TOP LHC WG meeting

20 May 2015, 09:00 → 21 May 2015, 16:30 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Periodic open meeting of the TOP LHC Working Group.

Vidyo will be available

Wednesday 20 May

09:00 → 09:15 Introduction

Speakers: Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Slides TOPLHCWG_Introduction_20.05.15.pdf

09:15 → 13:35 Preparations for Run2

09:15 Developments in the PDF4LHC recommendations

Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)

Slides

• deroeck_toppdf_v4.pdf
• deroeck_toppdf_v4.pdf
• deroeck_toppdf_v4.pptx

09:45 Introduction particle-level based measurements in Top physics

Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

Slides FiducialMeasurementsTopLHC.pdf

10:00 ATLAS and CMS proposal on particle objects, fiducial and pseudo-top definitions for Run2

Speaker: Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))

10:30 Feedback from SM@LHC workshop on particle object definitions

Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

Slides FeedbackFromSMatLHCmeeting.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 ATLAS Monte Carlo plans for Run2

Speaker: Andrea Helen Knue (University of Glasgow (GB))

Slides TopModellingATLAS_LHCWGMeeting_AndreaKnue.pdf

11:45 CMS Monte Carlo plans for Run2

Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))

Slides toplhcwg_efe_yazgan_20_May_2015_final.pdf

12:15 ATLAS Monte Carlo tuning of Pythia 8 in top quark pair events

Speaker: Simone Amoroso (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))

Slides TOPLHCWG-20-05-2015.pdf

12:35 CMS jet reconstruction plans for Run2

Speaker: Philip Coleman Harris (CERN)

Slides PCH_15_05_JMEReview.pdf

13:05 ATLAS jet reconstruction plans for Run2

Speaker: Dimitris Varouchas (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), LPNHE-Paris)

Slides TopLHCjetATLAS.pdf

13:35 → 15:15 Lunch break

15:15 → 17:45 Top quark production

15:15 CMS ttV production update

Speaker: Andrew Brinkerhoff (University of Notre Dame (US))

Slides May_20_ttV_TOP_LHC_WG_v1.pdf

15:45 Theoretical overview on ttV

Speaker: Markus Christian Schulze (CERN)

Slides schulze.pdf

16:15 NNLO calculations for the t-channel cross section

Speaker: Fabrizio Caola (CERN)

Slides TopWG_caola.pdf

16:45 Top production in Heavy Ions collisions

Speaker: Krisztian Krajczar (CERN)

Slides 21.05.15_TOPLHCWG.pdf

Thursday 21 May

09:00 → 09:45 Overview of BSM interpretations from Run1 precision top measurements and Run2 perspectives

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (CERN)

Slides TopBSM.pdf

09:45 → 11:30 Top quark mass

09:45 Summary of the top mass workshop in Frascati

Speaker: Gennaro Corcella (INFN - LNF)

Slides tfras.pdf

10:25 ATLAS Top mass update

Speaker: Giorgio Cortiana (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)

Slides ATLASmtopUpdate_21052015_v1.pdf

10:55 Towards the next LHC and Tevatron top mass combinations

Speaker: Benjamin Stieger (CERN)

Slides 15-05-21-TOPLHCWG-TowardsWorldCombination_v3.pdf

11:30 → 11:45 Concluding remarks