Name: Tools for precision and discovery physics with top quarks
Start: 2012-07-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-07-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Tools for precision and discovery physics with top quarks

from Tuesday, July 17, 2012 (2:00 PM) to Wednesday, July 18, 2012 (6:00 PM)

Monday, July 16, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Status of NLO+(N)NLO cross sections - Jan Piclum (Aachen)

2:30 PM Status of NNLO t-tbar cross sections - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

3:00 PM Status of single top cross sections - Adrian Signer (PSI)

3:30 PM Discussion
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Status of NLO for top distributions, ttbar+jets, etc. - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)

5:00 PM Status of NLO calculations and tools for BSM processes related to top final states - Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)

5:30 PM Status of EW corrections to top physics - Andreas Scharf (Universität Würzburg)

6:00 PM Discussion
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

9:00 AM NLO+shower for inclusive top spectra: assessment and comparison among different tools - Paolo Nason (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT))

9:30 AM NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the POWHEG-box framework - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))

10:00 AM NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the aMC@NLO framework - Rikkert Frederix

10:30 AM Discussion
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

11:30 AM New techniques to determine mtop - Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))

12:00 PM Disussion: Issues in the definition ot mtop from LHC observables
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 222/R-001
Contributions

2:00 PM Latest measurements of top/bottom AFB from the Tevatron - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy) Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

2:30 PM NLO+shower MCs and top AFB - Jan-Christopher Winter

3:00 PM Discussion

4:00 PM Recent theoretical ideas on Stop searches in final states with tops - David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)

4:30 PM ATLAS results on BSM searches with top quarks - Tobias Golling (Yale University (US))

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