10th RED LHC workshop

29 Jun 2026, 15:00 → 1 Jul 2026, 13:35 Europe/Madrid

Aula Magna, Facultat de Física (Universitat de Barcelona)

This is a workshop devoted to promoting the interaction and discussion between theorists and experimentalists, covering topics such as Higgs, top, flavour, EFT, LLP, and prospects for LHC Run 3 and HL-LHC.

Location: Aula Magna, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona

Deadline for registration: May 31^st 2026

Monday 29 June

15:00 → 15:15 Welcome

20260629-RedLHC-Intro.pdf

15:00 Welcome

Speaker: Ricardo Vazquez Gomez (University of Barcelona (ES))

15:15 → 16:30 Session 1: SM/QCD

Convener: Begona De La Cruz (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

15:15 Limits on new strongly interacting matter from measurements of Transverse Energy-Energy Correlations at the LHC (15'+5')

Speaker: Javier Llorente Merino (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

fermionsTEEC.pdf

15:35 Discovering hadron structures with jet observables (15'+5')

Speaker: IGNAZIO Scimemi (Universidad Complutense madrid)

RedLHC-26-Scimemi_compressed.pdf

15:55 Measurement of the fragmentation properties of Υ(nS) mesons inside jets (15'+5')

Speaker: Javier Llorente Merino (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

upsilon.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:10 Session 2: Top-quark physics

Convener: Ricardo Vazquez Gomez (University of Barcelona (ES))

17:00 Top physics at CMS (15'+5')

Speaker: Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

BarbaraAlvarez_redLHC2026.pdf

17:20 Search for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a single top quark and and combined measurement of tH production in at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector (15'+5')

Speaker: Carlos Escobar Ibañez (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC‐UV, Spain)

tH - Carlos Escobar - RedLHC2026.pdf

17:40 Probing the Higgs–top Yukawa interaction in the ttH and tH processes with H->yy (15'+5')

Speaker: Ana Rosario Cueto Gomez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))

ttH_tH_RedLHC.pdf

18:10 → 20:00 Welcome drink

Tuesday 30 June

10:00 → 11:10 Session 3: Higgs-boson physics

Convener: Victor Martin Lozano (IFIC/UV)

10:00 Efficient modeling of Di-Higgs signals in EFT (15'+5')

Speaker: Elvira Martin Viscasillas (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

HH_modeling

HH_modeling

10:20 Spin-correlation in the Higgs decay to W bosons at CMS (15'+5')

Speaker: Sergio Blanco Fernandez (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))

SpinCorrelations_RedLHC.pdf

10:40 Testing CP-odd Higgs bosons via the hZ channel at the LHC (15'+5')

Speaker: Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Madrid, ES))

sven.pdf

11:10 → 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 → 13:10 Session 4: BSM

Convener: Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Madrid, ES))

11:40 Exploring the SMEFT landscape: Bayesian Model Selection for indirect discovery (15'+5')

Speaker: Luca Mantani (IFIC, Valencia)

RED-LHC2026.pdf

12:00 LHC signatures of a CP-violating Higgs portal: Playing "hide & seek" with baryogenesis (15'+5')

Speaker: Jose Miguel No (IFT-UAM/CSIC)

2026_RedLHC_JMNo_Final.pdf

12:20 Search for new physics in high energy dilepton final states with CMS detector (15'+5')

Speaker: Begona De La Cruz (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

Search_dileptons_RedLHC26_BdlC_fin.pdf

12:40 Higgs anomalous couplings from multi-boson production (15'+5')

Speaker: Juan José Sanz-Cillero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid & IPARCOS)

cillero-RedLHC2026_v0.pdf

13:10 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 16:05 Session 5: Quantum and machine learning

Convener: Prof. Ernesto Arganda (Department of Theoretical Physics and Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

15:00 The future of theoretical predictions on a quantum computer (15'+5')

Speaker: German Rodrigo (IFIC UV-CSIC)

2026_06_RedLHC_rodrigo.pdf

15:20 Searches for long-lived particles at LHCb with BuSca (15'+5')

Speaker: Jiahui Zhuo (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

Red LHC 2026 BUSCA (1).pdf

15:40 Future-Ready Restoration: A Case Study on AI RAG-Enhanced Agentic Revival of a Run-2 2016 $\Lambda b \rightarrow \Lambda \gamma$ Analysis (15'+5')

Speaker: Cilicia Uzziel Perez (La Salle, Ramon Llull University (ES))

Canva Presentation

16:05 → 16:30 Session 6: Computing

Convener: Prof. Ernesto Arganda (Department of Theoretical Physics and Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

16:05 The Future HL-LHC Computing Model (15'+5')

Speaker: Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)

Slides

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:45 Session 7: Flavour physics

Convener: Ricardo Vazquez Gomez (University of Barcelona (ES))

17:00 Recent studies on rare $b \rightarrow s\ell\ell$ transitions at LHCb (15'+5')

Speaker: Felipe Luan Souza De Almeida (University of Barcelona (ES))

RedLHC_FL_260630.pdf

17:20 Impact of Hadronic Resonances on $B \rightarrow K^{(*)}\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$ decays (15'+5')

Speaker: Guillermo Baltà Foix

Guillermo_Balta.pdf

17:45 → 18:30 Session 9: Anomalies, dark matter and exotics

Convener: Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Madrid, ES))

17:45 Search for dark matter produced in association with top quarks (15'+5')

Speakers: Alicia Calderon Tazon (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES)), Jónatan Piedra (IFCA (Universidad de Cantabria - CSIC))

20260630_piedra_ttdm_redlhc.pdf

18:05 Probing the $D_{sJ}(M)^{+}$ states nature at the LHCb experiment (15'+5')

Speaker: Ivan Cambon Bouzas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Ivan-Cambon-Red-LHC-2026-v4.pdf

20:30 → 23:00 Social dinner

Restaurant Ca la Nuri Eixample
Carrer del Consell de Cent, 377
https://calanuriterra.com/ca/

Wednesday 1 July

10:00 → 11:10 Session 9: Tracking, vertexing, and PID

Convener: Carlos Escobar Ibañez (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC‐UV, Spain)

10:00 Track and Vertex Reconstruction with the ATLAS Inner Detector (15'+5')

Speaker: Salvador Marti I Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV/EG-CSIC))

SMarti_260701_tracking.pdf

10:20 Studies of track reconstruction performance in the ATLAS Event Filter for the HL-LHC (15'+5')

Speaker: Marco Aparo (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), Spain)

maparo_EFTracking_10thRED-LHCWorkshop_29.06.2026.pdf

10:40 Track reconstruction in the LHCb Run 3 trigger system (15'+5')

Speaker: Lukas Calefice (Universitat de Barcelona / ICCUB)

LC_RED_LHC_010726_v2.pdf

11:10 → 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 → 12:25 Session 9: Tracking, vertexing, and PID

Convener: Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))

11:40 Jet charge identification with the detectors at LHC (15'+5')

Speaker: Alvaro Lopez Solis (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))

RedLHC_JetCharge_30June26.pdf

12:00 Transformer Neural Networks for identification of hadronically decaying τ-leptons in ATLAS (15'+5')

Speaker: Nadav Michael Tamir (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

REDLHC_GNTau_Nadav.pdf

12:25 → 13:10 Session 10: Redes LHC y COMCHA

Convener: Salvador Marti I Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV/EG-CSIC))

12:25 Red COMCHA status (15'+5')

Speaker: Arantza De Oyanguren Campos (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

COMCHA_RED_LHC_2026.pdf

12:45 Past, present and future of the RedLHC (discussion)

Speaker: Salvador Marti I Garcia (IFIC-Valencia (UV/EG-CSIC))

RedLHC_2026_02_Barcelona.pdf