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

LHC TOP WG meeting

from Tuesday, November 17, 2015 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, November 18, 2015 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 16, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)) Martijn Mulders (CERN) Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

9:15 AM New top quark mass measurements from CMS - Markus Seidel (CERN)

9:45 AM Impact of fragmentation modelling on the jet energy and the top-quark mass measurement using the ATLAS detector - Tancredi Carli (CERN)

10:15 AM ATLAS and CMS pole mass measurements - Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))

11:15 AM 4-loop corrections M_pole vs M_ms - Matthias Steinhauser (KIT)

11:45 AM Theoretical considerations on top mass observables - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

12:15 PM Precision determinations of the top-quark mass - S. Moch (UHH)

12:45 PM Thoughts about precision top mass observables - Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
1:15 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

3:15 PM Update on systematics of mtop extraction from b energy peak - Roberto Franceschini (CERN)

3:45 PM ATLAS and CMS inclusive top quark pair cross section measurements from Run1 - 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 - Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

5:15 PM Sub-leading shower effects on top quark distributions - Peter Richardson (Durham University)

5:45 PM Summary of ttbar differential Top2015 session - Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Single top production and Vtb combination plans - Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))

9:30 AM Ideas for combinations of measurements constraining Wtb vertex - 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 - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

11:00 AM ATLAS and CMS Run1 ttbarV production - Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (McGill University (CA))

11:30 AM ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV charge asymmetry measurements - Thorsten Chwalek (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

12:00 PM Overview of Run2 results - Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))

12:30 PM PDF4LHC recommendations update - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
3:30 PM Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

3:30 PM Monte Carlo comparisons and particle level and pseudo-top definitions - Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

4:00 PM ATLAS and CMS jet calibration and uncertainties - Steven Randolph Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH))

4:30 PM ATLAS and CMS b-tagging calibration and uncertainties - Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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