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

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

17 Jul 2012

18 Jul 2012

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) Slides
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) Slides
10:00	NLO+shower for associated production of t-tbar+X in the aMC@NLO framework - Rikkert Frederix (222/R-001) Slides
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) Slides
12:00	Disussion: Issues in the definition ot mtop from LHC observables (222/R-001)

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) Slides
14:30	Status of NNLO t-tbar cross sections - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
15:00	Status of single top cross sections - Adrian Signer (PSI) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
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) () Slides
17:00	Status of NLO calculations and tools for BSM processes related to top final states - Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen) () Slides
17:30	Status of EW corrections to top physics - Andreas Scharf (Universität Würzburg) () Slides
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) Slides
14:30	NLO+shower MCs and top AFB - Jan-Christopher Winter (222/R-001) Slides
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) Slides
16:30	ATLAS results on BSM searches with top quarks - Tobias Golling (Yale University (US)) (222/R-001) Slides

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