Beauty 2026 @Maastricht

from Monday, 1 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 5 June 2026 (18:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jun 2026
2 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026
5 Jun 2026
AM
09:00 Standard Model uncertainties of B -> K(*) ell+ ell-, angular distributions - Danny van Dyk (Durham University & IPPP)  
09:30 Recent results in b->sll transitions at LHCb - Juan Jose Juan Castella (University of Cambridge (GB))  
09:50 b->s Penguin results from Belle II - Rishabh Mehta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) RISHABH MEHTA  
10:10 Rare decays at CMS - Szymon Slawinski (University of Warsaw (PL))  
10:30 --- Tea Break ---
11:00 The Plan B Z' Model and b->s transitions - Prof. Ben Allanach (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:30 Recent results in rare b-hadron decays (excluding b->sll) at LHCb - Lukas Calefice (Universitat de Barcelona / ICCUB)  
11:50 CMS highlights on flavour physics - Chiara Basile (University of Florida (US))  
09:00 Rare charm decays - Eleftheria Solomonidi (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
09:30 Recent results in charm physics at BESIII (excluding strong-phase measurements) - Wenhan Shen (University of Chinese Academy of Science)  
09:50 Charm physics at Belle II - Markus Reif  
10:10 Mixing and CPV in charm at LHCb - Paula Herrero Gascon (Heidelberg University (DE))  
10:30 --- Tea Break ---
11:00 Recent results and prospects in charm strong-phase measurements at BESIII - Yu Zhang  
11:20 Conventional spectroscopy of doubly heavy hadrons at LHCb - Yuhao Wang (School of Physics State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing)  
11:40 B -> D(*)taunu results at Belle and Belle II - Lin Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))  
09:00 Spectroscopy (focus on exotics) - Tommaso Scirpa  
09:30 Recent results on spectroscopy at LHCb (excluding B_c) - Yiming Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
09:50 Recent results in spectroscopy at BESIII - Yanping Huang (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))  
10:10 Spectroscopy: new baryons, onia-associated production (triple Jpsi, Upsilon + Z etc) at CMS - Jinjing Gu (Tsinghua University (CN))  
10:30 --- Tea Break ---
11:00 Tau physics at Belle II - Zuzana Mediankin Gruberova (Charles University)  
11:20 Recent results from NA62 - Silvia Martellotti (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
11:40 Strange physics at LHCb - Marco Santimaria (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
09:00 Hadronic methods for rare B decays on the Lattice - Felix Erben (CERN)  
09:30 Projections for ATLAS heavy-flavour measurements at the HL-LHC - Pavel Reznicek (Charles University (CZ))  
09:50 LHCb Upgrade II - Neville Harnew (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:10 CMS Phase II prospects - Kai-Feng Chen (National Taiwan University (TW))  
10:30 --- Tea break ---
11:00 Status of Belle II and SuperKEKB and future prospects - Martin Bessner (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
11:20 Status and prospects for the Super Tau Charm Facility - Yu Zhang  
11:40 Heavy-flavour prospects at FCC-ee - Matthew William Kenzie (University of Cambridge (GB))  
PM
12:00 --- Registration ---
12:45 Welcome - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Marcel Merk (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
13:00 The Flavour Physics Landscape - Dr Olcyr Sumensari (IJCLab)  
13:35 CP violation in B decays - Kristof Antoon M De Bruyn (University of Groningen)  
14:05 Measurements of time-dependent b-hadron properties in LHCb - Lucas Arthur Foreman (The University of Manchester (GB))  
14:25 --- Tea Break ---
14:55 Time-dependent CPV measurements at Belle II - Cecilia Antonioli  
15:15 Nonleptonic B decays - Marta Burgos Marcos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:45 Hadronic B-meson decays at Belle II - Ansu Johnson (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)  
16:05 Recent results in charmless b-hadron decays at LHCb - Edoardo Mariani (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), LPNHE, Sorbonne Université)  
16:25 --- Small Break ---
16:50 Violation of fundamental symmetries in B and D decays at CMS - Riccardo Manzoni (ETH Zurich (CH))  
17:10 Recent lifetime measurements in ATLAS - Dvij Mankad (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
17:30 B mesogenesis - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)  
18:10 Practical info - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
18:30 --- Welcome drinks at Maastricht Town Hall ---
12:10 New HF excited states and LFV searches in ATLAS - Yue Xu (University of Washington (US))  
12:35 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Heavy Ion - Vincenzo Minissale  
14:00 Results with light collision systems at the LHC and future perspectives - Shreyasi Acharya (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
14:20 HF production and properties: cross section and lifetimes at CMS - Lucas Karwatzki (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))  
14:40 Quarkonium/QCD results at Belle II - Giulia Italia (INFN & Univ. Torino)  
15:00 --- Tea Break ---
15:30 Cross sections for heavy-flavour production in ATLAS - Yuxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University (CN)) Yuxuan Zhang  
15:50 recent ALICE heavy-flavour results and prospects for LHC Run4 and Run5 - Alessandro Grelli (Utrecht University (NL))  
16:10 B -> invisibles - Dr Martin Novoa-Brunet (IFIC, U. Valencia, CSIC)  
16:40 Dark matter results at Belle II - Rajesh Kumar Maiti (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
17:00 --- Small break ---
17:15
Lightning talks and poster session (until 19:25)
17:15 Pitch: Searches for lepton flavour violation involving tau lepton in B decays at Belle and Belle II - Isaac-Paul CONSIGNY (CPPM)  
17:20 Pitch: Improving the LHCb VELO simulation with data-driven cluster efficiencies - Mark Waterlaat (CERN & VU)  
17:25 Pitch: An EFT on an EFT on an EFT - Jaime del Palacio Lirola (University of Siegen)  
17:30 Pitch: Bc mesogenesis - Alexandre Verheyden  
17:35 Pitch: Development of a Kinematic Over-Constraint Method for Pentaquark Search in $\Lambda_b^0$ Decays at LHCb in Run 3 - Sophia Pennuttis (Vilnius University (LT))  
17:45 --- Check out the posters! ---
18:30 Poster: Quantum Emergence of Euclidean Regions and Implication for Fermionic Physics - Guus Beenen  
18:35 Poster: Relativistic Binaries in Post-Newtonian Approximations: Full Derivation from the Einstein-Hilbert Action to a Coded Analytical Framework at 1PN Order - Sophia Berinski  
18:45 Poster: Investigation of the Ricci flow equation as a dynamic constraint on the Einstein Field Equation - Lara Kropej  
18:55 Poster: Bridging the Gap: Can a Single Z' Solve the B and D Anomalies - Marija Hrstic  
19:05 Poster: Using machine learning for the analysis of semileptonic decays at LHCb - Francesco Cipollone  
12:00 Recent b->c tau nu results from Babar - Vincent Tisserand (LPC Clermont IN2P3/CNRS)  
12:20 --- Conference Photo ---
12:35
Explore the city and grab a nice lunch somewhere (until 13:45)
15:00
Excursion (until 17:00)
18:30 --- Transfer to Conference Dinner ---
19:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
22:15
Transfer back to pick-up location inner city (until 22:45)
12:00 Results and prospects with KOTO - Bob Hsiung (National Taiwan University (TW))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 Semileptonic B decays, latest |V_xb| - Alexandre Carvunis Alexandre Carvunis (Università di Torino)  
14:00 Measurements of |V_cb| at Belle and Belle II - Markus Tobias Prim (University of Bonn (DE))  
14:20 Inclusive decays in Lattice QCD - Christiane Gross  
14:50 Measurements of |V_ub| at Belle and Belle II - Jyotirmoi Borah (Fudan University)  
15:10 --- Tea Break ---
15:40 Measurements of CKM angle gamma in LHCb - Vincent Tisserand (LPC Clermont IN2P3/CNRS)  
16:00 Lattice QCD (focus on Charm and Beauty form factors, RD*, b- & c-quark masses) - William Jay William Jay (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
16:30 Recent results in semileptonic b-hadron decays at LHCb - Marta Calvi  
16:50 --- Short break ---
17:00
Lightning talks and poster session (until 18:55)
17:00 Pitch: A Theoretical Study of Non-leptonic Charm Decays - Yağmur Zubaroğlu  
17:05 Pitch: Feasibility study of CP violation of hyperon decay at STCF - Mingyu Yu (Shandong University)  
17:10 Pitch: B-physics triggers 2024-2025 - Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster University (GB))  
17:15 Pitch: Particle Tracking using Quantum Computers - Xenofon Chiotopoulos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
17:20 Pitch: Quark-Hadron Duality Violations and Higher-Order 1/m_b Corrections in Inclusive Semileptonic B Decays - Rens Verkade  
17:30 Pitch: Prospects of searches for invisible B-meson decays at FCC-ee - Ella Wood (University of Cambridge (GB))  
17:35 --- Check out the posters! ---
17:35 Poster: Asessing Radiation Damage of the LHCb electromagnetic Calorimeter - Aleksandre Kiria  
17:45 Poster: $B\to \pi \ell \nu$ and the search for New Physics - Joanna Wądołowska  
17:55 Poster: Search for the Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay $B_c^+ \to B_s^0 K^+$ at LHCb - Clotilde Papot  
18:05 Poster: Bc → τ ν and New Physics - Emma Small  
18:15 Poster: Two is Company, Three is a Crowd: Heavy-Flavor Baryon Enhancement in PYTHIA 8 - Inaki Pardo Zambrana  
18:30 Poster: Exploring CKM unitarity trhough Vcd with D-> pi decays - Jens Hieronymus  
12:00 Summary Talk - Niels Tuning (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:35 Poster prize award and Closing - Keri Vos (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
12:45 --- Lunch ---