Name: 9th FCC Physics Workshop
Start: 2026-01-26T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-30T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Max Planck Institute for Physics

9th FCC Physics Workshop

from Monday, 26 January 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 30 January 2026 (18:00)
Max Planck Institute for Physics

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

26 Jan 2026

27 Jan 2026

28 Jan 2026

29 Jan 2026

30 Jan 2026

09:30	FCC Early Career Forum (until 12:30)
09:30	Introduction to this event - Armin Ilg (University of Zurich)
09:40	What is FCC? - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))
09:55	What is ESO? - Sanje Antona Fenkart
10:10	Presentation of FCC ECR document draft - Jacqueline Keintzel (CERN)
10:25	--- Coffee Break ---
10:45	Interactive panel discussion – Early Career Professionals in future, large, international science projects - Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)) Bibiana Prinoth (ESO) Jarle Brinchmann (ESO) Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB)) Dolores Garcia (CERN)
11:35	--- Networking with following lunch ---

09:00	Parallel: EPOL - Jacqueline Keintzel (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00	Polarization transmission - Jorg Wenninger (CERN)
09:23	Progress on depolariser - Daniel Sittard (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) Wolfgang Hofle (CERN)
09:46	Polarimeter studies at IJClab - Juba Tamazirt Juba TAMAZIRT
10:09	Polarimeter studies at CERN - Dr Robert Kieffer (CERN)
09:00	Parallel: Physics - Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00	The Potential of the Higgs at FCC - Uli Haisch
09:18	Acceptance and Higher Order EW and QED at FCC-ee - Zbigniew Was (IFJ PAN Krakow) Zbigniew Andrzej Was (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
09:36	Time-Dependent Precision Measurement of B0s→ϕμ+μ− Decay at FCC-ee - Jason Aebischer (CERN)
09:54	alpha_s extraction from the tau lifetime at FCC-ee - Dr Redamy Pérez-Ramos (IPSA/LPTHE)
10:12	Prospects of jet physics at FCC (N3LO QCD corrections) - Giovanni Stagnitto (University of Milano Bicocca)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Parallel: EPOL - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 12:35)
11:00	Polarisation ring studies - Christian Carli (CERN)
11:20	FCC-ee spin polarisation: status and challenges - Yi Wu (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
11:40	Calibration through dimuon-threshold production - Josh Bendavid (CERN)
12:00	Update on monochromatisation studies - Anna Korsun Anna Korsun (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
12:20	Plans for the pre-TDR phase - Jacqueline Keintzel (CERN)
11:00	Parallel: Physics (until 12:35)
11:00	EWK Group Plans - Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
11:25	Analysis with Aleph Data - Luka Lambrecht (Brown University (US))
11:45	Top EWK couplings - Jacopo De Piccoli (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))
12:05	Toponium at FCC-ee - Jürgen Reuter Juergen Reuter (DESY Hamburg, Germany)

09:00	Joint Parallel: Physics Software&Computing and Detectors and Physics - Josh Bendavid (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:00	Tracking tools status and plans - Andrea De Vita (Università di Padova & CERN)
09:18	Standalone muon tracking for highly displaced signatures - Mahmoud Ali (CERN) Mahmoud Ali
09:36	Dual readout calorimeters reconstruction - Sanghyun Ko (CERN)
09:54	PID with the ARC detector - Serena Pezzulo (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
10:12	Towards a full reconstruction for ILD@FCC-ee - Mr Victor Schwan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
09:00	Parallel: MDI - John Theodore Seeman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 10:30)
09:00	Injection backgrounds and experience from SuperKEKB - Giulia Nigrelli (Sapienza Universita, INFN-LNF, CERN)
09:20	Studies of backgrounds in ILD - Mr Victor Schwan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
09:40	WarpX: a massively parallel PIC framework for FCC-ee - Peter Kicsiny (SLAC) Peter Kicsiny (SLAC)
10:00	Studies of backgrounds in vertex detectors - Armin Ilg (University of Zurich)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Parallel: Detectors - Frank Simon (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 12:30)
11:00	Detector Concepts Group Re-Organization - Marc-Andre Pleier (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
11:10	ALLEGRO news and plans - Martin Aleksa (CERN)
11:30	CLD news and plans - Jinlong Zhang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
11:50	IDEA news and plans - Paolo Giacomelli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
12:10	ILD news and plans - Daniel Jeans (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
11:00	Parallel: Physics - Sarah Louise Williams (University of Cambridge (GB)) (until 12:30)
11:00	Chasing the two-Higgs-doublet model via electroweak corrections at e+e− colliders - Hantian Zhang (CERN)
11:20	Bounding exotic top decays inclusively at the FCC-ee - Barbara Mele Mele_Monaco.pdf
11:40	Cornering Natural SUSY at a Tera-Z Factory - Admir Greljo (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH))
12:00	Large Electron Yukawa Modifications - Sophie Alice Renner (University of Glasgow (GB)) Sophie Renner (University of Mainz)

09:00	Joint Parallel: Physics Software&Computing and Detectors and Physics - Giovanni Marchiori (APC, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Cité) (until 10:30)
09:00	PandoraPFA in FCC - Rohan Sudarshan Rajagopalan
09:22	Machine learning based particle flow - Dolores Garcia (CERN)
09:44	Tau reconstruction - Laurits Tani (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))
10:06	Tips and tricks for designing good ML applications in HEP - Matti Mikael Mieskolainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)) Matti Mikael Mieskolainen (CERN)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Joint Parallel: MDI and Physics Software&Computing and Detectors - Manuela Boscolo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) (until 12:30)
11:00	GuineaPig IPC status - Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
11:22	Detector TID and Fluences studies - Dr Giuseppe Lerner (CERN)
11:44	Readiness of samples for background and DAQ studies - Giulia Nigrelli (Sapienza Universita, INFN-LNF, CERN)
12:06	Status of detector occupancy studies - Aimilianos Koulouris (CERN)
11:00	Parallel: Physics (until 12:30)
11:00	Resonant and Non-Resonant HH at FCC-hh - Paola Mastrapasqua (University of Notre Dame (US))
11:20	HHH study at FCC-hh - Tom Dingley (University of Oxford (GB))
11:40	Single Higgs Studies (ttH/tZZ, H rare) - Elena Mazzeo (CERN)
12:00	Top tagging at the FCC-hh - Apranik Fatehi (University of Tehran (IR))

09:00	Plenary session - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 10:30)
09:00	Plan and vision Physics Work Package - Patrizia Azzi (INFN Padova (IT))
09:34	Plan and vision: Detector Concepts Work Package - Mogens Dam (University of Copenhagen (DK))
09:53	Magnets: status and questions to detector concepts - Benoit Cure (CERN) Matthias Mentink (CERN)
10:12	Plan and vision: Physics Software and Computing Work Package - Brieuc Francois (CERN)
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Plenary session - Marumi Kado (Max Planck Institute for Physics) (until 12:32)
11:00	Plan and vision: MDI Work Package - Manuela Boscolo (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
11:19	Plan and vision: EPOL Work Package - Eric Torrence (University of Oregon (US))
11:38	Latest FCC-hh physics projections - Birgit Stapf (CERN)
12:00	From TLEP proposal to FCC-ee recommendations - Alain Blondel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
12:17	Descoped/Staged/Upscoped FCC-ee - Patrick Janot (CERN)

12:30	--- Lunch ---
14:00	General FCC Meeting - Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)) (until 16:00)
14:00	Welcome address - Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
14:05	Practical information - Sandra Kortner (Max Planck Institute for Physics) Marumi Kado (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
14:15	Introduction and goals of the workshop - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB))
14:20	German engagement in FCC - Markus Klute (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (GER))
14:45	Landscape after ESPPU recommendations - Paris Sphicas (CERN/Athens)
15:10	FCC progress in 2025 and plans till 2028 - Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
16:00	--- Coffee break ---
16:30	Plenary session - Patrick Janot (CERN) (until 18:45)
16:30	Choice of FCC optics and consequences for physics - Ghislain Roy (CERN)
17:00	Report from the FCC-ee TDAQ workshop - Steven Schramm (Universite de Geneve (CH))
17:20	Report from the FCC-ee Flavour Workshop - Stephane Monteil (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))
17:40	Report from the FCC-ee vertex detector Workshop - Fabrizio Palla (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
18:00	Report from the FCC-ee particle flow reconstruction Workshop - Dolores Garcia (CERN)
18:20	QCD at FCC - Pier Francesco Monni (CERN)
18:45	--- Welcome reception ---

12:35	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Parallel: MDI - Frank Zimmermann (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:00	Cryostat design and integration - John Theodore Seeman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
14:20	IR magnet system design - Brett Parker (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Vikas Teotia (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
14:40	MDI alignment system R&D - Leonard Watrelot (CERN)
15:00	FCC-ee HTS CCT magnet design proposal for the final focus quadrupole and its cooled beam pipe - Mael Le Garrec (Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (CNRS IN2P3-LAPP)) Matthieu Marchand (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
15:15	LNF mock up status - Andrea Ciarma (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
15:35	Luminosity loss from ground motion in the fcc-ee MDI - Mael Le Garrec (Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (CNRS IN2P3-LAPP))
14:00	Parallel: Physics (until 16:00)
14:00	Higgs Overview & plans - Xunwu Zuo (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
14:20	Searching for s-channel Higgs production in the WW* final state - Reza Jafari (University of Tehran (IR))
14:40	H+gamma production - Lena Maria Herrmann
15:00	Update H->WW* - Gadi Ninio (Tel Aviv University (IL))
15:20	Update on H->tautau + CP studies - Sofia Giappichini (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
15:40	Update on ZH cross-section - Mr Tom Fournier (APC, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Cité (FR))
16:00	--- Coffee break ---
16:30	Joint Parallel: Detectors and Physics Software&Computing - Giovanni Marchiori (APC, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Cité) (until 18:30)
16:30	Gaseous tracker simulation and digitisation - Andreas Loeschcke Centeno (CERN)
16:54	Detailed silicon tracker digitisation - Jessy Daniel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
17:18	Noble liquid calorimeter simulation and reconstruction status and plans - Jacopo Fanini (CERN & Université Paris-Saclay)
17:42	Updates on dual readout calorimeters simulation and digitization - Lorenzo Pezzotti (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
18:06	Status and plans for TPC studies for FCC-ee - Daniel Jeans (KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
16:30	Parallel: Physics (until 18:30)
16:30	Dark Photons - Giacomo Polesello (INFN, Sezione di Pavia (IT))
16:50	ALPs at FCC-ee - Giacomo Cacciapaglia (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Giacomo Cacciapaglia (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
17:10	The Dark Side of a Tera-Z Factory - Pablo Olgoso Pablo Olgoso Ruiz (University of Padova)
17:30	Proposal for a shared transverse LLP detector for FCC-ee and FCC-hh and a forward LLP detector for FCC-hh - Rhitaja Sengupta (BCTP and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Germany) Rhitaja Sengupta Rhitaja Sengupta
17:50	Dark Showers - Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
18:30	International Forum of National Contacts - Gregorio Bernardi (APC Paris CNRS/IN2P3) (until 20:00) Agenda

12:30	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Parallel: Physics - Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, sezione di Pisa) (until 16:00)
14:00	Tau polarisation - Olmo Arquero Peinazo (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
14:20	Polarized Lambda0 baryons - Anja Beck (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
14:40	Opportunities for charm at FCC-ee - Dominik Stefan Mitzel (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)) Dominik Mitzel (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
15:00	Limits on flavour-violating Z boson decays with modern jet-flavour taggers at FCC-ee - Kyle Cormier (CERN)
15:20	Progress in QED ISR at NNLO - Marvin Schnubel
14:00	Parallel: Physics Software&Computing - Gerardo Ganis (CERN) (until 16:00)
14:00	Key4hep status and plans - Juan Miguel Carceller (CERN)
14:20	Machine learning support in Key4hep - Thomas Madlener (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
14:40	Recently introduced and upcoming features in ROOT - Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)
15:00	GRID submission: status and plans - Andre Sailer (CERN)
15:20	CMS workload and data management systems - Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US))
15:40	Julia language for HEP - Florian Henkes (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
16:00	--- Coffee break ---
16:30	Joint Parallel: Detectors and MDI - Didier Claude Contardo (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 18:35)
16:30	Quantum sensor based Luminometer - Ben Kilminster (University of Zurich (CH))
16:55	Detector integration in the cavern - Mr Gianluca Gilmore Kerr
17:20	Flat Vertex detector air cooling and services integration - Gherardo Ammirabile (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))
17:45	First studies of Curved Vertex detector mechanical integration - Jeremy Andrea (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
18:10	Status of the CEPC Detector Design - Joao Barreiro Guimaraes Da Costa (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
16:30	Parallel: Physics (until 18:30)
16:30	Physics case for low-√s QCD studies at FCC-ee - Andrii Verbytskyi (Max Planck Society (DE))
16:50	Parton showers for FCC-ee - Simon Platzer (University of Graz (AT)) Simon Plaetzer (ITP, Universitaet Karlsruhe)
17:10	Higgs event shapes at NNLO - Matteo Marcoli (University of Durham)
19:30	--- Workshop Dinner ---

12:30	--- Lunch ---
14:00	Joint Parallel: Physics Software&Computing and Physics - David Lange (Princeton University (US)) (until 16:04)
14:00	FCCAnalyses and distributed computing - Juraj Smiesko (CERN)
14:24	Web based sample browser - Marko Cechovic
14:48	Distributed Data Management in FCC - Giovanni Guerrieri (CERN)
15:12	Montecarlo Event Generators, status and wishes - Louis Portales (CEA Paris-Saclay, IRFU)
15:36	The FLARE orchestration tool - Cameron Harris
14:00	Parallel: Detectors - Marc-Andre Pleier (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 16:00)
14:00	TileCal (optical tiles) - remote - Mattia Soldani (CERN)
14:24	Liquified Noble Gas calorimetry - Zuchen Huang (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
14:48	Optical calorimetry - Romualdo Santoro (Insubria University and INFN - MI)
15:12	Si and SiPM-on-Tile calorimetry - Adrian Irles (IFIC CSIC/UV)
15:36	Calorimeter Electronics - Dr Christophe De La Taille (OMEGA (FR))
16:00	--- Coffee break ---
16:30	Parallel: Detectors - Valentina Cairo (CERN) George Iakovidis (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 18:30)
16:30	SciFi tracking developments for the FCC - Gauri Napoletano (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
16:50	Drift Chamber developments - Nicola De Filippis (Politecnico/INFN Bari (IT))
17:10	Evaluation of a Straw-Chamber Prototype - Oliver Kortner (Max Planck Society (DE))
17:30	ARC RICH detector R&D progress - Roberta Cardinale (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))
17:50	TPC status update - Jochen Kaminski (Bonn University)
18:10	Silicon overview
16:30	Parallel: Physics (until 18:30)
16:30	Complete NLO SMEFT Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Decays - Clara Lavinia Del Pio (Brookhaven National Lab)
16:50	Constraining the SMEFT Extended with Sterile Neutrinos at FCC-ee - Patrick Bolton (INFN Trieste & SISSA) Patrick Bolton (Jožef Stefan Institute)
17:10	High Q2 probes for EFT - Louise Beriet
17:30	An EFT study of the pp→ttZ(ll)h(bb) process at the FCC-hh - Shilpi Jain (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))

12:32

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