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
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10:30 Topics to be discussed at the Institute  
10:45 The Ubiquitous Top - Eric Laenen (Nikhef)  
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10:00 Boosted tops (discussion)  
08:00 CERN official holiday  
10:00 Top physics at ATLAS - Marina Cobal (Universita' di Udine)  
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10:30 Top physics at CMS - Jorgen d'Hondt (ULB-VUB Brussels)  
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11:00 Prospects for top physics at the LHC (discussion)  
09:30 Electroweak effects in top production - Johann Kuehn (Universitaet Karlsruhe, KIT)  
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10:00 The top quark mass - Alexander Mitov (YITP Stony Brook)  
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10:30 Precision issues: the EW case (discussion)  
08:00 CERN official holiday  
10:00 t-channel single top production - Fabio Maltoni (Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology Louvain-La-Neuve)  
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10:30 What top mass is measured at Tevatron and LHC (?) - Andre Hoang (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)  
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11:00 Single top (discussion)  
10:00 Monte Carlo simulations for top physics - Bryan Webber (Cambridge University and CERN)  
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10:30 Bottom fragmentation and impact on the top mass reconstruction - Gennaro Corcella (Centro E Fermi, Roma, and SNS, Pisa)  
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11:00 Issues in Monte Carlo simulations (discussion)  
PM
14:00 The inside of a top jet - Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute)  
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14:30 Boosted tops - Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)  
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15:00 Boosted tops (discussion)  
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)  
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15:00 Boosted tops (discussion)  
16:00 Boosted tops (discussion)   (5/1-001)
14:00 Recent Tevatron results on top physics - Tony Liss (University of Illinois - Urbana)  
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15:00 The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new physics contributions - James Wells (CERN)  
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15:30 Tevatron data (discussion)  
14:00 Spin Correlation Effects in T Tbar production at the LHC - Stephen Parke (Fermilab)  
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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)  
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15:00 EXP/TH round table on SM topics  
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)  
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14:00 The NLO+NLL Top Total Cross Section - Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE)  
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14:30 Top quark production at Tevatron and LHC - precision issues - Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)  
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15:00 Resummation and top pair production - Alexander Mitov (Stony Brook)  
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14:00 Top anomalous couplings from effective operators: a minimal set - Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra (University of Granada)  
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14:45 Kinematic distributions of the decay fermions in top decay� and anomalous couplings - Ritesh Singh (University of Wurzburg)  
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15:15 Anomalous couplings  
14:00 PDFs and top cross sections - Joey Huston (MSU)  
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14:30 Remarks on b-quark and c-quark PDFs - Jon Pumplin (MSU)  
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14:45 PDF uncertainties in top pair production at the LHC - Juan Rojo (INFN Milano)  
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15:30 Discussion on PDFs