LHC BSM Working Group general meeting

from Monday 10 November 2025 (13:00) to Thursday 13 November 2025 (18:00)
CERN (40/S2-B01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Nov 2025
11 Nov 2025
12 Nov 2025
13 Nov 2025
AM
09:00
Long-lived particles - Andrii Usachov (Nikhef and VU (NL)) Alberto Escalante Del Valle (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Andre Lessa (CCNH - Univ. Federal do ABC) Dominique Trischuk (Brandeis University (US)) Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Dave Casper (University of California Irvine (US)) Cristovao Vilela (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA)) (until 13:00)
09:00 Overview of experimental results of the PBC benchmarks - Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
09:25 Reinterpretation rare Higgs decays in BC5 benchmark - Alberto Escalante Del Valle (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
09:45 Summary Plots for HNLs - Dominique Trischuk (University of Victoria (CA))  
10:05 Gaps in experimental coverage and new signatures - Elena Pompa Pacchi (University of Oklahoma (US)) Jingyu Luo (Brown University (US)) Andrii Usachov (Nikhef and VU (NL)) Andre Lessa (CCNH - Univ. Federal do ABC)  
10:30 Long-lived particles in ALICE - Mesut Arslandok (Yale University (US))  
10:45 Discussion - Cristovao Vilela (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA)) Dave Casper (University of California Irvine (US)) Dominique Trischuk (University of Victoria (CA)) Mesut Arslandok (Yale University (US)) Andrii Usachov (Nikhef and VU (NL)) Alberto Escalante Del Valle (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Andre Lessa (CCNH - Univ. Federal do ABC)  
11:05 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
11:35 Long-lived particles in FASER - Cristiano Sebastiani (CERN)  
11:50 Long-lived particles in SND - Simona Ilieva Ilieva (CERN)  
12:05 Long-lived particles in MoEDAL - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))  
12:20 Feedback on reinterpretation material - Andre Lessa (CCNH - Univ. Federal do ABC)  
12:40 Discussion - Cristovao Vilela (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)) James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA)) Andrii Usachov (Nikhef and VU (NL)) Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) Dave Casper (University of California Irvine (US)) Alberto Escalante Del Valle (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES)) Dominique Trischuk (University of Victoria (CA)) Mesut Arslandok (Yale University (US)) Andre Lessa (CCNH - Univ. Federal do ABC)  
09:00
Dark Matter - Titus Mombächer (University of Cincinnati (US)) Tim Tait (Argonne National Lab) Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine) Deborah Pinna (University of Wisconsin Madison (US)) Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB)) Tim Tait (University of California, Irvine) Ulrich Andreas Haisch (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:30)
09:00 Introduction - Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))  
09:15 Expression of interest for 2HDM+a taskforce  
09:25 s-channel DM models benchmark proposal  
09:45 t-channel DM models benchmark proposal - Luca Panizzi (Universita' della Calabria)  
10:05 --- Coffee break ---
10:25 ESPPU Dark Matter working group Briefing book summary - Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB))  
10:45 ESPPU DM working group tools  
11:00 Forum discussion: DM interpretation or "How can we prepare best for the full Run-3 dataset?".  
09:00
Re-interpretation - Martin Habedank (University of Glasgow) Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble) Carlos Vazquez Sierra (Universidade da Coruña (ES)) Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR)) (until 12:30)
09:00 Preservation/reinterpretation efforts in the experiments (20+10): ATLAS - Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))  
09:30 Preservation/reinterpretation efforts in the experiments (20+10): CMS  
10:00 Preservation/reinterpretation efforts in the experiments (20+10): LHCb  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 REI taskforces (20+10): HS3 - Dr Carsten Burgard (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
11:30 Open Event Generation (20+10) - Mariana Isabel Vivas Albornoz (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
12:00 REI taskforces (20+10): Modular detector emulation  
PM
13:00
BSM physics at the LHC - overview talks - Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)) Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN) Tim Cohen (CERN) Daniel Johnson (University of Birmingham (GB)) Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University (SE)) Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)) (until 18:00)
13:00 Introduction & welcome - Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT))  
13:15 Recap of the SEARCH conference - Maurizio Pierini (CERN)  
13:45 Theory overview - Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)  
14:15 Overview from LHC experiments - Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA))  
14:45 Report from NextGen TH+EXP - Guilherme Guedes  
15:15 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
15:45 Report from the dark shower task force  
16:05 Re-interpretation overview - Martin Habedank (University of Glasgow)  
16:30 Overview from top physics - Sergio Sanchez Cruz (CERN)  
17:00 Overview from BSM Higgs - Tatjana Lenz (University of Bonn (DE))  
17:30 Overview from EFT - Gauthier Durieux (CP3 - UCLouvain)  
18:00 --- Welcome drinks ---
14:00
Prompt BSM signatures - Roberto Franceschini (Rome 3 U.) Zeynep Demiragli (Boston University (US)) Giuliano Gustavino (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)) (until 18:00)
14:00 Introduction of the group  
14:20 Theoretical topics on Anomaly Detection (15+5)  
14:40 Experimental results on Anomaly Detection  
15:10 Theoretical Topics on Heavy Resonances (15+5)  
15:30 Experimental results on Heavy Resonances  
16:00 --- Coffee/Tea break ---
16:20 Theoretical results on SUSY - outlook (15+5)  
16:40 Experimental status of SUSY and pMSSM combinations  
14:20 Reserved for the "Quests for new physics" session at the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics  
14:00
Re-interpretation - Carlos Vazquez Sierra (Universidade da Coruña (ES)) Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR)) Martin Habedank (University of Glasgow) Sabine Kraml (LPSC Grenoble) (until 18:00)