Tools for precision and discovery physics with top quarks

from Tuesday, 17 July 2012 (14:00) to Wednesday, 18 July 2012 (18:00)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Jul 2012
18 Jul 2012
AM
09:00
MC tools for precision top physics (until 11:30) (222/R-001)
09:00 NLO+shower for inclusive top spectra: assessment and comparison among different tools - Paolo Nason (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT))   (222/R-001)
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09:30 NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the POWHEG-box framework - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU))   (222/R-001)
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10:00 NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the aMC@NLO framework - Rikkert Frederix   (222/R-001)
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10:30 Discussion   (222/R-001)
11:30
Theoretical issues in the top mass measurements (until 13:00) (222/R-001)
11:30 New techniques to determine mtop - Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))   (222/R-001)
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12:00 Disussion: Issues in the definition ot mtop from LHC observables   (222/R-001)
PM
14:00
Top production cross sections (until 16:30) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00 Status of NLO+(N)NLO cross sections - Jan Piclum (Aachen)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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14:30 Status of NNLO t-tbar cross sections - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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15:00 Status of single top cross sections - Adrian Signer (PSI)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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15:30 Discussion   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
NLO cross sections for top physics and top-related BSM final states (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Status of NLO for top distributions, ttbar+jets, etc. - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
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17:00 Status of NLO calculations and tools for BSM processes related to top final states - Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)   ()
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17:30 Status of EW corrections to top physics - Andreas Scharf (Universität Würzburg)   ()
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18:00 Discussion   ()
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
BSM aspects of top physics (until 18:00) (222/R-001)
14:00 Latest measurements of top/bottom AFB from the Tevatron - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy) Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))   (222/R-001)
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14:30 NLO+shower MCs and top AFB - Jan-Christopher Winter   (222/R-001)
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15:00 Discussion   (222/R-001)
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Recent theoretical ideas on Stop searches in final states with tops - David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)   (222/R-001)
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16:30 ATLAS results on BSM searches with top quarks - Tobias Golling (Yale University (US))   (222/R-001)
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