Name: 18th Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF 2026)
Start: 2026-05-18T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-22T16:00:00+02:00
Location: ELTE

18th Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF 2026)

from Monday, 18 May 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 22 May 2026 (16:00)

Monday, 18 May 2026
09:00 Femtoscopy overview I.: Femtoscopy overview I.
Femtoscopy overview I.
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Welcome address - Mate Csanad (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)

09:05 CMS overview on femtoscopy - Sandra Padula (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))

09:30 ALICE femtoscopy overview - 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))

09:55 Overview of Femtoscopic Studies at STAR - Kehao Zhang

10:20 Plans for femtoscopy measurements at CBM - Daniel Henryk Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)) Daniel Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology) Daniel Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Phycis)
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
11:10 Femtoscopy overview II.: Femtoscopy overview II.
Femtoscopy overview II.
11:10 - 12:35
Contributions

11:10 CBM Overview - Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

11:35 News on fluctuations and correlations in NA61/SHINE - Nikolaos Davis (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

12:00 Femtoscopic source image shapes from SPS through RHIC to LHC - Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)

12:20 Two-particle source analysis at SPS energies - Barnabas Porfy (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
12:35 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Flow overview: Flow overview
Flow overview
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 Flow measurements at LHCb - Mariusz Witek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

14:25 Flow phenomena at high nuclear densities with HADES - Behruz Kardan (IKF, Uni-Frankfurt) Behruz Kardan Halvai (J) Behruz Kardan Halvai (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

14:50 Levy noise and relativistic hydrodynamics - Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania) Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania)

15:10 Like-sign pion femtoscopy in AgAg beam in the HADES experiment - Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics) Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology)

15:25 Femtoscopy of charged pions in CBM - Kacper Zieba (Warsaw University of Technology) Kacper Zięba (Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
15:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Fluctuation overview: Fluctuation overview
Fluctuation overview
16:10 - 17:50
Contributions

16:10 Recent Results on Fluctuations and Correlations from the HADES Experiment - Anar Rustamov (National Nuclear Research Center (AZ)) Anar Rustamov (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

16:35 Fluctuation Studies at STAR: An Overview - Yige Huang (Central China Normal University) Yige Huang

17:00 Extracting the Speed of Sound from Mean Transverse Momentum Measurements in Au+Au Collisions from RHIC Beam Energy Scan-II at STAR - Caleb Benjamin Broodo (University of Houston (US)) Caleb Broodo (University of Houston)

17:20 Recent extractions of the speed of sound in hot QCD matter using heavy-ion collisions - Cesar Bernardes (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))

17:40 Flash talks - 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))
18:00 Welcome party & posters: Welcome party & posters
Welcome party & posters
18:00 - 19:00
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
09:00 Diffraction I.: Diffraction I.
Diffraction I.
09:00 - 10:25
Contributions

09:00 CMS overview on diffraction - Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))

09:25 Overview of forward physics and diffraction in ALICE - Adam Matyja (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

09:50 Diffraction at the LHCb experiment - Izabela Juszczak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

10:10 Pseudorapidity distribution of spectator fragments measured with the STAR EPD - Balazs Korodi (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 11:00
11:00 Particle production: Particle production
Particle production
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Strange and Non-Strange Particle Production in Small, Intermediate-Size, and Heavy-Ion Systems at SPS Energies - Antoni Marcinek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

11:25 Correlations and Fluctuations in Particle Production at the LHC from the Parton Hadron String Dynamics (PHSD) model - Vitalii Ozvenchuk (IFJ PAN) Vitalii Ozvenchuk (IFJ PAN)

11:50 Is baryon enhancement in small systems a jet flavor effect rather than collectivity? - Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))

12:10 Vector meson production in proton-nucleus collisions - György Wolf
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Theoretical developments
14:00 - 15:50
Contributions

14:00 Regularized Lednicky-Lyuboshitz formula for higher partial waves - Koichi Murase (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

14:25 Solving the Inverse Source Problem in Femtoscopy - Ming-Zhu Liu (Lanzhou University)

14:50 Deblurring triple-differential yields and flow observables in Heavy Ion Collisions - Pawel Danielewicz Pawel Danielewicz Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University) Pawel Danielewicz

15:10 Corrections to the Smoothness and On-Shell Approximations - Isaac Smith (Weizmann Institute of Science)

15:30 Fourier space method for femtoscopic Coulomb and strong final state interactions - Marton Nagy Marton Nagy (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))
15:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20 Diffraction II.: Diffraction II.
Diffraction II.
16:20 - 17:40
Contributions

16:20 Asymmetry and scaling of elastic proton-proton scattering at high energies - Roman Pasechnik (Lund university) Roman Pasechnik Roman Pasechnik (Lund university)

16:40 Resonance production in single diffractive proton-proton scattering - Istvan Szanyi (MATE KRC, University of Kansas, Wigner RCP) István Szanyi (Eötvös Loránd University)

17:00 Model-independent Levy analysis of combined ATLAS and TOTEM high energy elastic scattering data - Andras Ster (KFKI-RMKI) András Ster

17:20 Probing the dead-cone effect with hadron correlations - Laszlo Gyulai (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
18:00 Beer quiz and tasting (to be confirmed): Beer quiz and tasting (to be confirmed)
Beer quiz and tasting (to be confirmed)
18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
09:00 Photons & EoS: Photons & EoS
Photons & EoS
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Photon correlation functions - Dariusz Miskowiec (GSI Darmstadt)

09:25 Photon femtoscopy at HADES - Mateusz Grunwald (Warsaw Universty of Technology)

09:45 Astrophysical constraints on the cold equation of state of the strongly interacting matter - Gábor Kasza

10:05 Science with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer - József Varga (Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute)

10:25 Stellar Intensity Interferometry with VERITAS - Josie Rose Josie Rose (Yale University (US))
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Multi-body correlations: Multi-body correlations
Multi-body correlations
11:10 - 12:30
Contributions

11:10 Probing Three-Body Baryonic Interactions via Triplet Femtoscopy at STAR - Ke Mi (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Central China Normal University) ke mi

11:35 Two- and three-particle correlations at LHCb - Marcin Kucharczyk (Syracuse) Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

11:55 Investigating three-body dynamics of p-p-Λ via correlation functions in ALICE at the LHC - Wioleta Rzesa (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

12:15 First direct access to the ρ0-p interaction via correlation studies at the LHC - Maximilian Korwieser (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Baryon correlations I.: Baryon correlations I.
Baryon correlations I.
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Correlations of baryons and the production of clusters - Boris Tomasik (Univerzita Mateja Bela) Boris Tomasik

14:25 News from cluster production in heavy-ion collisions - Tom Reichert Tom Reichert Tom Reichert

14:50 The Baryon Correlation Puzzle: Emerging Perspectives from Recent Studies - Malgorzata Anna Janik (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))

15:10 Measurements of p-Ξ Correlation Functions in Au+Au Collisions from STAR Beam Energy Scan II - Jing An (Central China Normal University)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Baryon correlations II.: Baryon correlations II.
Baryon correlations II.
16:00 - 17:45
Contributions

16:00 Femtoscopy with the Spirit TPC at RIKEN - Yijie Wang (Beihang University)

16:25 Proton-proton correlations in ALICE - Francesca Bellini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

16:50 Femtoscopy of ultraperipheral collisions: applications in hadronic interactions and nuclear structure studies - Christopher Anson (Creighton University) Christopher Anson Christopher Anson (The Ohio State University) Christopher Anson (The Ohio State University) Christopher Daniel Hanson (Indiana University (US))

17:10 The analysis of neutron-neutron and proton-proton correlation function in the heavy ion experiment - Dawei Si (Tsinghua University)

17:30 Proton femtoscopic source in light ion collisions with the ALICE experiment - Sofia Tomassini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
Thursday, 21 May 2026
09:00 Kaon correlations
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Overview of recent PHENIX results - Tamas Novak Tamas Novak (Unknown) Tamas Novak (MATE Institute of Technology Karoly Robert Campus (HU)) Tamas Novak (H) Tamas Novak

09:25 Kaon femtoscopy with PHENIX at 200 GeV - Sandor Lokos (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

09:45 K0-K0 femtoscopy in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5 TeV at the LHC - Analyce Hernandez-Norris (Ohio State University)

10:00 Particle-species dependence of the two-particle source function in EPOS - László Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University)
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Pion correlations: Pion correlations
Pion correlations
10:45 - 12:15
Contributions

10:45 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 - 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)

11:05 3D Femotoscopy of pions with Levy sources - Yan Huang (Eötvös Loránd University)

11:25 Three-dimensional sizes and shapes of pion emission in heavy-ion collisions - Emese Árpási (Eötvös Loránd University)

11:40 Investigating QGP dynamics through heavy-ion collisions using the Femtoscopic Interferometry (HBT) approach - Zeinab Abdelrazik (faculty of science, Cairo university.)

11:55 Like-sign pion femtoscopy in low energy proton-proton collisions at HADES - Michal Predota Michał Prędota Michał Prędota (Warsaw University of Technology)
12:15 Excursion & packed lunch
Excursion & packed lunch
12:15 - 15:00
15:00 Ortvay colloquium: Ortvay colloquium
Ortvay colloquium
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 Past, present and future of CERN - Mark Thomson (CERN)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Nuclear structure & light-ion collisions: Nuclear structure & light-ion collisions
Nuclear structure & light-ion collisions
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Decoupling the collision energy when tracking quantum number balance in small systems at LHC Run 3 with ALICE - Victor Diez Gonzalez (CERN) Victor Gonzalez (Wayne State University (US))

16:50 Heavy-Flavor Flow as a Probe of Alpha Clustered Nuclear Geometry in Light-Ion Collisions - Hadi Mehrabpour (Peking Univresity) Hadi Mehrabpour (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)) Hadi Mehrabpour (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IR)) Hadi Mehrabpour (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

17:10 Femtoscopic signatures of unique nuclear structures in relativistic collisions - Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University) Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

17:30 Flow-vector fluctuations in OO and Ne-Ne at 5.36 TeV - Lukas Cernusak (University of Copenhagen (DK))

17:45 Exploring nuclear structure with multi-particle correlations in Ne-Ne and OO collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Vojtech Machacek (University of Copenhagen (DK))
19:00 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
19:00 - 22:00
Friday, 22 May 2026
09:00 Critical point
09:00 - 10:50
Contributions

09:00 Fluctuation signals of the CEP - Fabian Rennecke (Justus Liebig University Giessen)

09:25 Recent results on the phase diagram from lattice QCD - Attila Pasztor (Eötvös University)

09:45 Recent results from lattice QCD at non-zero temperature and density - Peter Petreczky (BNL) Peter Petreczky

10:05 Searching for signatures of criticality in heavy-ion collisions using two-pion correlation functions - Santiago Bernal Langarica (Nuclear Sciences Institue, National Autonomous University of Mexico)

10:20 Probing the Yang-Lee edge in QCD beyond standard lattice methods - David Pesznyak

10:35 Pion emission source from UrQMD at STAR energies - Mátyás Molnár
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15
11:15 X17 searches: X17 searches
X17 searches
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Recent status of the discovery of the X17 particle - 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))

11:40 Search for X17 signals at CERN n_TOF - Alberto Mengoni (CERN & INFN, Bologna) Alberto Mengoni (IAEA)

12:00 Study of the Anomalous Internal Pair Creation in 8Be at LNL-INFN - Benito Gongora Servin (University of Padova)

12:20 Results from PADME on X17 - Venelin Kozhuharov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))

12:40 Closing remarks, awards - Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University) Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)
12:45 IAC lunch & discussion
IAC lunch & discussion
12:45 - 14:05