Name: The Semileptonic B Frontier: LHC, B-factories, Lattice QCD & the Hunt for Precision
Start: 2026-02-16T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-18T15:55:00+01:00
Location: Aula Salvini, Building 36, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (Rome), Italy

The Semileptonic B Frontier: LHC, B-factories, Lattice QCD & the Hunt for Precision

from Monday, 16 February 2026 (09:00) to Wednesday, 18 February 2026 (15:55)

Monday, 16 February 2026
14:00 Overture
14:00 - 14:45
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

14:00 The semileptonic B Frontier - Matteo Fael (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
14:45 Charged-current semileptonic decays of b-hadrons
14:45 - 16:15
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

14:45 Charged-current semileptonic b hadrons decays at LHCb - Biljana Mitreska (University of Manchester)

15:30 Charged-current semileptonic b hadron decays at Belle and Belle II - Giovanni Gaudino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
16:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:35
Room: Aula Salvini
16:35 Charged-current semileptonic decays of b-hadrons
16:35 - 18:40
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

16:35 $B \rightarrow D^*$ decays: extraction of the hadronic FF’s from experimental data - Silvano Simula (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:05 $B \rightarrow D^*$ decays: extraction of the hadronic FF’s from lattice calculations - Alejandro Vaquero (Universidad de Zaragoza)

17:35 $B \rightarrow D^*$ decays: extraction of the hadronic FF’s with the Heavy Quark Expansion - Nico Gubernari (Siegen University)
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
09:30 Selected topics
09:30 - 11:10
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

09:30 Inclusive $B \to X_u\ell\nu$: Towards NNLO Extractions of $V_{ub}$ - Bernat Capdevila (Universitat de Barcelona)

09:55 One-Loop QCD Corrections to $B \to X_c \ell \nu$ Beyond the Standard Model - Gael Finauri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:20 Inclusive $B_{s}$ decays from lattice QCD - Alessandro Barone (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

10:45 Inclusive $D_{s}$ decays from lattice QCD - Antonio Smecca (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
11:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Aula Salvini
11:40 Selected topics
11:40 - 13:30
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

11:50 Search for CP violation in semileptonic B meson decays at the LHCb experiment - Anna-Maria Heyn (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)

12:15 Measurement of the differential distributions of $B_s^0\to D_s^{*-} \mu^+\nu_{\mu}$ decay with the LHCb detector - Federico Manganella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:40 Radiative corrections to semileptonic decays of B Hadrons - Zach Polonsky (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

13:05 Model-independent method for measuring the angular coefficients of $B \rightarrow D^* e \nu_e$ decays - Lea Dreyfus (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseill)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Aula Salvini
14:30 LFU violation: Status of experimental tests and prospects of new physics
Status of experimental tests and prospects of new physics
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

14:30 Status of LFU tests at LHCb - Ricardo Vazquez Gomez (Universitat de Barcelona)

15:15 Status of LFU tests at Belle and Belle II - Tommy Martinov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Aula Salvini
16:30 LFU violation: Status of experimental tests and prospects of new physics
Status of experimental tests and prospects of new physics
16:30 - 17:15
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

16:30 LFU violation: prospectives of new physics? - Mauro Valli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
17:15 Data taking perfomance and future plans
17:15 - 18:25
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

17:15 Belle II performance and future upgrade plans - Vidya Sagar Vobbilisetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:50 LHCb: Run3 performance and Upgrade 2 - Matteo Palutan (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
09:30 Neutral-current semileptonic decays of b-hadrons
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

09:30 Status of $b \rightarrow s ll$ decays measurements at LHC - Lorenzo Paolucci (University of Manchester (UK))

10:15 Status of $b \rightarrow s ll$ decays with missing energy at Belle and Belle II - Elisa Manoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Salvini
11:30 Neutral-current semileptonic decays of b-hadrons
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Aula Salvini
Contributions

11:30 $b \rightarrow s l l$ decays: status of transition FF's calculations - Arianna Tinari (University of Zürich)

12:15 $b \rightarrow s l l$ decays: status of lattice calculations - Giuseppe Gagliardi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:00 Discussion

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