Name: Higgs 2026
Start: 2026-10-26T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00
Location: UCLouvain

Higgs 2026

from Monday, October 26, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, October 30, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, October 26, 2026

1:00 PM Registration

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
2:00 PM Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome

2:30 PM State of the art of precision Higgs calculation - Fabrizio Arturo Caola (University of Oxford (GB))

3:00 PM ATLAS Higgs Highlights

3:30 PM CMS Higgs highlights
4:00 PM Coffee: Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium
4:30 PM Plenary
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Frontier amplitude computations for Higgs physics - Ben Page (Ghent University (BE))

5:00 PM Machine learning advances and Higgs physics applications - Ramon Winterhalder (Università degli Studi di Milano)

5:30 PM Experimental methods at ATLAS

6:00 PM Experimental methods at CMS
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

9:00 AM Higgs Pairs

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium

Single Higgs

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium

10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Science auditorium

11:00 AM Higgs Pairs

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

Single Higgs

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch break

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium

2:00 PM Higgs Pairs

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

Single Higgs

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

3:30 PM Coffee

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium

4:00 PM Beyond the Standard Model

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

Single Higgs

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

6:00 PM Drinks reception

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Wednesday, October 28, 2026

9:00 AM Beyond the Standard Model

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium

Single Higgs

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium

10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Science auditorium

11:00 AM Higgs Pairs

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

Single Higgs

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch break

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
2:00 PM Plenary
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Precision Higgs measurements at ATLAS and CMS (mass, width, CP, off-shell)

2:30 PM Inclusive and differential Higgs cross sections at ATLAS and CMS (incl. STXS)

3:00 PM Monte Carlo for Higgs production and backgrounds - Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

3:30 PM aN³LO PDFs and Higgs predictions for the HL-LHC - Emanuele Roberto Nocera
4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium
4:30 PM Plenary
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Rare Higgs production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. tH, H+c)

5:00 PM Rare Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS (incl. µμ, Zγ, cc)

5:30 PM ATLAS joker talk

6:00 PM CMS joker talk
Thursday, October 29, 2026

9:00 AM Beyond the Standard Model

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium

Future

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium

10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Science auditorium

11:00 AM Beyond the Standard Model

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

Future

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium

12:30 PM Lunch break

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
2:00 PM Plenary
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Effective field theory in the Higgs sector - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cambridge) Eleni Vryonidou (Universite catholique de Louvain) Eleni Vryonidou (Nikhef) Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY))

2:30 PM Global EFT interpretations at ATLAS and CMS

3:00 PM Precision prediction for di-Higgs production in the SM and beyond - Gudrun Heinrich (KIT)

3:30 PM Higgs pair production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. non-resonant, resonant, multi-Higgs)
4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium
4:30 PM Plenary
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Scalars, phase transitions, and gravitational waves - Alberto MARIOTTI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Alberto Mariotti Alberto Mariotti (VUB Brussels)

5:00 PM Scalars and dark sectors - THOMAS HAMBYE (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles)) Thomas HAMBYE (ULB) Thomas Hambye Thomas Hambye (ULB Belgium) Thomas Hambye (Unknown)

5:30 PM Higgs and flavour - Joe Davighi (University of Cambridge (GB))

6:00 PM Higgs and scalar BSM interpretations at LHCb - Lorenzo Sestini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))
7:00 PM Conference dinner

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Friday, October 30, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Quantum observables in Higgs physics - Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)

9:30 AM Extended scalar sectors and composite Higgs model building - Stefania De Curtis (U) Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

10:00 AM Low-mass new scalars and exotic Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS

10:30 AM High-mass new scalars at the LHC, with and without a Higgs in the final state
11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Science auditorium
11:30 AM Plenary
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Science auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM Higgs physics at future e⁺e⁻ colliders after the 2026 European Strategy

12:00 PM Precision Higgs physics at future colliders - Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zurich)

12:30 PM BSM Higgs physics physics at future colliders - Tevong You (King's College London) Tevong You

1:00 PM Closing