LHC BSM WG & Dark Showers Task Force Plenary Meeting

Tuesday 16 Jun 2026, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

4/S-030 (CERN)

Cesare Cazzaniga, Christiane Scherb, Daniel Johnson (University of Birmingham (GB)), Felix Karl David Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US)), Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Livia Soffi (INFN Roma I (IT)), Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN), Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Sara Alderweireldt (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB)), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)), Tim Cohen (CERN)

The LHC Dark Shower Task Force (TF) is a cross-working-groups TF within the LHC BSM WG. 

Its main goals are to:

• Establish common benchmarks for LHC Run 3 experimental results
• Further develop dark shower models and simulations

In this plenary meeting we will review the status of the TF since the workshop celebrated in October 2025 and discuss the next steps.

15:00 → 15:15 Overview

15:20 → 15:35 Generators

Speaker: Dominic Stafford

15:40 → 15:55 Higgs-mediated dark showers

Speaker: Cesare Cazzaniga (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

16:00 → 16:15 (Semivisible) emerging jets

Speaker: Jackson Carl Burzynski (University of Oklahoma (US))

16:20 → 16:35 Semivisible jets

Speaker: Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

16:40 → 17:00 Discussion session