The $\tau$-rrific penguins workshop

Thursday 8 Jan 2026, 10:00 → 21:20 Europe/London

Huxley 139 (Imperial College, London)

Claudia Cornella, Claudia Cornella, Claudia Cornella (Universität Zürich), Mark Smith (Imperial College (GB))

 

A workshop to gather together theory and experiment to assess the status, possibilities and consequences of searches for $b\to s\tau\tau$ decays.

 

The first session is in lecture theatre 139 of the Huxley building. The entrance is on Queen's Gate. From the entrance, go down the stairs next to the lifts to floor 1 and then follow the signs for 139.

 

taurrific_poster2.pdf

1 Motivational introduction

Speaker: Mark Smith (Imperial College (GB))

tau_penguins_intro.pdf

Wishlist document

Wishlist document

2 New Physics motivation (30+10)

Speaker: Lukas Allwicher (DESY)

TaurrificPenguins_Allwicher.pdf

3 SM $b\to s\ell\ell$ theory - lattice (20+10)

Speaker: Prof. Chris Sachrajda (University of Southampton)

Sachrajda-Tau-riffic.pdf

11:30 Coffee

4 SM $b\to s\ell\ell$ theory - continuum (20+10)

Speaker: Nico Gubernari

5 LHCb one prong (20+10)

Speakers: Hanae Tilquin (Imperial College London), Hanae Tilquin (Imperial College (GB))

htilquin_taurrific.pdf

12:50 Lunch

6 LHCb three prong (20+10)

Speaker: Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

01-08-IC-taus.pdf

7 Belle II (20+10)

Speaker: Gaetano de Marino (Jožef Stefan Institute)

taurrific_GdM.pdf

15:00 Tea

8 Rescattering searches (15+10)

Speaker: Konstantinos Petridis (University of Bristol (GB))

TaurrificWorkshop2026_KAPetridis.pdf

9 GPDs and high $p_{T}$ (20+10)

Speaker: Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

08012026_Imperial_TauPengWS_TVS.pdf

10 Wishlists discussion

Speaker: Claudia Cornella

Wishlists discussion

Wishlists discussion

19:00 Dinner

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