Name: LA THUILE 2026 - Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste
Start: 2026-03-01T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-07T13:30:00+01:00
Location: Planibel Hotel

Monday, 2 March 2026
08:30 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
08:30 - 11:45
Contributions

08:30 The Multi-Messenger HE diffuse emission from the Milky Way in gammas, neut. and cosmic rays - Giulia Pagliaroli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

08:55 Primordial Black Holes: Recent Highlights - Yann Gouttenoire (CNRS)

09:40 Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE - Erin Yandel (UCSB)

10:05 Fermi in the Multi-Messenger Era: Exploring the High-Energy Transient Sky - Silvia Raino' (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:30 Light Dark Matter - Tomer Volansky (Tel-Aviv University)

10:55 Status and perspective of DM searches with NaI-based detectors - María Luisa Sarsa (CAPA, University of Zaragoza)
16:30 Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
16:30 - 18:55
Contributions

16:30 Status and updates from SuperCDMS SNOLAB - Matthew Stukel (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:55 Direct Searches for Heavy Dark Matter - Chiara Capelli (University of Zurich)

17:20 Asymmetric DM induced by baryogenesis - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)

18:05 Current Frontiers in the Experimental Axion Landscape - Julia Vogel (TU Dortmund)

18:30 Multiple axions: Strong CP, Dark Matter and how to count them - Pablo Quilez (CERN)
18:55 Young Scientist Forum: 1
1
18:55 - 19:30
Contributions

18:55 Light Dark Matter Search in XENONnT Experiment - Yongyu Pan

19:10 Searching for light dark matter using a multi-target approach with the TESSERACT Experiment - Leslie Juigne (University of Zürich)
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
08:30 Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics: continued
continued
08:30 - 10:55
Contributions

08:30 Discovering the Nature of Neutrino with KamLAND-ZEN Detector - Atsuto Takeuchi (RCNS, Tohoku University)

08:55 Recent results and outlook in high energy neutrino astrophysics - Sarah Louise Mancina (Università degli Studi di Padova)

09:40 First results from JUNO experiment - Gaosong Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

10:05 Towards a next-generation 0νββ search in 100Mo with CUPID - Sonja Schneidewind (INFN - Milano Bicocca)

10:30 Status and perspective of HOLMES - Federico Malnati (INFN - Torino)
10:55 Young Scientist Forum: 2
2
10:55 - 11:40
Contributions

10:55 Searching for no neutrinos in germanium detectors with LEGEND - Christoph Vogl (TU - Munich)

11:10 Global Fit of Neutrino Oscillations data - Martina Beccaria (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and INFN)

11:25 Search for massive, long-lived particles in events with displaced vertices and displaced muons at sqrt(s) = 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS experiment - Emily Duden (Brandeis University (US))
16:30 Hadronic Physics
16:30 - 18:40
Contributions

16:30 Neutrino Physics with the FASER experiment - Enrique Kajomovitz (Technion)

16:55 Results from heavy ion collisions by CMS and ATLAS - Andre Govinda Stahl Leiton (CERN)

17:20 Recent Results from ALICE - Anisa Khatun (Aligarh Muslim University)

17:45 New Insights into Hadron Spectroscopy from BESIII - Stefano Giovanni Spataro (INFN - Torino)
18:40 Special Session: The Future Strategy of Particle Physics
18:40 - 19:50
Contributions

18:40 Physics - Fabio Maltoni (INFN - Bologna)

19:05 Accelerators - Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)

19:30 DISCUSSION
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
08:30 Flavour physics of quarks and leptons
08:30 - 09:20
Contributions

08:30 Open questions in flavor physics - Marzia Bordone (JGU Mainz)

08:55 New measurement of the K+ to pi+ nu nubar decay at NA62 - Renato Fiorenza (CERN)
09:20 Young Scientist Forum: 3
3
09:20 - 09:35
Contributions

09:20 Search for B → Kτ +τ− decays at Belle and Belle II - Ihor Prudiiev (Jožef Stefan Institute)
09:35 coffee break
coffee break
09:35 - 09:55
09:55 Flavour physics of quarks and leptons: continued
continued
09:55 - 11:30
Contributions

09:55 Observation of rare decay eta-->mu+mu-e+e- with CMS - Bennet Greenberg (Princeton University)

10:20 Recent results from the NA62 experiment at CERN - Lubos Bician (Charles University in Prague)

10:45 Future prospects in Kaon Physics - Radoslav Ivanov Marchevski (EPFL)

11:10 CKM & CPV in charm and beauty at LHCb - Jamie Gooding (TU - Dortmund)
16:30 Flavour physics of quarks and leptons: continued
continued
16:30 - 18:50
Contributions

16:30 Tau and charm physics at Belle and Belle II - Sanjeeda Bharati Das (Universita di Torino)

16:55 Time-dependent CP violation without signal vertexing at B factories - Diego Tonelli (INFN - Trieste)

17:20 Theory predictions for $B\to D^{(*)}\ell \nu$ decays - Nico Gubernari (Bonn University)

18:05 Rare flavour-changing neutral current and lepton flavour violating decays at LHCb - Chandiprasad Kar (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont Auvergne)

18:30 B Physics at Belle and Belle II - Giulio Dujany (IPHC - CNRS (Strasbourg))
18:50 Young Scientist Forum: 4
4
18:50 - 19:50
Contributions

18:50 Search for Hcc and Evidence of Hbb in VBF Production with the ATLAS Detector - Austin Mullins (Southern Methodist University)

19:05 Search for H→cc at the CMS experiment - Lisa Generoso (INFN - Bari)

19:20 Analyses of very rare and elusive b-hadron decays at LHCb - Josh Bex (University of Cambridge)

19:35 Testing lepton flavour in rare decays of b-quarks and tau-leptons at LHCb - Albert López Huertas (University of Barcelona)
Thursday, 5 March 2026
08:30 QCD, Electroweak and Top Physics
08:30 - 11:20
Contributions

08:30 Associated top quark productions by CMS and ATLAS - Dominik Babal (Comenius University)

08:55 Results on top quarks by ATLAS and CMS - Javier Del Riego Badás (Universidad de Oviedo-ICTEA (ES))

09:40 QCD corrections to t-tbar production near threshold: impact on the observability of toponium - Luca Rottoli (INFN - Milano Bicocca)

10:05 High-energy correlators in QCD - Marc Riembau (CERN/EPFL)

10:30 Precise measurement of inclusive dijet production with the ATLAS detector - Stanislav Polacek (Charles University - Prague)
16:30 QCD, Electroweak and Top Physics: continued
continued
16:30 - 16:55
Contributions

16:30 EW and QCD results by CMS and ATLAS - Despoina Sampsonidou (University of Oregon)
16:55 Young Scientist Forum: 5
5
16:55 - 17:40
Contributions

16:55 Constraints on lepton-flavor mixing for third-generation new physics - Arianna Tinari (University of Zürich)

17:10 Search for resonant HH production in CMS - Magdy Louka (INFN - Bari)

17:25 Search for HH-->ggbb in CMS - Michael McGinnis (Northwestern University)
17:40 coffee break
coffee break
17:40 - 18:05
18:05 Physics and Society
18:05 - 19:15
Contributions

18:05 SESAME- Light in the Middle East - Gihan Kamel (SESAME)

18:40 MYRRHA: A journey into one of the most ambitious nuclear projects in Europe - Lucia Popescu (SCK-CEN)
Friday, 6 March 2026
08:30 QCD, Electroweak and Top Physics: continued
continued
08:30 - 08:55
Contributions

08:30 Heavy hadron spectroscopy with LHCb - Elisabetta Spadaro Norella (University of Genova and INFN)
08:55 Higgs studies and Search for New Physics
08:55 - 11:10
Contributions

08:55 SM Higgs boson properties by CMS and ATLAS - Yi-Lin Yang (University of Tokyo)

09:20 Searches for di-Higgs, BSM Higgs and rare Higgs boson decays by ATLAS and CMS - Théo Cuisset (LLR / Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

09:45 Recent updates on PDF determinations - Maria Ubiali (University of Cambridge)

10:25 2-loop SMEFT RGEs - Anders Eller Thomsen (University of Bern)

10:50 Modern approaches to the Higgs hierarchy problem - Thomas Steingasser ((UAM))
11:10 Young Scientist Forum: 6
6
11:10 - 11:55
Contributions

11:10 Calibration of a Transformer-Based Quark/Gluon Tagger in ATLAS - Samuel Jankovych (NIKHEF)

11:25 Diboson production in the SMEFT at dimension-8 - Giuseppe Ventura (University of Manchester)

11:40 Unitarity bounds and sum rules in the SMEFT - Andrea Sainaghi (University of Padua)
16:30 Higgs studies and Search for New Physics: continued
continued
16:30 - 19:30
Contributions

16:30 Searching for a new light boson with PADME - Kalina Dimitrova (Sofia University)

16:55 Searches for Dark Matter and other exotic particles by ATLAS and CMS - Bryan Cardwell (University of Virginia)

17:20 WIMPs in composite-Higgs models - Dario Buttazzo (INFN Pisa)

18:05 BSM @ low & high energies - S Renner (University of Glasgow)

18:35 Searches for BSM resonances by CMS and ATLAS - Teng Jian Khoo (Humboldt-Universtät zu Berlin)

19:00 Flavour deconstruction - Mario Fernandez Navarro (University of Zurich)
Saturday, 7 March 2026
09:30 Perspectives
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Physics reach for the next two decades - Admir Greljo (University of Zurich)

10:00 Status and perspective of PTOLEMY - Marcello Messina (INFN - LNGS)

10:30 Progress of STCF in China - Haiping Peng (University of Science and Technology, China)