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

18 May 2009, 08:00 → 5 Jun 2009, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

This institute is focused on the physics top quarks, and aims at bringing together phenomenologists and members of experimental collaborations. The physics of the top as a Standard Model candle and as a probe to BSM physics will be discussed, and theoretical predictions compared to LHC data.

Monday 18 May

10:30 → 10:45 Topics to be discussed at the Institute

10:45 → 11:45 The Ubiquitous Top

Speaker: Eric Laenen (Nikhef)

Slides UbiquitousTop.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 The inside of a top jet

Speaker: Gilad Perez (Weizmann Institute)

Slides topjets_CERN_Inst_GP_FIN.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Boosted tops

Speaker: Matthew Schwartz (Harvard University)

Slides toptagging-schwartz.pdf

15:00 → 18:00 Boosted tops (discussion)

Tuesday 19 May

10:00 → 12:00 Boosted tops (discussion)

14:00 → 14:30 Top physics and strong electroweak symmetry breaking

Speaker: Ben Gripaios (CERN)

Slides gripaios_top.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Discovering the Top partners in same-sign dilepton events at the LHC

Speaker: Roberto Contino (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza)

Slides contino.pdf

15:00 → 18:00 Top and heavy partners in Strong EWSB scenarios (discussion)

Wednesday 20 May

14:00 → 15:00 The parton shower in e+e- -> t t bar

Speaker: Michael Peskin (SLAC)

Slides CERNshowers.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Boosted tops (discussion)

16:00 → 18:00 Boosted tops (discussion)

Thursday 21 May

08:00 → 18:00 CERN official holiday

Friday 22 May

14:00 → 15:00 Recent Tevatron results on top physics

Speaker: Tony Liss (University of Illinois - Urbana)

Slides TopTheoryInstitute2.pdf TopTheoryInstitute.ppt

15:00 → 15:30 The top quark forward-backward asymmetry and new physics contributions

Speaker: James Wells (CERN)

Slides CERNMay09a.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Tevatron data (discussion)

Monday 25 May

10:00 → 10:30 Top physics at ATLAS

Speaker: Marina Cobal (Universita' di Udine)

Slides marina_th.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Top physics at CMS

Speaker: Jorgen d'Hondt (ULB-VUB Brussels)

Slides TopInstituteCERN-CMSTalk-2009.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Prospects for top physics at the LHC (discussion)

14:00 → 14:30 Spin Correlation Effects in T Tbar production at the LHC

Speaker: Stephen Parke (Fermilab)

Slides Parke_090525_top.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Use of top polarisation as a probe for new physics at the LHC

Speaker: Rohini Godbole (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Slides toppol.pdf

15:00 → 18:00 EXP/TH round table on SM topics

Tuesday 26 May

14:00 → 14:30 Composite top

Speaker: Tim Tait (Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides tait-top.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Resonances in the top quark sector

Speaker: German Rodrigo (IFIC Valencia)

Slides top09resonances.pdf

15:00 → 17:00 EXP/TH round table on BSM topics

Wednesday 27 May

14:00 → 15:00 Warped Dimensions: The View from the Top

Speaker: Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins University)

Slides sundrum_top.ppt top.pdf

Thursday 28 May

09:30 → 10:00 Electroweak effects in top production

Speaker: Johann Kuehn (Universitaet Karlsruhe, KIT)

Slides kuehn_slides.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 The top quark mass

Speaker: Alexander Mitov (YITP Stony Brook)

Slides AlexanderMitov-Top-2009.pdf

10:30 → 12:30 Precision issues: the EW case (discussion)

Friday 29 May

14:00 → 14:30 The NLO+NLL Top Total Cross Section

Speaker: Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE)

Slides Cacciari_top.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Top quark production at Tevatron and LHC - precision issues

Speaker: Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY)

Slides Moch_top.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Resummation and top pair production

Speaker: Alexander Mitov (Stony Brook)

Slides Mitov_top.pdf

Monday 1 June

08:00 → 18:00 CERN official holiday

Tuesday 2 June

10:00 → 10:30 t-channel single top production

Speaker: Fabio Maltoni (Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology Louvain-La-Neuve)

Slides t-maltoni.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 What top mass is measured at Tevatron and LHC (?)

Speaker: Andre Hoang (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)

Slides hoang_topmass_v2.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Single top (discussion)

Wednesday 3 June

10:00 → 10:30 Monte Carlo simulations for top physics

Speaker: Bryan Webber (Cambridge University and CERN)

Slides WebberTopInst09.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Bottom fragmentation and impact on the top mass reconstruction

Speaker: Gennaro Corcella (Centro E Fermi, Roma, and SNS, Pisa)

Slides corcella_tbfrag.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Issues in Monte Carlo simulations (discussion)

Thursday 4 June

14:00 → 14:45 Top anomalous couplings from effective operators: a minimal set

Speaker: Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra (University of Granada)

Slides saavedra.pdf

14:45 → 15:15 Kinematic distributions of the decay fermions in top decay� and anomalous couplings

Speaker: Ritesh Singh (University of Wurzburg)

Slides Singh_Top09.pdf

15:15 → 17:15 Anomalous couplings

Friday 5 June

14:00 → 14:30 PDFs and top cross sections

Speaker: Joey Huston (MSU)

Slides huston_cern_top.pdf

14:30 → 14:45 Remarks on b-quark and c-quark PDFs

Speaker: Jon Pumplin (MSU)

Slides pumplin_cern09talk3.pdf

14:45 → 15:15 PDF uncertainties in top pair production at the LHC

Speaker: Juan Rojo (INFN Milano)

Slides rojo-topTH-nnpdf.pdf

15:30 → 17:30 Discussion on PDFs