COMETA workshop on polarization tagging for hadronic boosted bosons

from Wednesday, 1 July 2026 (08:30) to Thursday, 2 July 2026 (19:00)
Perugia (Aula Magna Agraria Department)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026
AM
09:00
Welcome (until 09:30)
09:00 welcome slides - Valentina Mariani (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
09:30
Semi-leptonic decay channels (until 11:00)
09:30 Experimental review for diboson and VBS - Ankita Mehta (Ghent University (BE))  
10:00 Theory review on polarised bosons - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
10:30 Gauge Boson Polarization as a Probe of SMEFT Effects in WZ Production (remote) - Maryam Bayat Makou (Southern Methodist University (US))  
11:00 --- coffea break ---
11:30
Jet substructure and tagging (until 13:00)
11:30 Traditional jet-substructure observables - Lorenzo Mai (Università di Genova & INFN Genova)  
12:00 Machine learning for jet tagging (cancelled) - Sophia Vent  
12:30 Flavour tagging in ATLAS and CMS with machine learning - Alessandro Calandri (Università & INFN, Firenze (IT))  
09:00
MC modeling (including polarisation) (until 10:30)
09:00 Measuring the polarization of boosted, hadronic $W$ bosons with jet substructure observables - Songshaptak De (Jožef Stefan Institute)  
09:30 Discussion: MC roundtable - Giovanni Pelliccioli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Emanuele Re (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
10:00 Discussion  
10:30 --- coffea break ---
11:00
Experimental status on polarisation (until 12:30)
11:00 VBS polarisation measurement (ATLAS) - Joany Manjarres (Université de Toulouse, CNRS/IN2P3, L2IT, Toulouse, France)  
11:30 A polarisation aware classification and regression tagger for boson initiated jets with the ATLAS experiment - Antonio Giannini (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
12:00 Discussion  
PM
13:00 --- lunch break ---
14:30
Quantum machine learning (until 16:15)
14:30 An introduction to quantum computing approaches for optimization problems - Marco Baioletti (Università degli Studi di Perugia)  
15:15 Quantum-Informed Neural Networks - Aritra Bal (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) Michael Binder Mr Aritra Bal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
15:45 Quantum Lund plane for VBS - Fabrizio Napolitano (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
16:15 --- coffea break ---
16:45
Discussion session (until 17:45)
16:45 Open data proposal - Karolos Potamianos (University of Warwick (GB))  
17:15 Discussion: open data roundtable - Antonio Giannini (University of Science and Technology of China (CN)) Nurfikri Norjoharuddeen (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI))  
12:30 --- lunch ---
14:00
Machine-learning approaches (until 15:30)
14:00 Prospect studies for polarization measurements in boosted VBS semi-leptonic events - Mr Tom Allene (Laboratoire des 2 Infinis - Toulouse, CNRS / Univ. de Toulouse (FR))  
14:30 Unlocking Hadronic W/Z Boson Polarization Measurements via 3D Designed Decorrelated Tagger - Amartya Rej (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
15:00 Discussion  
15:30 --- coffea break ---
16:00
Discussion (until 17:45)
16:00 roundtable MC  
16:45 Towards a COMETA deliverable