Heavy Hadron Decays@CERN-TH

from Tuesday, 26 May 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 29 May 2026 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 May 2026
27 May 2026
28 May 2026
29 May 2026
AM
09:00 QCD factorization methods for hadronic decays - Tobias Huber (Siegen U)  
09:45 Weak Annihilation Amplitudes in QCD Factorization - Michel Stillger (JGU Mainz) Dr Michel Stillger (TU Munich)  
10:10 Euclidean correlators as lattice probes of the B-meson light-cone distribution amplitude - Jan-Niklas Toelstede  
10:30 --- Tea break ---
11:00 QCD sum rules for hadronic decays - Maria Laura Piscopo Alexander Khodjamirian  
11:50 Sum rules for B to p transitions - Ali Mohamed (Siegen university)  
09:00 B-meson LCDA from the Lattice - Qi-An Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Qi-An Zhang  
09:30 Heavy meson lifetimes using the gradient flow - Matthew Black  
10:00 Computing OPE matrix elements on the lattice - Andrea Shindler  
10:30 --- Tea break ---
11:00 Towards fully hadronic decays on the lattice - Rajnandini Mukherjee (University of Edinburgh) Rajnandini Mukherjee (University of Southampton)  
11:30 Discussion: How can lattice meet the continuum - Andreas Juttner (CERN)  
09:00 Experimental insights into hadronic decays - Stefano Perazzini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
09:45 Puzzles in non-leptonic heavy decays - Eleftheria Malami (University of Siegen)  
10:30 --- Tea break ---
11:00 Optimized observables in non leptonic B decays - Dr Aritra Biswas Aritra Biswas (Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc.))  
11:30 Closing remarks  
PM
13:50 Welcome - Maria Laura Piscopo Philipp Böer  
14:00 Continuum Overview - Stefan Schacht (Durham University)  
14:45 --- Tea break ---
15:15 Hadronic methods on the Lattice - Felix Erben (CERN)  
16:00 Experimental status and prospects of Hadronic Decays - Ozlem Ozcelik (CERN)  
16:45 Discussion Session  
18:00 --- Welcome reception ---
14:00 (Almost) 40 years of Heavy-Quark Expansion Methods: What has been achieved? (TH colloquium) - Thomas Mannel  
15:00 --- Tea break ---
16:00 Challenges in Light-cone Sumrules for $B\to D\pi$ and $B\to D K$ decays - Aleksey Rusov  
16:20 Three-particle di-light-cone distribution amplitudes of the $B$-meson - Daniel Vladimirov  
16:45 Discussion Session: QCD Factorization beyond leading power - Gael Finauri Philipp Böer  
14:00 Dispersive approaches for hadronic decays - Eleftheria Solomonidi (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
14:45 Towards a complete NLO description of the inclusive nonleptonic decay rate within the LEFT/WET - Stefan Meiser  
15:30 --- Tea break ---
16:00 Discussion Session on (QCDF inspired) SU(3) studies - Alexandre Jean (Durham University, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology) Marta Burgos Marcos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
19:00 Social Dinner @ La Meyrinoise