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

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  • Monday 18 May
    • Femtoscopy overview I.
      WPCF26_usefulinfo.pdf
      • 1
        Welcome address
        Speaker: Mate Csanad (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University)
      • 2
        CMS overview on femtoscopy
        Speaker: Sandra Padula (UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (BR))
        SandraSPadula-CMS-BEC-WPCF2026.pdf
      • 3
        ALICE femtoscopy overview
        Speakers: 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))
        DelGrande_WPCF2026.pdf
      • 4
        Overview of Femtoscopic Studies at STAR
        Speaker: Kehao Zhang
        WPCF_Kehao.pdf
      • 5
        Plans for femtoscopy measurements at CBM
        Speakers: Daniel Henryk Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)), Daniel Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology), Dr Daniel Wielanek (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Phycis)
        wpcf_Daniel_Wielanek.pdf
    • 10:45
      Coffee break
    • Femtoscopy overview II.
      • 6
        CBM Overview
        Speaker: Hanna Zbroszczyk (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
        Zbroszczyk-WPCF-2026.pdf
      • 7
        News on fluctuations and correlations in NA61/SHINE
        Speaker: Nikolaos Davis (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
        Davis.WPCF.2026.pdf
      • 8
        Femtoscopic source image shapes from SPS through RHIC to LHC
        Speaker: Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)
        csanad_WPCF26_LevyHBT.pdf
      • 9
        Two-particle source analysis at SPS energies
        Speaker: Barnabas Porfy (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
        bporfy_Pheno.pdf
    • 12:35
      Lunch break
    • Flow overview
      • 10
        Flow measurements at LHCb
        Speaker: Mariusz Witek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
        LHCb_Flow_MWitek_2026-05-18.pdf
      • 11
        Flow phenomena at high nuclear densities with HADES
        Speakers: Mr Behruz Kardan (IKF, Uni-Frankfurt), Behruz Kardan Halvai (J), Behruz Kardan Halvai (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
        Kardan_WPCF2026_Flow_05_2026.pdf
      • 12
        Levy noise and relativistic hydrodynamics
        Speakers: Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania), Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
      • 13
        Like-sign pion femtoscopy in AgAg beam in the HADES experiment
        Speakers: Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics), Anna Kodym (Warsaw University of Technology)
        Kodym_WPCF_pion_femtoscopy.pdf
      • 14
        Femtoscopy of charged pions in CBM
        Speakers: Kacper Zieba (Warsaw University of Technology), Kacper Zięba (Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
        WPCF_2026_KZ.pdf
    • 15:40
      Coffee break
    • Fluctuation overview
    • Welcome party & posters
  • Tuesday 19 May
    • Diffraction I.
      • 20
        CMS overview on diffraction
        Speaker: Ferenc Siklér (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))
        sikler_diff_cms_wpcf2026.pdf
      • 21
        Overview of forward physics and diffraction in ALICE
        Speaker: Adam Matyja (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
        WPCF_2026_AMatyja_v0d.pdf
      • 22
        Diffraction at the LHCb experiment
        Speaker: Izabela Juszczak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
        LHCb_diffraction.pdf
      • 23
        Pseudorapidity distribution of spectator fragments measured with the STAR EPD
        Speaker: Balazs Korodi (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))
        BKorodi_WPCF2026_v2.pdf
    • 10:25
      Coffee break
    • Particle production
      • 24
        Strange and Non-Strange Particle Production in Small, Intermediate-Size, and Heavy-Ion Systems at SPS Energies
        Speaker: Antoni Marcinek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
        marcinek_WPCF_2026_05_19.pdf
      • 25
        Correlations and Fluctuations in Particle Production at the LHC from the Parton Hadron String Dynamics (PHSD) model
        Speakers: Dr Vitalii Ozvenchuk (IFJ PAN), Dr Vitalii Ozvenchuk (IFJ PAN)
        WPCF_19_05_26_Ozvenchuk.pdf
      • 26
        Is baryon enhancement in small systems a jet flavor effect rather than collectivity?
        Speaker: Robert Vertesi (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
        vertesi-baryonenh-wpcf26.pdf
      • 27
        Vector meson production in proton-nucleus collisions
        Speaker: György Wolf
        Wolf-vectmes.pdf
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Theoretical developments
      • 28
        Regularized Lednicky-Lyuboshitz formula for higher partial waves
        Speaker: Koichi Murase (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
        20260519-murase-wpcf2026-RegularizedLL-v3.pdf
      • 29
        Solving the Inverse Source Problem in Femtoscopy
        Speaker: Ming-Zhu Liu (Lanzhou University)
        WTCB匈牙利.pdf
      • 30
        Deblurring triple-differential yields and flow observables in Heavy Ion Collisions
        Speakers: Pawel Danielewicz, Pawel Danielewicz, Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University), Pawel Danielewicz
        tkbu26.pdf
      • 31
        Corrections to the Smoothness and On-Shell Approximations
        Speaker: Isaac Smith (Weizmann Institute of Science)
        WPCF_talk.pdf
        WPCF_talk.pptx
      • 32
        Fourier space method for femtoscopic Coulomb and strong final state interactions
        Speakers: Marton Nagy, Marton Nagy (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))
        WPCF_nm_2026.pdf
    • 15:50
      Coffee break
    • Diffraction II.
      • 33
        Asymmetry and scaling of elastic proton-proton scattering at high energies
        Speakers: Roman Pasechnik (Lund university), Roman Pasechnik, Roman Pasechnik (Lund university)
        WPCF2026_Pasechnik.pdf
      • 34
        Resonance production in single diffractive proton-proton scattering
        Speakers: Istvan Szanyi (MATE KRC, University of Kansas, Wigner RCP), Mr István Szanyi (Eötvös Loránd University)
        Single_Diffraction_WPCF_Szanyi__slides_final.pdf
      • 35
        Model-independent Levy analysis of combined ATLAS and TOTEM high energy elastic scattering data
        Speakers: Andras Ster (KFKI-RMKI), András Ster
        ster_wpcf26.pdf
      • 36
        Probing the dead-cone effect with hadron correlations
        Speaker: Laszlo Gyulai (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
        Gyulai_WPCF.pdf
    • Beer quiz and tasting (to be confirmed)
  • Wednesday 20 May
    • Photons & EoS
    • 10:40
      Coffee break
    • Multi-body correlations
      • 42
        Probing Three-Body Baryonic Interactions via Triplet Femtoscopy at STAR
        Speakers: Ke Mi (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Central China Normal University), ke mi
        20260520_WPCF2026_threebody_kmi.pdf
      • 43
        Two- and three-particle correlations at LHCb
        Speakers: Marcin Kucharczyk (Syracuse), Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)), Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
        WPCF_2026_Kucharczyk.pdf
      • 44
        Investigating three-body dynamics of p-p-Λ via correlation functions in ALICE at the LHC
        Speaker: Wioleta Rzesa (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))
        wpcf_2026-wrzesa.pdf
      • 45
        First direct access to the ρ0-p interaction via correlation studies at the LHC
        Speaker: Maximilian Korwieser (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
        MK_WPCF26_ρ0-p_femto_200526.pdf
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • Baryon correlations I.
      • 46
        Correlations of baryons and the production of clusters
        Speakers: Boris Tomasik (Univerzita Mateja Bela), Boris Tomasik
        tomasik_WPCF26.pdf
      • 47
        News from cluster production in heavy-ion collisions
        Speakers: Tom Reichert, Mr Tom Reichert, Tom Reichert
        WPCF26_Reichert_Tom.pdf
      • 48
        The Baryon Correlation Puzzle: Emerging Perspectives from Recent Studies
        Speaker: Malgorzata Anna Janik (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
        WPCF_2026_MJanik.pdf
      • 49
        Measurements of p-Ξ Correlation Functions in Au+Au Collisions from STAR Beam Energy Scan II
        Speaker: Jing An (Central China Normal University)
        PXiCorrelations_BESIICollider_WPCF2026.pdf
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • Baryon correlations II.
      • 50
        Femtoscopy with the Spirit TPC at RIKEN
        Speaker: Dr Yijie Wang (Beihang University)
        20260520-Yijie Wang-ppCF-SpiRIT.pdf
      • 51
        Proton-proton correlations in ALICE
        Speaker: Francesca Bellini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
        WPCF_Bellini.pdf
      • 52
        Femtoscopy of ultraperipheral collisions: applications in hadronic interactions and nuclear structure studies
        Speakers: Christopher Anson (Creighton University), Christopher Anson, Christopher Anson (The Ohio State University), Christopher Anson (The Ohio State University), Christopher Daniel Hanson (Indiana University (US))
        WPCF2026_CAnson.pdf
      • 53
        The analysis of neutron-neutron and proton-proton correlation function in the heavy ion experiment
        Speaker: Dawei Si (Tsinghua University)
        WPCF_2026_Dawei_v1.pdf
      • 54
        Proton femtoscopic source in light ion collisions with the ALICE experiment
        Speaker: Sofia Tomassini (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
        TOMASSINI_WPCF_vfinal.pdf
  • Thursday 21 May
  • Friday 22 May
    • Critical point
      • 70
        Fluctuation signals of the CEP
        Speaker: Fabian Rennecke (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
        WPCF2026_Rennecke.pdf
      • 71
        Recent results on the phase diagram from lattice QCD
        Speaker: Attila Pasztor (Eötvös University)
        star26_pasztor.pdf
        star26_pasztor.pptx
        wpcf26.pdf
        wpcf26.pdf
        wpcf26.pptx
      • 72
        Recent results from lattice QCD at non-zero temperature and density
        Speakers: Peter Petreczky (BNL), Peter Petreczky
        wpcf26.pdf
      • 73
        Searching for signatures of criticality in heavy-ion collisions using two-pion correlation functions
        Speaker: Santiago Bernal Langarica (Nuclear Sciences Institue, National Autonomous University of Mexico)
        wpcf_sbl.pdf
      • 74
        Probing the Yang-Lee edge in QCD beyond standard lattice methods
        Speaker: Mr David Pesznyak
        WPCF__2026_.pdf
      • 75
        Pion emission source from UrQMD at STAR energies
        Speaker: Mátyás Molnár
        wpcf2026_molnarmatyas.pdf
    • 10:50
      Coffee break
    • X17 searches
      • 76
        Recent status of the discovery of the X17 particle
        Speakers: 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))
        X17-Krasznahorkay-Budapest.pdf
      • 77
        Search for X17 signals at CERN n_TOF
        Speakers: Alberto Mengoni (CERN & INFN, Bologna), Alberto Mengoni (IAEA)
        AMengoni_X17@n_TOF.pdf
        AMengoni_X17@n_TOF.pptx
      • 78
        Study of the Anomalous Internal Pair Creation in 8Be at LNL-INFN
        Speaker: Benito Gongora Servin (University of Padova)
        X17_WPCF_Gongora.pdf
        X17_WPCF_Gongora.pptx
      • 79
        Results from PADME on X17
        Speaker: Venelin Kozhuharov (University of Sofia - St. Kliment Ohridski (BG))
        2026-05-22-NewLightParticles-PADME.pdf
      • 80
        Closing remarks, awards
        Speakers: Dániel Kincses (Eötvös Loránd University), Mate Csanad (Eotvos University, Budapest)
    • 12:45
      IAC lunch & discussion