LHC TOP WG meeting

from Monday 23 November 2020 (14:00) to Tuesday 24 November 2020 (18:40)
CERN (Zoom mtg only)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Nov 2020
24 Nov 2020
AM
PM
14:00 Introduction - Reinhard Schwienhorst (Michigan State University (US)) Maria Aldaya Martin (DESY) Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)  
14:15 ATLAS highlight: measuring b-fragmentation in ttbar events with ATLAS - Chris Pollard (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
14:45 CMS Highlight: Search for CP violating anomalous top quark coupling in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV - Seungkyu Ha (Yonsei University (KR))  
15:15 tW production in ttbar phase space - Tomas Jezo (University of Zurich)  
15:50 Simultaneous extraction of mt and alphaS from LHC tt differential distributions - Matthew Lim  
16:10 --- Coffee Break ---
16:40 Common MC update - Michael James Fenton (University of California Irvine (US)) Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US))  
17:00 tt+quarks production in ATLAS and CMS - Seth Moortgat (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))  
17:30 Input from LHC Higgs XS WG on tt+quarks needs - Andrea Helen Knue (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))  
18:00 tt+Z comparison ATLAS and CMS - Fabio Cardillo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
14:00 LHC EFT workshop summary and next steps for EFT interpretations - Eleni Vryonidou  
14:30 PDF fits including top and learning from PDF fits for EFT fit - C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University) C.-P. Yuan (Michigan State University)  
15:00 What can top EFT fits learn from Higgs EFT fits - Adinda De Wit (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))  
15:30 Discussion on how to include EFT dependence in unfolding/background - Laura Barranco Navarro (Stockholm University (SE)) Kirill Skovpen (Ghent University (BE)) Peter Berta (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Elastic production of top quarks - James William Howarth (University of Glasgow (GB))  
16:50 Exclusive top-quark production - Marek Tasevsky (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
17:15 Higher-level comparison of multiple distributions for MC generators - Dr Marino Romano (INFN Bologna (IT))  
17:45 Modeling of uncertainties in Sherpa - Frank Siegert (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))  
18:15 MiNNLOPS and prospects for top - Javier Mazzitelli (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR)) Javier Mazzitelli