Outline of the Report:
 
  1. Introduction
  2. Production properties:
    1. Theory overview:
      1. Update total cross-sections,  top distributions and t-tbar correlations (pT  , y,  mtt,  Delta_Phitt, pTtt  etc)
      2. Motivations for an accurate measurement of these quantities
      3. Study theoretical systematics (scale dependence, PDF dependence)
      4. Compare predictions of parton level calculations with shower Monte Carlos
      5. Study of finite-width effects: impact on cross-sections and distributions
      6. Study higher-order processes (ttbar+jet, ttbar+2jets, ttbar+bbbar, ttbar Z, ttbar W,  ttbar gamma, etc)
       
    2. Theory overview for single-top production:
      1. Define goals of single-top production studies
      2. Update cross-sections and distributions
      3. Study theoretical systematics, etc.
      4. Compare predictions of parton level calculations with shower Monte Carlos
       
    3. Experimental perspective:
      1. Predictions for the accuracy expected in the measurement of the above quantities, for both the ttbar and single-top production
      2. Discuss the expected experimental systematics
  3. Top mass measurement:
    1. Theoretical overwiew:
      1. Expected accuracy from EWK fits, goals of the top-mass measurement once the Higgs mass is known from direct observation, general overview of expectations from future e+e- linear colliders
      2. Problems associated with the definition of the top mass
      3. theoretical systematics:
        1. hard and soft gluon radiation
        2. finite-width effects
        3. non-perturbative sources of theoretical systematics: interconnection effects, top-mass definition, effect of underlying event, etc
    2. Prospects for the measurement at the LHC:
      1. experimental strategies
      2. experimental systematics for the different channels
      3. study of clustering algorithms
  4. EWK properties of the top quark:
    1. Standard model decays, measurement of Vtb in single-top production
    2. Polarization studies in production and decay
    3. Rare decays within the SM. Study of the experimental reach for:
      1. t -> Wq, with q=d,s
      2. t -> Zc and gamma c
      3. t -> 3-body final states
    4. Associated production of top and Higgs
  5. Top quark as a window for physics beyond the standard model:
    1. non-SM decays:
      1. t -> H+ b
      2. FCNC's
    2. CP violation
    3. anomalous couplings, in production and decay
    4. production of top quarks via non-SM resonant channels: X-> t tbar
  6. 4-th generation heavy quarks
  7. Appendix on MC simulation tools for signals and backgrounds