LHC BSM Working Group general meeting

from Monday, 19 October 2026 (08:30) to Wednesday, 21 October 2026 (18:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Oct 2026
20 Oct 2026
21 Oct 2026
AM
09:00
Tuesday -Dr Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC, CSIC-UValencia) Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)) (until 10:50)
09:00 Dark Shower TF  
09:40 Portals dark sector TF: presentation of results and benchmarks  
10:00 t-channel LLP TF  
10:20 Discussion  
10:50 --- coffee / tea break ---
11:20
Tuesday - Cesare Cazzaniga (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB)) (until 13:10)
11:20 2HDM+a TF  
11:50 Summary on existing DM benchmarks - Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))  
12:30 First Results from the ALICE BSM Physics Programme - Mesut Arslandok (Yale University (US))  
12:40 Discussion  
09:00
Wednesday - Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)) Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN) (until 11:00)
09:00 Anomaly detection TF  
09:20 Anomaly detection on L1 Scouting  
09:40 Heavy Resonances TF - Mahsana Haleem (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))  
10:00 Cross Section non-SUSY (VLQ/VLL; LQs)  
10:20 Strong First Order Phase Transition (SFOPT)  
10:40 Discussion  
11:00 --- coffee / tea break ---
11:20
Wednesday - Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Eleanor Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) (until 13:10)
11:20 Cross Section SUSY and pMSSM TF  
12:00 Forward-looking of physics at HL-LHC ATLAS/CMS/LHCb (non-LLP): new detectors, new capabilities  
12:40 Discussion  
PM
13:00
Monday - Felicia Volle (University of Birmingham (GB)) Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)) (until 15:30)
13:00 BSM WG overview - Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA))  
13:30 BSM from SM measurements - Prof. Veronica Sanz Gonzalez (Universities of Valencia and Sussex)  
14:10 BSM searches (with excess) ATLAS+CMS+LHCb - Deborah Pinna (University of Wisconsin (US))  
14:50 Discussion  
15:30 --- coffee / tea break ---
16:00
Monday - Daniel Johnson (University of Birmingham (GB)) Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB)) (until 18:00)
16:00 Tensions beyond colliders  
16:40 LHC Searches and the Next Standard Model: A Meta-Statistical View  
17:20 Discussion  
13:10 --- lunch ---
14:30
Tuesday - Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)) Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA)) (until 16:00)
14:30 HS3 TF (specification and tool development)  
15:00 Reports from experiments regarding HEPdata and reinterpretability  
15:30 Discussion  
16:00 --- coffee / tea break ---
16:30
Tuesday - Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)) Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)) (until 18:00)
16:30 Open Event Generation TF (in cross-collaboration with LHC MC WG) - Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
17:00 Theory meets HL-LHC  
17:30 Discussion  
13:10 --- lunch ---
14:30
Wednesday - Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB)) Dr Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC, CSIC-UValencia) (until 16:20)
14:30 Alternative dataflows: scouting/TLA/TurboStream programmes of CMS/ATLAS/LHCb  
15:00 Future LHC-complementing experimental sensitivities (CODEX / ANUBIS / MATHUSLA)  
15:20 Forward-looking of LLP signatures at HL-LHC (ATLAS / CMS / LHCb / FASER / SND)  
15:40 MoEDAL / milliQan / FORMOSA demo  
15:55 Discussion  
16:20 --- coffee / tea break ---
16:50
Wednesday - Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)) Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)) (until 18:00)
16:50 Final remarks - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
17:20 Discussion