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, 26 October 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 30 October 2026 (17:00)
UCLouvain (Science auditorium)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

26 Oct 2026

27 Oct 2026

28 Oct 2026

29 Oct 2026

30 Oct 2026

09:00	Higgs Pairs (until 10:40)
09:00	Recent Di-Higgs Production Measurements in ATLAS - Wonho Jang (University of Tokyo (JP))
09:20	Multi-Higgs searches at CMS - Ming-Yan Lee (Hamburg University (DE))
09:40	Search for non-resonant HH to bbWW in the semi-leptonic channel with early Run-3 data - Samuel Oliver Crossley (University of California Los Angeles (US))
10:00	Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pairs production in the bbtautau final state with Early Run 3 CMS Data - Marco Chiusi (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
10:20	Can we observe the Higgs self-coupling before HL-LHC? - Congqiao Li (Peking University (CN))
09:00	Single Higgs (until 10:40)
09:00	Cross section measurements at CMS, bosonic channels (15+5) - Clara Ramon Alvarez (University of Virginia (US))
09:20	Higgs Boson Production Cross-Section Measurements in ATLAS (15+5) - Hao Pang (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
09:40	Cross section measurements at CMS, fermionic channels (15+5) - Beatriz Ribeiro Lopes (Ghent University (BE))
10:00	The emerging importance of high energy logarithms for LHC studies (15+5) - Sebastian Eryk Jaskiewicz (Universitaet Bern (CH))
10:20	Precision Resummation for Higgs and Electroweak Boson Production from HL-LHC to FCC - Dr Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH Madrid)
10:40	Coffee (until 11:10)
11:10	Beyond the Standard Model - Clara Ramon Alvarez (University of Virginia (US)) Felicia Volle (University of Birmingham (GB)) (until 12:30)
11:10	Searches for Extended Higgs Sectors at CMS - Geliang Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
11:30	Search results for high-mass new scalars at ATLAS (including charged Higgs) - Jared Burleson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
11:50	Top Quark Pair Production and Decay: The 1-Higgs-Singlet Model and Pseudoscalar Decay - Vishakha Lingadahally
12:10	Higgs Potential as Window towards New Physics: the RxSM benchmark - Simone Tentori (UCLouvain)
11:10	Single Higgs (until 12:30)
11:10	Higgs physics with tau leptons (15+5) - Dr Anne-Catherine Le Bihan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
11:30	The Higgs boson through the lens of electroweak precision data (15+5) - Finn Jonathan Labe (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
11:50	Study of quantum entanglement and polarization dependent anomalous coupling in Higgs boson production and decay with ATLAS (15+5) - Martina Javurkova (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Martina Javurkova (University of Massachusetts (US))
12:10	Normalising-Flow-Based Tau Spin Reconstruction for Higgs CPV Measurements and Quantum Entanglement Tests (15+5) - Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

09:00	Higgs Pairs (until 10:40)
09:00	Combinations of Di-Higgs Production and Higgs Self-Coupling Studies in ATLAS - Anamika Aggarwal (Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (DE))
09:20	Study of quartic Higgs self-coupling, HHVV, and HHtt couplings in ATLAS - Giovanni Padovano (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
09:40	Modeling gluon-fusion Di-Higgs signal in HEFT and SMEFT using event-level reweighting methods - Matheus Coelho (Center for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC - UFABC)
10:00	Modelling gluon-fusion di-Higgs signal in EFT using the matrix method - Torben Lange (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))
10:20	Modeling non-gluon-fusion multi-Higgs production with the matrix method - Spyros Merianos (Université catholique de Louvain)
09:00	Single Higgs (until 10:40)
09:00	Resonance-aware NLOPS matching for off-shell $t\bar t$ + $tW$ production in association with a Higgs boson (15+5) - Patrick Hurley (University of Sussex)
09:20	Constraints on Higgs-charm couplings at CMS (15+5) - Chirayu Gupta (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))
09:40	Simulations and flavour-scheme studies for Higgs-boson production in association with charm quarks (15+5) - Mr Tiziano Bevilacqua (ETH Zürich (CH))
10:00	Precise predictions for bbH production (15+5) - Alessandro Gavardi
10:20	Boosted Higgs Topologies in ATLAS (15+5) - Samuel Roberts (University of California,Santa Cruz (US))
10:40	Coffee (until 11:10)
11:10	Beyond the Standard Model - Felicia Volle (University of Birmingham (GB)) Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES)) (until 12:30)
11:10	Additional resonance searches in the Higgs sector at ATLAS (including SH, HH) - Abraham Tishelman-Charny (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
11:30	Soft-Dimuon Signature from Two-Component Scalar Dark Matter at the LHC - Shu Chen (University of Southampton)
11:50	Next-to-leading-order predictions in the general Georgi-Machacek model - Artemis Sofia Giannakopoulou (University of Freiburg)
12:10	Next-to-leading-order corrections to Higgs-boson partial decay widths in the general THDM - Jose Angel Hernandez Cuevas
11:10	Future (until 12:30)
11:10	The Higgs boson mass and the electron Yukawa coupling at FCC-ee - Reza Jafari (University of Tehran (IR))
11:30	Higgs boson couplings and total width at FCC-ee - Michaela Arampatzi (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))
11:50	Precision Higgs physics at FCC-hh - Stefano Manzoni (CERN)
12:10	Geant4 Simulation of Cherenkov Light Production in Plastic Scintillators for Fast Beam Diagnostics in Precision Higgs Experiments - Handan YILMAZ (İstanbul Technical University)

09:00	Higgs Pairs (until 10:40)
09:00	Interference effects in multi-scalar searches - Tania Robens (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))
09:20	Correlating Resonant Di-Higgs and Tri-Higgs Production to H → VV in the 2HDM - Guglielmo Coloretti
09:40	Impact of model-independent higher-order contributions to the Higgs-boson self-couplings - Wrishik Naskar (DESY)
10:00	Two-Loop Corrections to Trilinear Higgs Couplings and their Application to Di-Higgs Production - Felix Egle (DESY)
09:00	Single Higgs (until 10:40)
09:00	Searches for rare Higgs boson processes with the CMS detector (15+5) - Jas Bierkens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))
09:20	Search for rare Higgs boson productions and decays in ATLAS (15+5) - Hui-Chi Lin (University of Michigan (US))
09:40	Search for the Rare Higgs Boson Decay H → Zγ with Run 2 and Early Run 3 CMS Data (15+5) - Jiehan He (Peking University (CN))
10:00	N3LO QCD predictions for boosted Higgs-strahlung off a W boson at the LHC (15+5) - Federico Silvetti
10:40	Coffee (until 11:10)
11:10	Beyond the Standard Model - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) Clara Ramon Alvarez (University of Virginia (US)) (until 12:30)
11:10	Constraints on invisible Higgs decays from CMS - Hugues Evard (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE))
11:30	Integrating out a heavy Higgs singlet in the broken phase: effective theory and phenomenology - Sebastian Schuhmacher
11:50	Yukawa coupling modifications in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory - Barbara Anna Erdelyi (Università degli Studi di Padova and INFN Sezione di Padova)
12:10	Constraints on new physics using Higgs STXS measurements with H1jet and HiggsSignals - Alexander Lind (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))
11:10	Future (until 12:30)
11:10	Higgs prospect studies from ATLAS experiment - Doğa Elitez (CERN)
11:30	On the Phenomenology of a Real Inert Singlet-Triplet Dark Matter Model at current and future colliders - Jonas Scheibler (DESY)
11:50	Chasing 2HDM via electroweak corrections at e+e- colliders - Dr Yang Ma (UCLouvain)
12:10	Multiboson production at multi-TeV lepton colliders as complementary probes to rare Higgs decays - Arman Korajac (INFN Pisa)

09:00	Plenary (until 11:00)
09:00	Quantum observables in Higgs physics - Prof. Fabio Maltoni (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE) and Università di Bologna)
09:30	Extended scalar sectors and composite Higgs model building - Stefania De Curtis (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))
10:00	Low-mass new scalars and exotic Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS - Paula Martinez Suarez (CERN)
10:30	High-mass new scalars at the LHC, with and without a Higgs in the final state - Danyer Perez Adan (RWTH Aachen University (DE))
11:00	Coffee (until 11:30)
11:30	Plenary (until 13:30)
11:30	Higgs physics at future e⁺e⁻ colliders after the 2026 European Strategy - Ang Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
12:00	Precision Higgs physics at future colliders - Aude Gehrmann (ETH Zurich (CH))
12:30	BSM Higgs physics physics at future colliders - Tevong You (King's College London)
13:00	Closing

13:00	Registration (until 14:00)
14:00	Plenary (until 16:00)
14:00	Welcome
14:30	State of the art of precision Higgs calculation - Fabrizio Arturo Caola (University of Oxford (GB))
15:00	ATLAS Higgs Highlights - Alessandra Betti (Sapienza Università e INFN, Roma I (IT))
15:30	CMS Higgs highlights - Chen Zhou (Peking University (CN))
16:00	Coffee (until 16:30)
16:30	Plenary (until 18:30)
16:30	Frontier amplitude computations for Higgs physics - Ben Page (Ghent University (BE)) Ben Page (Ghent University (BE))
17:00	Machine learning advances and Higgs physics applications - Ramon Winterhalder (Università degli Studi di Milano)
17:30	Experimental methods at ATLAS - Angela Maria Burger (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
18:00	Experimental methods at CMS - Jessy Daniel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:30	Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00	Higgs Pairs (until 15:40)
14:00	NNLO+PS Higgs-pair production in MiNNLOPS - Francesco Garosi (SISSA)
14:20	Fast and flexible NLO QCD corrections to HH, ZH and VV in gluon fusion with ggxy - Daniel Stremmer (KIT)
14:40	Double Higgs production in the 2b2ɣ decay channel with MATRIX - Paolo Garbarino
15:00	Double Higgs boson production in the quark channel - Marco Bonetti (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
15:20	Higgs self-coupling via double Higgs production at future e+e- colliders - Julie Munch Torndal (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
14:00	Single Higgs (until 15:40)
14:00	Measurements of Higgs boson mass and width in ATLAS (15+5) - Martino Tanasini (Stony Brook University (US))
14:20	Measurements of the Higgs boson mass and width at CMS (15+5) - Filippo Errico (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
14:40	Combined measurement of Higgs boson couplings and EFT interpretations from ATLAS (15+5) - Serhat Ordek (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
15:00	Higgs property measurements at CMS (15+5) - Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))
15:40	Coffee (until 16:10)
16:10	Beyond the Standard Model - Ken Mimasu (University of Southampton) Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES)) (until 17:30)
16:10	Searches for new (pseudo)scalars at LHCb - Felicia Volle (University of Birmingham (GB))
16:30	From tracks to showers: extending the LHCb reach for light scalar and pseudoscalar particles - Andrea Merli (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
16:50	ALP pair production through the off-shell Higgs portal - Enliang Ren (University of Southampton)
17:10	ATLAS search results for low-mass new scalars and Higgs decays to BSM - Ruggero Turra (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
16:10	Single Higgs (until 17:30)
16:10	CP Properties of Higgs Couplings to Vector Bosons (HVV) in ATLAS (15+5) - Rahul Balasubramanian (LAPP, CNRS) Rahul Balasubramanian (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
16:30	Analysis of the CP structure of the Yukawa coupling between the Higgs boson and tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13.6 TeV (15+5) - Jacopo Malvaso (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
16:50	CP Properties of Higgs Couplings to Fermions in ATLAS (15+5) - Luca Franco (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
17:10	Quantum observables and quantum tomography for Higgs decay to four leptons (15+5) - Morgan Del Gratta
18:00	Drinks reception (until 21:00)

12:30	Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00	Plenary (until 16:00)
14:00	Precision Higgs measurements at ATLAS and CMS (mass, width, CP, off-shell) - Ahmed Tarek (CERN)
14:30	Inclusive and differential Higgs cross sections at ATLAS and CMS (incl. STXS) - Vukasin Milosevic (University of Belgrade (RS))
15:00	Monte Carlo for Higgs production and backgrounds - Melissa van Beekveld (Nikhef) Melissa Corona van Beekveld (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
15:30	aN³LO PDFs and Higgs predictions for the HL-LHC - Emanuele Roberto Nocera
16:00	Coffee (until 16:30)
16:30	Plenary (until 18:30)
16:30	Rare Higgs production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. tH, H+c) - Susana Cabrera Urban (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)
17:00	Rare Higgs decays at ATLAS and CMS (incl. µμ, Zγ, cc) - Louis D'Eramo (LPCA - CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))
17:30	ATLAS Higgs boson width and H->yy* measurements - Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
18:00	Higgs and flavour - Joe Davighi (University of Cambridge (GB))
18:45	"François Englert. Rebel and Nobel" movie projection (until 20:15) (Georges Lemaitre auditorium - A.10 SCES) trailer on YouTube
18:45	Introduction to the movie
18:55	"François Englert. Rebel and Nobel"

12:30	Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00	Plenary (until 16:00)
14:00	Effective field theory in the Higgs sector - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY))
14:30	Global EFT interpretations at ATLAS and CMS - Lourdes Urda Gomez (Fudan University (CN))
15:00	Precision prediction for di-Higgs production in the SM and beyond - Gudrun Heinrich (KIT)
15:30	Higgs pair production at ATLAS and CMS (incl. non-resonant, resonant, multi-Higgs) - Jona Motta (University of Zurich (CH))
16:00	Coffee (until 16:30)
16:30	Plenary (until 18:30)
16:30	Scalars, phase transitions, and gravitational waves - Alberto MARIOTTI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
17:00	Scalar dark matter scenarios - Thomas HAMBYE (ULB)
17:30	Higgs and scalar BSM interpretations at LHCb - Lorenzo Sestini (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))
18:00	CMS joker talk
19:00	Conference dinner (until 22:00)