ATLAS-UK Top Physics Meeting

Tuesday 17 Jun 2008, 14:00 → 17:00 Europe/London

Nuffield Building Room G7 (Seminar Room 3), University of Birmingham

Juergen Thomas (Birmingham University), Lucio Cerrito (Queen Mary, University of London)

Meeting of ATLAS-UK people working on top quark physics studies. Note all times are UK times. An EVO [http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/] meeting is booked for 13.30-17.30 called "ATLAS-UK Top WG", there is no password. In the default community: "Universe". EVO can be accessed using a PC or using a phone via CERN: +41 22 76 71400. The phone bridge ID is 387569. As a fallback, a CERN Phone Conference is booked under the usual +41 22 76 77000, for "ATLAS UK-Top Working Group" by Lucio Cerrito and Juergen Thomas. But please try EVO.

Travel directions UK-Top_Travel_17Jun08.html

1 Introduction and Report from the Top 2008 Workshop

Speaker: Lucio Cerrito (QMUL)

Slides Top2008_Talk.pdf

2 Top Mass using Soft Muon Tagged Events

Speaker: James Poll (QMUL)

Slides 17-06-08.pdf

3 RHUL analyses and plans

Speaker: Veronique Boisvert (RHUL)

Slides UKTopBoisvert.pdf

4 Top samples validation

Speaker: Joe Foster (Manchester)

Slides TopPhysUKValid080616.pdf

15:00 tea and coffee

5 Truth-matching in semileptonic tt+jets

Speaker: K Wraight (Glasgow)

Slides kwraight.ppt

6 Trigger Items in FDR-1

Speaker: Juergen Thomas (Birmingham)

Slides JPT_TopTrig_28Feb07_17Jun08_v1.pdf

7 Top as Tool: ttbar + Higgs search

Speaker: Chris Collins-Tooth (Glasgow)

Slides cct-tthhbb-top.pdf cct-tthhbb-top.ppt

8 Top as Tool: W+bjets for WH

Speaker: John Morris (QMUL)

Slides JMorris.pdf

9 Experiences with analysis tools and readiness plans

Speaker: All