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
    • Top Mass
      • 1
        Introduction
        Speakers: Maria Jose Costa (IFIC Valencia (ES)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)
      • 2
        New top quark mass measurements from CMS
        Speaker: Markus Seidel (CERN)
      • 3
        Impact of fragmentation modelling on the jet energy and the top-quark mass measurement using the ATLAS detector
        Speaker: Tancredi Carli (CERN)
      • 4
        ATLAS and CMS pole mass measurements
        Speaker: Efe Yazgan (Ghent University (BE))
      • 10:45 AM
        Coffee break
      • 5
        4-loop corrections M_pole vs M_ms
        Speaker: Matthias Steinhauser (KIT)
      • 6
        Theoretical considerations on top mass observables
        Speaker: Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
      • 7
        Precision determinations of the top-quark mass
        Speaker: S. Moch (UHH)
      • 8
        Thoughts about precision top mass observables
        Speaker: Kirill Melnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
    • 1:15 PM
      Lunch break
    • Top quark pair production
      • 9
        Update on systematics of mtop extraction from b energy peak
        Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (CERN)
      • 10
        ATLAS and CMS inclusive top quark pair cross section measurements from Run1
        Speaker: Carmen Diez Pardos (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
      • 11
        ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV differential top quark pair cross section measurements
        Speaker: Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))
      • 4:45 PM
        Coffee break
      • 12
        Sub-leading shower effects on top quark distributions
        Speaker: Peter Richardson (Durham University)
      • 13
        Summary of ttbar differential Top2015 session
        Speaker: Alexander Dimitrov Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))
    • Probing top quark couplings and charge asymmetry
      • 14
        Single top production and Vtb combination plans
        Speaker: Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Universita e INFN, Napoli (IT))
      • 15
        Ideas for combinations of measurements constraining Wtb vertex
        Speaker: Nuno Filipe Castro (LIP, University of Minho and University of Porto (PT))
      • 16
        Determination of the top EW couplings via an EFT approach: theoretical aspects
        Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
      • 10:30 AM
        Coffee break
      • 17
        ATLAS and CMS Run1 ttbarV production
        Speaker: Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (McGill University (CA))
      • 18
        ATLAS and CMS 8 TeV charge asymmetry measurements
        Speaker: Thorsten Chwalek (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
    • Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
      • 19
        Overview of Run2 results
        Speaker: Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))
      • 20
        PDF4LHC recommendations update
        Speaker: Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • Run 2 results, Monte Carlo and techniques
      • 21
        Monte Carlo comparisons and particle level and pseudo-top definitions
        Speaker: Ben Nachman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      • 22
        ATLAS and CMS jet calibration and uncertainties
        Speaker: Steven Randolph Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH))
      • 23
        ATLAS and CMS b-tagging calibration and uncertainties
        Speaker: Liza Mijovic (Universitaet Bonn (DE))
    • Concluding remarks