Name: LHC TOP WG meeting
Start: 2018-05-15T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-05-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

LHC TOP WG meeting

from Tuesday, 15 May 2018 (14:00) to Wednesday, 16 May 2018 (18:00)

Monday, 14 May 2018
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
14:00 Tuesday session
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Welcome & Introduction - Mark Andrew Owen (University of Glasgow (GB)) Martijn Mulders (CERN) Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

14:10 ATLAS highlight - Theodor Christian Herwig (University of Pennsylvania (US))

14:40 CMS Highlight - Otto Heinz Hindrichs (University of Rochester (US))

15:10 Towards an ATLAS/CMS common top MC sample - Kyle James Read Cormier (University of Toronto (CA))

16:00 HL/HE LHC studies - Patrizia Azzi (INFN Padova (IT))

16:30 tZq theory feedback - Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)

17:00 Comparison of ATLAS and CMS t->Zq searches - Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)) Nuno Castro (LIP and University of Minho (PT))

17:30 Comparison of treatment of tt+b(b) background in ATLAS & CMS ttH searches - Karim El Morabit (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Michele Pinamonti (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
09:00 Wednesday session
09:00 - 18:00
Room: 13/2-005
Contributions

09:00 Top cross-section measurement at LHCb - Stephen Farry (University of Liverpool (GB))

09:30 ATLAS highlight - Grigore Tarna (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR) / IFIN-HH Bucharest (RO))

10:00 CMS highlight - Pedro Vieira De Castro Ferreira Da Silva (CERN)

11:00 Fragmentation Uncertainties in Hadronic Observables for Top-quark Mass Measurements - Doojin Kim (CERN)

11:30 NLO-, off-shell- and parton shower effects in top quark mass determinations - Ludovic Michel Scyboz (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik (DE))

12:00 Cutoff dependence of the quark mass parameter in angular ordered parton showers - Andre Hoang (University of Vienna)

14:00 Electroweak corrections for ttbar+jets production - Marek Schoenherr (CERN)

14:30 Study of Top mass observables with generators of increasing accuracy - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

15:00 Extracting alpha_s and mtop from 8 TeV differential distributions - Matthew Lim (Cambridge University)

16:00 Dead cone - Michele Selvaggi (CERN)

16:30 Report on EFT document - Gauthier Durieux (DESY)

17:00 Feedback on EFT document / next steps from ATLAS & CMS - Abideh Jafari (CERN) Alexander Josef Grohsjean (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Johannes Erdmann (TU Dortmund) Nuno Castro (LIP and University of Minho (PT))