TOP09 : Top quark physics - from the Tevatron to the LHC

from Monday, 18 May 2009 (08:00) to Friday, 5 June 2009 (18:00)
CERN (TH Theory Conference Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 May 2009
19 May 2009
20 May 2009
21 May 2009
22 May 2009
25 May 2009
26 May 2009
27 May 2009
28 May 2009
29 May 2009
1 Jun 2009
2 Jun 2009
3 Jun 2009
4 Jun 2009
5 Jun 2009
AM
10:30 Topics to be discussed at the Institute   (TH Theory Conference Room)
10:45 The Ubiquitous Top - Eric Laenen (Nikhef)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 Boosted tops (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
08:00 CERN official holiday   (TH Theory Conference Room)
10:00 Top physics at ATLAS - Marina Cobal (Universita' di Udine)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:30 Top physics at CMS - Jorgen d'Hondt (ULB-VUB Brussels)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:00 Prospects for top physics at the LHC (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
09:30 Electroweak effects in top production - Johann Kuehn (Universitaet Karlsruhe, KIT)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:00 The top quark mass - Alexander Mitov (YITP Stony Brook)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:30 Precision issues: the EW case (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
08:00 CERN official holiday   (TH Theory Conference Room)
10:00 t-channel single top production - Fabio Maltoni (Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology Louvain-La-Neuve)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:30 What top mass is measured at Tevatron and LHC (?) - Andre Hoang (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:00 Single top (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
10:00 Monte Carlo simulations for top physics - Bryan Webber (Cambridge University and CERN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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10:30 Bottom fragmentation and impact on the top mass reconstruction - Gennaro Corcella (Centro E Fermi, Roma, and SNS, Pisa)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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11:00 Issues in Monte Carlo simulations (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
PM
14:00 The inside of a top jet - Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:30 Boosted tops - Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:00 Boosted tops (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:00 Top physics and strong electroweak symmetry breaking - Ben Gripaios (CERN)   (13/2-005)
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14:30 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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15:00 Top and heavy partners in Strong EWSB scenarios (discussion)   (13/2-005)
14:00 The parton shower in e+e- -> t t bar - Michael Peskin (SLAC)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:00 Boosted tops (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
16:00 Boosted tops (discussion)   (5/1-001)
14:00 Recent Tevatron results on top physics - Tony Liss (University of Illinois - Urbana)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:00 The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new physics contributions - James Wells (CERN)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:30 Tevatron data (discussion)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:00 Spin Correlation Effects in T Tbar production at the LHC - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:30 Use of top polarisation as a probe for new physics at the LHC - Rohini Godbole (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:00 EXP/TH round table on SM topics   (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:00 Composite top - Tim Tait (Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory)   (13/2-005)
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14:30 Resonances in the top quark sector - German Rodrigo (IFIC Valencia)   (13/2-005)
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15:00 EXP/TH round table on BSM topics   (13/2-005)
14:00 Warped Dimensions: The View from the Top - Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins University)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:00 The NLO+NLL Top Total Cross Section - Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:30 Top quark production at Tevatron and LHC - precision issues - Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:00 Resummation and top pair production - Alexander Mitov (Stony Brook)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:00 Top anomalous couplings from effective operators: a minimal set - Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra (University of Granada)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:45 Kinematic distributions of the decay fermions in top decay� and anomalous couplings - Ritesh Singh (University of Wurzburg)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:15 Anomalous couplings   (TH Theory Conference Room)
14:00 PDFs and top cross sections - Joey Huston (MSU)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:30 Remarks on b-quark and c-quark PDFs - Jon Pumplin (MSU)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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14:45 PDF uncertainties in top pair production at the LHC - Juan Rojo (INFN Milano)   (TH Theory Conference Room)
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15:30 Discussion on PDFs   (TH Theory Conference Room)