LHC TOP WG meeting

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

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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

Periodic open meeting of the LHC TOP Working Group.

Vidyo will be available

Participants
    • 9:00 AM 1:15 PM
      Top Mass
      • 9:00 AM
        Introduction 15m
        Speakers: Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
      • 9:15 AM
        New top quark mass measurements from CMS 30m
        Speaker: Markus Seidel (CERN)
      • 9:45 AM
        Impact of fragmentation modelling on the jet energy and the top-quark mass measurement using the ATLAS detector 30m
        Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)
      • 10:15 AM
        ATLAS and CMS pole mass measurements 30m
        Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))
      • 10:45 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:15 AM
        4-loop corrections M_pole vs M_ms 30m
        Speaker: Matthias Steinhauser (KIT)
      • 11:45 AM
        Theoretical considerations on top mass observables 30m
        Speaker: Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
      • 12:15 PM
        Precision determinations of the top-quark mass 30m
        Speaker: S. Moch (UHH)
      • 12:45 PM
        Thoughts about precision top mass observables 30m
        Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
    • 1:15 PM 3:15 PM
      Lunch break 2h
    • 3:15 PM 6:15 PM
      Top quark pair production
      • 3:15 PM
        Update on systematics of mtop extraction from b energy peak 30m
        Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (CERN)
      • 3:45 PM
        ATLAS and CMS inclusive top quark pair cross section measurements from Run1 30m
        Speaker: Carmen Diez Pardos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
      • 4:15 PM
        ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV differential top quark pair cross section measurements 30m
        Speaker: Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))
      • 4:45 PM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 5:15 PM
        Sub-leading shower effects on top quark distributions 30m
        Speaker: Peter Richardson (Durham University)
      • 5:45 PM
        Summary of ttbar differential Top2015 session 30m
        Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))
    • 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
      Probing top quark couplings and charge asymmetry
      • 9:00 AM
        Single top production and Vtb combination plans 30m
        Speaker: Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))
      • 9:30 AM
        Ideas for combinations of measurements constraining Wtb vertex 30m
        Speaker: Nuno Filipe Castro (LIP, University of Minho and University of Porto (PT))
      • 10:00 AM
        Determination of the top EW couplings via an EFT approach: theoretical aspects 30m
        Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break 30m
      • 11:00 AM
        ATLAS and CMS Run1 ttbarV production 30m
        Speaker: Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (McGill University (CA))
      • 11:30 AM
        ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV charge asymmetry measurements 30m
        Speaker: Thorsten Chwalek (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
    • 12:00 PM 1:00 PM
      Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
      • 12:00 PM
        Overview of Run2 results 30m
        Speaker: Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))
      • 12:30 PM
        PDF4LHC recommendations update 30m
        Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)
    • 1:00 PM 3:30 PM
      Lunch break 2h 30m
    • 3:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
      • 3:30 PM
        Monte Carlo comparisons and particle level and pseudo-top definitions 30m
        Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      • 4:00 PM
        ATLAS and CMS jet calibration and uncertainties 30m
        Speaker: Steven Randolph Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH))
      • 4:30 PM
        ATLAS and CMS b-tagging calibration and uncertainties 30m
        Speaker: Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      Concluding remarks