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)
Cannes, France

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

26 Sept 2014

27 Sept 2014

28 Sept 2014

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) Slides
09:30	Fixed order + parton showers (20+10 min) - Stefan Prestel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Slides
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) Slides
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) Slides
11:30	Top Quark Physics with HELAC-NLO (20+10 min) - Dr Malgorzata Worek (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE)) Slides

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) Slides
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)) Slides
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)) Slides
10:50	New Physics in ttbar+X resonances - Jose Santiago (Granada University) Slides
11:10	Discussions
11:40	Closing Remarks - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge)

14:00	Welcome note - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge) Slides
14:20	NNLO (part 1) (until 16:20)
14:20	Top pair production - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge) Michal Czakon (RWTH Aachen) Slides
15:20	Discussion
16:30	NNLO (part 2) (until 18:30)
16:30	Single top production - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University) Slides
17:00	Discussion
17:30	Dijets - Joao Pires (Milano Bicocca) Slides
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) Slides
14:40	Top Measurement Prospect with LHCb - Philip Ilten (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Slides
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)) Slides
16:50	Fitting ATLAS t-tbar differential distributions in the HERAPDF formalism - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB)) Slides
17:10	Updates of PDFs and top quark production - Prof. Robert Samuel Thorne (University College London (UK)) Slides
17:30	Top at the LHC and Preview of CT14 - Prof. Joey Huston (Michigan State University (US)) Slides
17:50	Discussion

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