TOPLHCWG open session

28 Nov 2013, 09:00 → 29 Nov 2013, 13:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

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

The allotted time for talks include the discussion session

Thursday 28 November

09:00 → 09:15 Introduction and welcome

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

Slides MC-131128-Intro.pdf MC-131128-Intro.pptx

09:15 → 10:45 Single top

09:15 Combination of the t-channel cross section

Speakers: Julien Noce Donini (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR)), Luca Lista (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides single-top-comb_toplhcwg_28.11.13.pdf

09:45 Open issues and tools for single top

Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (CERN)

Slides frederix.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:45 First look at the combination of top charge asymmetry

Speakers: Frederic Deliot (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Thorsten Chwalek (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides TOPLHCWG_AsymmetryCombination.pdf

11:45 → 12:15 Top pair cross sections

11:45 Comparison with top-pair at NNLO

Speakers: James Ferrando (University of Oxford), Maria Aldaya Martin (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides ttbar_NNLO_281113_final.pdf

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Top pair cross sections

14:00 ttgamma/ttW, theory and tools

Speaker: Thomas Edward Melia

Slides topWB.pdf

14:30 Comparison of ATLAS and CMS top pair differential distributions

Speakers: Dr Francesco Spano (University of London (GB)), Maria Aldaya Martin (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides ttdiffxsec_aldaya_TOPLHCWG_v2.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 BLUE and combination tools

16:00 Iterative BLUE

Speakers: Julien Noce Donini (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR)), Luca Lista (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides BLUE-bias.pdf BLUE-bias.pptx

16:30 BLUE: new ideas and towards a common code

Speaker: Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Slides BLUE_TOPLHCWG.pdf BLUE_TOPLHCWG.pptx

Friday 29 November

09:00 → 09:50 Top mass

09:00 Top mass combination: status and perspectives

Speakers: Giorgio Cortiana (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D), Steve Wimpenny (University of California Riverside (US))

Slides LHC_mtop_openTOPLHCWG_Nov29_2013_v1.pdf

09:30 Top mass extraction from leptonic distributions in dilepton final states

Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))

Slides Alexander_Mitov_top-mass.pdf

09:50 → 10:45 Systematics session I

09:50 Radiation systematics

Speaker: Liza Mijovic (CEA-Saclay)

Slides mijovic_radiation_comp_2711.pdf

10:05 Top generator level plots

Speaker: Stefano Frixione (CERN)

Slides SF-131129-TopPlots.pdf

10:15 Questions to theorists:discussion session

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

Slides MC-131129-TOPLHCWGQuestions.pdf MC-131129-TOPLHCWGQuestions.pptx

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:15 Systematic session 2: b-fragmentation

11:15 Theory perspectives on b-fragmentation

Speaker: Gennaro Corcella (Unknown)

Slides lpcc_corcella.pdf

11:45 b-fragmentation in experimental analyses

Speaker: Markus Seidel (Hamburg University (DE))

Slides bfragmentation_mseidel.pdf

12:15 → 12:45 Outlook and future efforts

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

Slides Outlook.pdf Outlook.pptx