ATLAS-UK Top Physics Meeting

Wednesday 17 Sept 2008, 14:00 → 17:00 Europe/London

Room 410, Physics Department, Queen Mary University of London

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. The meeting is in room 410, 4th floor, of the Department of Physics; for information on how to reach QMUL and the Dept. visit: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/contacts.html An EVO [http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/] meeting will be 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 as: +41 22 76 71400. The meeting ID is 511535.

1 Introduction/Announcements

Speaker: Lucio Cerrito (QMUL)

2 Very preliminary start on the cross-section measurement using soft muon tagging.

Speaker: Veronique Boisvert (RHUL)

Slides UKTopBoisvert_170908.pdf

3 Update on Top Mass using Soft Muon Tagged Events

Speaker: James Poll (QMUL)

Slides 17-09-08.pdf

4 Single Top Common Preselection

Speaker: Chris Curtis (Birmingham)

Slides uk_top_physics_17092008.pdf

14:55 break

5 Generator study of 10 TeV Alpgen ttbar+jets

Speaker: Sarah Allwood-Spiers (Glasgow)

Slides AllwoodUKTop170908.pdf AllwoodUKTop170908.ppt

6 Study of hadronic Tau's in ttbar events

Speaker: Neil James Collins (Birmingham)

Slides Top_Tau_Update.pdf

7 Trigger Items

Speaker: Juergen Thomas (Birmingham)

Slides JPT_TopTrig_17Sep08_v1.pdf

8 AOD-based algorithm for ttH

Speaker: Simon Dean (UCL)

Slides TopUK_17092008.ppt

9 Discussion on analysis tools and readiness plans

Speaker: All