TOP09 : Top quark physics - from the Tevatron to the LHC
from
Monday, May 18, 2009 (8:00 AM)
to
Friday, June 5, 2009 (6:00 PM)
Monday, May 18, 2009
10:30 AM
Topics to be discussed at the Institute
Topics to be discussed at the Institute
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:45 AM
The Ubiquitous Top
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Eric Laenen
(
Nikhef
)
The Ubiquitous Top
Eric Laenen
(
Nikhef
)
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:00 PM
The inside of a top jet
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Gilad Perez
(
Weizmann Institute
)
The inside of a top jet
Gilad Perez
(
Weizmann Institute
)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:30 PM
Boosted tops
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Matthew Schwartz
(
Harvard University
)
Boosted tops
Matthew Schwartz
(
Harvard University
)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:00 PM
Boosted tops (discussion)
Boosted tops (discussion)
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
10:00 AM
Boosted tops (discussion)
Boosted tops (discussion)
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:00 PM
Top physics and strong electroweak symmetry breaking
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Ben Gripaios
(
CERN
)
Top physics and strong electroweak symmetry breaking
Ben Gripaios
(
CERN
)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 13/2-005
2:30 PM
Discovering the Top partners in same-sign dilepton events at the LHC
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Roberto Contino
(
Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
)
Discovering the Top partners in same-sign dilepton events at the LHC
Roberto Contino
(
Universita' di Roma La Sapienza
)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 13/2-005
3:00 PM
Top and heavy partners in Strong EWSB scenarios (discussion)
Top and heavy partners in Strong EWSB scenarios (discussion)
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 13/2-005
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
2:00 PM
The parton shower in e+e- -> t t bar
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Michael Peskin
(
SLAC
)
The parton shower in e+e- -> t t bar
Michael Peskin
(
SLAC
)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:00 PM
Boosted tops (discussion)
Boosted tops (discussion)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
4:00 PM
Boosted tops (discussion)
Boosted tops (discussion)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 5/1-001
Thursday, May 21, 2009
8:00 AM
CERN official holiday
CERN official holiday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Friday, May 22, 2009
2:00 PM
Recent Tevatron results on top physics
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Tony Liss
(
University of Illinois - Urbana
)
Recent Tevatron results on top physics
Tony Liss
(
University of Illinois - Urbana
)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:00 PM
The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new physics contributions
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James Wells
(
CERN
)
The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new physics contributions
James Wells
(
CERN
)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:30 PM
Tevatron data (discussion)
Tevatron data (discussion)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
10:00 AM
Top physics at ATLAS
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Marina Cobal
(
Universita' di Udine
)
Top physics at ATLAS
Marina Cobal
(
Universita' di Udine
)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:30 AM
Top physics at CMS
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Jorgen d'Hondt
(
ULB-VUB Brussels
)
Top physics at CMS
Jorgen d'Hondt
(
ULB-VUB Brussels
)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
11:00 AM
Prospects for top physics at the LHC (discussion)
Prospects for top physics at the LHC (discussion)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:00 PM
Spin Correlation Effects in T Tbar production at the LHC
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Stephen Parke
(
Fermilab
)
Spin Correlation Effects in T Tbar production at the LHC
Stephen Parke
(
Fermilab
)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:30 PM
Use of top polarisation as a probe for new physics at the LHC
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Rohini Godbole
(
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
)
Use of top polarisation as a probe for new physics at the LHC
Rohini Godbole
(
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:00 PM
EXP/TH round table on SM topics
EXP/TH round table on SM topics
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
2:00 PM
Composite top
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Tim Tait
(
Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory
)
Composite top
Tim Tait
(
Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory
)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 13/2-005
2:30 PM
Resonances in the top quark sector
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German Rodrigo
(
IFIC Valencia
)
Resonances in the top quark sector
German Rodrigo
(
IFIC Valencia
)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 13/2-005
3:00 PM
EXP/TH round table on BSM topics
EXP/TH round table on BSM topics
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 13/2-005
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
2:00 PM
Warped Dimensions: The View from the Top
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Raman Sundrum
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
Warped Dimensions: The View from the Top
Raman Sundrum
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Thursday, May 28, 2009
9:30 AM
Electroweak effects in top production
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Johann Kuehn
(
Universitaet Karlsruhe, KIT
)
Electroweak effects in top production
Johann Kuehn
(
Universitaet Karlsruhe, KIT
)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:00 AM
The top quark mass
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Alexander Mitov
(
YITP Stony Brook
)
The top quark mass
Alexander Mitov
(
YITP Stony Brook
)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:30 AM
Precision issues: the EW case (discussion)
Precision issues: the EW case (discussion)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Friday, May 29, 2009
2:00 PM
The NLO+NLL Top Total Cross Section
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Matteo Cacciari
(
LPTHE
)
The NLO+NLL Top Total Cross Section
Matteo Cacciari
(
LPTHE
)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:30 PM
Top quark production at Tevatron and LHC - precision issues
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Sven-Olaf Moch
(
DESY
)
Top quark production at Tevatron and LHC - precision issues
Sven-Olaf Moch
(
DESY
)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:00 PM
Resummation and top pair production
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Alexander Mitov
(
Stony Brook
)
Resummation and top pair production
Alexander Mitov
(
Stony Brook
)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
8:00 AM
CERN official holiday
CERN official holiday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
10:00 AM
t-channel single top production
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Fabio Maltoni
(
Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology Louvain-La-Neuve
)
t-channel single top production
Fabio Maltoni
(
Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology Louvain-La-Neuve
)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:30 AM
What top mass is measured at Tevatron and LHC (?)
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Andre Hoang
(
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
)
What top mass is measured at Tevatron and LHC (?)
Andre Hoang
(
Max-Planck-Institute for Physics
)
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
11:00 AM
Single top (discussion)
Single top (discussion)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
10:00 AM
Monte Carlo simulations for top physics
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Bryan Webber
(
Cambridge University and CERN
)
Monte Carlo simulations for top physics
Bryan Webber
(
Cambridge University and CERN
)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
10:30 AM
Bottom fragmentation and impact on the top mass reconstruction
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Gennaro Corcella
(
Centro E Fermi, Roma, and SNS, Pisa
)
Bottom fragmentation and impact on the top mass reconstruction
Gennaro Corcella
(
Centro E Fermi, Roma, and SNS, Pisa
)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
11:00 AM
Issues in Monte Carlo simulations (discussion)
Issues in Monte Carlo simulations (discussion)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Thursday, June 4, 2009
2:00 PM
Top anomalous couplings from effective operators: a minimal set
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Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra
(
University of Granada
)
Top anomalous couplings from effective operators: a minimal set
Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra
(
University of Granada
)
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:45 PM
Kinematic distributions of the decay fermions in top decay� and anomalous couplings
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Ritesh Singh
(
University of Wurzburg
)
Kinematic distributions of the decay fermions in top decay� and anomalous couplings
Ritesh Singh
(
University of Wurzburg
)
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:15 PM
Anomalous couplings
Anomalous couplings
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
Friday, June 5, 2009
2:00 PM
PDFs and top cross sections
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Joey Huston
(
MSU
)
PDFs and top cross sections
Joey Huston
(
MSU
)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:30 PM
Remarks on b-quark and c-quark PDFs
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Jon Pumplin
(
MSU
)
Remarks on b-quark and c-quark PDFs
Jon Pumplin
(
MSU
)
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
2:45 PM
PDF uncertainties in top pair production at the LHC
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Juan Rojo
(
INFN Milano
)
PDF uncertainties in top pair production at the LHC
Juan Rojo
(
INFN Milano
)
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room
3:30 PM
Discussion on PDFs
Discussion on PDFs
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: TH Theory Conference Room