17th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2024)

22 Sept 2024, 17:00 → 27 Sept 2024, 14:00 Europe/Paris

Palais des congrès, Le Grand Large (Saint-Malo, Brittany, France)

Welcome to the 17th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2024)

The 17th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2024) will be held in person, from September 22 to 27, 2024, in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France.

TOP2024 brings together experimentalists and theorists to present and discuss the latest developments in top-quark physics. Young scientists are especially encouraged to participate. 

Sunday 22 September

19:00 → 20:30 Welcome drink

Monday 23 September

09:00 → 10:35 Introduction

Chair: Roberto Tenchini

09:00 Welcome from the authorities of St Malo

Speaker: Florence Abadie (Adjointe au maire)

09:10 Welcome from the French institute representative: CEA

Speaker: Georges Vasseur

welcome-cea-top2024.pdf

09:20 Welcome from the French institute representative: IN3P3

Speaker: Jeremy Andrea (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Presentation_CNRS_IN2P3_PH_2024.pdf

09:30 Introductory information

Speaker: Frederic Deliot (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

Top2024-welcome-2.pdf

09:40 Keynote

Speaker: Geraldine Servant (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

1-Servant-TOP2024.pdf

10:35 → 11:05 Break

11:05 → 12:35 Cross sections

Chair: Wolfgang Wagner

11:05 Run 3 object reconstructions in ATLAS

Speaker: Geoffrey Gilles (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

Gilles_Top2024.pdf

11:35 Run 3 object reconstructions in CMS

Speaker: Jieun Choi (Hanyang University (KR))

CMS_objects_Run3_TOP2024.pdf

12:05 Machine learning for top

Speaker: Matthias Komm (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

ml4tops_mkomm.pdf

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Cross sections

Chair: Cecilia Gerber

14:00 Recent measurements of top cross sections at CMS

Speaker: Javier Del Riego Badas (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

Del_riego_TOP2024.pdf

14:30 Inclusive top cross sections in ATLAS

Speaker: Charlie Chen (University of Victoria (CA))

Chen_TOP2024_Inclusive_XSec_20092024.pdf

15:00 Differential top cross section in ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Olaf Behnke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

obehnke240922.pdf

15:30 Resonance-aware NLOPS matching for off-shell tt+tW production with semileptonic decays

Speaker: Tomas Jezo (WWU ITP)

TJezo.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:00 Associated top production

Chair: Cecilia Gerber

16:30 Complete NLO corrections to top-quark pair production with isolated photons

Speaker: Daniel Stremmer (RWTH Aachen University)

stremmer_top24.pdf

17:00 Photon production in top quark events at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (CERN)

TOP 2024 top_photon.pdf

17:30 Top quark production in association with vector bosons at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Jan van der Linden (Ghent University (BE))

TOP2024-t+V-JvdL-final.pdf

19:00 → 21:30 Poster session

19:00 Application of Machine Learning Top and W Jet Tagging to Hadronic Four-Top Final States

Speaker: Petr Baron (Palacky University (CZ))

19:05 CP-sensitive simplified template cross-sections for ttH

Speaker: Alberto Carnelli (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

19:10 ALP-ine quests at the LHC: hunting axion-like particles via peaks and dips in top-antitop-quark production

Speaker: Laurids Jeppe (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

19:15 Measurements of inclusive and differential cross-sections of ttgamma production in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Speakers: Carmen Diez (Centro de Investigaciones Energetic as Medioambientales y Tecnol), Carmen Diez Pardos (Universitaet Siegen (DE))

19:20 Search for flavour-changing neutral current couplings between the top quark and the Higgs boson in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Shayma Wahdan (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

swahdan_Top2024_poster

19:25 An improved top quark reconstruction with ML in CMS

Speaker: Yao Yao (Purdue University (US))

TOP2024_poster_v2.pdf

19:30 First simultaneous measurement of single and pair production of top quarks in association with a Z boson in CMS

Speaker: Konstantin Sharko (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

19:35 Run 3 flavor-tagging performance and developments in CMS

Speaker: David Kavtaradze (UGent)

Tuesday 24 September

09:00 → 10:30 top-Higgs interplay

Chair: Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah

09:00 tt+bb measurements from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Egor Antipov (Stony Brook University (US))

tt_bb_measurements_from_ATLAS_and_CMS.pdf

09:30 Higgs synergies with top in ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Lorenzo Varriale (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

TOP2024-ttH-tH_Lorenzo-Varriale.pdf

10:00 Five-flavour scheme predictions for ttbb at next-to-leading order accuracy

Speaker: Tetiana Moskalets (Southern Methodist University (US))

ttbb_Moskalets.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 EFT

Chair: Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah

11:00 ATLAS EFT results in the top quark sector

Speaker: Dongwon Kim (Stockholm University (SE))

ATLAS_EFT_Top2024_StMalo.pdf

11:30 CMS EFT results in the top quark sector

Speaker: Niels Van Den Bossche (Ghent University (BE))

TOP24_NVDB_EFT.pdf

12:00 Indirect constraints on top quark operators from a global SMEFT analysis

Speaker: Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez

toprodriguez.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Searches with tops in decay

Chair: Alexander Grohsjean

14:00 Four top final states with NLO accuracy in perturbative QCD: 4 and 3 lepton channels

Speaker: Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos (RWTH Aachen University)

dimitrak_top2024.pdf

14:30 Measurement and searches of four-top quark production with the ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Quake Qin (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

2024_09_22_TOP2024_v3.pdf

15:00 Top-philic ALP phenomenology at the LHC: the elusive mass-window

Speaker: Ken Mimasu

Mimasu_TOP2024_animations.pdf

Mimasu_TOP2024_no_animations.pdf

15:30 Searches for scalar particles in top quark topologies in ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Eleanor Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

TOP24_EJones.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break and group photo

16:30 → 18:30 top and BSM search

Chair: Alexander Grohsjean

16:30 Precise tests of the axion coupling to tops

Speaker: Anh Vu Phan ((1) Radboud University, (2) Nikhef)

Top-of-the-ALPs.pdf

17:00 Searches for top associated DM production at the LHC

Speaker: Dominic William Stafford (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

DWS_top+DM_top_2024.pdf

17:30 Quantum detection of new physics in top-quark pair production at the LHC

Speaker: Eleni Vryonidou (University of Manchester (GB))

Vryonidou_top.pdf

18:00 Mapping the SMEFT at High-Energy Colliders: from LEP and the (HL-)LHC to the FCC-ee

Speaker: Eugenia Celada

Celada_smefit.pdf

21:00 → 22:30 Q&A session

Top2024-QandA.pdf

Wednesday 25 September

09:00 → 10:30 FCNC and lepton flavor violation

Chair: Enrique Palencia Cortezon

09:00 Hadronic Top Quark Polarimetry

Speaker: dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)

Dorival_Saint-Malo_2024.pdf

09:30 Comparisons of FCNC results from ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Jeremy Andrea (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

TopFCNC_jandrea_final.pdf

10:00 Probes of flavor symmetry and violation with Top quarks in ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Miriam Watson (University of Birmingham (GB))

TOP2024_Watson_final.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Young Scientist Forum

Chair: Enrique Palencia Cortezon

11:00 YSF theory: Encoding off-shell effects in top pair production in direct diffusion networks

Speaker: Mathias Kuschick

Kuschick.pdf

11:15 YSF CMS: Inclusive and differential ttW cross section measurement

Speaker: David Marcus E Marckx (Ghent University (BE))

TOP24-ttW_YSF.pdf

11:30 YSF ATLAS: Constraint on the Higgs Boson Width from Higgs Boson and Four-Top-Quark Productions

Speaker: Shuo Han (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Higgs width Top2024-3.pdf

11:45 YSF theory: Complete NLO corrections to off-shell ttZ production at the LHC

Speaker: Daniele Lombardi (Universität Würzburg)

DL_Top2024.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 19:00 Excursion

13:00 Information

Top2024-excursion.pdf

20:00 → 22:30 Conference dinner

Thursday 26 September

09:00 → 10:15 Theory mini workshop: Top quark mass and electroweak vacuum stability

Chair: Malgorzata Worek

09:00 Status of top-quark mass measurement

Speaker: Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))

top_mass_review.pdf

09:45 Electroweak metastability and Higgs inflation

Speaker: Isabella Masina (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

Masina-TOP24-1.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:15 Theory mini workshop: Top quark mass and electroweak vacuum stability

Chair: Malgorzata Worek

10:45 The collider landscape: which collider for establishing the SM instability ?

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (Rome 3 U.)

Collider Landscape.pdf

11:15 Higgs potential criticality beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Thomas Steingasser (MIT)

SlidesTop2024.pdf

11:45 Vacuum Stability in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Tom Steudtner

Steudtner.pdf

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 13:50 mW mass measurement from CMS (zoom)

Speaker: David Walter (CERN)

mW_TOP_david_walter.pdf

zoom

14:00 → 16:00 Spin and entanglement

Chair: Andreas Jung

14:00 The magic of entangled top quarks

Speaker: Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)

white_chris.pdf

14:30 The top doesn’t just spin, it also orbits

Speaker: Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES))

LS.pdf

15:00 CMS results on top spin and entanglement

Speaker: Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US))

CMSentanglement_Negro_TOP2024.pdf

15:30 ATLAS results on top spin and entanglement

Speaker: Roman Lysak (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

Lysak_TopSpinQE_TOP2024_v5.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:30 Joker talks

Chair: Andreas Jung

16:30 CMS Joker talk: Search for heavy scalar or pseudoscalar states in tt events at CMS

Speaker: Laurids Jeppe (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

TOP2024_LauridsJeppe_v7.pdf

17:00 ATLAS Joker talk: Search for same-charge top-quark pair production in ATLAS

Speaker: Aaron Van Der Graaf (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

SSTT_Top2024_Talk_vanderGraaf.pdf

17:30 ATLAS Joker talk: Measurements of 𝑡𝑡̅ in association with charm quarks at 13 TeV in ATLAS

Speaker: Knut Zoch (Harvard University (US))

top2024_kzoch_ttcharm.pdf

18:00 CMS Joker talk: ttbar in BSM Phase space with CMS

Speaker: Sandra Consuegra Rodriguez (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

TOP2024_SandraConsuegraRodriguez_260924.pdf

18:30 → 19:30 Outreach talk (in french) at the mediathèque (30 min walk from Palais)

Speaker: Stephanie Beauceron (LPNHE, Paris (France))

A3 Conférence CNRS.pdf

21:00 → 22:30 Q&A session

Top2024-QandA.pdf

Friday 27 September

09:00 → 10:15 Young Scientist Forum

Chair: Antonio Onofre

09:00 YSF ATLAS: Transformer neural networks in the measurement of Higgs boson production in association with a ttbar pair in the H-> bb decay channel

Speaker: Chris Scheulen (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))

Top2024 ttHbb Transformers.pdf

09:15 YSF CMS: Search for displaced top quark in the tracker of the CMS experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Paul Vaucelle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Paul_Vaucelle_Top2024_StMalo_FinalDraft_v3.pdf

09:30 YSF theory: Two-loop QCD corrections to pp->ttj

Speaker: Colomba Brancaccio

TOP24_Brancaccio.pdf

09:45 YSF CMS: Lepton Flavour Violation in the top quark sector at CMS

Speaker: Jiwon Park (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

240903_top2024_JiwonPark_v4.pdf

10:00 YSF ATLAS: Measurement of t-channel production of single top quarks and top antiquarks in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV

Speaker: Maren Stratmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))

Top2024_stratmann.pdf

10:15 → 10:45 Break + lunch box grabbing

10:45 → 12:15 Summaries

Chair: Antonio Onofre

10:45 Theory Summary

Speaker: Prof. Michal Wiktor Czakon (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

talk.pdf

11:30 Experimental Summary

Speaker: Abideh Jafari (Isfahan University of Technology (IR))

Nadjieh_Top2024.pdf

12:15 → 12:35 Last words

12:15 Top2025 announcement

Speaker: Tae Jeong Kim (Hanyang University (KR))

Top2025.pdf

12:25 Closing remarks, proceedings instructions

Top2024-Proceedings.pdf