18th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2025)

from Sunday 21 September 2025 (15:00) to Friday 26 September 2025 (13:10)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Sept 2025
22 Sept 2025
23 Sept 2025
24 Sept 2025
25 Sept 2025
26 Sept 2025
AM
09:30
Introductions + keynote - Roberto Tenchini (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT)) (until 11:00) (6th floor, HIT)
09:30 Welcome message from the President of Hanyang University - Prof. Ki-jeong LEE (Hanyang University)  
09:40 Welcome message from the President of Korean Physical Society - Prof. Jin Hee Yoon (Inha University (KR))  
09:50 Korea CMS TOP activity - Su Yong Choi (Korea University (KR))  
10:05 Introductory information - Tae Jeong Kim (Hanyang University (KR))  
10:15 Keynote presentation - Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES))  
11:00 --- Break ---
11:30
Objects - Abhishek Sharma (University of British Columbia (CA)) (until 13:00)
11:30 Physics objects in ATLAS - Nadezhda Proklova (University of Pennsylvania (US))  
12:00 Physics objects in CMS - Markus Seidel (Riga Technical University (LV))  
12:30 Advanced statistical methods (including unfolding) in ATLAS and CMS - Tomas Dado (CERN)  
09:30
Properties -Prof. Hyunsoo Kim (Sejong University (KR)) (until 11:00)
09:30 Precise predictions for the top-quark decay - Dr Long Chen (Shandong University)  
10:00 Measurement of spin correlation and entanglement in ATLAS and CMS - Fiona Ann Jolly (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
10:30 Measurements other top properties (asymmetries etc) in ATLAS and CMS - Nils Faltermann (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
11:00 --- Break ---
11:30
Top quark mass - Martijn Mulders (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:30 Recent results on top mass from ATLAS and CMS - Mr Changqiao Li (Max Planck Society (DE))  
12:00 Top-quark mass extraction from energy correlators - Ian Moult  
09:30
Young Scientist Forum - Knut Zoch (Harvard University (US)) (until 11:30)
09:30 Search for H->cc and measurement of H->bb via ttH production in CMS - Maarten De Coen (Ghent University (BE))  
09:45 Modelling uncertainties of the ATLAS $bb4\ell$ Monte Carlo sample - Katharina Voss (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
10:00 Towards a NNLO+PS generator for ttH production in POWHEG - Christian Biello (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)  
10:15 Top quark-antiquark pair production reconstruction in dileptonic channel using supervised ML methods in Run II at 13 TeV in CMS - Gino Daniels (Purdue University (US))  
10:30 Measurement of the quadruple-differential angular decay rates of single top quarks produced in ATLAS - Huacheng Cai (CERN)  
10:45 Rare and exclusive few-body decays of the top quark - Van Dung Le (Vietnam National University (VN))  
11:00 Combination of top EFT measurements in CMS - Min Tang (ZJU - Zhejiang University (CN))  
11:15 Measurement of differential t-channel production cross-sections of single top quarks with ATLAS - Maren Stratmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
11:30 --- Break ---
09:30
Theory mini-workshop -Prof. Michal Wiktor Czakon (until 13:00)
09:30 Toponium physics - Overview - Kaoru Hagiwara (KEK)  
10:00 Third-order correction to top-quark pair production near threshold II. Potential contributions - Yuichiro Kiyo (Tohoku University)  
10:30 Updated predictions for toponium production at the LHC - Giovanni Limatola  
11:00 --- Break ---
11:30 Simulating toponium formation signals at the LHC - Benjamin Fuks  
12:00 Can a pseudoscalar with a mass of 365 GeV in two-Higgs-doublet models explain the CMS ttbar excess? - Prof. Jeonghyeon Song (Konkuk University)  
12:30 Impact of Interference Effects on Higgs-boson Searches in the Di-top Final State at the LHC - Romal Kumar  
09:30
Perspectives - Un Ki Yang (Seoul National University (KR)) (until 10:40)
09:30 Quantum information processing and correlations: general perspective with a ttbar example - Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology)  
10:00 The Future Circular Collider: Feasibility Study for a New Research Infrastructure - Matteo Defranchis (CERN)  
10:40 --- Break ---
11:20
Summary and Last words - Antonio Onofre (Universidade do Minho/CFUMUP,LIP) (until 13:00)
11:20 Theory summary - Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Society (DE))  
12:05 Experimental Summary - Wolfgang Wagner (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
12:50 Closing remarks, proceedings instructions - Tae Jeong Kim (Hanyang University (KR))  
PM
18:30
Welcome Reception (until 20:30) (Griffin)
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Cross-section Associate production - Cecilia Gerber (University of Illinois Chicago (US)) (until 16:30)
14:30 ttj production at NNLO in QCD - Heribertus Bayu Hartanto (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Pohang, South Korea)  
15:00 Inclusive top pair and single top cross sections in ATLAS and CMS - Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN)  
15:30 Differential top cross sections at ATLAS and CMS - Johannes Hessler (Max Planck Society (DE))  
16:00 Complete NLO corrections to tt in l + jet channel with full off-shell effects - Leon Mans (RWTH Aachen University)  
16:30 --- Break ---
17:00
Associated production - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 19:00)
17:00 Top quark pair production + vector boson in CMS - Sergio Sanchez Cruz (CERN)  
17:30 Top quark pair production + vector boson in ATLAS - Stergios Kazakos (Michigan State University (US))  
18:00 ttbb at NLO precision in a variable flavor number scheme - Judith Katzy (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
18:30 Single top associated production in ATLAS and CMS - Javier Del Riego Badas (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))  
19:30
Poster session (until 21:30)
19:30 Simulation of on and off-shell top quark productions with bb4l generator - Jiwon Park (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
19:35 Charged Lepton Flavour Violation in the top quark sector at CMS - Yeonsu Ryou (Hanyang University (KR))  
19:40 Top Reconstruction methods - Ivo Young (University of Glasgow (GB))  
19:45 Measurement of differential t-channel single top (anti)quark production cross-sections at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Lukas Kretschmann (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
19:50 Measurement of the quadruple-differential angular decay rates of single top quarks produced with the ATLAS detector - Raees Ahmad Khan (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
19:55 Single top plus Higgs production at the LHC - Ya-Juan Zheng  
20:00 Two-loop Integrals for leading colour ttW production - Dhimiter Canko (Università di Bologna)  
20:05 Two-loop QCD corrections for radiative top decay process - Colomba Brancaccio (University of Turin)  
20:10 One-loop Amplitudes fo ttbar+jet and ttbar+gamma Productions at the LHC - Mr Souvik Bera  
20:15 The interference effect of ttbar and new physics near ttbar threashold at LHC - JINHEUNG KIM  
20:20 Reconstructing Toponium using Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction - Aman Desai (Adelaide University (AU))  
20:25 Top quark physics at FCC-hh - Louise Beriet  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
EFT - Nedaa Alexandra Asbah (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:00 Electroweak corrections in the SMEFT at high energies - Marco Zaro (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
14:30 EFT results in the top quark sector in ATLAS - Mr Marcos Miralles Lopez (University of Glasgow)  
15:00 EFT results in the top quark sector in CMS - Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US))  
15:30 “Global” EFT combinations in ATLAS and CMS - Maheyer Jamshed Shroff (University of Victoria (CA))  
16:00 group photo  
16:10 --- Break ---
16:40
Searches - Stephanie Beauceron (LPNHE, Paris (France)) (until 18:40)
16:40 Searching for resonances in four top-quark production - Dr Haolin Li (CP3/UCLouvain) Hao-lin Li (Zhongshan University)  
17:10 Searches for new physics in final states involving top quarks in ATLAS and CMS - Jiwon Park (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
17:40 Collider-Flavour Complementarity from the bottom to the top - Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi (Siegen University)  
18:10 Probes of flavor symmetry and violation with top quarks in ATLAS and CMS - Normunds Ralfs Strautnieks (University of Latvia (LV))  
21:00
Q&A (until 22:30)
12:00
Rare process - Kai-Feng Chen (National Taiwan University (TW)) (until 13:00)
12:00 Complete NLO prediction for triple top-quark production - Hesham El Faham (The University of Manchester)  
12:30 Rare top processes in ATLAS and CMS - Diptaparna Biswas (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Excursion (until 18:30)
19:00
Conference dinner (until 21:00) (Tavolo 24)
13:00
TOP2026 announcement (until 13:10)
13:00 Top2026 announcement - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))  
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Top quark pair production at the ttbar threshold - Alexander Grohsjean (Hamburg University (DE)) (until 15:30)
14:30 Latest results on ttbar production threshold in CMS - Reza Goldouzian (University of Notre Dame (US))  
15:00 Latest results on ttbar production threshold in ATLAS - Oliver Majersky (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
15:30
Top+Higgs - Alexander Grohsjean (Hamburg University (DE)) (until 16:30)
15:30 State-of-the-art cross sections for ttH: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections - Anna Kulesza (University of Muenster)  
16:00 Recent results on top associated Higgs production at ATLAS and CMS - Jan van der Linden (Ghent University (BE))  
16:30 --- Break ---
17:00
Joker talks - Seong Youl Choi (Chonbuk National University (KR)) (until 19:00)
17:00 ATLAS Joker talk: A search for electroweak ttW production with EFT interpretations - Josh McFayden (University of Sussex)  
17:30 CMS Joker talk: BSM interpretation of four top quark production in CMS - Maryam Shooshtari (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
18:00 ATLAS Joker talk: Precise measurement of the ttbar production cross-section and lepton differential distributions in emu dilepton events - Dominic Hirschbuehl (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
18:30 CMS Joker talk: First measurement of Top quark pair production in Run3 PbPb collisions at 5.36 TeV with CMS - Andre Govinda Stahl (CERN)  
21:00
Q&A (until 22:30)
22:30 Last night discussion