Programme:

Topics of the Workshop:

1. Current Theoretical status
   • The role of the top quark in the SM
   • Production of top quarks at FNAL, LHC and LC: differential and total production X-sections for t-tbar and single top (multi jet hard contributions and QCD corrections, mixed QCD+electroweak corrections, top spin effects, PDF, ISR+FSR)
   • Top quark decay properties within the SM
   • Top quarks as a probe of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB) (associated tt-bar Higgs production)
   • Top rare decays and Physics beyond the SM (SUSY, etc.)
   • The top properties: M(top), width, V_tb, top spin, top charge, spin-spin correlations, polarization, couplings
   • The SM electroweak+QCD background rates
2. Current Experimental status
   • Latest Tevatron results on:
     • Differential distributions and total production X-sections (tt-bar and single top)
     • The top quark properties: mass and width (for the various decay channels), BR(t->Ws,Wd,...), charge, V_tb, spin-spin correlations, top resonances
     • The W polarization
     • Rare decays of top quarks
     • Systematic errors (multi jet hard contributions and QCD corrections, PDF, ISR+FSR, SM backgrounds, hadronization, etc.)
     • Jet energy calibration
     • Event reconstruction and selection
   • Results from other machines (LEP-2 and HERA)
   • MC generators for top quark physics
     • t-tbar production (+ N jets)
     • Single top production
     • Top rare decays
3. At the Up-Coming Colliders
   • Future expectations from the TEVATRON
   • The LHC
     • ATLAS expected results and plans
     • CMS expected results and plans
     • Improvement of Tevatron results
     • MC generators for top quark physics
     • Data analyses in a model independent way
     • Experimental measurements sensitivity and new physics
     • The top as a background and a tool to searches of new physics
     • Systematic errors (multi jet hard contributions and QCD corrections, jet energy resolution, b-tagging, pile-up, etc.)
     • The top quark timetable for the LHC
   • The LC expected results and plans

Last modified: Dec 23, 2005