TOP LHC WG meeting

from Wednesday, May 21, 2014 (9:00 AM) to Friday, May 23, 2014 (6:00 PM)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 21, 2014
May 22, 2014
May 23, 2014
AM
9:00 AM
Top mass: introduction session (until 10:30 AM)
9:00 AM 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))  
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9:20 AM Report on the first top mass World Average - Oleg Brandt (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))  
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9:55 AM New results on m_top, MSbar mass and differential cross sections - Matthew Dowling (DESY) S. Moch (UHH)  
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10:30 AM Coffe break  
11:00 AM
Top mass: systematic errors I (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Colour Reconnection and top mass dependence on kinematic variables - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)  
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11:30 AM Hadronisation and radiation systematics and b-fragmentation - Tancredi Carli (CERN)  
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12:00 PM Hadronization systematics on the top mass - Gennaro Corcella (INFN - LNF)  
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9:00 AM
Top mass: systematic errors II (until 10:50 AM)
9:00 AM NLO QCD to WWbb - Jan Winter (Dresden University)  
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9:30 AM Top mass from the bottom energy peak - Roberto Franceschini (University of Maryland (US))  
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9:45 AM Discussion session: top mass TH systematics - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
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10:30 AM coffe break  
11:00 AM
Top pair modelling (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM ttbar modelling uncertainties and further questions to theory - Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE)) Carmen Diez Pardos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
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11:45 AM Issues in the top pt distribution in ME+PS and NLO+PS - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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12:00 PM A POWHEG generator for top production including exact spin correlations and radiation in decay - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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9:00 AM
Single top II (until 10:30 AM)
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))  
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9:30 AM Discussion on single top reference cross section - Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
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9:50 AM Theory proposal for reference single top cross section measurements - Rikkert Frederix (CERN)  
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10:30 AM coffe break  
11:00 AM
Top BSM (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM RunII priorities for topBSM physics - Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann)  
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11:45 AM Discussion: desiderata for the WG on topBSM matters - James Ferrando (University of Glasgow) Justin Pilot (University of California Davis (US))  
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PM
12:30 PM Lunch  
2:00 PM
Top mass: new developments I (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Interpretation of top quark mass measurements - Andre Hoang (U)  
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3:00 PM coffe break  
3:30 PM
Top mass: new developments II (until 6:20 PM)
3:30 PM Non standard measurements of the top mass - Sebastian Naumann-Emme (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
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4:15 PM ME technique at NLO to extract mtop from dilepton events - Pierre Artoisenet (Univerite catholique de Louvain)  
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4:45 PM New method for precise determination of top quark mass at LHC - sayaka kawabata  
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5:15 PM Top mass extraction from dilepton events - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))  
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5:45 PM Studies on the top mass - Paolo Nason (Unknown)  
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12:30 PM Lunch  
2:00 PM
Top pair cross section and b-tagging (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM 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))  
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2:30 PM Combination plans for the top pair cross sections - Maria Aldaya Martin (Hamburg University (DE)) Elizaveta Shabalina (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen (DE))  
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3:00 PM
Single top I (until 3:30 PM)
3:00 PM tW combinations and plan for t-channel and Vtb - Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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3:30 PM coffe break  
4:00 PM
Single top I (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM t-channel NNLO cross section - Fabrizio Caola (Johns Hopkins University)  
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4:30 PM Single-top with complex-mass scheme matched to showers - Andrew Sofronis Papanastasiou (DESY)  
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12:30 PM Conclusion and outlook