Topical workshop on top quark differential distributions

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Sept 2014
27 Sept 2014
28 Sept 2014
AM
09:00
Realistic Final States (part 1) (until 10:00) ()
09:00 Top induced backgrounds to the Higgs production (20+10 min) - Rikkert Frederix (CERN)   ()
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09:30 Fixed order + parton showers (20+10 min) - Stefan Prestel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   ()
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10:30
Realistic Final States (part 2) (until 12:00) ()
10:30 Precision Top Quark Phenomenology with realistic final states (20+10 min) - Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)   ()
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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)   ()
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11:30 Top Quark Physics with HELAC-NLO (20+10 min) - Dr Malgorzata Worek (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))   ()
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09:00
Approximate Higher Order Calculations (until 10:00) ()
09:00 RG-improved fully differential predictions for top-pair production (20+10 min) - Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)   ()
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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))   ()
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10:30
BSM aspects (until 11:40) ()
10:30 Lessons learned from searches for BSM physics with top as a background - Freya Blekman (IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))   ()
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10:50 New Physics in ttbar+X resonances - Jose Santiago (Granada University)   ()
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11:10 Discussions   ()
11:40 Closing Remarks - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))   ()
PM
14:00 Welcome note - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))   ()
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14:20
NNLO (part 1) (until 16:20) ()
14:20 Top pair production - Michal Czakon (RWTH Aachen) Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))   ()
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15:20 Discussion   ()
16:30
NNLO (part 2) (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Single top production - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)   ()
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17:00 Discussion   ()
17:30 Dijets - Joao Pires (Milano Bicocca)   ()
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18:00 Discussion   ()
14:00
Discussion on experimental issues (until 16:00) ()
14:00 Discussion - Dr Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB)) Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY)   ()
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14:40 Top Measurement Prospect with LHCb - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))   ()
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15:00 Discussion   ()
16:30
PDF's (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Constraints on the gluon PDFs from differential measurements of top quark pair production - Juan Rojo Chacon (University of Oxford (GB))   ()
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16:50 Fitting ATLAS t-tbar differential distributions in the HERAPDF formalism - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))   ()
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17:10 Updates of PDFs and top quark production - Prof. Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK))   ()
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17:30 Top at the LHC and Preview of CT14 - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US))   ()
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17:50 Discussion   ()