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
09:25
Introductions + keynote (until 11:00)
09:30 Welcome message from the President of Hanyang University - Prof. Ki-jeong LEE (Hanyang University)  
09:40 Welcome message  
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 (until 13:00)
11:30 Physics objects in ATLAS  
12:00 Physics objects in CMS  
12:30 Advanced statistical methods (including unfolding) in ATLAS and CMS  
09:30
top+Higgs (until 10:30)
09:30 State-of-the-art cross sections for ttH: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections - Anna Kulesza (University of Muenster)  
10:00 Recent results on top associated Higgs production at ATLAS and CMS [CMS]  
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Top quark mass (until 12:30)
11:00 How to Unfold Top Decays - Sofia Palacios Schweitzer (ITP, University Heidelberg)  
11:30 Recent results on top mass from ATLAS and CMS [ATLAS]  
12:00 Top-quark mass extraction from energy correlators - Ian Moult (Yale University)  
09:30
Searches (until 11:00)
11:00 --- Break ---
11:30
Rare process (until 12:30)
11:30 Complete NLO prediction for triple top-quark production - Hesham El Faham (The University of Manchester)  
12:00 Rare top processes in ATLAS and CMS [ATLAS]  
09:30
Theory mini-workshop (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 (until 10:40)
09:30 Quantum observables with top quarks at future lepton colliders - 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 (until 13:10)
11:20 Theory summary - Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Society (DE))  
12:05 Experimental Summary - Wolfgang Wagner (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE))  
12:50 Top2026 announcement  
13:00 Closing remarks, proceedings instructions  
PM
15:00
Public lecture (until 17:00)
18:30
Welcome Reception (until 20:30)
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Cross-section Associate production (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 [CMS]  
15:30 Differential top cross sections at ATLAS and CMS [ATLAS]  
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 (until 19:00)
17:00 Top quark pair production + vector boson in CMS [CMS]  
17:30 Top quark pair production + vector boson in ATLAS [ATLAS]  
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 [CMS]  
20:00
Poster session (until 22:30)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
EFT (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 CMS [CMS]  
15:00 EFT results in the top quark sector in ATLAS [ATLAS]  
15:30 “Global” EFT combinations in ATLAS and CMS [ATLAS]  
16:00 --- Break ---
16:30
Searches (until 18:30)
16:30 Searching for resonances in four top-quark production - Hao-lin Li (Zhongshan University)  
17:00 Searches for new physics in final states involving top quarks in ATLAS and CMS [CMS]  
17:30 Probes of flavor symmetry and violation with top quarks in ATLAS and CMS [CMS]  
18:00 Collider-Flavour Complementarity from the bottom to the top - Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi (Siegen University)  
21:00
Q&A (until 22:30)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Excursion ---
19:00 --- Conference dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Properties (until 16:00)
14:30 Precise predictions for the top-quark decay - Dr Long Chen (Shandong University)  
15:00 Measurement of spin correlation and entanglement in ATLAS and CMS [ATLAS]  
15:30 Measurements other top properties (asymmetries etc) in ATLAS and CMS [CMS]  
16:00 --- Break ---
16:30
ttbar threshold and and Joker talks (until 18:30)
16:30 Latest results on ttbar production threshold [CMS]  
17:00 Latest results on ttbar production threshold [ATLAS]  
17:30 Joker talk 1  
18:00 Joker talk 2  
21:00
Q&A (until 22:30)