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
08:30
Welcome (until 09:00)
09:00
Semi-leptonic decay channels (until 10:30)
09:00 Experimental review for diboson and VBS - Ankita Mehta (Ghent University (BE))  
09:30 Theory review on polarised bosons - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
10:00 Gauge Boson Polarization as a Probe of SMEFT Effects in WZ Production - Maryam Bayat Makou (Southern Methodist University (US))  
10:30 --- coffea break ---
11:00
Jet substructure and tagging (until 12:30)
11:00 Traditional jet-substructure observables - Lorenzo Mai (Università di Genova & INFN Genova)  
11:30 Flavour tagging in ATLAS and CMS with machine learning - Alessandro Calandri (Università & INFN, Firenze (IT))  
12:00 Machine learning for jet tagging - Sophia Vent  
08:30
MC modeling (including polarisation) (until 10:00)
08:30 Modeling hadronic decays in MC generators  
09:00 Measuring the polarization of boosted, hadronic $W$ bosons with jet substructure observables - Songshaptak De (Jožef Stefan Institute)  
09:30 Discussion  
10:00 --- coffea break ---
10:30
Experimental status on polarisation (until 12:30)
10:30 VBS polarisation measurement (ATLAS) - Joany Manjarres (Université de Toulouse, CNRS/IN2P3, L2IT, Toulouse, France)  
11:00 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))  
11:30 A systematic approach to amplitude-assisted polarization tagging - Erik Bachmann (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE))  
12:00 Discussion  
PM
12:30 --- lunch break ---
14:00
Machine-learning approaches (until 15:30)
14:00 TBA  
14:30 Imaging techniques  
15:00 Discussion  
15:30 --- coffea break ---
16:00
Quantum machine learning (until 17:30)
16:00 Quantum Lund plane for VBS - Fabrizio Napolitano (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))  
16:30 Quantum-Informed Neural Networks - Mr Aritra Bal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
17:00 Discussion  
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 17:35)
16:00 TBA  
16:30 TBA  
17:00 Towards a COMETA deliverable