CKM 2025 - 13th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle

from Monday 15 September 2025 (02:00) to Friday 19 September 2025 (14:45)
Hotel Regina Margherita (Sala Castello)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Sept 2025
16 Sept 2025
17 Sept 2025
18 Sept 2025
19 Sept 2025
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Welcome - Francesco Dettori (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT)) Francesca Dordei (INFN, Cagliari (IT)) (until 09:30)
09:00 Welcome from INFN Cagliari and University of Cagliari - Prof. Michele Saba (UniCa Physics Department) Biagio Saitta (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT)) Alessandro Cardini (INFN Cagliari, Italy)  
09:20 Welcome and introduction - Francesca Dordei (INFN, Cagliari (IT)) Francesco Dettori (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))  
09:30
Plenary Session - Marta Calvi (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT)) (until 11:15)
09:30 Review on phenomenology - Marzia Bordone (University of Zürich and CERN)  
10:05 Review of e+e- colliders - Soeren Andre Prell (Iowa State University (US))  
10:40 Review of hadron colliders - Fred Blanc (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
11:15
Coffee break (until 11:45)
11:45
WG3 - Eluned Anne Smith (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Slavomira Stefkova Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Méril REBOUD (CNRS - IJClab) (until 13:00)
11:45 Weak radiative $B$ decays to NNLO with full charm mass dependence (15'+3') - Matthias Steinhauser Matthias Steinhauser (KIT)  
12:04 B -> X_s gamma and other radiative decays in Belle II (15'+3') - Ana Luisa Carvalho (DESY)  
12:23 Rare radiative B hadron decays in LHCb (15'+3') - Lais Soares Lavra (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
12:42 Subleading corrections to inclusive penguin decays (15'+3') - Tobias Hurth (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
11:45
WG5 - Xiaodong Shi (KEK) Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge (GB)) Maria Laura Piscopo (until 13:00) (Sala Stampace)
11:45 Overview of recent progress in QCD factorisation for non-leptonic B-meson decays (20'+4') - Philipp Böer  
12:10 Time-integrated measurements of γ at LHCb (20'+4') - Shunan Zhang (University of Oxford (GB))  
12:35 Direct CPV in B decay at Belle II (20'+4') - Thibaud Humair (DESY) Thibaud Humair (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
09:00
WG2 - Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE)) Judd Harrison Abhijit Mathad (CERN) Martin Jung (Università di Torino & INFN) (until 11:00) (Sala Stampace)
09:00 |V_ub| measurements: Exclusive and inclusive semileptonic decays at Belle II (20'+4') - Marcel Hohmann  
09:24 |V_cb| measurements at Belle II (20'+4') - Philipp Horak (University of Victoria)  
09:48 Determination of CKM matrix elements in FCCC decays at LHCb (20'+4') - Fabian Christoph Glaser (Heidelberg University (DE), Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:12 Prospects of CKM matrix elements at FCC-ee (20'+4') - Stephane Monteil (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))  
10:36 Prospects of CKM matrix elements at near-future detectors (LHCb UII and Belle-II) (20'+4') - Marcello Rotondo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
09:00
WG3 - Méril REBOUD (CNRS - IJClab) Slavomira Stefkova Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Eluned Anne Smith (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 11:00)
09:00 Experimental status of K+ -> pi+ nu nu decay (15'+5') - Mauro Piccini Mauro Piccini (INFN - Sezione di Perugia (IT))  
09:20 Experimental status of K0 -> pi0 nu nu (15'+5') - Chieh Lin (National Changhua University of Education)  
09:40 Rare strange decays at LHCb (15'+5') - Miguel Fernandez Gomez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
10:00 Theory overview of rare kaon decays (15'+5') - Avital Dery Avital Dery Avital Dery Avital Dery (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
10:20 Experimental overview of rare charm decays (15'+5') - Dr Bai-Cian Ke  
10:40 Effective Field Theory analysis of rare charm decays (15'+5') - Mr Luiz Vale Silva  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:30
WG4 - Peilian Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Eleftheria Malami (University of Siegen) Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University (US)) (until 13:20)
11:30 Measurements of sin(2φ2eff) and constraint on sin(2φ2) at Belle and Belle II (20'+7') - Ryogo Okubo (Nagoya University)  
11:57 Measuring time-dependent CP violation without signal vertexing at B factories (20'+7') - Mirco Dorigo (INFN Trieste)  
12:24 Latest measurement of $\phi_s$ from CMS and ATLAS (20'+7') - Franco Simonetto (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
12:51 Towards high-precision measurements on mixing phases φd, φs, properly including penguin contributions (20'+7') - Kristof De Bruyn  
11:30
WG7 - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Tommaso Pajero (CERN) Michel Bertemes (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)) (until 13:20) (Sala Stampace)
11:30 Final state interactions in charm decays (20'+7') - Eleftheria Solomonidi  
11:57 Charmed baryons decays and CPV (20'+7') - Zhi-Peng Xing (NanJing Normal University)  
12:24 CP violation in charmed baryons at LHCb and Belle (II) (16'+4') - Angelo Carbone (University of Bologna and INFN (IT))  
12:44 Magnetic and electric dipole moments of charmed baryons at ALADDIN (27'+9') - Sergio Javier Jaimes Elles  
09:00
WG1 - Bai-Cian Ke baiciank Leah Broussard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Gregorio Herdoiza (until 11:00) (Sala Stampace)
09:00 Review of lattice results for Vus and Vud (20'+4') - Dr James Simone (Fermilab)  
09:24 Lattice results regarding electromagnetic corrections to hadronic decays (20'+4') - Antonin Portelli (University of Southampton) Prof. Antonin Portelli (The University of Edinburgh) Dr Antonin Portelli  
09:48 First-principles evaluation of inclusive hadronic tau decays in QCD+QED (20'+4') - Matteo Di Carlo (CERN)  
10:12 Experimental studies of leptonic D decays (20'+4') - Xiao Wu  
10:36 Experimental studies of semileptonic D decays (20'+4') - Hui Li  
09:00
WG2 - Judd Harrison Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE)) Abhijit Mathad (CERN) Martin Jung (Università di Torino & INFN) (until 11:00)
09:00 Status and prospects of LFU and angular measurements at Belle II (20'+4') - Ilias Tsaklidis (University of Bonn)  
09:24 Tests of LFU in tree-level b-hadron decays at LHCb (20'+4') - Alessandra Gioventù (University of Barcelona (ES))  
09:48 Angular analyses of charged current decays at LHCb (20'+4') - Hasret Nur (University of Glasgow (GB))  
10:12 $B \to D^*$ angular analyses (20'+4') - Ludovico VITTORIO  
10:36 S-wave contributions to $B \to D\pi\ell\nu$ decays (20'+4') - Raynette Van Tonder (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:30
WG3 - Eluned Anne Smith (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Slavomira Stefkova Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Méril REBOUD (CNRS - IJClab) (until 13:00)
11:30 B -> K nu nu measurements and prospects (18'+4') - Eldar Ganiev (Jožef Stefan Institute)  
11:52 Experimental status of B -> K tau tau (18'+4') - Niharika Rout Niharika Rout (INFN Trieste) Niharika Rout  
12:14 Overview of the lepton flavour violating b -> s l l’ decays (18'+4') - Matteo Rama (INFN Pisa (IT))  
12:36 What can we learn from the B -> K nu nu measurements? (18'+4') - Salvador ROSAURO-ALCARAZ  
11:30
WG6 - Manuel Szewc Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) (until 13:00) (Sala Stampace)
11:30 W mass measurement (22'+8') - Cristina Alexe (INFN Pisa)  
12:00 Searches for heavy resonances (HNL, Leptoquarks, VLQ) (22'+8') - Pedro Urrejola (Universidad San Sebastian (USS) (CL)) Pedro Salvador Urrejola Pereira (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))  
12:30 Future physics prospects at HL-LHC (22'+8') - Paola Mastrapasqua (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
09:00
WG1 - Leah Broussard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Gregorio Herdoiza Bai-Cian Ke baiciank (until 11:00) (Sala Castello)
09:00 D-meson decays on the lattice (20'+4') - Simon Kuberski (CERN)  
09:24 Results in phenomenology relevant to Inclusive D decays (20'+4') - Qin Qin  
09:48 Results in Effective Field Theory relevant to Vcs and Beyond Standard Model (20'+4') - Danny van Dyk (TU München) Danny van Dyk (Durham University & IPPP)  
10:12 Electromagnetic corrections to leptonic D(s) decays at one loop (20'+4') - Dr Aritra Biswas Aritra Biswas (Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc.))  
10:36 Prospects of experimental studies in the charm sector (20'+4') - Yu Zhang  
09:00
WG6 - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) Manuel Szewc (until 11:00) (Sala Stampace)
09:00 Theoretical overview on CP-violation at high pT (20'+8') - Victor Miralles (University of Manchester)  
09:28 Search for CP-violation in top production and decay at LHC (22'+8') - Haichen Wang Haichen Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:58 Spin correlation and entanglement at colliders (20'+8') - Simone Tentori (UCLouvain)  
10:26 Spin correlation and entanglement in top and Higgs sector at LHC (22'+8') - Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))  
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30)
11:30
WG3 - Méril REBOUD (CNRS - IJClab) Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Slavomira Stefkova Eluned Anne Smith (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 13:30)
11:30 Lepton Flavour Universality tests in FCNC (15'+5') - Alex Marshall (University of Bristol (GB)) Alexander Mclean Marshall  
11:50 Latest news from b -> s mu mu at LHCb (15'+5') - Eluned Anne Smith (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:10 Angular analysis of b -> s ee at LHCb (15'+5') - Lorenzo Paolucci (The University of Manchester (GB))  
12:30 Theory update for b -> sll decays (15'+5') - Bernat Capdevila Javier Virto (Universitat de Barcelona)  
12:50 Rare and radiative Bs -> mu mu gamma (15'+5') - Camille Normand (University of Bristol (GB))  
13:10 Rare B decays at CMS and Atlas (15'+5') - Valeriia Lukashenko (University of Zurich (CH))  
11:30
WG4 - Chen Chunhui (Iowa State University-Unknown-Unknown) Eleftheria Malami Peilian Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) (until 13:30) (Sala Stampace)
11:30 Measurements of mixing-induced CP violation at LHCb (20'+4') - Alberto Bellavista (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
11:54 Measurement of Bs mixing parameters at LHCb (20'+4') - Jamie Gooding (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
12:18 Measurements of sin(2φ1) and sin(2φ1eff) at Belle and Belle II (20'+4') - Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University (US))  
12:42 B-Bbar mixing: Width difference and CP asymmetry in flavour-specific decays at next-to-next-leading order of QCD and more (20'+4') - Prof. Ulrich Nierste  
13:06 How large could CP violation in B meson mixing be? Implications for baryogenesis and upcoming searches (20'+4') - Mr Carlos Miró Arenas (IFIC (CSIC - U. Valencia))  
09:00
Plenary session: WG summaries - Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)) (until 10:40)
09:00 WG1 summary - Gregorio Herdoiza  
09:25 WG2 summary - Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE)) Martin Jung (Università di Torino & INFN)  
09:50 WG3 summary - Slavomira Stefkova Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))  
10:15 WG4 summary - Eleftheria Malami Eleftheria Malami (University of Siegen)  
10:40
Coffee break (until 11:20)
11:20
Plenary session: WG summaries - Paolo Gambino (until 12:35)
11:20 WG5 summary - Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:45 WG6 summary - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))  
12:10 WG7 summary - Dr Keri Vos (University of Maastricht) Tommaso Pajero (CERN)  
PM
13:00
Lunch (until 14:15)
14:15
WG6 - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) Manuel Szewc Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) (until 16:15) (Sala Stampace)
14:15 Theoretical overview of Higgs decays to fermions (20'+8') - Michele Tammaro (INFN)  
14:43 Di-Higgs production and Higgs self coupling measurements at LHC (22'+8') - Mohamed Belfkir (United Arab Emirates University (AE))  
15:13 Measurements of Higgs yukawa couplings at LHC (22'+8') - Matteo Marchegiani (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)  
15:43 Measurement of rare top processes and their interpretations (22'+8') - Matteo Negrini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
14:15
WG7 - Tommaso Pajero (CERN) Michel Bertemes (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)) Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) (until 16:15)
14:15 CP violation in charm decays (theory) (20'+7') - Maria Laura Piscopo (Nikhef)  
14:42 CP violation in charm decays at Belle (II) (20'+4') - Sanjeeda Bharati Das  
15:06 Testing $SU(3)_F$ symmetry in hadronic $D$ decays (20'+6') - Carolina Da Silva Bolognani (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:32 CP violation in charm decays at LHCb (20'+4') - Luca Balzani (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
15:56 Charm prospects at FCC-ee (15'+4') - Dominik Stefan Mitzel (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
16:15
Coffee break (until 16:45)
16:45
Plenary Session - Christoph Schwanda (until 19:00)
16:45 Review on Charm physics results - Giulia Tuci (Heidelberg University (DE))  
17:10 Review on the Lattice - Tobias Tsang (CERN)  
17:35 Review on Kaon physics results - Dr Joel Swallow (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)  
18:10 Beta decay and Lepton universality - Dinko Pocanic (University of Virginia (US))  
18:35 Progress in high pT (top, Higgs, flavour at high pT) - Syuhei Iguro (Nagoya University)  
19:00
Welcome drink (until 21:00)
13:20 CKM 2025 workshop picture  
13:30
Lunch (until 14:45)
14:45
WG6 - Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)) Manuel Szewc Dr Maria Moreno Llacer (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) (until 16:15) (Sala Stampace)
14:45 Theoretical predictions for toponium production at the LHC (20'+8') - Matthias Steinhauser  
15:13 Search for pseudo-scalars decaying to top anti-top pairs and toponium (22'+8') - Cristina Giordano (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
15:43 Single top production and direct measurement of Vtd, Vts, Vtb at LHC (22'+8') - Mohammed Faraj (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))  
14:45
WG7 - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Tommaso Pajero (CERN) Michel Bertemes (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)) (until 15:55)
14:45 Progress in lattice QCD in studying CPV and mixing in charm (27'+8') - Felix Erben (CERN)  
15:20 Time-dependent CPV and mixing in charm decays at LHCb (20'+5') - Flo Reiss (University of Freiburg (DE))  
15:45 Boosting the search for matter-antimatter asymmetries of oscillating charmed mesons with accelerators at LHCb (8 + 2') - Maurizio Martinelli (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
15:55
WG4 & WG5 & WG7 (until 16:45)
15:55 Simultaneous determination of $\gamma$ and charm mixing and CPV parameters at LHCb (20'+5') - Alessandro Bertolin (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
16:20 Global fit analysis of $\gamma$ and charm mixing and CPV parameters (UTFit) (20'+5') - Mr Roberto Di Palma (Università Roma Tre, Infn, sezione di Roma Tre)  
16:15
WG1 -Dr Bai-Cian Ke Gregorio Herdoiza Leah Broussard (until 16:45)
16:15 BESIII measurement of semileptonic hyperon decays and Vus determination (20' + 8') - Varvara Batozskaya Varvara Batozskaya (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))  
16:45
Coffee break (until 17:15)
17:15
WG1 - Bai-Cian Ke baiciank Gregorio Herdoiza Leah Broussard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) (until 19:15) (Sala Stampace)
17:15 Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime at J-PARC (20'+4') - Kenji Mishima  
17:39 Precision tests of CKM unitarity with the Neutron ‘a’ ‘b’ (Nab) spectrometer (20'+4') - Wolfgang Schreyer  
18:03 Data-driven methods for radiative corrections in Vud / Vus (20'+4') - Misha Gorshteyn (Mainz University)  
18:27 A sub-percent Determination of the Nucleon Axial Coupling from Lattice QCD (20' + 4') - Zack Hall  
18:51 Summary and prospects of experimental results for Vus (20'+4') - Dr Joel Swallow (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)  
17:15
WG4 & WG5 & WG7 (until 18:15)
17:15 BESIII measurement of strong parameters of charm decays (22'+8') - Shunan Zhang (University of Oxford (GB))  
17:45 HFLAV news (22'+8') - Ulrik Egede (Monash University (AU))  
18:15
WG4 & WG5 (until 19:15)
18:15 Report from CKMfit (15'+8') - Olivier Deschamps Dr Olivier Deschamps (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))  
18:38 Time-dependent measurement of γ at LHCb (15'+8') - Anna Lupato (Università di Bergamo & INFN Padova)  
19:30
HFLAV meeting - Mirco Dorigo (INFN Trieste) Ulrik Egede (Monash University (AU)) (until 21:00) (Sala Villanova)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:15)
15:00
Social activity (until 19:00)
13:30
Lunch (until 14:45)
14:45
WG2 - Abhijit Mathad (CERN) Martin Jung (Università di Torino & INFN) Judd Harrison Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE)) (until 16:45) (Sala Stampace)
14:45 Leptonic B decays: B → lν at Belle II (22'+8') - Daniel Jacobi (University of Bonn)  
15:15 $B \to X_u$ decays (22'+8') - Dr Keri Vos (University of Maastricht)  
15:45 $B \to X_c$ decays (22'+8') - Gael Finauri  
16:15 $B_s->D_s^{**}$ decays using lattice QCD (22'+8') - Alessandro Barone (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)  
14:45
WG4 - Chen Chunhui (Iowa State University-Unknown-Unknown) Peilian Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Eleftheria Malami (until 15:45)
14:45 Measurements of time-dependent CP violation in the gluonic and radiative penguin decays at Belle and Belle II (22'+8') - Shun Watanuki  
15:15 New measurement of B0 lifetime at ATLAS (22'+8') - Wolfgang Walkowiak (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
15:45
WG5 - Xiaodong Shi (KEK) Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge (GB)) Maria Laura Piscopo (Nikhef) (until 16:45)
15:45 CPV in b-baryon decays (22'+8') - Qin Qin  
16:15 CPV in baryon decays at LHCb (22'+8') - Patrik Adlarson (Uppsala University (SE))  
16:45
Coffee break (until 17:15)
17:15
WG2 - Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE)) Martin Jung (Università di Torino & INFN) Judd Harrison Abhijit Mathad (CERN) (until 19:00) (Sala Stampace)
17:15 Model-independent parameterization of $B \to \pi\pi\ell\nu$ decays (20'+6') - Florian Herren (UZH)  
17:41 Unitarity bounds for $B$ decays with subthreshold cuts (20'+6') - Méril REBOUD (CNRS - IJClab)  
18:07 $B_{(s)} \to \pi(K)$ form factors using lattice QCD (20'+6') - Logan Roberts (University of Glasgow)  
18:33 Phenomenology of $B_{(s)}$ and $D_{(s)}$ semileptonic decays to $\eta$ and $\eta^\prime$ (20'+6') - Blazenka Melic Blaženka Melić (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) Blazenka Melic (IRB, Zagreb)  
17:15
WG5 - Jordy Butter (University of Cambridge (GB)) Maria Laura Piscopo (Nikhef) Xiaodong Shi (University of Science and Technology of China) (until 19:00)
17:15 Overview of γ determinations and implications for new physics (20'+5') - Alexander Lenz  
17:40 Recent results on B → VV decays at LHCb (20'+5') - Matthew David Monk (University of Warwick (GB))  
18:05 Multi-body charmless decays at LHCb (20'+5') - Edoardo Mariani (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), LPNHE, Sorbonne Université)  
18:30 Updated study of CP asymmetries and SU(3)F breaking effects in B2pipi, KK, Kpi (20'+5') - Marta Burgos Marcos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
19:30
Conference dinner (until 23:30)
12:35
Closing (until 12:55)
12:35 News from the CKM Standing Advisory Committee - Paolo Gambino  
12:45 Goodbye - Francesca Dordei (INFN, Cagliari (IT)) Francesco Dettori (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))