Name: TOP LHC WG meeting
Start: 2014-05-21T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-05-23T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

TOP LHC WG meeting

from Wednesday, May 21, 2014 (9:00 AM) to Friday, May 23, 2014 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 19, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
9:00 AM Top mass: introduction session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to top mass miniworkshop and TOPLHCWG open session - Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)) Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

9:20 AM Report on the first top mass World Average - Oleg Brandt (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

9:55 AM New results on m_top, MSbar mass and differential cross sections - Matthew Dowling (DESY) S. Moch (UHH)
10:30 AM Coffe break
Coffe break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Top mass: systematic errors I
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Colour Reconnection and top mass dependence on kinematic variables - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

11:30 AM Hadronisation and radiation systematics and b-fragmentation - Tancredi Carli (CERN)

12:00 PM Hadronization systematics on the top mass - Gennaro Corcella (INFN - LNF)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
2:00 PM Top mass: new developments I
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Interpretation of top quark mass measurements - Andre Hoang (U)
3:00 PM coffe break
coffe break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
3:30 PM Top mass: new developments II
3:30 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

3:30 PM Non standard measurements of the top mass - Sebastian Naumann-Emme (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

4:15 PM ME technique at NLO to extract mtop from dilepton events - Pierre Artoisenet (Univerite catholique de Louvain)

4:45 PM New method for precise determination of top quark mass at LHC - sayaka kawabata

5:15 PM Top mass extraction from dilepton events - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))

5:45 PM Studies on the top mass - Paolo Nason (Unknown)
Thursday, May 22, 2014
9:00 AM Top mass: systematic errors II
9:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM NLO QCD to WWbb - Jan Winter (Dresden University)

9:30 AM Top mass from the bottom energy peak - Roberto Franceschini (University of Maryland (US))

9:45 AM Discussion session: top mass TH systematics - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
10:30 AM coffe break
coffe break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Top pair modelling
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM ttbar modelling uncertainties and further questions to theory - Carmen Diez Pardos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE))

11:45 AM Issues in the top pt distribution in ME+PS and NLO+PS - Paolo Nason (Unknown)

12:00 PM A POWHEG generator for top production including exact spin correlations and radiation in decay - Paolo Nason (Unknown)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
2:00 PM Top pair cross section and b-tagging
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM b-tagging recommendations for combinations - James Michael Keaveney (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Interuniversitary Institute for high energies (IIHE) (BE)) Luca Scodellaro (Universidad de Cantabria (ES)) Martin Zur Nedden (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE))

2:30 PM Combination plans for the top pair cross sections - Elizaveta Shabalina (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE)) Maria Aldaya Martin (Hamburg University (DE))
3:00 PM Single top I
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

3:00 PM tW combinations and plan for t-channel and Vtb - Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN (IT))
3:30 PM coffe break
coffe break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
4:00 PM Single top I
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

4:00 PM t-channel NNLO cross section - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)

4:30 PM Single-top with complex-mass scheme matched to showers - Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)
Friday, May 23, 2014
9:00 AM Single top II
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM t-channel modelling uncertainties and further questions to TH and new fiducial measurements - Jose Enrique Garcia Navarro (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES))

9:30 AM Discussion on single top reference cross section - Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

9:50 AM Theory proposal for reference single top cross section measurements - Rikkert Frederix (CERN)
10:30 AM coffe break
coffe break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
11:00 AM Top BSM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM RunII priorities for topBSM physics - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)

11:45 AM Discussion: desiderata for the WG on topBSM matters - James Ferrando (University of Glasgow) Justin Pilot (University of California Davis (US))
12:30 PM Conclusion and outlook
Conclusion and outlook
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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