Name: Topical workshop on top quark differential distributions
Start: 2014-09-26T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-09-28T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cannes, France

Topical workshop on top quark differential distributions

from Friday 26 September 2014 (14:00) to Sunday 28 September 2014 (18:00)

Monday 22 September 2014
Tuesday 23 September 2014
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Thursday 25 September 2014
Friday 26 September 2014
14:00 Welcome note - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge)
Welcome note
- Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge)
14:00 - 14:20
14:20
14:20 - 16:20
Contributions

14:20 Top pair production - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge) Michal Czakon (RWTH Aachen)

15:20 Discussion
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Single top production - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)

17:00 Discussion

17:30 Dijets - Joao Pires (Milano Bicocca)

18:00 Discussion
Saturday 27 September 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Top induced backgrounds to the Higgs production (20+10 min) - Rikkert Frederix (CERN)

09:30 Fixed order + parton showers (20+10 min) - Stefan Prestel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Precision Top Quark Phenomenology with realistic final states (20+10 min) - Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)

11:00 Monte Carlo modelling issues in ttbar+jets production and friends (20+10 min) - Jan-Christopher Winter (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

11:30 Top Quark Physics with HELAC-NLO (20+10 min) - Malgorzata Worek (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Discussion - Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB)) Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY)

14:40 Top Measurement Prospect with LHCb - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

15:00 Discussion
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Constraints on the gluon PDFs from differential measurements of top quark pair production - Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))

16:50 Fitting ATLAS t-tbar differential distributions in the HERAPDF formalism - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

17:10 Updates of PDFs and top quark production - Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))

17:30 Top at the LHC and Preview of CT14 - Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))

17:50 Discussion
Sunday 28 September 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 RG-improved fully differential predictions for top-pair production (20+10 min) - Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)

09:30 Approximate cross-sections from analyticity: the case of top pair production (20+10 min) - Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
10:30
10:30 - 11:40
Contributions

10:30 Lessons learned from searches for BSM physics with top as a background - Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

10:50 New Physics in ttbar+X resonances - Jose Santiago (Granada University)

11:10 Discussions
11:40 Closing Remarks - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge)
Closing Remarks
- Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge)
11:40 - 12:00

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