Name: Foundational tests of Quantum Mechanics at the LHC
Start: 2023-03-20T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-03-22T14:20:00+00:00
Location: Merton College, Oxford

Foundational tests of Quantum Mechanics at the LHC

from Monday, 20 March 2023 (09:00) to Wednesday, 22 March 2023 (14:20)

Monday, 20 March 2023

13:00 Lunch available in Hall, Merton College
Lunch available in Hall, Merton College
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Dining Hall

14:30 Registration open at the TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
Registration open at the TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
14:30 - 15:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
15:00 Welcome - Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
Welcome
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
15:00 - 15:10
15:10 Early natural philosophy at Merton College - Julia Walworth (Fellow Librarian, Merton College)
Early natural philosophy at Merton College
- Julia Walworth (Fellow Librarian, Merton College)
15:10 - 15:25
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre Short scientific introduction to the venue by the Fellow Librarian
15:25 Why do we care about violating Bell Inequalities - Questions and Controversies - Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford Department of Philosophy)
Why do we care about violating Bell Inequalities - Questions and Controversies
- Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford Department of Philosophy)
15:25 - 15:55
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
15:55 Entanglement and indistinguishability - Vlatko Vedral (University of Oxford)
Entanglement and indistinguishability
- Vlatko Vedral (University of Oxford)
15:55 - 16:25
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
16:30 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
16:30 - 17:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
17:00 Quantum state tomography and applications in weak decays - Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
Quantum state tomography and applications in weak decays
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
17:00 - 17:30
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
17:30 Quantum tomography of diboson systems at colliders: entanglement, Bell violation and new physics constraints - Emidio Gabrielli (University of Trieste) Emidio Gabrielli (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))
Quantum tomography of diboson systems at colliders: entanglement, Bell violation and new physics constraints
- Emidio Gabrielli (University of Trieste)
- Emidio Gabrielli (Nat. Inst. of Chem.Phys. & Biophys. (EE))
17:30 - 18:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
18:00 Welcome Drinks
Welcome Drinks
18:00 - 18:45
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
Tuesday, 21 March 2023

08:00 Breakfast available in Hall
Breakfast available in Hall
08:00 - 08:50
Room: Dining Hall
09:15 Quantum Tops: Entanglement, Bell Inequality, Discord and Steering with Top-Quarks - Yoav Afik (CERN)
Quantum Tops: Entanglement, Bell Inequality, Discord and Steering with Top-Quarks
- Yoav Afik (CERN)
09:15 - 09:45
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
09:45 Improved tests of entanglement and Bell inequalities with LHC tops - Alberto Casas (Spanish Research Council (CSIC))
Improved tests of entanglement and Bell inequalities with LHC tops
- Alberto Casas (Spanish Research Council (CSIC))
09:45 - 10:15
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
10:15 Entanglement measurements at ATLAS in t-tbar - Ethan Lewis Simpson (University of Glasgow (GB))
Entanglement measurements at ATLAS in t-tbar
- Ethan Lewis Simpson (University of Glasgow (GB))
10:15 - 10:45
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
10:45 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 11:30
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
11:30 Towards testing beyond-quantum theories in particle physics - Michal Eckstein
Towards testing beyond-quantum theories in particle physics
- Michal Eckstein
11:30 - 12:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
12:00 PANEL SESSION: Loopholes and interpretations: What would these measurements imply? - Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology) Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford Department of Philosophy) Rachel Ashby Pickering Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova
PANEL SESSION: Loopholes and interpretations: What would these measurements imply?
- Pawel Horodecki (Gdansk University of Technology)
- Christopher Timpson (University of Oxford Department of Philosophy)
- Rachel Ashby Pickering
- Juan Ramon Munoz De Nova
12:00 - 12:45
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre Panellists: Rachel Ashby Pickering, Paweł Horodecki, Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova, Chris Timpson
13:00 Lunch in Hall
Lunch in Hall
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Dining Hall
14:30 State-Channel Duality applied to Particle Physics - Clelia Altomonte (Kings College London)
State-Channel Duality applied to Particle Physics
- Clelia Altomonte (Kings College London)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
15:00 Bell violation by relativistic particles - Pawel Caban
Bell violation by relativistic particles
- Pawel Caban
15:00 - 15:30
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
15:30 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
16:00 Quantum entanglement and top spin correlations in Standard Model effective field theories - Claudio Severi (University of Manchester)
Quantum entanglement and top spin correlations in Standard Model effective field theories
- Claudio Severi (University of Manchester)
16:00 - 16:30
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
16:30 Quantum information and CP measurement in H→τ+τ- at future lepton colliders - Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)
Quantum information and CP measurement in H→τ+τ- at future lepton colliders
- Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
19:00 Pre-dinner Drinks in the Ante-Chapel
Pre-dinner Drinks in the Ante-Chapel
19:00 - 19:30
Room: Ante-Chapel

19:30 Dinner in Hall
Dinner in Hall
19:30 - 21:15
Room: Dining Hall
Wednesday, 22 March 2023

08:00 Breakfast available in Hall
Breakfast available in Hall
08:00 - 08:50
Room: Dining Hall
09:15 Entanglement and Bell inequalities in H -> WW, H -> ZZ - Alexander Bernal (Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM-CSIC)
Entanglement and Bell inequalities in H -> WW, H -> ZZ
- Alexander Bernal (Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM-CSIC)
09:15 - 09:45
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
09:45 Accessing entanglement and suppressing background in semileptonic H->WW events - Theo Maurin (University of Glasgow (GB))
Accessing entanglement and suppressing background in semileptonic H->WW events
- Theo Maurin (University of Glasgow (GB))
09:45 - 10:15
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
10:20 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
10:20 - 11:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
11:00 Quantum entanglement in H->ZZ leptonic decay channels - Martina Javurkova (University of Massachusetts (US))
Quantum entanglement in H->ZZ leptonic decay channels
- Martina Javurkova (University of Massachusetts (US))
11:00 - 11:30
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
11:30 Towards quantum measurements at CMS - Andrew Wildridge (Purdue University (US))
Towards quantum measurements at CMS
- Andrew Wildridge (Purdue University (US))
11:30 - 12:00
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
12:00 PANEL SESSION: Making it happen: steps needed for real experimental measurements - Federica Fabbri (University of Glasgow (GB)) Andrew Wildridge (Purdue University (US)) James William Howarth (University of Glasgow (GB)) Martina Javurkova (University of Massachusetts (US))
PANEL SESSION: Making it happen: steps needed for real experimental measurements
- Federica Fabbri (University of Glasgow (GB))
- Andrew Wildridge (Purdue University (US))
- James William Howarth (University of Glasgow (GB))
- Martina Javurkova (University of Massachusetts (US))
12:00 - 12:45
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
12:50 Commercial break - Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
Commercial break
- Alan Barr (University of Oxford (GB))
12:50 - 12:55
Room: TS Eliot Lecture theatre
13:00 Lunch available in Hall
Lunch available in Hall
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Dining Hall

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