DISCRETE 2024 in Ljubljana

from Monday, December 2, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Friday, December 6, 2024 (7:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 2, 2024
Dec 3, 2024
Dec 4, 2024
Dec 5, 2024
Dec 6, 2024
AM
8:15 AM
Registration (until 9:00 AM) (Hallway at the entrance)
9:00 AM
Plenary session (until 10:40 AM) (Urška 4)
9:00 AM Welcome and introduction to Discrete 2024 - Prof. Miha Nemevsek (IJS)   (Urška 4)
9:10 AM Deciphering New Physics through $b\to s\nu\nu$, $b\to c\ell\nu$ and $c\to s \ell \nu$ decays - Dr Damir BECIREVIC (IJCLab, CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay)   (Urška 4)
9:40 AM Semileptonic decays with Belle and Belle II - Florian Bernlochner (KIT Karlsruhe)   (Urška 4)
10:10 AM Top quark operators in SMEFT - David Marzocca (INFN Trieste)   (Urška 4)
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Plenary session (until 12:10 PM) (Urška 4)
11:10 AM Flavor Phenomenology of Light Dark Vectors - Dr Emmanuel Stamou (TU Dortmund)   (Urška 4)
11:40 AM Light dark sector searches at accelerators - Prof. Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia (CA))   (Urška 4)
9:00 AM
Plenary session (until 10:30 AM) (Urška 4)
9:00 AM Recent results in neutrino physics experiments - Francesca Di Lodovico (University of London (GB))   (Urška 4)
9:30 AM Cosmological perspective on neutrinos - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)   (Urška 4)
10:00 AM Left-Right Symmetry at Hadron Colliders - Prof. Fabrizio Nesti   (Urška 4)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary session (until 12:00 PM) (Urška 4)
11:00 AM Strong CP without axions - Ferruccio Feruglio   (Urška 4)
11:30 AM Froggatt-Nielsen ALP - ALESSANDRO VALENTI   (Urška 4)
9:30 AM
Plenary session (until 10:30 AM) (Urška 4)
9:30 AM Theory of baryon number violation - Dr Vasja Susič (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   (Urška 4)
10:00 AM SUSY particle searches at LHC - Iacopo Vivarelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))   (Urška 4)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary session (until 12:00 PM) (Urška 4)
11:00 AM Malaphoric Z' model for flavour - Prof. Ben Allanach (University of Cambridge (GB))   (Urška 4)
11:30 AM New particle searches at LHC (non-SUSY) - Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT))   (Urška 4)
9:00 AM
Plenary session (until 10:30 AM) (Urška 4)
9:00 AM Is flavor discrete? - Alexei Smirnov   (Urška 4)
9:30 AM Generalized symmetries in particle physics - Joseph Enea Davighi   (Urška 4)
10:00 AM Fundamental tests with antimatter - Paolo Crivelli (ETH Zurich (CH))   (Urška 4)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary session (until 12:00 PM) (Urška 4)
11:00 AM New measurement of the ultra-rare K+ --> pi+ nu nubar decay - Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))   (Urška 4)
11:30 AM Future colliders - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))   (Urška 4)
9:00 AM
Plenary session (until 10:30 AM) (Urška 4)
9:00 AM CP violation in baryogenesis - Rachel Anne Houtz   (Urška 4)
9:30 AM Domain Walls in the early Universe and their gravitational signatures - Fabrizio Rompineve (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES))   (Urška 4)
10:00 AM B-meson semileptonic decays from lattice QCD - Alejandro Marino Vaquero Avilés-Casco (Universidad de Zaragoza)   (Urška 4)
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary session (until 12:15 PM) (Urška 4)
11:00 AM Towards the long distance contributions from lattice - Prof. Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)   (Urška 4)
11:30 AM Searches for new physics with muons - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)   (Urška 4)
12:00 PM Closing session - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (CFTP/IST/U. Lisboa) Prof. Miha Nemevsek (Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana)   (Urška 4)
PM
12:10 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary session (until 3:30 PM) (Urška 4)
2:00 PM Branching fractions and CP asymmetries in charm meson decays - Prof. Ulrich Nierste   (Urška 4)
2:30 PM Study of b -> sll transitions with LHCb - Marie-Helene Schune (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Urška 4)
3:00 PM Studies of b->s transitions with Belle/Belle II - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (Urška 4)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Plenary session (until 5:00 PM) (Urška 4)
4:00 PM Higgs and CP-violation - Christoph Englert   (Urška 4)
4:30 PM Probing CP on lattice - Christoph Lehner (University of Regensburg & BNL)   (Urška 4)
5:30 PM
Reception (until 7:00 PM) (Foyer)
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary session (until 3:00 PM) (Urška 4)
2:00 PM Searches for Long Lived Particles - Albert De Roeck (CERN) Albert De Roeck (CERN)   (Urška 4)
2:30 PM Baryon number violations involving tau leptons - Julian Heeck   (Urška 4)
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
Collider 1 (until 5:00 PM) (Urška 1)
3:30 PM A first constraint on CPT violation in top quarks - Nathaniel Sherrill (Leibniz University Hannover)   (Urška 1)
3:45 PM New Constraint for Isotropic Lorentz Violation from LHC Data - David Amram (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Urška 1)
4:00 PM Collider and astrophysical signatures of light scalars with enhanced $\tau$ couplings - Nudžeim Selimović (INFN Padova)   (Urška 1)
4:15 PM Third-Family Lepton-Quark Fusion - Arman Korajac   (Urška 1)
4:30 PM Teaming up MET plus jet with Drell-Yan in the SMEFT - Daniel Wendler (TU Dortmund)   (Urška 1)
4:45 PM Constraining the SMEFT Extended with Sterile Neutrinos at FCC-ee - Patrick Bolton (Jožef Stefan Institute)   (Urška 1)
3:30 PM
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1 (until 4:45 PM) (Urška 3)
3:30 PM Highlights from the NA64 experiment - Benjamin Banto Oberhauser (ETH Zurich (CH))   (Urška 3)
3:45 PM Highlights from space astroparticle physics experiments - Andrii Tykhonov (Universite de Geneve (CH))   (Urška 3)
4:00 PM Baryogenesis and gravitational waves from domain walls - Miguel Vanvlasselaer (VUB)   (Urška 3)
4:15 PM Wash-in leptogenesis from asymmetric Dirac neutrino scatterings - Peter Matak (Comenius University (SK))   (Urška 3)
3:30 PM
Flavour and CP violation 1 (until 5:00 PM) (Urška 4)
3:30 PM LHCb highlights - Adam Szabelski (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))   (Urška 4)
3:45 PM Search for Baryogenesis and Dark Matter in B-meson decays at BABAR - Prof. Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia (CA))   (Urška 4)
4:00 PM How large could CP violation in B meson mixing be? Implications for baryogenesis and upcoming searches - Mr Carlos Miró Arenas (IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))   (Urška 4)
4:15 PM Baryon number violation in the top sector - Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez   (Urška 4)
4:30 PM Studies of CP violation at Belle and Belle II - Radek Zlebcik   (Urška 4)
4:45 PM CP-Asymmetries in semileptonic decays - Dr Martin Novoa-Brunet (IFIC, U. Valencia, CSIC)   (Urška 4)
5:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:30 PM
Flavour and CP violation 2 (until 6:45 PM) (Urška 4)
5:30 PM Searches for hidden sectors and lepton flavour violation in kaon decays - Tomas Blazek (Comenius University (SK))   (Urška 4)
5:45 PM A Strangeness Adventure: Kaonic Atom Measurements with SIDDHARTA-2 at the DAΦNE Collider - Francesco Artibani (INFN-LNF)   (Urška 4)
6:00 PM The n2EDM experiment, a high-sensitivity search for the neutron electric dipole moment - Victoria Kletzl   (Urška 4)
6:15 PM Anomaly awareness estimation in $b\to s\ell^+\ell^-$ with VAEs - Bernat Capdevila (IFAE)   (Urška 4)
6:30 PM The electron-EDM in the decoupling limit of the aligned 2HDM - Juan Manuel Dávila Illán (Universitat de València - IFIC)   (Urška 4)
5:30 PM
Neutrinos and ALPs 1 (until 6:30 PM) (Urška 1)
5:30 PM Non-vanilla Axion Solutions to the Strong CP Problem - Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)   (Urška 1)
5:45 PM Freeze-in production of axions in DFSZ-type axion models - Kodai Sakurai (Tohoku University)   (Urška 1)
6:00 PM Search for the $X_{17}$ QCD Axion in the $\eta\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}e^{+}e^{-}$ decay with the HADES Detector - Dr Marcin Zielinski (Jagiellonian University (PL))   (Urška 1)
6:15 PM Extending the reach of Mu3e with displaced searches - Michele Tammaro   (Urška 1)
5:30 PM
Theoretical Developments 1 (until 6:45 PM) (Urška 3)
5:30 PM Thermodynamics from the S-matrix reloaded - Dr Pietro Baratella (IJS)   (Urška 3)
5:45 PM Hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon anomaly from first principles to an accuracy of 4.6 per mil - Davide Giusti (Forschungszentrum Jülich)   (Urška 3)
6:00 PM Exploring near-conformal dark sectors - Joshua Lockyer   (Urška 3)
6:15 PM Higher order corrections in dimensional reduction - JAVIER LÓPEZ MIRAS   (Urška 3)
6:30 PM The Standard Model lifetime is slightly shorter - Dr Yutaro Shoji (IJS)   (Urška 3)
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Plenary session (until 3:30 PM) (Urška 4)
2:00 PM One Born-Oppenheimer Effective field theory to rule them all: hybrids, tetraquarks, pentaquarks, quarkonium and doubly heavy baryons - Nora Brambilla (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik)   (Urška 4)
2:30 PM Beta decays as probes for fundamental physics - Martin Gonzalez-Alonso (CERN)   (Urška 4)
3:00 PM SIMP Miracles and WIMP Dead Ends: Navigating the Freeze-Out of MeV Dark Matter - Josef Pradler (University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))   (Urška 4)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Collider 2 (until 5:15 PM) (Urška 1)
4:00 PM Type II lepton number violation at the LHC - Jonathan Kriewald (Jožef Stefan Institute)   (Urška 1)
4:15 PM Higgs boson property measurements at the ATLAS experiment - Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham (GB))   (Urška 1)
4:30 PM Higgs decays into lepton pairs and a photon - Ivan Nišandžić (Ruđer Bošković Institute)   (Urška 1)
4:45 PM Background processes in Higgs decay to Z gamma - Aliaksei Kachanovich (ULB)   (Urška 1)
5:00 PM Probing global symmetries with top and Higgs at CMS - Nicolas Pierre Chanon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Urška 1)
4:00 PM
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2 (until 5:15 PM) (Urška 3)
4:00 PM Searching for proton decay with paleo-detectors - Dr Patrick Stengel (Jožef Stefan Institute)   (Urška 3)
4:15 PM Probing Dark Matter with RES-NOVA's archaeological Pb-based Detectors - Dr Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini   (Urška 3)
4:30 PM Asymmetric dark matter semi-annihilation into long-lived particles - Viktor Zaujec (Comenius University in Bratislava)   (Urška 3)
4:45 PM CP-violating portal to Dark Sectors - Nicola Valori - (University of Valencia & IFIC)   (Urška 3)
5:00 PM Highlights from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - Dr Jim Dobson (King's College London)   (Urška 3)
4:00 PM
Flavour and CP violation 3 (until 5:15 PM) (Urška 4)
4:00 PM Taming Penguins: towards high precision measurements of phi_d and phi_s - Kristof Antoon M De Bruyn (University of Groningen)   (Urška 4)
4:15 PM Penguin decays of B mesons - Dr Aritra Biswas   (Urška 4)
4:30 PM Implications of cascade topologies for rare charm decays and CP violation - Eleftheria Solomonidi (University of Valencia)   (Urška 4)
4:45 PM Particle-antiparticle asymmetries in hadronic charm decays at LHCb - Luca Balzani (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))   (Urška 4)
5:00 PM Rare charm decays at LHCb - Marco Colonna (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))   (Urška 4)
5:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:45 PM
Flavour and CP violation 4 (until 6:45 PM) (Urška 4)
5:45 PM Spontaneous CP Violation and Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Minimal SO(10) - Xiyuan Gao (KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP)   (Urška 4)
6:00 PM Light states in real multi-Higgs models with spontaneous CP violation - Daniel Queiroz Correa   (Urška 4)
6:15 PM Extending the SM with vector-like quarks: consequences for CKM unitarity and CP violation - José Filipe Bastos (CFTP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)   (Urška 4)
6:30 PM Test of light-lepton universality in τ-decays at Belle II - Paul Feichtinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))   (Urška 4)
5:45 PM
Neutrinos and ALPs 2 (until 6:45 PM) (Urška 1)
5:45 PM The SAND detector at the DUNE near site - Nicoletta Mauri (Università di Bologna and INFN)   (Urška 1)
6:00 PM Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle and fundamental symmetries in underground experiments - Fabrizio Napolitano   (Urška 1)
6:15 PM Exploring Constraints on $\nu$SMEFT Coefficients in the Presence of an Extra $\text{U}(1)^\prime$ - Nicola Losacco   (Urška 1)
6:30 PM Heavy neutrino magnetic moments + LLPs - Dr Chandan Hati (IFIC, Valencia)   (Urška 1)
5:45 PM
Theoretical Developments 2 (until 6:45 PM) (Urška 3)
5:45 PM Advancing SMEFT Global Analyses: NLO, RGE contributions, and the Role of Flavour Physics - Riccardo Bartocci   (Urška 3)
6:00 PM Discrete Leptonic Flavor Symmetries in the SMEFT - Ajdin Palavric (University of Basel)   (Urška 3)
6:15 PM Unifying Quark and Lepton Flavor Observables through Modular Symmetry - Prof. Antonio Marrone (University of Bari and INFN-Bari)   (Urška 3)
6:30 PM Complex $S_3$ Symmetric 3HDM - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (CFTP/IST/U. Lisboa) Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST))   (Urška 3)
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
6:00 PM --- Conference dinner ---
12:15 PM --- Farewell lunch ---