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

09:00 Welcome from the authorities of St Malo

Speaker: Jean-Virgile Crance (1er Adjoint au Maire de Saint Malo)

09:10 Welcome from the French institute representative: IN3P3

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

09:20 Welcome from the French institute representative: CEA

Speaker: Georges Vasseur

09:30 Introductory information

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

09:40 Keynote

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

10:35 → 11:05 Break

11:05 → 12:35 Cross sections

11:05 Run 3 object reconstructions in ATLAS

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

11:35 Run 3 object reconstructions in CMS

Speaker: Jieun Choi (Hanyang University (KR))

12:05 Machine learning for top

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

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Cross sections

14:00 Recent measurements of top cross sections at 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

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 Measurement of t-channel production of single top quarks and top antiquarks in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV using the full Run 2 dataset recorded with the ATLAS detector

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

19:20 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))

19:25 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))

19:30 An improved top quark reconstruction with ML in CMS

Speaker: Yao Yao (Purdue University (US))

19:35 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))

19:40 Run 3 flavor-tagging performance and developments in CMS

Speaker: David Kavtaradze (UGent)

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 and 3 lepton channels

Speaker: Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos (RWTH Aachen 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: Encoding off-shell effects in top pair production in direct diffusion networks

Speaker: Mathias Kuschick

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

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

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))

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

Speaker: Daniele Lombardi (Universität Würzburg)

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 The top doesn’t just spin, it also orbits

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: 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))

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))

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

Speaker: Colomba Brancaccio

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

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

10:00 YSF ATLAS: Same-sign top search

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

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