LHC Dark Showers Workshop

from Monday 27 October 2025 (14:00) to Thursday 30 October 2025 (17:00)
CERN (73/1-031)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Oct 2025
28 Oct 2025
29 Oct 2025
30 Oct 2025
AM
09:00
Hackathon - Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) (until 17:00) (73/1-031 - 73-1-031)
09:00 Kickoff - Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
09:30 Work session  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Work session  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 Work session  
14:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:00 Work session  
16:30 Closeout  
PM
14:00
Overviews & new ideas - Jackson Carl Burzynski (Simon Fraser University (CA)) Annapaola De Cosa (ETH Zurich (CH)) (until 15:55) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
14:00 Workshop introduction - Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))  
14:15 CMS overview - Cesare Tiziano Cazzaniga (ETH Zurich (CH))  
14:40 ATLAS overview - Ian Alejandro Ramirez-Berend (Carleton University (CA))  
15:05 Holography for darkshowers - Nick Evans  
15:30 Glueballs and Lattice for darkshowers - Graham Douglas Kribs (University of Oregon (US))  
15:55 --- Break ---
16:30
Progress reports - Jannicke Pearkes (University of Colorado Boulder (US)) Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz) (until 16:55)
16:30 Semi-visible Emerging Jet - Dr José Francisco Zurita (IFIC, CSIC‐UV)  
16:55
Lightning talks - Jannicke Pearkes (University of Colorado Boulder (US)) Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz) (until 19:10) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
16:55 A Novel Beam Dump Experiment for Dark Sector Searches Using the CMS Detector - Hyunyong Kim (Seoul National University (KR))  
17:10 Reinterpretation of the early Run-3 displaced-jets search at CMS for emerging-jets signatures - Jingyu Luo (Brown University (US))  
17:25 How invisible is it? - Yin Li (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))  
17:40 Electroweak Portal Dark Shower - LINGFENG LI (Brown U.)  
17:55 Probing the Higgs Portal to a Hidden Valley at FCCee - Cesare Tiziano Cazzaniga (ETH Zurich (CH))  
18:10 Are SVJs hidden from the Lund Plane? - Mr Miguel Angel Avendano Bernal (University of Southampton)  
18:25 Surveying the Hidden Valley landscape - Joshua Lockyer  
18:40 Search for Strongly-Coupled Dark Matter via t-channel Production of Semi-Visible Jets​ - Akshat Shrivastava (Texas Tech University (US))  
14:00
Progress reports - Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 16:00) (40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson)
14:00 Flavor Changing Dark Currents - Emily Ann Smith (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
14:25 Studying CKKWL merging/matching scheme for t-channel generation - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
14:40 Physics and PYTHIA; What's hidden in the weeds - Prof. Matthew James Strassler (Harvard University)  
15:10 Hidden Valleys in Herwig - Dominic William Stafford (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
16:00 --- Break ---
16:20
Benchmarking proposals - Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)) Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) (until 18:00) (40/S2-A01 - Salle Anderson)
16:20 Comments on Benchmarking - Tim Cohen (CERN)  
16:50 $t$-channel models - Pedro Schwaller Pedro Klaus Schwaller (Mainz University)  
17:20 Dark matter and dark showers in strongly interacting dark sectors at the sub-GeV scale - Elias Bernreuther (UC San Diego)  
18:30
Social Dinner (until 20:30)
14:00 Benchmarking panel discussion - Suchita Kulkarni (University of Graz) Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB)) (until 16:00) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
16:00 --- Break ---
16:20
Formation of working groups toward white paper (until 18:00) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)