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)
CERN

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Jul 17, 2012

Jul 18, 2012

9:00 AM	MC tools for precision top physics (until 11:30 AM) (222/R-001)
9:00 AM	NLO+shower for inclusive top spectra: assessment and comparison among different tools - Paolo Nason (Univ. degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (IT)) Slides
9:30 AM	NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the POWHEG-box framework - Zoltan Laszlo Trocsanyi (University of Debrecen (HU)) Slides
10:00 AM	NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the aMC@NLO framework - Rikkert Frederix Slides
10:30 AM	Discussion
11:30 AM	Theoretical issues in the top mass measurements (until 1:00 PM) (222/R-001)
11:30 AM	New techniques to determine mtop - Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE)) Slides
12:00 PM	Disussion: Issues in the definition ot mtop from LHC observables

2:00 PM	Top production cross sections (until 4:30 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
2:00 PM	Status of NLO+(N)NLO cross sections - Jan Piclum (Aachen) Slides
2:30 PM	Status of NNLO t-tbar cross sections - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN) Slides
3:00 PM	Status of single top cross sections - Adrian Signer (PSI) Slides
3:30 PM	Discussion
4:00 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM	NLO cross sections for top physics and top-related BSM final states (until 6:30 PM)
4:30 PM	Status of NLO for top distributions, ttbar+jets, etc. - Kirill Melnikov (Johns Hopkins University) Slides
5:00 PM	Status of NLO calculations and tools for BSM processes related to top final states - Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen) Slides
5:30 PM	Status of EW corrections to top physics - Andreas Scharf (Universität Würzburg) Slides
6:00 PM	Discussion

1:00 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	BSM aspects of top physics (until 6:00 PM) (222/R-001)
2:00 PM	Latest measurements of top/bottom AFB from the Tevatron - Joey Huston (Department of Physics and Astronomy) Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)) Slides
2:30 PM	NLO+shower MCs and top AFB - Jan-Christopher Winter Slides
3:00 PM	Discussion
3:30 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM	Recent theoretical ideas on Stop searches in final states with tops - David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University) Slides
4:30 PM	ATLAS results on BSM searches with top quarks - Tobias Golling (Yale University (US)) Slides

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