18th Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF 2026)
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Europe/Budapest
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Femtoscopy overview I.
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9:00 AM
Welcome address 5mSpeaker: Mate Csanad (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)
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9:05 AM
CMS overview on femtoscopy 25mSpeaker: Sandra Padula (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
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9:30 AM
ALICE femtoscopy overview 25mSpeakers: Raffaele Del Grande (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Raffaele Del Grande (LNF-INFN), Raffaele Del Grande (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)), Raffaele Del Grande (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
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Plans for femtoscopy measurements at CBM 25mSpeakers: Daniel Henryk Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)), Daniel Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology), Dr Daniel Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Phycis)
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Coffee break 25m
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Femtoscopy overview II.
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11:10 AM
CBM Overview 25mSpeaker: Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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11:35 AM
News on fluctuations and correlations in NA61/SHINE 25mSpeaker: Nikolaos Davis (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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12:00 PM
Femtoscopic source image shapes from SPS through RHIC to LHC 20mSpeaker: Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)
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12:20 PM
Two-particle source analysis at SPS energies 15mSpeaker: Barnabas Porfy (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
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Lunch break 1h 25m
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Flow overview
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2:00 PM
Flow measurements at LHCb 25mSpeaker: Mariusz Witek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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2:25 PM
Flow phenomena at high nuclear densities with HADES 25mSpeakers: Mr Behruz Kardan (IKF, Uni-Frankfurt), Behruz Kardan Halvai (J), Behruz Kardan Halvai (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
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Levy noise and relativistic hydrodynamics 20mSpeakers: Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania), Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
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3:10 PM
Like-sign pion femtoscopy in AgAg beam in the HADES experiment 15mSpeakers: Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics), Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology)
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Femtoscopy of charged pions in CBM 15mSpeakers: Kacper Zieba (Warsaw University of Technology), Kacper Zięba (Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
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Coffee break 30m
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Fluctuation overview
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Recent Results on Fluctuations and Correlations from the HADES Experiment 25mSpeakers: Anar Rustamov (National Nuclear Research Center (AZ)), Dr Anar Rustamov (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
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4:35 PM
Fluctuation Studies at STAR: An Overview 25mSpeakers: Mr Yige Huang (Central China Normal University), Yige Huang
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5:00 PM
Extracting the Speed of Sound from Mean Transverse Momentum Measurements in Au+Au Collisions from RHIC Beam Energy Scan-II at STAR 20mSpeakers: Caleb Benjamin Broodo (University of Houston (US)), Caleb Broodo (University of Houston)
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5:20 PM
Recent extractions of the speed of sound in hot QCD matter using heavy-ion collisions 20mSpeaker: Cesar Bernardes (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
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5:40 PM
Flash talks 10mSpeakers: Dr Ashutosh Kumar Pandey (University of Tsukuba (JP)), Ashutosh Kumar Pandey, Barbara Chytla (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)), Barnabas Igari (Eotvos Lorand University (HU)), Bence Szentkuti, Kamilla Csengeri (Eotvos Lorand University (HU)), Kamilla Csengeri, Kristof Csiki (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Somen Gope (Bose Institute), Somen Gope (Gauhati University), Zsombor Rácz (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary), Łucja Młynarska (AGH University of Krakow (PL))
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Welcome party & posters
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Diffraction I.
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CMS overview on diffraction 25mSpeaker: Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))
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Overview of forward physics and diffraction in ALICE 25mSpeaker: Adam Matyja (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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9:50 AM
Diffraction at the LHCb experiment 20mSpeaker: Izabela Juszczak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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Pseudorapidity distribution of spectator fragments measured with the STAR EPD 15mSpeaker: Balazs Korodi (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))
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Coffee break 35m
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Particle production
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Strange and Non-Strange Particle Production in Small, Intermediate-Size, and Heavy-Ion Systems at SPS Energies 25mSpeaker: Antoni Marcinek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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11:25 AM
Correlations and Fluctuations in Particle Production at the LHC from the Parton Hadron String Dynamics (PHSD) model 25mSpeakers: Dr Vitalii Ozvenchuk (IFJ PAN), Dr Vitalii Ozvenchuk (IFJ PAN)
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11:50 AM
Is baryon enhancement in small systems a jet flavor effect rather than collectivity? 20mSpeaker: Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
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Lunch break 1h 30m
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Theoretical developments
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Regularized Lednicky-Lyuboshitz formula for higher partial waves 25mSpeaker: Koichi Murase (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
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Solving the Inverse Source Problem in Femtoscopy 25mSpeaker: Ming-Zhu Liu (Lanzhou University)
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Deblurring triple-differential yields and flow observables in Heavy Ion Collisions 20mSpeakers: Pawel Danielewicz, Pawel Danielewicz, Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University), Pawel Danielewicz
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3:10 PM
Corrections to the Smoothness and On-Shell Approximations 20mSpeaker: Isaac Smith (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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3:30 PM
Fourier space method for femtoscopic Coulomb and strong final state interactions 20mSpeakers: Marton Nagy, Marton Nagy (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))
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Coffee break 30m
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Diffraction II.
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Asymmetry and scaling of elastic proton-proton scattering at high energies 20mSpeakers: Roman Pasechnik (Lund university), Roman Pasechnik, Roman Pasechnik (Lund university)
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4:40 PM
Resonance production in single diffractive proton-proton scattering 20mSpeakers: Istvan Szanyi (MATE KRC, University of Kansas, Wigner RCP), Mr István Szanyi (Eötvös Loránd University)
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Model-independent Levy analysis of combined ATLAS and TOTEM high energy elastic scattering data 20mSpeakers: Andras Ster (KFKI-RMKI), András Ster
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Probing the dead-cone effect with hadron correlations 20mSpeaker: Laszlo Gyulai (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
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Beer quiz and tasting (to be confirmed)
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Photons & EoS
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Photon femtoscopy at HADES 20mSpeaker: Mateusz Grunwald (Warsaw Universty of Technology)
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Astrophysical constraints on the cold equation of state of the strongly interacting matter 20mSpeaker: Gábor Kasza
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10:05 AM
Science with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer 20mSpeaker: József Varga (Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute)
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Stellar Intensity Interferometry with VERITAS 15mSpeakers: Josie Rose, Josie Rose (Yale University (US))
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Coffee break 30m
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Multi-body correlations
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Probing Three-Body Baryonic Interactions via Triplet Femtoscopy at STAR 25mSpeakers: Ke Mi (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Central China Normal University), ke mi
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Two- and three-particle correlations at LHCb 20mSpeakers: Marcin Kucharczyk (Syracuse), Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)), Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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Investigating three-body dynamics of p-p-Λ via correlation functions in ALICE at the LHC 20mSpeaker: Wioleta Rzesa (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))
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12:15 PM
First direct access to the ρ0-p interaction via correlation studies at the LHC 15mSpeaker: Maximilian Korwieser (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
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Lunch break 1h 30m
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Baryon correlations I.
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Correlations of baryons and the production of clusters 25mSpeakers: Boris Tomasik (Univerzita Mateja Bela), Boris Tomasik
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News from cluster production in heavy-ion collisions 25mSpeakers: Tom Reichert, Mr Tom Reichert, Tom Reichert
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The Baryon Correlation Puzzle: Emerging Perspectives from Recent Studies 20mSpeaker: Malgorzata Anna Janik (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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Measurements of p-Ξ Correlation Functions in Au+Au Collisions from STAR Beam Energy Scan II 20mSpeaker: Jing An (Central China Normal University)
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Coffee break 30m
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Baryon correlations II.
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Femtoscopy with the Spirit TPC at RIKEN 25mSpeaker: Dr Yijie Wang (Beihang University)
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Proton-proton correlations in ALICE 25mSpeaker: Francesca Bellini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
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Femtoscopy of ultraperipheral collisions: applications in hadronic interactions and nuclear structure studies 20mSpeakers: Christopher Anson (Creighton University), Christopher Anson, Christopher Anson (The Ohio State University), Christopher Anson (The Ohio State University), Christopher Daniel Hanson (Indiana University (US))
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The analysis of neutron-neutron and proton-proton correlation function in the heavy ion experiment 20mSpeaker: Dawei Si (Tsinghua University)
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Proton femtoscopic source in light ion collisions with the ALICE experiment 15mSpeaker: Sofia Tomassini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
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Kaon correlations
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Overview of recent PHENIX results 25mSpeakers: Tamas Novak, Tamas Novak (Unknown), Tamas Novak (MATE Institute of Technology Karoly Robert Campus (HU)), Tamas Novak (H), Tamas Novak
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Kaon femtoscopy with PHENIX at 200 GeV 20mSpeaker: Sandor Lokos (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
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K0-K0 femtoscopy in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5 TeV at the LHC 15mSpeaker: Analyce Hernandez-Norris (Ohio State University)
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Particle-species dependence of the two-particle source function in EPOS 15mSpeaker: László Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University)
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Coffee break 30m
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Pion correlations
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Centrality dependence of Lévy-stable two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations may indicate a second QCD transition in sqrt(s(NN))= 200 GeV Au+Au collisions 20mSpeakers: Tamas Csorgo (MATE Institute of Technology Karoly Robert Campus (HU)), Tamas Csorgo (Harvard University), Tamás Ferenc Csörgö (Wigner RCP Budapest and MATE Institute of Technology, Gyöngyös, Hungary)
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3D Femotoscopy of pions with Levy sources 20mSpeaker: Yan Huang (Eötvös Loránd University)
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Three-dimensional sizes and shapes of pion emission in heavy-ion collisions 15mSpeaker: Emese Árpási (Eötvös Loránd University)
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Investigating QGP dynamics through heavy-ion collisions using the Femtoscopic Interferometry (HBT) approach 15mSpeaker: Zeinab Abdelrazik (faculty of science, Cairo university.)
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Like-sign pion femtoscopy in low energy proton-proton collisions at HADES 20mSpeakers: Michal Predota, Michał Prędota, Michał Prędota (Warsaw University of Technology)
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Excursion & packed lunch 2h 45m
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Ortvay colloquium
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Past, present and future of CERN 1hSpeaker: Mark Thomson (CERN)
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Coffee break 30m
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Nuclear structure & light-ion collisions
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Decoupling the collision energy when tracking quantum number balance in small systems at LHC Run 3 with ALICE 20mSpeakers: Victor Diez Gonzalez (CERN), Victor Gonzalez (Wayne State University (US))
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Heavy-Flavor Flow as a Probe of Alpha Clustered Nuclear Geometry in Light-Ion Collisions 20mSpeakers: Hadi Mehrabpour (Peking Univresity), Hadi Mehrabpour (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)), Hadi Mehrabpour (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR)), Dr Hadi Mehrabpour (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
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Femtoscopic signatures of unique nuclear structures in relativistic collisions 20mSpeakers: Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University), Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
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Flow-vector fluctuations in OO and Ne-Ne at 5.36 TeV 15mSpeaker: Lukas Cernusak (University of Copenhagen (DK))
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Exploring nuclear structure with multi-particle correlations in Ne-Ne and OO collisions with ALICE at the LHC 15mSpeaker: Vojtech Machacek (University of Copenhagen (DK))
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Conference dinner 3h
Armada Dinner Cruise Boat (Budapest, Jászai Mari tér, Dock no. 9.)
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Critical point
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Fluctuation signals of the CEP 25mSpeaker: Fabian Rennecke (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
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Recent results on the phase diagram from lattice QCD 20mSpeaker: Attila Pasztor (Eötvös University)
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Recent results from lattice QCD at non-zero temperature and density 20mSpeakers: Peter Petreczky (BNL), Peter Petreczky
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Searching for signatures of criticality in heavy-ion collisions using two-pion correlation functions 15mSpeaker: Santiago Bernal Langarica (Nuclear Sciences Institue, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
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Probing the Yang-Lee edge in QCD beyond standard lattice methods 15mSpeaker: Mr David Pesznyak
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Pion emission source from UrQMD at STAR energies 15mSpeaker: Mátyás Molnár
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Coffee break 25m
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X17 searches
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Recent status of the discovery of the X17 particle 25mSpeakers: Attila Janos Krasznahorkay (HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research (HU)), Attila Krasznahorkay (N), Attila Krasznahorkay (Institute of Nuclear Research, Atomki), Attila Krasznahorkay (University of Massachusetts (US))
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Search for X17 signals at CERN n_TOF 20mSpeakers: Alberto Mengoni (CERN & INFN, Bologna), Alberto Mengoni (IAEA)
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Study of the Anomalous Internal Pair Creation in 8Be at LNL-INFN 20mSpeaker: Benito Gongora Servin (University of Padova)
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Results from PADME on X17 20mSpeaker: Venelin Kozhuharov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))
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Closing remarks, awards 5mSpeakers: Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University), Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)
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IAC lunch & discussion 1h 20m
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