TOP LHC WG meeting

12 Jan 2015, 09:00 → 13 Jan 2015, 16:30 Europe/Zurich

222/R-001 (CERN)

Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Roberto Chierici (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

Periodic open meeting of the TOP LHC Working Group.

Vidyo will be available

Monday, 12 January

Top pair production

1 Introduction

Slides TOPLHCWG_intro_012015.pdf TOPLHCWG_intro_012015.pptx

2 ATLAS+CMS 8 TeV ttbar XS combination, status and plans for differential distributions

Speaker: Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY)

Slides LHC_xsec_ttbar_120115.pdf

3 ATLAS+CMS top quark pair modelling uncertainties and correlations with single top

Speaker: Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

Slides talk.pdf

coffee break

Theoretical progress in top pair production and asymmetries

4 Top-pair production and decay at NLO matched with parton showers

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

Slides TOPWG-12-1-2015-v2.pdf

5 DiffTop

Speaker: Marco Guzzi (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides Guzzi-top2015.pdf

6 Top-Quark Charge Asymmetry at the LHC, with the Principle of Maximum Conformality

Speaker: Matjn Mojaza

Slides CERN_PMC_TALK.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

7 Differential NNLO for ttbar: status and plans (covering also AFB/Ac)

Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))

Slides AlexanderMitov-topwg-2015.pdf

Charge asymmetry

8 ATLAS+CMS Experimental status on charge asymmetry and combinations plans

Speaker: Frederic Deliot (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides TOPLHCWG_asymmetry.pdf

Single top

9 ATLAS+CMS - Wt cross section combination at 8 TeV and Wt modelling discussion

Speaker: Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University (US))

Slides 2015-01-12_Wt.pdf

10 ATLAS+CMS - t-channel predictions and modelling uncertainties

Speaker: Benedikt Maier (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides 150112_toplhcwg_tchan_modelling.pdf

LHCb

11 Report from LHCb: status and prospect for Run II

Speaker: Victor Coco (CERN)

Slides TopLHCb.pdf

Tuesday, 13 January

Top mass

12 ATLAS - New results on top mass

Speaker: Fabrice Balli (University of Manchester (GB))

Slides TOPLHCWG20151301_v05.pdf

13 CMS- New results on top mass

Speaker: Martijn Mulders (CERN)

Slides TopMass_CMS_Jan2015.pdf

14 CR models for top hadronization and top mass systematics

Speaker: Spyridon Argyropoulos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides ColorReconnection.pdf

coffee break

Top mass

15 Top mass via b energy: first NLO results

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (CERN)

Slides Top_Mass_CERN_13_Jan.pdf

16 Top mass and MCs

Speaker: Andre Hoang (Vienna University)

Slides Cern_Top-Mass-Theory.pdf