TOP2011

Name: TOP2011
Start: 2011-09-25T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-09-30T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

25 Sept 2011, 17:00 → 30 Sept 2011, 15:30 Europe/Madrid

Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

Description

4th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics

top2011@ifae.es

Sunday 25 September
- Registration Hotel, Sant Feliu de Guixols
  
  Hotel, Sant Feliu de Guixols
- Welcome reception
- Dinner
Monday 26 September
- Breakfast
- Welcome and Status
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Slides
  - 2
    
    Keynote
    
    Speaker: Adrian Signer (IPPP)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    ATLAS status
    
    Speaker: Sasa Fratina (University of Pennsylvania)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    CMS Status
    
    Speaker: Kevin Lannon (University of Notre Dame)
    
    Slides
- Coffee break
- Top production and object ID performance
  - 5
    
    Top pair production at hadron colliders
    
    Speaker: Peter Uwer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
    
    Slides
  - 6
    
    State-of-Art generators for top physics
    
    Speaker: Emanuele Re (IPPP, Durham University)
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    Object ID performance for top (ATLAS)
    
    Speaker: Ford Garberson (Yale University)
    
    Slides
  - 8
    
    Object ID performance for top (CMS)
    
    Speaker: Jason Slaunwhite (University of Notre Dame)
    
    Slides
- Lunch
- Top production: backgrounds
  - 9
    
    V+light jets predictions (NLO and MC)
    
    Speaker: Daniel Maitre (CERN/IPPP Durham)
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    V+heavy-flavor jets predictions (NLO and MC)
    
    Speaker: Rikkert Frederix (University of Zurich)
    
    Slides
  - 11
    
    Comparison of predictions and experimental measurements for V+jets (Tevatron and LHC)
    
    Speaker: Pierluigi Catastini (Harvard University)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Estimation techniques for instrumental backgrounds (Tevatron and LHC)
    
    Speaker: Jörgen Sjölin (Stockholm University)
    
    Slides
- Coffee break
- Top production measurements
  - 13
    
    ttbar cross section measurements (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Pavol Bartos (Comenius University)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    ttbar cross section measurements (LJ/hadronic) LHC
    
    Speaker: Jordi Nadal Serrano (IFAE)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    ttbar cross section measurements (dileptons/other) LHC
    
    Speaker: Joanne Cole (Brunel University)
    
    Slides
- Dinner
Tuesday 27 September
- Breakfast
- New physics in top production (I)
  - 16
    
    Effective field theory for top physics
    
    Speaker: Pyungwon Ko (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Top differential cross section measurements (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Andreas Jung (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
- Coffee break
- New physics in top production (II)
  - 18
    
    New physics in top production
    
    Speaker: Geraldine Servant (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    ttbar resonances (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Veronique Boisvert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    
    Slides
  - 20
    
    ttbar resonances (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Lucia Masetti (Johannes Gutenberg Universität)
    
    Slides
- Lunch
- New physics in top production (III)
  - 21
    
    Exotic heavy quarks
    
    Speaker: Bob Holdom (University of Toronto)
    
    Slides
  - 22
    
    Exotic heavy quark searches (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Un-Ki Yang (University of Manchester)
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    Exotic heavy quark searches (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Erkcan Ozcan (Bogazici University (TR))
    
    Slides
  - 24
    
    Constraints on BSM scenarios from ttbar resonances and HQ searches
    
    Speaker: Cedric Delaunay (CERN)
    
    Slides
- Poster Session & Coffee break
- Boosted tops
  - 25
    
    Boosted objects
    
    Speaker: Michael Spannowsky (University of Durham)
    
    Slides
  - 26
    
    Boosted tops and top tagging
    
    Speaker: Victor Eduardo Bazterra (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    
    Slides
- Dinner
Wednesday 28 September
- Breakfast
- Single top
  - 27
    
    Single top production at hadron colliders
    
    Speaker: Patrick Motylinski (University of Freiburg)
    
    Slides
  - 28
    
    Single top (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois)
    
    Slides
  - 29
    Single top (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Wolfgang Wagner (Bergische Universität)
    
    Slides
    
    TOP_2011_SingleTop_WWagner.pdf
    
    TOP_2011_SingleTop_WWagner.pdf
    
    TOP_2011_SingleTop_WWagner.pptx
- Coffee break
- Top Mass
  - 30
    
    Top mass measurements (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Mr Karolos Potamianos (Purdue University (US))
    
    Slides
  - 31
    
    Top mass measurements (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Michele Gallinaro (LIP)
    
    Slides
  - 32
    
    Comparison of mass extraction techniques (Tevatron and LHC)
    
    Speaker: Elizaveta Shabalina (University of Goettingen)
    
    Slides
- Lunch
- Excursion
- Dinner
Thursday 29 September
- Breakfast
- Spin Correlations
  - 33
    
    Spin correlations
    
    Speaker: Stephen Parke (FNAL)
    
    Slides
  - 34
    
    Spin correlations (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Christian Schwanenberger (Machester University)
    
    Slides
  - 35
    
    Spin correlations (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Alexander Grohsjean (DESY)
    
    Slides
- Coffee break
- Top decay and BSM
  - 36
    
    W polarization and constraints on Wtb vertex (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Cecile Deterre (CEA-Irfu)
    
    Slides
  - 37
    
    W polarization and constraints on Wtb vertex (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Nuno Filipe Castro (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)
    
    Slides
  - 38
    
    Searches for rare/BSM top decays (Tevatron)
    
    Speaker: Daniel Wicke (Bergische Universität)
    
    Slides
  - 39
    
    Searches for rare/BSM top decays (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Allison Renae Mc Carn (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
    
    Slides
- Lunch
- AFB/Charge asymmetry
  - 40
    
    AFB/Charge asymmetry at Tevatron and LHC - theory
    
    Speaker: Ben Pecjak (Mainz University)
    
    Slides
  - 41
    
    AFB at Tevatron
    
    Speaker: Amnon Harel (University of Rochester)
    
    Slides
  - 42
    
    Charge asymmetry at LHC
    
    Speaker: Thomas Peiffer (Inst. für Exp. Kernphysik)
    
    Slides
- Coffee break
- BSM (I)
  - 43
    
    Overview of BSM scenarios consistent with Tevatron AFB
    
    Speaker: Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra (University of Granada)
    
    Slides
  - 44
    
    Searches for SS tops (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Freya Blekman (Inter-University Institute for High Energies (BE))
    
    Slides
  - 45
    
    Prospects for BSM model descrimination
    
    Speaker: Lian-Tao Wang (University of Chicago)
    
    Slides
- Conference Dinner
Friday 30 September
- Breakfast
- BSM (II)
  - 46
    
    Prospects for ttH (LHC)
    
    Speaker: Sarah Allwood-Spiers (University of Glasgow)
    
    Slides
  - 47
    
    CP violation in top
    
    Speaker: Jure Zupan (U. of Cincinnati/U. of Ljubljana)
    
    Slides
- Coffee break
- Closing
  - 48
    
    Tevatron legacy
    
    Speaker: Yvonne Peters
    
    Slides
  - 49
    
    Prospects at LHC with 10/fb
    
    Speaker: Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain)
    
    Slides
  - 50
    
    Closing
    
    Speaker: Roberto Tenchini (INFN)
    
    Slides
- Lunch and End of Workshop

TOP2011

Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

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