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)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

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