LHC TOP WG meeting

Name: LHC TOP WG meeting
Start: 2015-11-17T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-11-18T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

17 Nov 2015, 09:00 → 18 Nov 2015, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

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

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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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

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Tuesday 17 November
- Tue 17 Nov
- Wed 18 Nov
- 09:00 → 13:15
  Top Mass
  - 09:00
    
    Introduction 15m
    
    Speakers: Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
    
    TOPLHCWG_intro_151117_MM_v2.pdf
    
    TOPLHCWG_intro_151117_MM_v2.pptx
  - 09:15
    
    New top quark mass measurements from CMS 30m
    
    Speaker: Markus Seidel (CERN)
    
    lhctopwg_mseidel.pdf
  - 09:45
    
    Impact of fragmentation modelling on the jet energy and the top-quark mass measurement using the ATLAS detector 30m
    
    Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)
    
    TopMassPythiaHerwig.pdf
  - 10:15
    
    ATLAS and CMS pole mass measurements 30m
    
    Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))
    
    yazgan_toplhcwg_17_18_Nov_2015_final.pdf
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 11:15
    
    4-loop corrections M_pole vs M_ms 30m
    
    Speaker: Matthias Steinhauser (KIT)
    
    steinhauser.pdf
  - 11:45
    
    Theoretical considerations on top mass observables 30m
    
    Speaker: Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
    
    TOPWG-17-11-2015.pdf
  - 12:15
    
    Precision determinations of the top-quark mass 30m
    
    Speaker: S. Moch (UHH)
    
    cern-top.pdf
  - 12:45
    
    Thoughts about precision top mass observables 30m
    
    Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
    
    topmass.pdf
- 13:15 → 15:15
  
  Lunch break 2h
- 15:15 → 18:15
  Top quark pair production
  - 15:15
    
    Update on systematics of mtop extraction from b energy peak 30m
    
    Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (CERN)
    
    LHCTOPWG Fall 2015.pdf
  - 15:45
    
    ATLAS and CMS inclusive top quark pair cross section measurements from Run1 30m
    
    Speaker: Carmen Diez Pardos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
    
    ttbarInclusive_toplhcwg.pdf
  - 16:15
    
    ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV differential top quark pair cross section measurements 30m
    
    Speaker: Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))
    
    aldayaspanoATLASAndCMSDIffXsec8TeVLHCTopWG18thNov2015.pdf
  - 16:45
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 17:15
    
    Sub-leading shower effects on top quark distributions 30m
    
    Speaker: Peter Richardson (Durham University)
    
    herwig.pdf
  - 17:45
    
    Summary of ttbar differential Top2015 session 30m
    
    Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))
    
    AlexanderMitov-TopLHCWG-Nov_2015.pdf
Wednesday 18 November
- Tue 17 Nov
- Wed 18 Nov
- 09:00 → 12:00
  Probing top quark couplings and charge asymmetry
  - 09:00
    
    Single top production and Vtb combination plans 30m
    
    Speaker: Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))
    
    SingleTopAndVtb_1920112015_v4.pdf
  - 09:30
    
    Ideas for combinations of measurements constraining Wtb vertex 30m
    
    Speaker: Nuno Filipe Castro (LIP, University of Minho and University of Porto (PT))
    
    Wtb_LHCtopWG_18nov2015.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    Determination of the top EW couplings via an EFT approach: theoretical aspects 30m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
    
    TopEW_2015_maltoni.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break 30m
  - 11:00
    
    ATLAS and CMS Run1 ttbarV production 30m
    
    Speaker: Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (McGill University (CA))
    
    ttVRun1_TopLHCWG_1711.pdf
  - 11:30
    
    ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV charge asymmetry measurements 30m
    
    Speaker: Thorsten Chwalek (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
    
    LHCtopWG_Nov2015.pdf
- 12:00 → 13:00
  Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
  - 12:00
    
    Overview of Run2 results 30m
    
    Speaker: Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))
    
    Run2results.pdf
  - 12:30
    
    PDF4LHC recommendations update 30m
    
    Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)
    
    151118.pdf
- 13:00 → 15:30
  
  Lunch break 2h 30m
- 15:30 → 17:00
  Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
  - 15:30
    
    Monte Carlo comparisons and particle level and pseudo-top definitions 30m
    
    Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
    
    MC_TopLHC_Nachman.pdf
  - 16:00
    
    ATLAS and CMS jet calibration and uncertainties 30m
    
    Speaker: Steven Randolph Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH))
    
    StevenSchramm-ATLAS-CMS-JES.pdf
  - 16:30
    
    ATLAS and CMS b-tagging calibration and uncertainties 30m
    
    Speaker: Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
    
    Mijovic_18112015_toplhcwg_btag.pdf
- 17:00 → 17:30
  
  Concluding remarks