2026 CAU Beyond the Standard Model Focus Workshop

from Monday, 9 February 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 12 February 2026 (18:00)
Chung-Ang University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Feb 2026
10 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026
AM
09:30
S1 -Prof. Hyun Min Lee (CAU - Chung-Ang University (KR)) (until 10:30)
09:30 Neutrino signals from dark matter spikes - Alejandro Ibarra (Technical University of Munich)  
10:00 Boosted Dark Matter: Theory and Detection Prospects - Dr Takashi Toma (Kanazawa University)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
S2 -Dr Adil Jueid (Institute for Basic Science) (until 12:30)
11:00 Parity Violation in Spin-1 Dark Matter with EFT Descriptions - Prof. Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University)  
11:30 Taming the dark photon production via a non-minimal coupling to gravity - Jong-Hyun Yoon  
12:00 Fermion reheating with a quartic inflaton potential - Adriana Menkara  
09:30
S5 - Joern Kersten (University of Bergen) (until 10:30)
09:30 Spontaneous Leptogenesis in Type I Seesaw - Eung Jin Chun (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
10:00 Quantum enhanced sensing for ultralight dark matters - Bin Xu  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
S6 -Dr Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University) (until 12:30)
11:00 Identifying high energy sources of CP violation and PQ breaking with electric dipole moments - Dr Sang Hui Im (IBS CTPU)  
11:30 Rare meson decays with dark matter emission - Shohei Okawa (APCTP)  
12:00 Dark pion scattering and vector resonance in Sp(4) gauge theory - Jong-Wan Lee (Institute for Basic Science (IBS))  
09:30
S9 -Prof. Kimiko Yamashita (Ibaraki University) (until 10:30)
09:30 From Scattering Amplitudes to Black Holes - Katsuki Aoki (YITP, Kyoto University)  
10:00 Black holes as a probe of BSM particles - Dr Minxi He  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
S10 - Adriana Menkara (until 12:30)
11:00 Modular Cosmology: Implications for Inflation - Shuntaro AOKI  
11:30 Constraining Inflation via FIMP dark matter using the β-function with collider implications - Sarif Khan (Goettingen University)  
12:00 Peccei Quinn genesis - Junho Song  
12:15 Higgs pole inflation in the light of ACT data - Jeonghak Han  
09:30
S13 - Carlo Branchina (Università della Calabria) (until 10:30)
09:30 Gravitational Wave Messages from Dark Sectors and Grand Unification - Joern Kersten (University of Bergen)  
10:00 A new mechanism of gravitational wave production - Wenyuan Ai  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
S14 - Arghyajit Datta (until 12:30)
11:00 Electroweak phase transition and bubble wall dynamics - Carlo Branchina (Università della Calabria)  
11:30 Magnetic Helicity, Higgs Winding, and Chiral Asymmetry - Kyohei Mukaida (DESY)  
12:00 Understanding Galactic Dark Matter with Generative Models and Physics-Informed Neural Networks - Sung Hak Lim (Rutgers University)  
PM
12:30
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
S3 - Dong Woo Kang (KIAS) (until 15:30)
14:30 Deep learning approaches to top FCNC couplings to photons at the LHC - Dr Adil Jueid (Institute for Basic Science)  
15:00 Chasing the two-Higgs-doublet model via electroweak corrections at e+ e− colliders - Tatsuya Banno  
15:15 Electric Dipole Moment of Electron induced by Electroweak Multiplet at Full Three-loop - Kiyoto Ogawa (Nagoya.Univ)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
S4 -Dr Sang Hui Im (IBS CTPU) (until 17:00)
16:00 Entanglement in Higgs Scattering and possible connection to symmetry - Ms ROJALIN PADHAN (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar)  
16:30 SUSY and non-SUSY analysis of truly confining gauge theories - Shota Saito (Kavli IPMU)  
16:45 Dynamical friction for circular orbits in self-interacting ultralight dark matter and Fornax globular clusters - Hyeonmo Koo  
12:30
Lunch and discussion (until 15:00)
15:00
S7 - Seongsik Kim (Chung-Ang University) (until 16:00)
15:00 Testing neutrino mass origins with supernova neutrinos - Chui-Fan Kong  
15:30 Self-resonant dark matter with Z_4 gauged symmetry - Lucca Radicce Justino  
15:45 Stable dark matter from Pauli blocking in the degenerate fermion background with Quantum Field Theory - Junghoon Joh (SungKyunKwan University)  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
S8 - Shohei Okawa (APCTP) (until 17:45)
16:30 Aspects of Sommerfeld Enhancement in the light of Halo gamma-ray excess - Yongsoo Jho  
17:00 Neutrino masses and mixed dark matter from doublet and singlet scalars - Seongsik Kim (Chung-Ang University)  
12:30
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
S11 - Shuntaro AOKI (until 15:45)
14:30 Belle II excess and dark matter - Dr Jongkuk Kim (Chung-Ang University)  
15:00 The Seesaw Route to Neutrino Asymmetry and Baryogenesis in light of EMPRESS observation - Arghyajit Datta  
15:30 Periodic dynamics induced by wave dark matter: From neutrino to superconductor - Yechan Kim (KAIST)  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15
S12 -Ms ROJALIN PADHAN (Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar) (until 17:15)
16:15 Spin Correlation and Quantum Observables at Colliders - Dong Woo Kang (KIAS)  
16:45 Quantum Correlations at the LHC - Alberto Navarro (Seoultech)  
18:30
Banquet (until 20:30)
12:30
Lunch and discussion (until 14:00)