TOP LHC WG meeting

Thursday 29 Nov 2012, 13:30 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac (CERN)

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

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

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

1 Welcome and Introduction

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

Slides Intro_TOPLHCWG.pdf Intro_TOPLHCWG.pptx

Current combination activities

2 Status of top mass (world) average

Speaker: Martijn Mulders (CERN)

Slides TopMassTOPLHCWG_Nov29.pdf

3 Status of LHC top pair cross section combination

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

Slides LHCxs_combination_TOPLHCWG.pdf

4 Status of LHC single top cross section combination

Speakers: Julien Noce Donini (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR)), Julien Noce Donini (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))

Slides TOPLHCWG_SingleTop_29.11.12.pdf

5 Status of W helicity LHC combination

Speaker: Dr Mara Senghi Soares (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES)

Slides WhelComb29Nov12.pdf

6 Discussion

7 Revisited BLUE and a new way to show our combinations

Speaker: Dr Andrea Valassi (CERN)

Slides 20121129_BLUE_TOPLHCWG.pdf 20121129_BLUE_TOPLHCWG.pptx

15:30 Coffee/Tea break

Modelling and constraining radiation in top-pair

8 NNLO cross section

Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (CERN)

Slides

• AlexanderMitov-top-LHC-WG-myg-CERN-Nov-2012.pdf
• AlexanderMitov-top-LHC-WG-myg-CERN-Nov-2012.pdf
• AlexanderMitov-top-LHC-WG-myg-CERN-Nov-2012.pptx

9 Constraining radiation in ATLAS

Speaker: Mark Andrew Owen (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides ATLASTopJetRad.pdf

10 Constraining radiation in CMS

Speaker: Maria Aldaya Martin (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides radiation_CMS_final.pdf

11 Inclusive variables NLO vs NLO+PS

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN)

Slides rojo-topgluon-TOPLHCWH.pdf

12 Discussion

13 Jet/MET prescriptions for LHC combinations + discussion

Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

Slides JetEtmissATLASCMSNov29.pdf