Top2012 provisional timetable

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

Monday, 17 September

1 Welcome and organization

2 Keynote address

3 ATLAS status

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

4 CMS status

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

10:40 Coffee break

5 Object & ID definition & performance at CMS

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

6 Object & ID definition &performance at ATLAS

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

12:30 Lunch

7 V+jets physics (theo)

8 W/Z+jets bkg at Tevatron and LHC

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

9 Instrumental Backgrounds at Tevatron and LHC

16:30 Coffee break

10 Top pair production at hadron colliders (theory)

include status of NNLO calculation, and NLO WWbb

11 Recent Pair production cross‐section results from Tevatron

12 Precision inclusive cross‐section at LHC

13 Inclusive cross‐section from complementary channels at LHC

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 18 September

14 Theory talk on Differential cross-section and tt+jets

15 Differential cross-section at Tevatron & LHC

also tt+jets and tt+Z/W

16 Theory perspective on signal modeling uncertainties

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

10:40 Coffee break

17 Signal modeling systematics at CMS

18 Signal modeling systematics at ATLAS

19 Signal modeling systematics at Tevatron

20 Discussion on signal modeling uncertainties

13:30 Lunch

21 Recent Top mass at Tevatron

22 Top mass measurements at LHC

23 Experimental & Theoretical uncertainties in top mass measurements at Tev and LHC

17:30 Coffee Break

24 Top mass combination techniques & classification of uncertainties and correlations (TeV, LHC)

25 Interpreting top mass measurements (th)

Summer school Q&A part I

20:30 Dinner in Norton Suite

Wednesday, 19 September

26 Theory of SM single top

27 Recent single top measurements at Tevatron

only SM single top

28 Single top measurements at LHC

only SM single top

11:00 Coffee break

29 Theory talk on Top properties inc. charge A/A_FB

30 Recent SM top properties from Tevatron

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

31 SM top properties at LHC

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

13:20 Lunch

14:20 Excursion

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

20:10 Dinner in Norton Suite

Thursday, 20 September

32 Angular Distributions at Tevatron

W helicity, spin correlation, top polarisation, etc.

33 Angular Distributions at LHC

W helicity, spin correlation, top polarisation, etc.

34 AFB measurement at Tevatron

10:50 Coffee break

35 Charge A(FB) measurement at LHC

36 Boosted techniques and measurements at LHC (exp)

include ttbar resonance searches, include theoretical aspects

12:40 Lunch

37 Theory talk on New Physics in Top Production

include the possibility for LHCb to look for top quarks

38 Recent Searches for New Physics in Top at Tevatron

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

39 Searches for New Physics in Top production at LHC

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

16:40 Coffee break

40 Theory talk on New Physics in Top Decay

41 Searches for New Physics in Top decay at LHC

same sign top, top +MET, FCNC in decay

Summer School Q&A part II

20:00 Conference dinner in Barn

Friday, 21 September

42 Top and the Higgs (theo)

include ttH, H+

43 Top and the Higgs (expt)

top as background, ttH measurement, H+

44 Top and SUSY (theo)

45 Top and SUSY (exp)

stop searches, Top as background, etc.

11:00 Coffee break

46 Top physics at future lepton colliders (theo)

47 What I learned from TOP 2012 and prospects (exp)

48 What I learned at TOP2012 and Recommendations from theory with large datasets and 14TeV (theo)

49 Good bye & organization