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

1 Welcome drink

Monday 23 September

Introduction

Chair: Roberto Tenchini

2 Welcome from the authorities of St Malo

Speaker: Florence Abadie (Adjointe au maire)

3 Welcome from the French institute representative: CEA

Speaker: Georges Vasseur

welcome-cea-top2024.pdf

4 Welcome from the French institute representative: IN3P3

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

Presentation_CNRS_IN2P3_PH_2024.pdf

5 Introductory information

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

Top2024-welcome-2.pdf

6 Keynote

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

1-Servant-TOP2024.pdf

10:35 Break

Cross sections

Chair: Wolfgang Wagner

7 Run 3 object reconstructions in ATLAS

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

Gilles_Top2024.pdf

8 Run 3 object reconstructions in CMS

Speaker: Jieun Choi (Hanyang University (KR))

CMS_objects_Run3_TOP2024.pdf

9 Machine learning for top

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

ml4tops_mkomm.pdf

12:35 Lunch

Cross sections

Chair: Cecilia Gerber

10 Recent measurements of top cross sections at CMS

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

Del_riego_TOP2024.pdf

11 Inclusive top cross sections in ATLAS

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

Chen_TOP2024_Inclusive_XSec_20092024.pdf

12 Differential top cross section in ATLAS and CMS

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

obehnke240922.pdf

13 Resonance-aware NLOPS matching for off-shell tt+tW production with semileptonic decays

Speaker: Tomas Jezo (WWU ITP)

TJezo.pdf

16:00 Break

Associated top production

Chair: Cecilia Gerber

14 Complete NLO corrections to top-quark pair production with isolated photons

Speaker: Daniel Stremmer (RWTH Aachen University)

stremmer_top24.pdf

15 Photon production in top quark events at ATLAS and CMS

Speaker: Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (CERN)

TOP 2024 top_photon.pdf

16 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

Poster session

17 Application of Machine Learning Top and W Jet Tagging to Hadronic Four-Top Final States

Speaker: Petr Baron (Palacky University (CZ))

18 CP-sensitive simplified template cross-sections for ttH

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

19 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))

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))

21 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

22 An improved top quark reconstruction with ML in CMS

Speaker: Yao Yao (Purdue University (US))

TOP2024_poster_v2.pdf

23 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))

24 Run 3 flavor-tagging performance and developments in CMS

Speaker: David Kavtaradze (UGent)

Tuesday 24 September

top-Higgs interplay

Chair: Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah

25 tt+bb measurements from ATLAS and CMS

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

tt_bb_measurements_from_ATLAS_and_CMS.pdf

26 Higgs synergies with top in ATLAS and CMS

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

TOP2024-ttH-tH_Lorenzo-Varriale.pdf

27 Five-flavour scheme predictions for ttbb at next-to-leading order accuracy

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

ttbb_Moskalets.pdf

10:30 Break

EFT

Chair: Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah

28 ATLAS EFT results in the top quark sector

Speaker: Dongwon Kim (Stockholm University (SE))

ATLAS_EFT_Top2024_StMalo.pdf

29 CMS EFT results in the top quark sector

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

TOP24_NVDB_EFT.pdf

30 Indirect constraints on top quark operators from a global SMEFT analysis

Speaker: Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez

toprodriguez.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Searches with tops in decay

Chair: Alexander Grohsjean

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

Speaker: Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos (RWTH Aachen University)

dimitrak_top2024.pdf

32 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

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

Speaker: Ken Mimasu

Mimasu_TOP2024_animations.pdf

Mimasu_TOP2024_no_animations.pdf

34 Searches for scalar particles in top quark topologies in ATLAS and CMS

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

TOP24_EJones.pdf

16:00 Break and group photo

top and BSM search

Chair: Alexander Grohsjean

35 Precise tests of the axion coupling to tops

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

Top-of-the-ALPs.pdf

36 Searches for top associated DM production at the LHC

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

DWS_top+DM_top_2024.pdf

37 Quantum detection of new physics in top-quark pair production at the LHC

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

Vryonidou_top.pdf

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

Speaker: Eugenia Celada

Celada_smefit.pdf

Q&A session

Top2024-QandA.pdf

Wednesday 25 September

FCNC and lepton flavor violation

Chair: Enrique Palencia Cortezon

39 Hadronic Top Quark Polarimetry

Speaker: dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)

Dorival_Saint-Malo_2024.pdf

40 Comparisons of FCNC results from ATLAS and CMS

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

TopFCNC_jandrea_final.pdf

41 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 Break

Young Scientist Forum

Chair: Enrique Palencia Cortezon

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

Speaker: Mathias Kuschick

Kuschick.pdf

43 YSF CMS: Inclusive and differential ttW cross section measurement

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

TOP24-ttW_YSF.pdf

44 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

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

Speaker: Daniele Lombardi (Universität Würzburg)

DL_Top2024.pdf

12:00 Lunch

Excursion

46 Information

Top2024-excursion.pdf

20:00 Conference dinner

Thursday 26 September

Theory mini workshop: Top quark mass and electroweak vacuum stability

Chair: Malgorzata Worek

47 Status of top-quark mass measurement

Speaker: Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))

top_mass_review.pdf

48 Electroweak metastability and Higgs inflation

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

Masina-TOP24-1.pdf

10:15 Break

Theory mini workshop: Top quark mass and electroweak vacuum stability

Chair: Malgorzata Worek

49 The collider landscape: which collider for establishing the SM instability ?

Speaker: Roberto Franceschini (Rome 3 U.)

Collider Landscape.pdf

50 Higgs potential criticality beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Thomas Steingasser (MIT)

SlidesTop2024.pdf

51 Vacuum Stability in the Standard Model and Beyond

Speaker: Tom Steudtner

Steudtner.pdf

12:15 Lunch

52 mW mass measurement from CMS (zoom)

Speaker: David Walter (CERN)

mW_TOP_david_walter.pdf

zoom

Spin and entanglement

Chair: Andreas Jung

53 The magic of entangled top quarks

Speaker: Chris White (Queen Mary University of London)

white_chris.pdf

54 The top doesn’t just spin, it also orbits

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

LS.pdf

55 CMS results on top spin and entanglement

Speaker: Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US))

CMSentanglement_Negro_TOP2024.pdf

56 ATLAS results on top spin and entanglement

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

Lysak_TopSpinQE_TOP2024_v5.pdf

16:00 Break

Joker talks

Chair: Andreas Jung

57 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

58 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

59 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

60 CMS Joker talk: ttbar in BSM Phase space with CMS

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

TOP2024_SandraConsuegraRodriguez_260924.pdf

61 Outreach talk (in french) at the mediathèque (30 min walk from Palais)

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

A3 Conférence CNRS.pdf

Q&A session

Top2024-QandA.pdf

Friday 27 September

Young Scientist Forum

Chair: Antonio Onofre

62 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

63 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

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

Speaker: Colomba Brancaccio

TOP24_Brancaccio.pdf

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

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

240903_top2024_JiwonPark_v4.pdf

66 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 Break + lunch box grabbing

Summaries

Chair: Antonio Onofre

67 Theory Summary

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

talk.pdf

68 Experimental Summary

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

Nadjieh_Top2024.pdf

Last words

69 Top2025 announcement

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

Top2025.pdf

70 Closing remarks, proceedings instructions

Top2024-Proceedings.pdf