60th Rencontres de Moriond 2026: QCD & High Energy Interactions

from Sunday, 22 March 2026 (15:00) to Sunday, 29 March 2026 (15:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Mar 2026
23 Mar 2026
24 Mar 2026
25 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026
27 Mar 2026
28 Mar 2026
29 Mar 2026
AM
08:30
Higgs - Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Inst. for Gravitationsph Albert Eisntein Institute (DE)) (until 12:05)
08:30 Welcome - Etienne Auge (Orsay, IJCLab)  
08:35 History of Moriond - Bolek Pietrzyk (Annecy)  
08:45 LHC status - Michi Hostettler (CERN)  
09:10 Higgs cross section and couplings measurements at ATLAS and CMS - Henri Bachacou (CEA - IRFU - Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
09:30 Higgs CP studies and other Higgs properties (apart from cross sections and couplings) at CMS and ATLAS - Lucas Russell (Imperial College (GB))  
09:50 Rare and exotic Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS - Christos Vergis (University of London (GB))  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Searches for multi-Higgs production (includes HH and HHH, both non-resonant and resonant) at CMS and ATLAS - Emmanouil Vourliotis (San Diego)  
10:50 Searches for ttHH production with the ATLAS detector - Arthur Lafarge (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))  
11:10 Semi-visible Higgs decay as a probe for new invisible particles - German Valencia (Monash University (AU))  
11:30 Precision predictions for the trilinear Higgs self-coupling and di-Higgs production in models with extended scalar sectors - Johannes Alf Braathen (DESY)  
11:50 The Dawn of the Global Electroweak Fit at the LHC - Matthias Schott (CERN / University of Mainz)  
08:30
Heavy Flavour - Nazila Mahmoudi (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR)) (until 12:10)
08:30 Introduction to Heavy Flavour - Svjetlana Fajfer (Ljubljana)  
08:55 B-physics at CMS and ATLAS - Anne-Mazarine Lyon (CERN)  
09:15 Measurements of hadronic, leptonic and semileptonic B decays at Belle and Belle II - Shanette De La Motte (Torino)  
09:35 Measurement of the ratios R(D*) = B(B to D^*) tau nu) / B(B to D^*} l nu), using semileptonic tag and leptonic tau decays with the BABAR detector - Eli Ben-Haim (Paris)  
09:55 Study of rare decays in the flavor sector at CMS - Marco Buonsante (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:35 Measurements of electroweak penguins and B decays to final states with missing energy at Belle and Belle II - Valerio Bertacchi (Bonn/Pisa)  
10:55 $B \to X_s \gamma$ theory update - Mikolaj Krzysztof Misiak (University of Warsaw (PL))  
11:15 b->c semileptonic sum rule - Syuhei Iguro (Nagoya University)  
11:35 B physics constraints on non-universal U(1) models - Prof. Ben Allanach (University of Cambridge (GB))  
11:50 Shedding New Light on the B to piK puzzle - Eleftheria Malami (Cambridge)  
08:30
New Phenomena - Mark Dayvon Goodsell (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 12:00)
08:30 Searches for quantum black holes with the ATLAS detector - Rosie Hasan (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))  
08:50 Searches for new physics in resonant final states at CMS - Haifa Rejeb Sfar (State U. NY)  
09:10 SUSY (including LFV) at CMS and ATLAS - Prof. Freya Blekman (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
09:30 Search for new resonances at ATLAS and CMS - Joshua David Lomas (Birmingham)  
09:50 Searches for dark matter and unconventional signatures (including long-lived particles) at CMS and ATLAS - Roberto Seidita (ETH Zurich (CH))  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Tau LFV and dark sector searches at Belle and Belle II - Li Wenzhe (Beihang)  
10:50 QCD, electroweak physics, and searches for exotic signatures in the forward region at LHCb - Emilio Xose Rodriguez Fernandez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
11:10 Overview of applications of quantum computing in QCD - Rodrigo German (Valencia)  
08:30
New Phenomena -Prof. Freya Blekman (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 12:05)
08:30 Probing New Forces with Nuclear Clocks - Cedric Delaunay (LAPTh, CNRS)  
08:50 BSM searches at the LHC - Marc Goodsell (Paris)  
09:10 CP violation with no contribution to EDMs - Dr Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS))  
09:30 Flavoured SU(2) models - Aldo Deandrea (Lyon)  
09:50 The Higgs Triplet model and effects in ttbar and ttZ differential distributions - Andreas Crivellin (University of Zurich (CH))  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Renormalization of General Effective Field Theories - Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada (ES))  
10:50 Massive graviton limits from Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) searches - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
11:10 Minimal Flavor Protection for TeV-scale New Physics - Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH))  
11:30 On the coverage of electroweak-inos within the pMSSM with SModelS - a comparison with the ATLAS pMSSM study - Leo Constantin (Grenoble)  
08:30
QCD - Fabrizio Grosa (CERN) (until 12:10)
08:30 Proton structure studies at sPHENIX - Dr Genki Nukazuka (RIKEN BNL Research Center)  
08:50 Recent results on time-like baryon electromagnetic form factors at BESIII - Karin Schönning (Uppsala)  
09:10 Precision Studies of the eta_c decay at BESIII - Yijia Zeng (Beijing)  
09:30 How much color do we really need? Two-loop subleading-color effects in photon and jet physics - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)  
09:50 A new suite of Lund-tree observables to resolve jets - Silvia Ferrario Ravasio (Università degli Studi di Torino)  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:30 Nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme for arbitrary QCD processes with massless partons - Chiara Signorile-Signorile (CERN)  
10:50 Two-loop QCD corrections for real and off-shell diphoton and triphoton production via quark loops - Matilde Vicini (Zurich ETH)  
11:10 Violation of color coherence in LHC cross sections - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)  
11:30 Precise predictions for event shapes in Higgs decays - Matteo Marcoli (University of Durham)  
11:50 ESME stays positive: event generation with positive weights - Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
08:30
Heavy Ion - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN) (until 12:30)
08:30 Heavy-Ion Introduction - Fabrizio Grosa (CERN)  
08:55 Hard probes at CMS and ATLAS - Gabor Veres (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))  
09:15 Jets at STAR - Sasha Prozorov (Prague)  
09:35 Measurement of hyperon polarization in light- and heavy-ion collisions with ALICE - Chiara De Martin (CERN)  
09:55 Investigating QGP production in heavy-ion collisions with quarkonia with ALICE - Gautier Legras (Münster)  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:35 Recent Measurements of Strangeness and Heavy Flavor at STAR - Prof. Anders Garritt Knospe (Lehigh University)  
10:55 UPC at ATLAS and CMS - Martin Spousta (Prague)  
11:15 PHENIX Measurements of Light Hadron and Vector Meson Production at RHIC - Murat G Sarsour (Georgia State U.)  
11:35 Light ions collisions: bridging small and large QCD systems - Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE))  
09:00
Closing session - Bolek Pietrzyk (Annecy) (until 11:00)
09:00 Experimental summary - Marco Van Leeuwen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
09:50 Theoretical summary - Alexander Yohei Huss (CERN)  
PM
19:00 --- Cocktail ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
17:00
Top - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow) (until 20:20)
17:00 Top quark mass measurements and other top-quark properties (including e.g. searches for BSM decays) at ATLAS and CMS - Elisabeth Schopf (Universitaet Siegen (DE))  
17:20 tt+X production and searches for new phenomena (e.g. via EFT) with ATLAS and CMS - Joseph Boudreau (University of Pittsburgh)  
17:40 Measurements of single and pair production of top quarks with CMS and ATLAS - Laurids Jeppe (CERN)  
18:00 Top quark pair production at the threshold in the single-lepton channel at CMS - Yu-Heng Yu (University of Rochester (US))  
18:20 --- Coffee break ---
18:40 Measurements at the ttbar threshold with the ATLAS detector - Janna Katharina Behr (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
19:00 Higher-order QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a jet - Colomba Brancaccio (University of Turin)  
19:20 Towards NNLO QCD predictions for off-shell ttbar production: Recent Advances in MATRIX - Chiara Savoini (Munich)  
19:40 Accurate simulations for ttH production matched with parton showers with MiNNLOPS - Christian Biello (Zurich ETH)  
17:00
Heavy Flavour - Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) (until 20:15)
17:00 Mixing and CPV in beauty and charm at LHCb - Laurent Dufour (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))  
17:20 Probes for CP Violation in B Decays at the FCC: A Theorist’s Perspective - Robert Fleischer (Nikhef&Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)  
17:40 CP violation with charm - Maria Laura Piscopo (Nikhef)  
18:00 Flavour changing neutral current decays at LHCb - Gabriele Martelli (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
18:20 --- Coffee break ---
18:40 Flavour changing charged current decays at LHCb - Davide Fazzini (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
19:00 Heavy flavour spectroscopy at LHCb - Zhihong Shen (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
19:20 Charm and quarkonium at Belle and Belle II - Federico Testa (Torino)  
19:40 International Centre For Interdisciplinary Science & Education, Quy Nhon, Vietnam - Nazila Mahmoudi (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I (FR))  
17:00
Electroweak - Henri Bachacou (CEA - IRFU - Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 18:20)
17:00 Standard Model W, Z (+jet) at CMS and ATLAS - Cedric Verstege (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
17:20 Standard Model multibosons at ATLAS and CMS - Antonio Giannini (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
17:40 Charting the spin structure of WZ events at the LHC in and beyond the Standard Model - Giovanni Pelliccioli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)  
18:00 New BABAR precision results on e+e- to pi+pi-(gamma) for muon g-2 HVP calculations - Andres Pinto (Paris)  
18:20
Common session with the Cosmology conference (until 20:20)
18:20 --- Coffee break with the Cosmology conference ---
18:40 Muons: Particles of the Moment - David Hertzog (University of Washington)  
19:35 Cosmology since the first Astro/Cosmo Moriond meeting - Alain Blanchard  
17:00
New Phenomena - David d'Enterria (CERN) (until 18:00)
17:00 NA62 results - Jonathan Leon Schubert (Max Planck Society (DE))  
17:20 Latest Results from the FASER Experiment - Zhen Hu (Tsinghua University (CN))  
17:40 Recent results from the SND@LHC experiment - Simona Ilieva Ilieva (CERN)  
18:00
QCD - David d'Enterria (CERN) (until 20:00)
18:00 Standard Model soft and hard QCD at ATLAS and CMS - Maciej Trzebinski (Krakow)  
18:20 --- Coffee break ---
18:40 Testing QCD calculations with heavy-flavour production measurements with ALICE - Antonio Palasciano (Politecnico & INFN, Bari (IT))  
19:00 Jet and photon measurements at RHIC with sPHENIX - Stefan Bathe  
19:20 Revealing the microscopic mechanisms of light nucleus formation at the LHC with ALICE - Maximilian Mahlein (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
19:40 Strangeness enhancement in pp collisions from string closepacking in PYTHIA 8.3 - Lorenzo Bernardinis (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))  
17:00
QCD -Dr Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE)) (until 18:50)
17:00 On the Edge of Safety: Charge-Charge Correlation in the Back-to-Back Limit - Pier Francesco Monni (CERN)  
17:20 Polarised and Unpolarised Neutral and Charged Current Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering at NNLO in QCD - Leonardo Bonino (Universität Zürich)  
17:40 Studies of N3LO corrections and resummation scale uncertainties in fits to DIS data using xFitter - Oleksandr Zenaiev (DESY)  
18:00 --- Coffee break ---
18:10 Inclusive jet production at the LHC at NNLO+NNLL and theory nuisance parameters - Terry Generet (University of Cambridge)  
18:30 Infrared singularities and the collinear limits of multi-leg scattering amplitudes - Sebastian Eryk Jaskiewicz (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
18:50 Discussion on Moriond organization - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (CERN) Bolek Pietrzyk (Annecy) Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Etienne Auge (Orsay, IJCLab)  
19:20 --- Cocktail and conference dinner ---
17:00
Heavy Ion - Pier Francesco Monni (CERN) (until 20:30)
17:00 Probing the onset of collectivity with identified hadrons in light-ion collisions at LHC with ALICE - Stefano Politano (CERN)  
17:20 Heavy and light ion physics at LHCb - Chiara Lucarelli (CERN)  
17:40 Recent results on light ion collisions with the ATLAS detector - Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))  
18:00 The unexpected uses of a bowling pin: Exploiting Ne-20 isotopes for precision characterizations of collectivity in small systems - Govert Hugo Nijs (CERN)  
18:20 --- Coffee break ---
18:40 Hydrodynamic modelling of light ion collisions at the LHC - Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)  
19:00 Nuclear modification of pi0 production in OO collisions measured with ALICE - Nicolas Strangmann (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))  
19:20 Nuclear modification factor measurements in heavy-ion collisions at CMS - Bharadwaj Harikrishnan (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
19:40 Jet Quenching in the Smallest Hadronic Collision Systems - Cole Faraday (Cape Town)  
20:00 Grappling with the path-length dependence of energy loss in the oxygen era - Isobel Kolbe (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))