TOP LHC WG meeting

from Wednesday, 21 May 2014 (09:00) to Friday, 23 May 2014 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 May 2014
22 May 2014
23 May 2014
AM
09:00
Top mass: introduction session (until 10:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
09:00 Introduction to top mass miniworkshop and TOPLHCWG open session - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)) Dr Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:20 Report on the first top mass World Average - Oleg Brandt (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:55 New results on m_top, MSbar mass and differential cross sections - Matthew Dowling (DESY) S. Moch (UHH)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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10:30 Coffe break   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:00
Top mass: systematic errors I (until 12:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:00 Colour Reconnection and top mass dependence on kinematic variables - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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11:30 Hadronisation and radiation systematics and b-fragmentation - Tancredi Carli (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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12:00 Hadronization systematics on the top mass - Gennaro Corcella (INFN - LNF)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:00
Top mass: systematic errors II (until 10:50) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
09:00 NLO QCD to WWbb - Jan Winter (Dresden University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:30 Top mass from the bottom energy peak - Roberto Franceschini (University of Maryland (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:45 Discussion session: top mass TH systematics - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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10:30 coffe break   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:00
Top pair modelling (until 12:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:00 ttbar modelling uncertainties and further questions to theory - Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE)) Carmen Diez Pardos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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11:45 Issues in the top pt distribution in ME+PS and NLO+PS - Paolo Nason (Unknown)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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12:00 A POWHEG generator for top production including exact spin correlations and radiation in decay - Paolo Nason (Unknown)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:00
Single top II (until 10:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
09:00 t-channel modelling uncertainties and further questions to TH and new fiducial measurements - Jose Enrique Garcia Navarro (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:30 Discussion on single top reference cross section - Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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09:50 Theory proposal for reference single top cross section measurements - Rikkert Frederix (CERN)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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10:30 coffe break   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:00
Top BSM (until 12:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
11:00 RunII priorities for topBSM physics - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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11:45 Discussion: desiderata for the WG on topBSM matters - James Ferrando (University of Glasgow) Justin Pilot (University of California Davis (US))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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PM
12:30 Lunch   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:00
Top mass: new developments I (until 15:00) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:00 Interpretation of top quark mass measurements - Andre Hoang (U)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:00 coffe break   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:30
Top mass: new developments II (until 18:20) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:30 Non standard measurements of the top mass - Sebastian Naumann-Emme (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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16:15 ME technique at NLO to extract mtop from dilepton events - Pierre Artoisenet (Univerite catholique de Louvain)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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16:45 New method for precise determination of top quark mass at LHC - sayaka kawabata   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:15 Top mass extraction from dilepton events - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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17:45 Studies on the top mass - Paolo Nason (Unknown)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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12:30 Lunch   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:00
Top pair cross section and b-tagging (until 15:00) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
14:00 b-tagging recommendations for combinations - Luca Scodellaro (Universidad de Cantabria (ES)) Martin Zur Nedden (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin (DE)) James Michael Keaveney (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Interuniversitary Institute for high energies (IIHE) (BE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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14:30 Combination plans for the top pair cross sections - Maria Aldaya Martin (Hamburg University (DE)) Elizaveta Shabalina (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:00
Single top I (until 15:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
15:00 tW combinations and plan for t-channel and Vtb - Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN (IT))   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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15:30 coffe break   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:00
Single top I (until 17:30) (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
16:00 t-channel NNLO cross section - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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16:30 Single-top with complex-mass scheme matched to showers - Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)
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12:30 Conclusion and outlook   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)