COMETA workshop on electroweak evolution and electroweak showers

from Tuesday, 17 February 2026 (08:45) to Thursday, 19 February 2026 (17:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Feb 2026
18 Feb 2026
19 Feb 2026
AM
09:00 Welcome and Introduction  
09:30
Talks (until 10:30)
09:30 Overview of recent VBS and VBF measurements and their limitations - Dr Federico Sforza (University and INFN Genoa)  
10:15 Discussion  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Talks (until 12:30)
11:00 The role of precise calculations in the future collider physics program - Emanuele Angelo Bagnaschi (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)  
11:45 Kinematics and polarization interference of weak bosons at high energies - Richard Ruiz (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ) PAN)  
09:00
Talks (until 10:30)
09:00 An MC@NLO EW event generator for lepton colliders - Marek Schoenherr (Durham University)  
09:45 EW corrections at the muon collider - Davide Pagani (INFN, Bologna (IT))  
10:30 Workshop picture  
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Talks (until 12:30)
11:00 Electroweak splitting functions - Stefan Dittmaier (University of Freiburg (DE))  
11:45 Electroweak amplitude evolution with chirality flow - Malin Elisabet Sjodahl  
09:00
Talks (until 10:30)
09:00 A novel algorithm for polarized QCD and electroweak evolution - Diana Mareen Hoppe (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))  
09:45 A consistent virtuality-rapidity evolution approach for summing electroweak logarithms in the Standard Model - Andre Hoang  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Discussions (until 12:00)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Talks (until 15:30)
14:00 EW PDFs: concept. implementation, validation, application - Juergen Reuter (DESY Hamburg, Germany)  
14:45 Weak Physics using the FMS Mechanism - Dr Sofie Martins  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Talks (until 17:30)
16:00 Four Polarizations of the W at High Energies - TRINA BASU  
16:45 Chiral Z' Amplitudes and Revisiting the Gamma5 Problem - Felix Yu (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Talks (until 15:30)
14:00 Signatures of dark showers at CMS - Lisa Benato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
14:45 Parity-violating asymmetries within low-energy effective field theory - David Radic  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Community building and guided city tour  
19:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:00 Wrap-up and farewell  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---