BEACH 2026: XVI International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions

from Sunday, 7 June 2026 (14:00) to Friday, 12 June 2026 (13:00)
Firenze

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Jun 2026
8 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026
10 Jun 2026
11 Jun 2026
12 Jun 2026
AM
09:00
Opening - Giovanni Passaleva (INFN Florence (IT)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Introduction  
09:30 The role of flavour in the Hi Lumi era - Luca Silvestrini  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Fresh flavour results - Giacomo Graziani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze (IT)) (until 12:50)
11:00 Time-dependent CP violation measurements at Belle and Belle II - Sebastiano Raiz  
11:25 Time-dependent CPV at LHCb - Jeremy Peter Dalseno (University of A Coruna - UDC (ES))  
11:50 Recent SM and EFT measurements in the top quark sector in ATLAS - Lucio Cerrito (University and INFN Rome Tor Vergata (IT))  
12:15 Light Exotics at BESIII - Ulrich Wiedner  
09:00
Flavour BSM - Michele Tammaro (until 10:30)
09:00 Flavour Views Beyond the Standard Model - Jernej Kamenik (INFN LNF)  
09:24 Search for dark sector at BESIII - Zhijun Li (Sun Yat-Sen University)  
09:46 Dark sector and $\tau$ lepton studies at Belle II - Abi Soffer (Tel Aviv University (IL))  
10:08 Search for $\tau\to\mu\mu\mu$ decays at LHCb - Flavio Archilli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Flavour BSM - Lorenzo Sestini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Search for the Lepton Flavour Violating decays Y(2S) —> e μ, and Y(3S) —> e μ at BaBar - Yury Kolomensky  
11:22 Search for the Charged Lepton Flavour Violating Decays $B^+ \rightarrow \pi^+ \mu^\pm e^\mp$ - Niladri Sahoo (University of Birmingham (GB))  
11:44 Search for new physics with charm data at BESIII - Dr Vindhyawasini Prasad  
12:06 Overview of recent searches for BSM physics using the ATLAS detector - Dr Theodota Lagouri (Yale University (US))  
09:00
Hadron Production and Spectroscopy - Lucio Anderlini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Recent progress on heavy hadron spectroscopy - Liupan An (Peking University (CN))  
09:30 Searches for Exotic Hadrons and Novel Phenomena in Charmonium Physics at BESIII - Zhaoshen Xu  
09:52 Observation a family of tetra-charm states at CMS - Jinjing Gu (Tsinghua University (CN))  
10:14 Spectroscopy of fully charmed and fully bottom tetraquarks - Raghavendra Kaushal (Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India)  
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
11:00
Hadron Production and Spectroscopy - Alessandro Pilloni (Messina U. & INFN Catania) (until 13:00)
11:00 Overview of hadronic molecules - Prof. Feng-Kun Guo (Insitute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
11:30 Femtoscopy and hadron spectroscopy - Dr Miguel Albaladejo (IFIC (CSIC & Valencia U.))  
11:52 Heavy-flavour production and correlations in pp at the LHC - Samuele Cattaruzzi (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
12:14 Study of χb1,2(2P)→ωΥ(1S) transitions from e+e−→Υ(3S)→γ χb1,2(2P) decays at BaBar - Janis McKenna (University of British Columbia)  
12:36 Heavy-flavour results from ATLAS experiment - Asim Mohammed Aslam (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))  
09:00
Strangeness - Giuseppe Ruggiero (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 10:40)
09:00 Kaon Decays as Precision Tests of the Standard Model and New Physics - Martin Gorbahn (Liverpool University)  
09:28 Rare Kaon Decays: recent results, status and prospects - Cristina Lazzeroni (University of Birmingham (GB))  
09:56 A new measurement of the $K^{+} \rightarrow \pi^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ branching ratio at the NA62 experiment - Ilaria Panichi (INFN Firenze (IT))  
10:18 The Search for KL → π0νν at the KOTO experiment - Joseph Redeker  
10:40
Coffee break (until 11:10)
11:10
Strangeness - Massimo Lenti (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 12:40)
11:10 New results on rare and radiative kaon decays from the NA62 experiment - Roberto Piandani (Univ. Autonoma de San Luis Potosi)  
11:32 Observation of the rare baryon decay $\Sigma+ \to p \mu^+ \mu^-$ at LHCb - Francesco Dettori (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))  
11:54 Recent results of Baryon electromagnetic form factors at BESIII - Gengyuan Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
12:15 Unveiling the microscopic dynamics of small systems via light-flavor correlations with ALICE - Stefano Cannito (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
09:00
Beauty Hadrons - Francesca Bucci (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 10:20)
09:00 Overview of rare decays of B(s)-mesons within and beyond the Standard Model - Ludovico Vittorio (Sapienza University of Rome and INFN, Sezione di Roma)  
09:30 Studies of Cabibbo-suppressed $b \to d \ell^+ \ell^-$ FCNCs at LHCb - Dr Fernando Abudinén (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
09:52 Measurements of electroweak penguin $B$ decays at Belle and Belle II - Ana Luisa Carvalho (DESY)  
10:20
Coffee break (until 10:50)
10:50
Beauty Hadrons - Antonio Cassese (INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 11:45)
10:50 Study of charmless b-hadron decays at LHCb - Yiming Liu (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
11:12 Anomalies in hadronic B decays - Marianne Bouchard (Université de Montréal)  
11:45
Flavour prospects and closing - Nick Solomey (until 13:00)
11:45 A Theorist’s Outlook on the Future of Flavour Physics - David Marzocca (INFN Trieste)  
12:15 Progress of the Super Tau Charm Facility project in China - Prof. Haiping Peng (University of Science and Technology of China)  
12:45 Conclusions and next BEACH conference  
PM
14:00
Arrival and Registration (until 23:59)
12:50
Lunch (until 13:50)
13:50
Beauty Hadrons - Veronika Georgieva Chobanova (University of A Coruna - UDC (ES)) (until 15:50)
14:00 Gamma combination with D decays at LHCb - Federico Betti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
14:22 Quantum-correlation of neutral charmed mesons at BESIII - Neeraj Kumar  
14:44 Phenomenology of B(s) and D(s) semileptonic decays to eta and eta' - Blaženka Melić (Rudjer Boskovic Institute)  
15:06 Inclusive antideuteron production from beauty-hadron decays - Marta Razza (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
15:28 CPV in b-baryons decays at LHCb - Fabio Ferrari (University of Bologna and INFN (IT))  
15:50
Coffee break (until 16:20)
16:20
Beauty Hadrons - Mirco Dorigo (INFN Trieste) (until 18:30)
16:20 Semileptonic $b\to c\ell\bar\nu$ transitions in the SM and beyond - Martin Jung (Università di Torino & INFN)  
16:45 Measurements of lepton-flavor universality in semileptonic B decays at Belle and Belle II - Andreas Warburton (McGill University, (CA))  
17:06 Recent LHCb results on charged-current semileptonic b-hadron decays - Alice Moro (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
17:27 Lepton-flavor universality violation in semileptonic B decays at BaBar - Steven Robertson (IPP / University of Alberta)  
17:48 Measurements of Vcb and Vub at Belle and Belle II - Giovanni Gaudino (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))  
18:09 Universal Radiative Corrections for Precision Determinations of $V_{ud}$ - Ms Ana Costa Pereira (University of Liverpool)  
12:30
Selected Poster presentation session - Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 13:10)
12:30 Inclusive $J/\psi$ Production as a Probe of Gluon Dynamics at NICA - Shubham Sharma (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Istitute of Technology, Jalandhar, India)  
12:40 Study of Higgs coupling CP properties with ATLAS experiment - Metea Castilleja Marr (Simon Fraser University (CA))  
12:50 Cross Section Measurements and Searches for New Structures in e+e− Annihilations at BESIII - Ming Zhuge  
13:10
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
Charm - Nicola Neri (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) (until 16:00)
14:30 Charming clues to explain existence - Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham)  
15:00 Measurement of the relative phase between strong and EM decays - Yadi Wang  
15:20 Mixing and CPV in charm at LHCb - Mark Richard James Williams (The University of Edinburgh (GB))  
15:40 Measurements of |Vcd(s)|, decay constants, and form factors in (semi)-leptonic D decays at BESIII - Heng Ma (Hunan University (CN))  
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30)
16:30
Charm - Michele Veltri (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 18:30)
16:30 Precision Measurements of Rare χcJ Decays at BESIII - Guangrui Liao  
16:52 Nonlocal QCD effects in $D^0-\bar D^0$ mixing. - Alexey Petrov (University of South Carolina)  
17:17 The hadronic decays of charmed mesons at BESIII - Xin Zeng  
17:39 CP violation in the decay of charmed hadrons at LHCb - Irene Celestino (SNS & INFN Pisa (IT))  
18:01 The ALADDIN experiment at LHC - Gabriele Simi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
13:00
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Excursion (until 18:00)
12:40
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Flavour BSM - Marco Scodeggio Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT)) (until 15:50)
14:00 Probing Neutrino Compositeness with Displaced Signals - Matteo Borrello (University of Florence, INFN of Florence)  
14:22 Flavor Physics in DUNE - Federico Galizzi for the DUNE Collaboration (INFN and University of Milano-Bicocca)  
14:44 Latest Results from the SND@LHC Experiment - Vasilis Chariton (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR))  
15:06 New physics searches at the NA62 experiment - Jan Jerhot (Max Planck Society (DE))  
15:28 New BABAR precision results on e+e- to pi+pi-(gamma) for g-2 HVP calculations - Georges Vasseur (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
15:50
Coffee break (until 16:20)
16:20
Charm spectroscopy - Alexey Petrov (University of South Carolina) (until 18:40)
16:20 Charmed hadron properties and spectroscopy at LHCb - Serena Maccolini (CERN)  
16:42 Recent results on charm and hadronic interactions from Belle and Belle II - Vitalii Lisovskyi (EPFL (CH) and Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille (F))  
17:04 Mass spectra of singly heavy baryon within the relativistic Independent Quark Model - Rameshri Patel (P.D.PATEL INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCES (CHAROTAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY))  
17:25 Results from the DsTau (NA65) experiment - Neagu Alina - Tania (Institute of Space Science)  
17:47 Fluid dynamics of Charm-Quark number in the QGP - Eduardo Grossi  
18:09 Fragmentation function studies at BESIII - Francesco Rosini (University of Perugia and INFN Sezione di Perugia)  
18:30 Announcement of next BEACH - Alexander Lenz Nick Solomey  
20:30
Social dinner (until 23:00)