TOP 2006 International Workshop on Top Quark Physics

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Jan 2006
13 Jan 2006
14 Jan 2006
15 Jan 2006
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08:45
Session 1 - Top Quark Current Theoretical Status (until 12:55)
08:45 Welcome  
09:00 Physics of Top - C.-P. Yuan  
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09:55 tW associated production: definition and measurement at the LHC - F. Maltoni  
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10:20 Pair production of heavy Q=2/3 singlets at LHC - J.A. Saavedra  
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10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 Contributions from flavour changing effective operators to the physics ofthe top quark at LHC - P. Ferreira  
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11:45 Top quark spin correlations in theories with large extra dimensions at the hadron Colliders - K. Smolek  
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12:10 Matching top-bottom processes in charged Higgs production - J. Alwall  
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12:35 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Session 3 - Generators, Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Methods (until 12:40)
09:00 Experimental Methods - E.Thomson (CDF)  
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09:55 How to calibrate Jet Energy scale? - K. Hatakeyama (CDF)  
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10:20 How to estimate b-tag efficiency and false positive rate? - C. Neu (CDF)  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10 Uses of multivariate analysis methods - Y. Coadou (D0)  
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11:35 Tools for Top studies in ATLAS - V. Kostyukhin (ATLAS)  
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12:00 Discussion  
12:20 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Session 4 - At the Up-Coming Colliders (until 13:00)
09:00 TOP at the LHC - D. Pallin (ATLAS)  
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09:25 Top Mass measurement at LHC - A.I. Etienvre (ATLAS)  
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09:50 Kinematic Fit in CMS & the use of Top Quarks for Calibration - J. Heyninck (CMS)  
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10:15 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Single top Production at the LHC - A. Giammanco (CMS)  
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11:25 Top properties within the SM - B. Resende (ATLAS)  
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11:50 Top systematics in the H to WW search - M. Zanetti (CMS)  
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12:15 Top properties beyond the SM - N. Castro (ATLAS)  
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12:40 --- Lunch ---
09:25
Session 5 - Final Remarks (until 12:40)
09:25 Bottom quark fragmentation in top quark decay - G. Corcella  
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09:50 Algebraic approach to solve t t-bar dilepton equations - U. Bassler  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:10 Conference Resume Talk - J. Womersley  
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12:05 --- Closing of the Workshop ---
12:20 --- Lunch ---
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14:15
Session 2 - Top Quark Current Experimental Status (until 18:50)
14:15 Current Experimental Status - A. Juste (D0)  
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15:10 Measurements of Top quark pair production cross section & Search for Resonances - R. Rossin (CDF)  
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15:35 Measurements of Top quark decay properties - E. Varnes (D0)  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Precision Measurement of Top quark mass in lepton+jets channel - J. Cammin (D0)  
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16:55 Precision Measurement of Top quark mass in dilepton channel - B. Jayatilaka (CDF)  
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17:20 Search for single top quark production at the Tevatron - M. Begel (D0)  
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17:45 Discussion  
18:30 --- Welcome Cocktail ---
13:50
Session 3 - Generators, Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Methods (continuation) (until 17:20)
13:50 Spin effects in hadronic top quark pair production - W. Bernreuther  
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14:45 Event generators for top quark production and decays - S. Slabospitsky  
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15:20 ttbar Production at ATLAS and ttbar Monte Carlos - B. Kersevan (ATLAS)  
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15:45 ttbar Production at CMS - R. Chierici (CMS)  
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16:10 Discussion  
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 --- Visit to the University ---
14:15
Session 4 - At the Up-Coming Colliders (continuation) (until 19:50)
14:15 Top as Background for SUSY/BSM searches - S. Paktinat (CMS)  
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14:40 Search for single top production in ep collisions at HERA - S. Xella (ZEUS/H1)  
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15:05 Top at Future Colliders - L. Orr  
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16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Top Threshold Physics - A. Hoang  
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16:55 A theoretical update on t-tbar pair production near threshold - A. Signer  
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17:20 Current Status of the International Linear Collider - B. Foster  
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17:45 Discussion  
19:30 --- Workshop Dinner ---