LHC BSM Working Group general meeting

19 Oct 2026, 08:30 → 21 Oct 2026, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Daniel Johnson (University of Birmingham (GB)), Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)), Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)), Tim Cohen (CERN)

Welcome to the second general assembly of the LHC BSM working group, which acts as an umbrella for the already existing DM and LLP working groups, and for the new Re-interpretation working group arising from the former Re-interpretation Forum initiative. A new subgroup on prompt BSM signatures, covering other searches beyond DM and LLPs, completes the scientific content of the LHC BSM working group.

The goal of the general assembly is to review the current status of BSM searches in the experiments, as well as the perspective and initiatives of the various subgroups. For that purpose, ample time will be dedicated to open discussions to collect feedback and input from all participants on possible additional directions and initiatives to be covered by the LHC BSM WG.

To subscribe to the general WG mailing list, used to distribute announcements about WG meetings and available documents, go to 
https://e-groups.cern.ch/e-groups/EgroupsSubscription.do?egroupName=lhc-bsmwg.

CERN access

During registration you have the possibility to request an access card. We will then grant access which will generate an Access Card which you should print out and bring with you to show to the staff at the front gate.

If you are unable to print your pass, you can use the provided access code on a small machine at the front gate to print your pass on the day.

CERN accommodation

A number of rooms at the CERN hostel have been pre-booked for the meeting. For information on how to access the room booking, please see the Accommodation section.  If you prefer to stay outside CERN a list of suggestions can be found on the same page.

Registrations

The registrations to the event are open. However if you are planning to join the workshop in person and do not have access tot he CERN site, please keep in touch directly with thworkshops.secretariat@cern.ch for assistance.

 

Monday 19 October

Monday: Afternoon I

Conveners: Felicia Volle (University of Birmingham (GB)), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

1 BSM WG overview

Speaker: Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA))

2 BSM from SM measurements

• Precision SM measurements (with tensions) ATLAS+CMS+LHCb
• Constrain searches with measurements (CONTUR)
• EFT (also related with flavour physics)

Speaker: Prof. Veronica Sanz Gonzalez (Universities of Valencia and Sussex)

3 BSM searches (with excess) ATLAS+CMS+LHCb

Speaker: Deborah Pinna (University of Wisconsin (US))

4 Discussion

15:30 coffee / tea break

Monday: Afternoon II

Conveners: Daniel Johnson (University of Birmingham (GB)), Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))

5 Top down view on SUSY searches (non-pMSSM)

Speaker: Simon Knapen (CERN)

6 Tensions beyond colliders

cosmology, direct detection DM, neutrinos, …

Speaker: Pedro Schwaller

7 Theory meets HL-LHC

Speaker: Guilherme Guedes

8 Discussion

Tuesday 20 October

Tuesday: Morning I

Conveners: Gaia Lanfranchi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT)), Dr Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC, CSIC-UValencia)

9 Dark Shower TF

Speaker: Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))

10 Portals dark sector TF: presentation of results and benchmarks

• Including also previous summary “best LHC” plots

Speaker: Andrii Usachov (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

11 t-channel LLP TF

Speaker: Jingyu Luo (Brown University (US))

12 Discussion

10:50 coffee / tea break

Tuesday: Morning II

Conveners: Cesare Cazzaniga (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

13 2HDM+a TF

Speaker: Shin-Shan Yu (Catholic University of America (US))

14 Anomaly detection TF

Speaker: Tobias Golling (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15 Anomaly detection on L1 Scouting

Speaker: Ellison Scheuller (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

16 First Results from the ALICE BSM Physics Programme

Speaker: Mesut Arslandok (Yale University (US))

17 Discussion

13:10 lunch

Tuesday: Afternoon I

Conveners: Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE)), Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA))

18 HS3 TF (specification and tool development)

Speaker: Steffen Albrecht (Hamburg University (DE))

19 Reports from experiments regarding HEPdata and reinterpretability

Speaker: Gianfranco De Castro (Cornell University (US))

20 Discussion

16:00 coffee / tea break

Tuesday: Afternoon II

Conveners: Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

21 Open Event Generation TF (in cross-collaboration with LHC MC WG)

Speaker: Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

22 LHC Searches and the Next Standard Model: A Meta-Statistical View

Speaker: Wolfgang Waltenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

23 Discussion

Wednesday 21 October

Wednesday: Morning I

Conveners: Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)), Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

24 Summary on existing DM benchmarks

• new models, new phase spaces
• HL-LHC potential
• simplified model vs direct detection comparison

Speaker: Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))

25 Heavy Resonances TF

Speaker: Mahsana Haleem (Julius Max. Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE))

26 Cross Section non-SUSY (VLQ/VLL; LQs)

Speaker: Grace Cummings (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

27 Strong First Order Phase Transition (SFOPT)

Speaker: Simone Tentori (UCLouvain)

28 Discussion

11:00 coffee / tea break

Wednesday: Morning II

Conveners: Eleanor Jones (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Jonas Wurzinger (Technische Universitat Munchen (DE))

29 Cross Section SUSY and pMSSM TF

Speaker: Ben Hodkinson (CERN)

30 Forward-looking of physics at HL-LHC ATLAS/CMS/LHCb (non-LLP): new detectors, new capabilities

31 Discussion

13:10 lunch

Wednesday: Afternoon I

Conveners: Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB)), Dr Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC, CSIC-UValencia)

32 Alternative dataflows: scouting/TLA/TurboStream programmes of CMS/ATLAS/LHCb

Speaker: Marco Montella (Ohio State University (US))

33 Future LHC-complementing experimental sensitivities (transverse LLP detectors)

Speaker: Titus Mombächer (University of A Coruna - UDC (ES))

34 LLP signatures at (HL-)LHC (FASER / SND)

Speaker: Arash Jofrehei (Universite de Geneve (CH))

35 MoEDAL / milliQan / FORMOSA demo

Speaker: Matthew Daniel Citron (University of California Davis (US))

36 Discussion

16:20 coffee / tea break

Wednesday: Afternoon II

Conveners: Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

37 Final remarks

Speaker: Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

38 Discussion