TOP 2006 International Workshop on Top Quark Physics

Jan 12, 2006, 8:45 AM → Jan 15, 2006, 12:45 PM Europe/Zurich

Coimbra, Portugal

Thursday, January 12

8:45 AM → 12:55 PM Session 1 - Top Quark Current Theoretical Status

8:45 AM Welcome

9:00 AM Physics of Top

Speaker: C.-P. Yuan

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9:55 AM tW associated production: definition and measurement at the LHC

Speaker: F. Maltoni

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10:20 AM Pair production of heavy Q=2/3 singlets at LHC

Speaker: J.A. Saavedra

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10:45 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM Contributions from flavour changing effective operators to the physics ofthe top quark at LHC

Speaker: P. Ferreira

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11:45 AM Top quark spin correlations in theories with large extra dimensions at the hadron Colliders

Speaker: K. Smolek

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12:10 PM Matching top-bottom processes in charged Higgs production

Speaker: J. Alwall

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12:35 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 6:50 PM Session 2 - Top Quark Current Experimental Status

2:15 PM Current Experimental Status

Speaker: A. Juste (D0)

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3:10 PM Measurements of Top quark pair production cross section & Search for Resonances

Speaker: R. Rossin (CDF)

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3:35 PM Measurements of Top quark decay properties

Speaker: E. Varnes (D0)

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4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM Precision Measurement of Top quark mass in lepton+jets channel

Speaker: J. Cammin (D0)

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4:55 PM Precision Measurement of Top quark mass in dilepton channel

Speaker: B. Jayatilaka (CDF)

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5:20 PM Search for single top quark production at the Tevatron

Speaker: M. Begel (D0)

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5:45 PM Discussion

6:30 PM Welcome Cocktail

Friday, January 13

9:00 AM → 12:40 PM Session 3 - Generators, Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Methods

9:00 AM Experimental Methods

Speaker: E.Thomson (CDF)

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9:55 AM How to calibrate Jet Energy scale?

Speaker: K. Hatakeyama (CDF)

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10:20 AM How to estimate b-tag efficiency and false positive rate?

Speaker: C. Neu (CDF)

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10:45 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM Uses of multivariate analysis methods

Speaker: Y. Coadou (D0)

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11:35 AM Tools for Top studies in ATLAS

Speaker: V. Kostyukhin (ATLAS)

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12:00 PM Discussion

12:20 PM Lunch

1:50 PM → 5:20 PM Session 3 - Generators, Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Methods (continuation)

1:50 PM Spin effects in hadronic top quark pair production

Speaker: W. Bernreuther

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2:45 PM Event generators for top quark production and decays

Speaker: S. Slabospitsky

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3:20 PM ttbar Production at ATLAS and ttbar Monte Carlos

Speaker: B. Kersevan (ATLAS)

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3:45 PM ttbar Production at CMS

Speaker: R. Chierici (CMS)

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4:10 PM Discussion

4:30 PM Coffee Break

5:00 PM Visit to the University

Saturday, January 14

9:00 AM → 1:00 PM Session 4 - At the Up-Coming Colliders

9:00 AM TOP at the LHC

Speaker: D. Pallin (ATLAS)

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9:25 AM Top Mass measurement at LHC

Speaker: A.I. Etienvre (ATLAS)

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9:50 AM Kinematic Fit in CMS & the use of Top Quarks for Calibration

Speaker: J. Heyninck (CMS)

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10:15 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM Single top Production at the LHC

Speaker: A. Giammanco (CMS)

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11:25 AM Top properties within the SM

Speaker: B. Resende (ATLAS)

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11:50 AM Top systematics in the H to WW search

Speaker: M. Zanetti (CMS)

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12:15 PM Top properties beyond the SM

Speaker: N. Castro (ATLAS)

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12:40 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 7:50 PM Session 4 - At the Up-Coming Colliders (continuation)

2:15 PM Top as Background for SUSY/BSM searches

Speaker: S. Paktinat (CMS)

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2:40 PM Search for single top production in ep collisions at HERA

Speaker: S. Xella (ZEUS/H1)

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3:05 PM Top at Future Colliders

Speaker: L. Orr

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4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM Top Threshold Physics

Speaker: A. Hoang

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4:55 PM A theoretical update on t-tbar pair production near threshold

Speaker: A. Signer

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5:20 PM Current Status of the International Linear Collider

Speaker: B. Foster

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5:45 PM Discussion

7:30 PM Workshop Dinner

Sunday, January 15

9:25 AM → 12:40 PM Session 5 - Final Remarks

9:25 AM Bottom quark fragmentation in top quark decay

Speaker: G. Corcella

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9:50 AM Algebraic approach to solve t t-bar dilepton equations

Speaker: U. Bassler

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10:30 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM Conference Resume Talk

Speaker: J. Womersley

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12:05 PM Closing of the Workshop

12:20 PM Lunch