Name: TOP 2006 International Workshop on Top Quark Physics
Start: 2006-01-12T08:45:00+01:00
End: 2006-01-15T12:45:00+01:00
Location: Coimbra, Portugal

TOP 2006 International Workshop on Top Quark Physics

from Thursday, 12 January 2006 (08:45) to Sunday, 15 January 2006 (12:45)

Monday, 9 January 2006
Tuesday, 10 January 2006
Wednesday, 11 January 2006
Thursday, 12 January 2006
08:45 Session 1 - Top Quark Current Theoretical Status
08:45 - 12:55
Contributions

08:45 Welcome

09:00 Physics of Top - C.-P. Yuan

09:55 tW associated production: definition and measurement at the LHC - F. Maltoni

10:20 Pair production of heavy Q=2/3 singlets at LHC - J.A. Saavedra

11:20 Contributions from flavour changing effective operators to the physics ofthe top quark at LHC - P. Ferreira

11:45 Top quark spin correlations in theories with large extra dimensions at the hadron Colliders - K. Smolek

12:10 Matching top-bottom processes in charged Higgs production - J. Alwall
14:15 Session 2 - Top Quark Current Experimental Status
14:15 - 18:50
Contributions

14:15 Current Experimental Status - A. Juste (D0)

15:10 Measurements of Top quark pair production cross section & Search for Resonances - R. Rossin (CDF)

15:35 Measurements of Top quark decay properties - E. Varnes (D0)

16:30 Precision Measurement of Top quark mass in lepton+jets channel - J. Cammin (D0)

16:55 Precision Measurement of Top quark mass in dilepton channel - B. Jayatilaka (CDF)

17:20 Search for single top quark production at the Tevatron - M. Begel (D0)

17:45 Discussion
Friday, 13 January 2006
09:00 Session 3 - Generators, Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Methods
09:00 - 12:40
Contributions

09:00 Experimental Methods - E.Thomson (CDF)

09:55 How to calibrate Jet Energy scale? - K. Hatakeyama (CDF)

10:20 How to estimate b-tag efficiency and false positive rate? - C. Neu (CDF)

11:10 Uses of multivariate analysis methods - Y. Coadou (D0)

11:35 Tools for Top studies in ATLAS - V. Kostyukhin (ATLAS)

12:00 Discussion
13:50 Session 3 - Generators, Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Methods (continuation)
13:50 - 17:20
Contributions

13:50 Spin effects in hadronic top quark pair production - W. Bernreuther

14:45 Event generators for top quark production and decays - S. Slabospitsky

15:20 ttbar Production at ATLAS and ttbar Monte Carlos - B. Kersevan (ATLAS)

15:45 ttbar Production at CMS - R. Chierici (CMS)

16:10 Discussion
Saturday, 14 January 2006
09:00 Session 4 - At the Up-Coming Colliders
09:00 - 13:00
Contributions

09:00 TOP at the LHC - D. Pallin (ATLAS)

09:25 Top Mass measurement at LHC - A.I. Etienvre (ATLAS)

09:50 Kinematic Fit in CMS & the use of Top Quarks for Calibration - J. Heyninck (CMS)

11:00 Single top Production at the LHC - A. Giammanco (CMS)

11:25 Top properties within the SM - B. Resende (ATLAS)

11:50 Top systematics in the H to WW search - M. Zanetti (CMS)

12:15 Top properties beyond the SM - N. Castro (ATLAS)
14:15 Session 4 - At the Up-Coming Colliders (continuation)
14:15 - 19:50
Contributions

14:15 Top as Background for SUSY/BSM searches - S. Paktinat (CMS)

14:40 Search for single top production in ep collisions at HERA - S. Xella (ZEUS/H1)

15:05 Top at Future Colliders - L. Orr

16:30 Top Threshold Physics - A. Hoang

16:55 A theoretical update on t-tbar pair production near threshold - A. Signer

17:20 Current Status of the International Linear Collider - B. Foster

17:45 Discussion
Sunday, 15 January 2006
09:25 Session 5 - Final Remarks
09:25 - 12:40
Contributions

09:25 Bottom quark fragmentation in top quark decay - G. Corcella

09:50 Algebraic approach to solve t t-bar dilepton equations - U. Bassler

11:10 Conference Resume Talk - J. Womersley