM studies of top quark production and properties. See
https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=189617

The Tuesday afternoon session will be held in teh Council Chamber. EVO is not available, but the session will be webcast. The Wednesday sessions will take place in the Filtration Plant, with regular EVO connection. Details on the broadcasts for both days will appear on the agenda page at the time of the meeting.

Go to day

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

14:00 - 16:30 Top production cross sections

Location:

503-1-001 - Council Chamber

14:00 Status of NLO+(N)NLO cross sections 30'

Speaker:	Jan Piclum (Aachen)
Material:	Slides

14:30 Status of NNLO t-tbar cross sections 30'

Speaker:	Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)
Material:	Slides

15:00 Status of single top cross sections 30'

Speaker:	Adrian Signer (PSI)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Discussion 30'
16:00 Coffee break 30'

16:30 - 18:30 NLO cross sections for top physics and top-related BSM final states

16:30 Status of NLO for top distributions, ttbar+jets, etc. 30'

Speaker:	Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)
Material:	Slides

17:00 Status of NLO calculations and tools for BSM processes related to top final states 30'

Speaker:	Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)
Material:	Slides

17:30 Status of EW corrections to top physics 30'

Speaker:	Andreas Scharf (Universität Würzburg)
Material:	Slides

18:00 Discussion 30'

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

09:00 - 11:30 MC tools for precision top physics

Location:

222-R-001 - Filtration Plant

09:00 NLO+shower for inclusive top spectra: assessment and comparison among different tools 30'

Speaker:	Paolo Nason (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT))
Material:	Slides

09:30 NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the POWHEG-box framework 30'

Speaker:	Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))
Material:	Slides

10:00 NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the aMC@NLO framework 30'

Speaker:	Rikkert Frederix
Material:	Slides

10:30 Discussion 30'

11:30 - 13:00 Theoretical issues in the top mass measurements

Location:

222-R-001 - Filtration Plant

11:30 New techniques to determine mtop 30'

Speakers:	Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))
Material:	Slides

12:00 Disussion: Issues in the definition ot mtop from LHC observables 45'
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13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 18:00 BSM aspects of top physics

Location:

222-R-001 - Filtration Plant

14:00 Latest measurements of top/bottom AFB from the Tevatron 30'

Speakers:	Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy), Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))
Material:	Slides

14:30 NLO+shower MCs and top AFB 30'

Speaker:	Jan-Christopher Winter
Material:	Slides

15:00 Discussion 30'
15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Recent theoretical ideas on Stop searches in final states with tops 30'

Speaker:	David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)
Material:	Slides

16:30 ATLAS results on BSM searches with top quarks 30'

Speaker:	Tobias Golling (Yale University (US))
Material:	Slides