LHC TOP WG meeting

6 Jun 2017, 13:00 → 7 Jun 2017, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

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

Mark Owen (University of Glasgow (GB)), Martijn Mulders (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Periodic open meeting of the LHC TOP Working Group.

Vidyo will be available

Tuesday 6 June

13:00 → 13:15 Introduction

Speakers: Mark Andrew Owen (University of Glasgow (GB)), Martijn Mulders (CERN)

TOPLHCWG_intro_170606_MM.pdf

TOPLHCWG_intro_170606_MM.pptx

13:15 → 13:45 ATLAS single top cross-section measurements in t-channel (8 TeV) and Wt (13 TeV)

Speaker: Ian Brock (University of Bonn (DE))

Brock_SgTop_17-06-06.pdf

13:45 → 14:15 ATLAS Single Top angular measurements

Speaker: James Alfred Mueller (University of Pittsburgh (US))

LHCtopWG-ATLAS-ST.pdf

14:15 → 14:45 Extraction of PDFs from top quark events ATLAS+CMS

Speaker: Oleksandr Zenaiev (DESY)

Zenaiev_LHCtopWG_20170606.pdf

14:45 → 15:00 Top pair production at NNLO QCD with NLO EW corrections

Speaker: Marco Zaro (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

tt_nnlo-nloew_topwg-june2017.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 → 16:00 Top pair production with extra jet at NLO off-shell

Speaker: Mr Manfred Kraus (RWTH Aachen)

MKraus.pdf

16:00 → 16:15 Run 2 MC data comparisons in ATLAS

Speakers: James Howarth (University of Manchester-Unknown-Unknown), James William Howarth (University of Manchester (GB))

JamesHowarth_LHCTopWG_DataMCComparisons_06_06_17.pdf

16:15 → 16:30 Run 2 MC data comparisons in CMS

Speaker: Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

TOPLHCWG2017.pdf

16:30 → 16:45 Towards a comparison and combination of differential distributions ATLAS+CMS

Speaker: Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))

Otto_DiffXsecComb.pdf

16:45 → 17:15 Other Follow-up points from LHC MC Workshop (intro followed by discussion)

Speaker: Efe Yazgan (IHEP)

ATLAS-CMS-MC2017_intro_efe_yazgan.pdf

Wednesday 7 June

09:00 → 09:30 POWHEG studies related to top mass

Speaker: Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

CERN-7-6-2017.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Top mass and hadronization uncertainties

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))

B Hadrons Observables mtop calibration Franceschini.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 TopEFT: report from ATLAS+CMS

Speaker: Kevin Alexander Kroeninger (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

topEFT_june2017.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:25 Constraints on top quark non-standard interactions from Higgs and ttbar production cross sections

Speaker: Dr Daniele Barducci (SISSA)

barducci.pdf

11:25 → 12:15 TopEFT: Status of the proposal for a top EFT parameterization + discussion

Speaker: Gauthier Durieux (DESY)

durieux-topwg-jun2017.pdf

Preliminary working document on "Constraining the SMEFT in the top sector at the LHC"

12:15 → 12:45 Recent LHC Top Mass results and Prospects (ATLAS+CMS)

Speaker: Elvire Bouvier (University of California Riverside (US))

Elvire_170607.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:30 Discussion of top modeling systematics for Run 2 in ATLAS+CMS

Speaker: Andrea Helen Knue (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

TopModellingSystematics_PlansRunII_AndreaKnue.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Overview of ongoing LHCTopWG combinations

Speaker: Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez (CERN)

LHCTopWG_BarbaraAlvarez_June07_2017.pdf

15:00 → 15:15 New Pseudo Top definitions in CMS

Speaker: Markus Seidel (CERN)

CMS-NOTE-2017-004

pseudotopnote_mseidel.pdf