TOP LHC WG meeting

Thursday Jul 19, 2012, 9:00 AM → 6:00 PM Europe/Zurich

222/R-001 (CERN)

Markus Cristinziani (Universitaet Bonn (DE)), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

This is the first open meeting of the TOP LHC Working Group.

Notice that in the days preceding the meeting, July 17-18, a workshop dedicated to the "Tools for precision and discovery physics with top quarks" is taking place. See https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=189613

EVO connection will be available: the link will appear on the agenda page 30' before the start of the meeting

Minutes Minutes_TOPLHCWG_072012.txt

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Introduction

Speakers: Dr Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Markus Cristinziani (Universitaet Bonn (DE)), Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)), Roberto Tenchini (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

Slides MC-120719-TOPLHCWG.pdf MC-120719-TOPLHCWG.pptx

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Top mass combi at the LHC + discussion

Speaker: Giorgio Cortiana (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

Paper http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1460097/files/TOP-12-001-pas.pdf https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1460441/files/ATLAS-CONF-2012-095.pdf

Slides LHC_mtop_openTOPLHCWG_July19_2012_v1.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Top mass and its interpretation: open TH issues

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides MLM.pdf

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Top mass combination at the Tevatron + discussion

Speaker: Frederic Deliot (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

Slides TOPLHCWG_deliot.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM → 11:50 AM TH uncertainties: towards harmonization across LHC

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (CEA-Saclay)

Slides theo_cms_1707.pdf

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM Top physics program in LHCb

Speaker: Kurt Rinnert (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides rinnert_lhcbtop_20120719.pdf

2:20 PM → 2:50 PM Current status of single top combination

Speaker: Luca Lista (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides single-top-combination-toplhcwg.pdf

2:50 PM → 3:20 PM Current status of top pair cross section combi

Speaker: Elizaveta Shabalina (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

Slides xs_update_topLHC_July.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM Coffee break

3:40 PM → 4:10 PM TH wishlist for existing and future LHC combinations

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides MLM_THrec.pdf

4:10 PM → 4:40 PM Common top (pair) acceptance: definitions

Speaker: William Hamish Bell (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Slides top-fiducial-lhc-20120719.pdf

4:40 PM → 5:00 PM Future combinations and ideas: dsigma/dX, Wtb, ...

Speakers: Dr Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Markus Cristinziani (Universitaet Bonn (DE)), Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)), Roberto Tenchini (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

Slides TOPLHCWG_workshop_futurecombi.pdf TOPLHCWG_workshop_futurecombi.pptx

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM discussion