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

LA THUILE 2026 - Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste

from Sunday, March 1, 2026 (4:30 PM) to Saturday, March 7, 2026 (1:30 PM)

Monday, February 23, 2026
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Friday, February 27, 2026
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Monday, March 2, 2026
8:30 AM Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
8:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM The Multi-Messenger HE diffuse emission from the Milky Way in gammas, neut. and cosmic rays - Giulia Pagliaroli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

8:55 AM Primordial Black Holes: Recent Highlights - Yann Gouttenoire (CNRS)

9:40 AM Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE - Erin Yandel (UCSB)

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

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

10:55 AM Status and perspective of DM searches with NaI-based detectors - María Luisa Sarsa (CAPA, University of Zaragoza)
4:30 PM Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
4:30 PM - 6:55 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Status and updates from SuperCDMS SNOLAB - Matthew Stukel (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

4:55 PM Direct Searches for Heavy Dark Matter - Chiara Capelli (University of Zurich)

5:20 PM Asymmetric DM induced by baryogenesis - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)

6:05 PM Current Frontiers in the Experimental Axion Landscape - Julia Vogel (TU Dortmund)

6:30 PM Multiple axions: Strong CP, Dark Matter and how to count them - Pablo Quilez (CERN)
6:55 PM Young Scientist Forum: 1
1
6:55 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:55 PM Light Dark Matter Search in XENONnT Experiment - Yongyu Pan

7:10 PM Searching for light dark matter using a multi-target approach with the TESSERACT Experiment - Leslie Juigne (University of Zürich)
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
8:30 AM Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics: continued
continued
8:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Discovering the Nature of Neutrino with KamLAND-ZEN Detector - Atsuto Takeuchi (RCNS, Tohoku University)

8:55 AM Recent results and outlook in high energy neutrino astrophysics - Sarah Louise Mancina (Università degli Studi di Padova)

9:40 AM First results from JUNO experiment - Gaosong Li (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

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

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

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

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

11:25 AM 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))
4:30 PM Hadronic Physics
4:30 PM - 6:40 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Neutrino Physics with the FASER experiment - Enrique Kajomovitz (Technion)

4:55 PM Results from heavy ion collisions by CMS and ATLAS - Andre Govinda Stahl Leiton (CERN)

5:20 PM Recent Results from ALICE - Anisa Khatun (Aligarh Muslim University)

5:45 PM New Insights into Hadron Spectroscopy from BESIII - Stefano Giovanni Spataro (INFN - Torino)
6:40 PM Special Session: The Future Strategy of Particle Physics
6:40 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

6:40 PM Physics - Fabio Maltoni (INFN - Bologna)

7:05 PM Accelerators - Gianluigi Arduini (CERN)

7:30 PM DISCUSSION
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
8:30 AM Flavour physics of quarks and leptons
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Open questions in flavor physics - Marzia Bordone (JGU Mainz)

8:55 AM New measurement of the K+ to pi+ nu nubar decay at NA62 - Renato Fiorenza (CERN)
9:20 AM Young Scientist Forum: 3
3
9:20 AM - 9:35 AM
Contributions

9:20 AM Search for B → Kτ +τ− decays at Belle and Belle II - Ihor Prudiiev (Jožef Stefan Institute)
9:35 AM coffee break
coffee break
9:35 AM - 9:55 AM
9:55 AM Flavour physics of quarks and leptons: continued
continued
9:55 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

9:55 AM Observation of rare decay eta-->mu+mu-e+e- with CMS - Bennet Greenberg (Princeton University)

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

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

11:10 AM CKM & CPV in charm and beauty at LHCb - Jamie Gooding (TU - Dortmund)
4:30 PM Flavour physics of quarks and leptons: continued
continued
4:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Tau and charm physics at Belle and Belle II - Sanjeeda Bharati Das (Universita di Torino)

4:55 PM Time-dependent CP violation without signal vertexing at B factories - Diego Tonelli (INFN - Trieste)

5:20 PM Theory predictions for $B\to D^{(*)}\ell \nu$ decays - Nico Gubernari (Bonn University)

6:05 PM Rare flavour-changing neutral current and lepton flavour violating decays at LHCb - Chandiprasad Kar (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont Auvergne)

6:30 PM B Physics at Belle and Belle II - Giulio Dujany (IPHC - CNRS (Strasbourg))
6:50 PM Young Scientist Forum: 4
4
6:50 PM - 7:50 PM
Contributions

6:50 PM Search for Hcc and Evidence of Hbb in VBF Production with the ATLAS Detector - Austin Mullins (Southern Methodist University)

7:05 PM Search for H→cc at the CMS experiment - Lisa Generoso (INFN - Bari)

7:20 PM Analyses of very rare and elusive b-hadron decays at LHCb - Josh Bex (University of Cambridge)

7:35 PM Testing lepton flavour in rare decays of b-quarks and tau-leptons at LHCb - Albert López Huertas (University of Barcelona)
Thursday, March 5, 2026
8:30 AM QCD, Electroweak and Top Physics
8:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Associated top quark productions by CMS and ATLAS - Dominik Babal (Comenius University)

8:55 AM Results on top quarks by ATLAS and CMS - Javier Del Riego Badás (Universidad de Oviedo-ICTEA (ES))

9:40 AM QCD corrections to t-tbar production near threshold: impact on the observability of toponium - Luca Rottoli (INFN - Milano Bicocca)

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

10:30 AM Precise measurement of inclusive dijet production with the ATLAS detector - Stanislav Polacek (Charles University - Prague)
4:30 PM QCD, Electroweak and Top Physics: continued
continued
4:30 PM - 4:55 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM EW and QCD results by CMS and ATLAS - Despoina Sampsonidou (University of Oregon)
4:55 PM Young Scientist Forum: 5
5
4:55 PM - 5:40 PM
Contributions

4:55 PM Constraints on lepton-flavor mixing for third-generation new physics - Arianna Tinari (University of Zürich)

5:10 PM Search for resonant HH production in CMS - Magdy Louka (INFN - Bari)

5:25 PM Search for HH-->ggbb in CMS - Michael McGinnis (Northwestern University)
5:40 PM coffee break
coffee break
5:40 PM - 6:05 PM
6:05 PM Physics and Society
6:05 PM - 7:15 PM
Contributions

6:05 PM SESAME- Light in the Middle East - Gihan Kamel (SESAME)

6:40 PM MYRRHA: A journey into one of the most ambitious nuclear projects in Europe - Lucia Popescu (SCK-CEN)
Friday, March 6, 2026
8:30 AM QCD, Electroweak and Top Physics: continued
continued
8:30 AM - 8:55 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Heavy hadron spectroscopy with LHCb - Elisabetta Spadaro Norella (University of Genova and INFN)
8:55 AM Higgs studies and Search for New Physics
8:55 AM - 11:10 AM
Contributions

8:55 AM SM Higgs boson properties by CMS and ATLAS - Yi-Lin Yang (University of Tokyo)

9:20 AM Searches for di-Higgs, BSM Higgs and rare Higgs boson decays by ATLAS and CMS - Théo Cuisset (LLR / Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

9:45 AM Recent updates on PDF determinations - Maria Ubiali (University of Cambridge)

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

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

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

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

11:40 AM Unitarity bounds and sum rules in the SMEFT - Andrea Sainaghi (University of Padua)
4:30 PM Higgs studies and Search for New Physics: continued
continued
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Searching for a new light boson with PADME - Kalina Dimitrova (Sofia University)

4:55 PM Searches for Dark Matter and other exotic particles by ATLAS and CMS - Bryan Cardwell (University of Virginia)

5:20 PM WIMPs in composite-Higgs models - Dario Buttazzo (INFN Pisa)

6:05 PM BSM @ low & high energies - S Renner (University of Glasgow)

6:35 PM Searches for BSM resonances by CMS and ATLAS - Teng Jian Khoo (Humboldt-Universtät zu Berlin)

7:00 PM Flavour deconstruction - Mario Fernandez Navarro (University of Zurich)
Saturday, March 7, 2026
9:30 AM Perspectives
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Physics reach for the next two decades - Admir Greljo (University of Zurich)

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

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

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