DISCRETE 2024 in Ljubljana

from Monday 2 December 2024 (08:00) to Friday 6 December 2024 (19:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024
AM
08:15
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Plenary session (until 10:40) (Urška 4)
09:00 Welcome and introduction to Discrete 2024 - Prof. Miha Nemevsek (IJS)  
09:10 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)  
09:40 Semileptonic decays with Belle and Belle II - Florian Bernlochner (KIT Karlsruhe)  
10:10 Top quark operators in SMEFT - David Marzocca (INFN Trieste)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Plenary session (until 12:10) (Urška 4)
11:10 Flavor Phenomenology of Light Dark Vectors - Dr Emmanuel Stamou (TU Dortmund)  
11:40 Light dark sector searches at accelerators - Prof. Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia (CA))  
09:00
Plenary session (until 10:30)
09:00 Recent results in neutrino physics experiments - Francesca Di Lodovico (University of London (GB))  
09:30 Cosmological perspective on neutrinos - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)  
10:00 Left-Right Symmetry at Hadron Colliders - Prof. Fabrizio Nesti  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session (until 12:00)
11:00 Strong CP without axions - Ferruccio Feruglio  
11:30 Froggatt-Nielsen ALP - ALESSANDRO VALENTI  
09:30
Plenary session (until 10:30)
09:30 Theory of baryon number violation - Dr Vasja Susič (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))  
10:00 SUSY particle searches at LHC - Iacopo Vivarelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session (until 12:00)
11:00 Malaphoric Z' model for flavour - Prof. Ben Allanach (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:30 New particle searches at LHC (non-SUSY) - Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT))  
09:00
Plenary session (until 10:30)
09:00 Is flavor discrete? - Alexei Smirnov  
09:30 Generalized symmetries in particle physics - Joseph Enea Davighi  
10:00 Fundamental tests with antimatter - Paolo Crivelli (ETH Zurich (CH))  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session (until 12:00)
11:00 New measurement of the ultra-rare K+ --> pi+ nu nubar decay - Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))  
11:30 Future colliders - Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia (ES))  
09:00
Plenary session (until 10:30)
09:00 CP violation in baryogenesis - Rachel Anne Houtz  
09:30 Domain Walls in the early Universe and their gravitational signatures - Fabrizio Rompineve (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES))  
10:00 B-meson semileptonic decays from lattice QCD - Alejandro Marino Vaquero Avilés-Casco (Universidad de Zaragoza)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Plenary session (until 12:15)
11:00 Towards the long distance contributions from lattice - Prof. Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh)  
11:30 Searches for new physics with muons - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)  
12:00 Closing session - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (CFTP/IST/U. Lisboa) Prof. Miha Nemevsek (Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana)  
PM
12:10 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary session (until 15:30) (Urška 4)
14:00 Branching fractions and CP asymmetries in charm meson decays - Prof. Ulrich Nierste  
14:30 Study of b -> sll transitions with LHCb - Marie-Helene Schune (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
15:00 Studies of b->s transitions with Belle/Belle II - Alexander Glazov (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Plenary session (until 17:00) (Urška 4)
16:00 Higgs and CP-violation - Christoph Englert  
16:30 Probing CP on lattice - Christoph Lehner (University of Regensburg & BNL)  
17:30
Reception (until 19:00) (Foyer)
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary session (until 15:00)
14:00 Searches for Long Lived Particles - Albert De Roeck (CERN) Albert De Roeck (CERN)  
14:30 Baryon number violations involving tau leptons - Julian Heeck  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Collider 1 (until 17:00)
15:30 A first constraint on CPT violation in top quarks - Nathaniel Sherrill (Leibniz University Hannover)  
15:45 New Constraint for Isotropic Lorentz Violation from LHC Data - David Amram (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:00 Collider and astrophysical signatures of light scalars with enhanced $\tau$ couplings - Nudžeim Selimović (INFN Padova)  
16:15 Third-Family Lepton-Quark Fusion - Arman Korajac  
16:30 Teaming up MET plus jet with Drell-Yan in the SMEFT - Daniel Wendler (TU Dortmund)  
16:45 Constraining the SMEFT Extended with Sterile Neutrinos at FCC-ee - Patrick Bolton (Jožef Stefan Institute)  
15:30
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1 (until 16:45)
15:30 Highlights from the NA64 experiment - Benjamin Banto Oberhauser (ETH Zurich (CH))  
15:45 Highlights from space astroparticle physics experiments - Andrii Tykhonov (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
16:00 Baryogenesis and gravitational waves from domain walls - Miguel Vanvlasselaer (VUB)  
16:15 Wash-in leptogenesis from asymmetric Dirac neutrino scatterings - Peter Matak (Comenius University (SK))  
15:30
Flavour and CP violation 1 (until 17:00)
15:30 LHCb highlights - Adam Szabelski (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))  
15:45 Search for Baryogenesis and Dark Matter in B-meson decays at BABAR - Prof. Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia (CA))  
16:00 How large could CP violation in B meson mixing be? Implications for baryogenesis and upcoming searches - Mr Carlos Miró Arenas (IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))  
16:15 Baryon number violation in the top sector - Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez  
16:30 Studies of CP violation at Belle and Belle II - Radek Zlebcik  
16:45 CP-Asymmetries in semileptonic decays - Dr Martin Novoa-Brunet (IFIC, U. Valencia, CSIC)  
17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:30
Flavour and CP violation 2 (until 18:45)
17:30 Searches for hidden sectors and lepton flavour violation in kaon decays - Tomas Blazek (Comenius University (SK))  
17:45 A Strangeness Adventure: Kaonic Atom Measurements with SIDDHARTA-2 at the DAΦNE Collider - Francesco Artibani (INFN-LNF)  
18:00 The n2EDM experiment, a high-sensitivity search for the neutron electric dipole moment - Victoria Kletzl  
18:15 Anomaly awareness estimation in $b\to s\ell^+\ell^-$ with VAEs - Bernat Capdevila (IFAE)  
18:30 The electron-EDM in the decoupling limit of the aligned 2HDM - Juan Manuel Dávila Illán (Universitat de València - IFIC)  
17:30
Neutrinos and ALPs 1 (until 18:30)
17:30 Non-vanilla Axion Solutions to the Strong CP Problem - Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)  
17:45 Freeze-in production of axions in DFSZ-type axion models - Kodai Sakurai (Tohoku University)  
18:00 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))  
18:15 Extending the reach of Mu3e with displaced searches - Michele Tammaro  
17:30
Theoretical Developments 1 (until 18:45)
17:30 Thermodynamics from the S-matrix reloaded - Dr Pietro Baratella (IJS)  
17:45 Hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon anomaly from first principles to an accuracy of 4.6 per mil - Davide Giusti (Forschungszentrum Jülich)  
18:00 Exploring near-conformal dark sectors - Joshua Lockyer  
18:15 Higher order corrections in dimensional reduction - JAVIER LÓPEZ MIRAS  
18:30 The Standard Model lifetime is slightly shorter - Dr Yutaro Shoji (IJS)  
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Plenary session (until 15:30)
14:00 One Born-Oppenheimer Effective field theory to rule them all: hybrids, tetraquarks, pentaquarks, quarkonium and doubly heavy baryons - Nora Brambilla (Institut fuer Theoretische Physik)  
14:30 Beta decays as probes for fundamental physics - Martin Gonzalez-Alonso (CERN)  
15:00 SIMP Miracles and WIMP Dead Ends: Navigating the Freeze-Out of MeV Dark Matter - Josef Pradler (University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Collider 2 (until 17:15)
16:00 Type II lepton number violation at the LHC - Jonathan Kriewald (Jožef Stefan Institute)  
16:15 Higgs boson property measurements at the ATLAS experiment - Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham (GB))  
16:30 Higgs decays into lepton pairs and a photon - Ivan Nišandžić (Ruđer Bošković Institute)  
16:45 Background processes in Higgs decay to Z gamma - Aliaksei Kachanovich (ULB)  
17:00 Probing global symmetries with top and Higgs at CMS - Nicolas Pierre Chanon (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
16:00
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2 (until 17:15)
16:00 Searching for proton decay with paleo-detectors - Dr Patrick Stengel (Jožef Stefan Institute)  
16:15 Probing Dark Matter with RES-NOVA's archaeological Pb-based Detectors - Dr Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini  
16:30 Asymmetric dark matter semi-annihilation into long-lived particles - Viktor Zaujec (Comenius University in Bratislava)  
16:45 CP-violating portal to Dark Sectors - Nicola Valori - (University of Valencia & IFIC)  
17:00 Highlights from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - Dr Jim Dobson (King's College London)  
16:00
Flavour and CP violation 3 (until 17:15)
16:00 Taming Penguins: towards high precision measurements of phi_d and phi_s - Kristof Antoon M De Bruyn (University of Groningen)  
16:15 Penguin decays of B mesons - Dr Aritra Biswas  
16:30 Implications of cascade topologies for rare charm decays and CP violation - Eleftheria Solomonidi (University of Valencia)  
16:45 Particle-antiparticle asymmetries in hadronic charm decays at LHCb - Luca Balzani (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
17:00 Rare charm decays at LHCb - Marco Colonna (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
17:15 --- Coffee break ---
17:45
Flavour and CP violation 4 (until 18:45)
17:45 Spontaneous CP Violation and Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in Minimal SO(10) - Xiyuan Gao (KIT, Karlsruhe, TTP)  
18:00 Light states in real multi-Higgs models with spontaneous CP violation - Daniel Queiroz Correa  
18:15 Extending the SM with vector-like quarks: consequences for CKM unitarity and CP violation - José Filipe Bastos (CFTP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)  
18:30 Test of light-lepton universality in τ-decays at Belle II - Paul Feichtinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
17:45
Neutrinos and ALPs 2 (until 18:45)
17:45 The SAND detector at the DUNE near site - Nicoletta Mauri (Università di Bologna and INFN)  
18:00 Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle and fundamental symmetries in underground experiments - Fabrizio Napolitano  
18:15 Exploring Constraints on $\nu$SMEFT Coefficients in the Presence of an Extra $\text{U}(1)^\prime$ - Nicola Losacco  
18:30 Heavy neutrino magnetic moments + LLPs - Dr Chandan Hati (IFIC, Valencia)  
17:45
Theoretical Developments 2 (until 18:45)
17:45 Advancing SMEFT Global Analyses: NLO, RGE contributions, and the Role of Flavour Physics - Riccardo Bartocci  
18:00 Discrete Leptonic Flavor Symmetries in the SMEFT - Ajdin Palavric (University of Basel)  
18:15 Unifying Quark and Lepton Flavor Observables through Modular Symmetry - Prof. Antonio Marrone (University of Bari and INFN-Bari)  
18:30 Complex $S_3$ Symmetric 3HDM - Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (CFTP/IST/U. Lisboa) Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST))  
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
18:00 --- Conference dinner ---
12:15 --- Farewell lunch ---