Hi Kaustubh,

            I am sorry to contribute only at the eleventh hour,
but did anyone look at the role of single top productiion +Z
as a background for non-standard top decays? That is t-channel 
single top+Z  gives a final state with a top+Z+jet, exactly as 
the signal process of ttbar production with non-standard tbar decay.

            We have a a paper on this, arXiv 1302.3856. its exact importance
as a background depends on the cuts used, but if a b quark is demanded
in the final state, it could be the largest background, and to the best of my 
knowledge it is not taken into account in the experimental results or studies. 

The corollary of this is that this production mode should be observed in
the current data.
                                            Best regards,

                                                  Keith

On Jun 30, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Kaustubh Sadanand Agashe wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> Here's the actual summary/plenary talk at Seattle today:
> 
> https://indico.fnal.gov/getFile.py/access?contribId=3&sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=6969
> 
> ...which is basically an extended version of the bullets that we sent you earlier + incorporating feedback 
> from many of you (thank you!)...
> 
> ...of course, more details will be in the parallel session talks...so, stay tuned!
> 
> Kaustubh
> ________________________________________
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We attach "bulleted conclusions" that I will announce and substantiate in the talk on this Sunday morning in  Seattle.
> Please let us know ASAP if we missed some important conclusion (or if some bullet need to be to be modified).
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Kaustubh (on behalf of conveners)
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Kaustubh Sadanand Agashe
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 2:32 PM
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> 
> P.S. For the remote participants, let me mention that the vidyo auto-join links have now been pasted into the agenda (just click on a session
> to pop-up this information)...
> 
> (We should mention that vidyo might not be perfect during this meeting...so, please be patient...thank you very much!)
> 
> Kaustubh
> ________________________________________
> From: Kaustubh Sadanand Agashe
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:57 PM
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> Subject: agenda for Seattle meeting
> 
> Hi top group participants,
> 
> The agenda for top group sessions is now up: see
> 
> https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=6969#20130630
> 
> The plan is to have
> 
> (i) contributed talks during lunch on Mon. and Tues...
> 
> (ii) a 2 hour session devoted to each of the 6 working groups (except for rare decays which is part of couplings)
> in the morning/afternoon on Sun.-Tues., which will begin with a presentation (by contacts for that working group)
> of summary of Snowmass studiies and followed by detailed discussion (of conclusions so far, what remains to be done etc.)...
> 
> ** Overall, there is plenty of time for discussion...so, please give us your input...
> 
> We hope to see all of you at Seattle (in person or remotely)!
> 
> Kaustubh (on behalf of top group conveners)
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Kaustubh Sadanand Agashe
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 5:55 PM
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> Subject: Registration for remote participants at Seattle meeting
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For remote participants at Seattle meeting (June 30-July 3), please use the registration associated with the Indico site:
> 
> https://sharepoint.washington.edu/phys/research/snowmass2013/Pages/Registration.aspx
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kaustubh (for the top conveners)
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