LHC TOP WG meeting

from Tuesday 15 May 2018 (14:00) to Wednesday 16 May 2018 (18:00)
CERN (13/2-005)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 May 2018
16 May 2018
AM
09:00
Wednesday session (until 18:00)
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)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
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)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
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)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
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 - Alexander Josef Grohsjean (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Abideh Jafari (CERN) Johannes Erdmann (TU Dortmund) Nuno Castro (LIP and University of Minho (PT))  
PM
14:00
Tuesday session (until 18:00) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
14:00 Welcome & Introduction - Martijn Mulders (CERN) Mark Andrew Owen (University of Glasgow (GB)) 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))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
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 - Dr Michele Pinamonti (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT)) Karim El Morabit (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))