Minutes
LHC TOP WG meeting

from Thursday 14 November 2019 (09:00) to Friday 15 November 2019 (13:00)
CERN (60/6-015)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019
AM
09:00
Plenary (until 10:20) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
09:00 Introduction - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Martijn Mulders (CERN) Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY) Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University (US))  
09:20 ATLAS highlight: ttbar l+jets differential cross-section measurement - Federica Fabbri (University of Glasgow (GB))  
09:50 CMS Highlight - Agostino De Iorio (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:50
Plenary (until 12:20) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
10:50 ttV as signal: ATLAS and CMS measurements of ttZ, ttW - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))  
11:20 ttV as background in ATLAS and CMS - Elizaveta Shabalina (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))  
11:50 ttZ/ttW theory - Rikkert Frederix (Lund University)  
09:00
Plenary (until 11:00) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
09:00 ATLAS highlight: tt+gamma cross-section - Carmen Diez Pardos (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
09:30 Top mass from boosted jets at 13 TeV - Dennis Schwarz (Hamburg University (DE))  
09:50 ATLAS SMT top mass and uncertainties at 13 TeV with focus on b-fragmentation (ATLAS) and Color Reconnection (CMS) - Umberto De Sanctis (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
10:30 Pythia and Colour Reconnection - Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Plenary (until 13:00) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
11:30 ATLAS Ttbar charge asymmetry measurement and unfolding with FBU - Clement Helsens (CERN)  
11:55 Unfolding comparison ATLAS/CMS - Olaf Behnke (DESY)  
12:15 CMS Highlight: - Marc Dünser (CERN)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary (until 15:30) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
14:00 Differential ttbar dilepton and fiducial definition for dilepton analysis - Richard Hawkings (CERN)  
14:30 Ttbar dilepton theory update - Alexander Mitov (University of Cambridge (GB))  
15:00 Discussion of ttbar dilepton fiducial phase space definitions - Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY) Francesco Spano (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))  
15:05 Exploring (BSM) sources of the dilepton delta phi discrepancy - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Plenary (until 19:00) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
16:00 Top mass theory including follow-ups from previous meeting and from Top2019 - Paolo Nason (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
16:30 Running top mass - S. Moch (UHH)  
17:00 EFT theory: SMEFTsim - Ilaria Brivio (University of Heidelberg)  
17:30 A global search for new physics in the top sector - Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)  
17:55 Overview of ongoing ATLAS+CMS combinations - Mohammad Kareem (York University (CA))  
19:00 --- Dinner at La Meyrinoise ---