Top2012 provisional timetable

16 Sept 2012, 09:00 → 21 Sept 2012, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Monday, 17 September

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome and organization

09:10 → 09:40 Keynote address

09:40 → 10:10 ATLAS status

Top specific, Impact of pileup, Top Triggers, Luminosity, 14TeV running, etc.

10:10 → 10:40 CMS status

Top specific, Impact of pileup, Top Triggers, Luminosity, 14TeV running, etc.

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 11:50 Object & ID definition & performance at CMS

include evolution from 7TeV to 8TeV to 14TeV, Impact of pileup

11:50 → 12:30 Object & ID definition &performance at ATLAS

include evolution from 7TeV to 8TeV to 14TeV, Impact of pileup

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:10 V+jets physics (theo)

15:10 → 15:50 W/Z+jets bkg at Tevatron and LHC

include W/Z+jets MC validation and W/Z+jets exp results

15:50 → 16:30 Instrumental Backgrounds at Tevatron and LHC

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:40 Top pair production at hadron colliders (theory)

include status of NNLO calculation, and NLO WWbb

17:40 → 18:10 Recent Pair production cross‐section results from Tevatron

18:10 → 18:50 Precision inclusive cross‐section at LHC

18:50 → 19:30 Inclusive cross‐section from complementary channels at LHC

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 18 September

09:00 → 09:30 Theory talk on Differential cross-section and tt+jets

09:30 → 10:10 Differential cross-section at Tevatron & LHC

also tt+jets and tt+Z/W

10:10 → 10:40 Theory perspective on signal modeling uncertainties

brief overview of SM generators, address ways to quantify systematic uncertainties

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 11:40 Signal modeling systematics at CMS

11:40 → 12:10 Signal modeling systematics at ATLAS

12:10 → 12:40 Signal modeling systematics at Tevatron

12:40 → 13:30 Discussion on signal modeling uncertainties

13:30 → 15:30 Lunch

15:30 → 16:10 Recent Top mass at Tevatron

16:10 → 16:50 Top mass measurements at LHC

16:50 → 17:30 Experimental & Theoretical uncertainties in top mass measurements at Tev and LHC

17:30 → 18:00 Coffee Break

18:00 → 18:30 Top mass combination techniques & classification of uncertainties and correlations (TeV, LHC)

18:30 → 19:10 Interpreting top mass measurements (th)

19:20 → 20:20 Summer school Q&A part I

20:30 → 22:30 Dinner in Norton Suite

Wednesday, 19 September

09:00 → 09:40 Theory of SM single top

09:40 → 10:20 Recent single top measurements at Tevatron

only SM single top

10:20 → 11:00 Single top measurements at LHC

only SM single top

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:10 Theory talk on Top properties inc. charge A/A_FB

12:10 → 12:40 Recent SM top properties from Tevatron

- ttgamma, top charge, width, branching ratios, color flow

12:40 → 13:20 SM top properties at LHC

- ttgamma, top charge, width, branching ratios, color flow

13:20 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 20:10 Excursion

Winchester cathedral guided tour
Winchester city visit
Drink reception and Poster session at Winchester Great Hall

20:10 → 22:10 Dinner in Norton Suite

Thursday, 20 September

09:00 → 09:30 Angular Distributions at Tevatron

W helicity, spin correlation, top polarisation, etc.

09:30 → 10:10 Angular Distributions at LHC

W helicity, spin correlation, top polarisation, etc.

10:10 → 10:50 AFB measurement at Tevatron

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:00 Charge A(FB) measurement at LHC

12:00 → 12:40 Boosted techniques and measurements at LHC (exp)

include ttbar resonance searches, include theoretical aspects

12:40 → 14:40 Lunch

14:40 → 15:20 Theory talk on New Physics in Top Production

include the possibility for LHCb to look for top quarks

15:20 → 16:00 Recent Searches for New Physics in Top at Tevatron

resonance searches, t' search, b' search, FCNC (production & decay), top+MET, single top NP, etc.

16:00 → 16:40 Searches for New Physics in Top production at LHC

down-type fourth generation, QQ->Wq, W', FCNC (production)

16:40 → 17:10 Coffee break

17:10 → 17:50 Theory talk on New Physics in Top Decay

17:50 → 18:30 Searches for New Physics in Top decay at LHC

same sign top, top +MET, FCNC in decay

18:45 → 19:45 Summer School Q&A part II

20:00 → 22:00 Conference dinner in Barn

Friday, 21 September

09:00 → 09:30 Top and the Higgs (theo)

include ttH, H+

09:30 → 10:00 Top and the Higgs (expt)

top as background, ttH measurement, H+

10:00 → 10:30 Top and SUSY (theo)

10:30 → 11:00 Top and SUSY (exp)

stop searches, Top as background, etc.

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Top physics at future lepton colliders (theo)

12:00 → 12:30 What I learned from TOP 2012 and prospects (exp)

12:30 → 13:00 What I learned at TOP2012 and Recommendations from theory with large datasets and 14TeV (theo)

13:00 → 13:10 Good bye & organization