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 → 10:30 Introduction

09:00 Welcome for the local authorities

09:10 Welcome from the French institute representatives

09:25 Introductory information

09:35 Keynote

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

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Cross sections

11:00 Run 3 object reconstructions in ATLAS

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

11:30 Run 3 object reconstructions in CMS

12:00 Machine learning for top

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

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Cross sections

14:00 Inclusive top cross sections in CMS

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

14:30 Inclusive top cross sections in ATLAS

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

15:00 Differential top cross section in ATLAS and CMS

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

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

Speaker: Tomas Jezo (WWU ITP)

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:00 Associated top production

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

Speaker: Daniel Stremmer (RWTH Aachen University)

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

Speaker: Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (CERN)

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

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

19:00 → 21:30 Poster session

Tuesday, 24 September

09:00 → 10:30 top-Higgs interplay

09:00 tt+HF (bb/cc) measurements from ATLAS and CMS

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

09:30 Higgs synergies with top in ATLAS and CMS

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

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

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

10:30 → 11:00 Break and group photo

11:00 → 12:30 EFT

11:00 ATLAS EFT results in the top quark sector

Speaker: Dongwon Kim (Stockholm University (SE))

11:30 CMS EFT results in the top quark sector

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

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

Speaker: Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

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

14:00 Four top final states with NLO accuracy in perturbative QCD: 4 lepton channel

Speaker: Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos (Central Michigan University)

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))

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

Speaker: Ken Mimasu

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

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

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:30 top and BSM search

16:30 Precise tests of the axion coupling to tops

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Eugenia Celada

21:00 → 22:30 Q&A session

Wednesday, 25 September

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

09:00 Hadronic Top Quark Polarimetry

Speaker: dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)

09:30 Comparisons of FCNC results from ATLAS and CMS

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

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

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

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Young Scientist Forum

11:00 YSF theory 1

11:15 YSF CMS 1

11:30 YSF ATLAS 1

11:45 YSF theory 2

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 19:00 Excursion

19:30 → 22:30 Conference dinner

Thursday, 26 September

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

09:00 Status of top-quark mass measurement

Speaker: Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))

09:45 Electroweak metastability and Higgs inflation

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

10:15 → 10:45 Break

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

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

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (Rome 3 U.)

11:15 Higgs potential criticality beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Thomas Steingasser (MIT)

11:45 Vacuum Stability in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Tom Steudtner

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Spin and entanglement

14:00 The magic of entangled top quarks

Speaker: Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)

14:30 Full quantum tomography of top quark decays

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

15:00 CMS results on top spin and entanglement

Speaker: Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US))

15:30 ATLAS results on top spin and entanglement

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

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 18:30 Joker talks

16:30 CMS Joker talk 1

17:00 ATLAS Joker talk 1

17:30 ATLAS Joker talk 2

18:00 CMS Joker talk 2

18:20 → 19:20 Outreach talk at the mediathèque

21:00 → 22:30 Q&A session

Friday, 27 September

09:00 → 10:15 Young Scientist Forum

09:00 YSF ATLAS 2

09:15 YSF CMS 2

09:30 YSF theory 3

09:45 YSF CMS 3

10:00 YSF ATLAS 3

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:15 Summaries

10:45 Theory Summary

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

11:30 Experimental Summary

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

12:15 → 12:35 Last words

12:15 Top2025 announcement

12:25 Closing remarks