Workshop on isospin symmetry violation: kaons and beyond  - ISO-BREAK 25

from Thursday, 23 October 2025 (09:00) to Saturday, 25 October 2025 (17:00)
Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University (B1)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025
AM
09:00 --- Cofee ---
09:30 Why do we meet? - Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University (PL))  
09:35 Welcome  
09:40 Isospin - Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Kielce University)  
10:00
Experimental status and outlook - Marek Gazdzicki (Jan Kochanowski University (PL)) (until 11:10)
10:00 Charged to neutral kaon ratio in NA61/SHINE - Seweryn Kowalski (University of Silesia (PL)) Andrzej Krzysztof Rybicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
10:30 Charged to neutral kaon ratio in NA49 and NA35 - Herbert Stroebele (Institut fuer Kernphysik-Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ.-Unknown)  
11:00 Meeting's logistics - Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski Uniwersity, Kielce)  
11:10 --- Coffee ---
11:30
Experimental status and outlook - Eric Daniel Zimmerman (University of Colorado Boulder (US)) (until 13:15)
11:30 Charged to neutral kaon ratio in STAR (R) - Mr Li'Ang Zhang (Central ChinaNormal University (CCNU))  
12:00 Charged to neutral kaon ratio in ALICE I - Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
12:30 Charged to neutral kaon ratio in HADES - Manuel Lorenz  
13:00 Discussion  
09:30
Fitting the data et al. - Stanislaw Mrowczynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland) (until 10:30)
09:30 UrQMD + fit - Marcus Bleicher  
09:50 Coalescence + fit - Martin Rohrmoser (Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach)  
10:10 Feasibility of testing isospin symmetry with pions - Damian Pszczel Damian Pszczel (Uppsala University) Damian Pszczel (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
10:20 Discussion  
10:30
More from the experiments - Stanislaw Mrowczynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland) (until 11:00)
10:30 Charged and neutral 
kaon production in ALICE: prospects - Nicolò Jacazio (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))  
10:50 Simulation related to the ALICE results - Nicolò Jacazio (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30
More from the experiments - Seweryn Kowalski (University of Silesia (PL)) (until 13:30)
11:30 Charged to neutral kaon ratio in BESIII (R) - Linqin Huang  
12:00 Flavor Dependence of Charged Pion Fragmentation Functions - Dipangkar Dutta (Mississippi State University)  
12:30 Charged kaons in SHINE - Maciej Piotr Lewicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
12:50 Neutral kaons in SHINE - Tatjana Susa (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))  
13:10 Discussion  
10:00
Brainstorming Possible Explanations and More - Wojciech Broniowski (until 11:40)
10:20 Effect of q-qbar mutual interaction on q-qbar creation - Stanislaw Mrowczynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)  
10:50 Strong fields and Isospin violation in the initial stage of heavy ion collisions - Johann Rafelski (Tucson, Arizona (US))  
11:20 Thoughts on isospin - Dr Leonardo Tinti (Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach)  
11:40 --- Coffee ---
PM
13:15 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Legacy modelling -Prof. Francesco Giacosa (Kielce University) (until 16:00)
14:30 Strong isospin breaking in lattice QCD - Bastian Brandt (University of Bielefeld)  
15:00 Strings (UrQMD, EPOS) - Klaus WERNER (subatech) Marcus Bleicher  
15:30 Statistical models (R) - Mark Gorenstein  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30
Legacy modelling - Marcus Bleicher (until 18:30)
16:30 Hadron Recombination Model and its predictions - Joanna Maria Stepaniak (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))  
17:00 Quarkonic picture in isospin QCD - Oleksii Ivanytskyi (University of Wroclaw)  
17:20 Strings (SMASH) - Mr Oleksandr Vitiuk (University of Wroclaw (PL))  
17:40 Study of isospin symmetry violation in kaons and beyond using the HRG model - Dr Subhasis Samanta  
18:00 Discussion  
13:30 --- Lunch ---
15:00 Isospin in QCD (R) - Robert Pisarski  
15:30 Blind analysis (R) - Dr Jim Drachenberg (Abilene Christian University) Jim Drachenberg Jim Drachenberg Jim Drachenberg  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:30 A brief history of thermal and statistical models (R) - Joseph Kapusta (University of Minnesota (US))  
17:00 Disoriented isospin condensates and anomalous kaon fluctuations (R) - Mayank Singh  
20:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:00
Brainstorming Possible Explanations and More - Katarzyna Grebieszkow (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)) Katarzyna Grebieszkow (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)) (until 13:30)
12:00 Testing strangeness conservation - Herbert Stroebele (Institut fuer Kernphysik-Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ.-Unknown)  
12:20 Nonlinear selection rules due to isospin symmetry - Ludwik Turko (University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland) Ludwik Turko (University of Wroclaw (PL)) Ludwik Turko (University Wroclaw)  
12:40 Implementing isospin breaking within THERMINATOR - Dr Radoslaw Ryblewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)  
13:00 Discussion  
13:30 --- Lunch ---