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Cheryl Patrick, Victoria Martin (The University of Edinburgh (GB))08/04/2026, 10:15
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Prof. Philip Best08/04/2026, 10:20Plenary
A welcome from Prof Philip Best, Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Prof. Catherine Heymans08/04/2026, 10:40Plenary
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Christian Wittweg (Universität Zürich)08/04/2026, 11:35
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Paul Scovell (STFC)08/04/2026, 12:05
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Blake Sherwin08/04/2026, 13:45
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Mao Zeng (University of Edinburgh)08/04/2026, 14:15
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Laura Nuttall (University of Portsmouth)08/04/2026, 14:45
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Tom Peacock (University of Sheffield)08/04/2026, 15:45
Modern neutrino experiments use highly flexible neutrino event generators to determine systematic uncertainties which can arise due to model dependence. Final state interactions (FSI), which are modelled using intranuclear cascade models, are a dominant source of uncertainty in these experiments. As experimental improvements both decrease statistical uncertainty and allow lower nucleon momenta...
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Huan Zhang08/04/2026, 15:45Parallel talk
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) and the next generation XLZD experiments are designed to search for dark matter using two-phase xenon time projection chambers. Apart from searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), LZ is also looking for axion-like particles (ALPs), solar neutrino, mirror dark matter, and hidden photons. XLZD has already published or been researching on its projections to...
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Ho Sang Lee (University of Liverpool (GB))08/04/2026, 15:45
Quantum correlations in pairs of neutral $D$ mesons are induced by charge-conjugation symmetry in the decay of charmonia and charmonia-like states such as the $C=-1$ $\psi(3770)$ charmonium state decaying to $D\overline{D}$. Such systems are currently used to measure $D$ decay strong phases, which serve as an input to measurements of $D^{0}-\overline{D}^{0}$ mixing as well as measurements of...
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Sudev Pradhan (University of Sheffield (GB))08/04/2026, 15:45
Precise modelling of hadronically decaying tau leptons is critical for many ATLAS measurements and searches, particularly in the top quark, electroweak, and Higgs sectors. The higher centre of mass energy and increased pile up conditions of Run~3 require updated, data driven calibrations of tau reconstruction and identification performance over an extended kinematic regime.
This talk...
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Giorgia Cacciola (University of Liverpool (GB))08/04/2026, 15:45
There has been a long-standing discrepancy between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements in the evaluation of the muon anomalous magnetic moment a_μ. The leading order hadronic contribution to a_μ, a_μ^HLO , represents the dominant source of uncertainty in the Standard Model evaluation. The MUonE experiment aims to determine a_μ^HLO with high precision using a novel...
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Shu Chen (University of Southampton)08/04/2026, 16:00
The talk will cover an exploration on the dilepton plus missing transverse energy (MET) signature from the LHC to search for two-component scalar Dark Matter (DM). The model discussed in this work is a 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM) where two of the doublets are inert and the other one is active and also the SM Higgs doublet, hence a I(2+1)HDM. Each inert doublet will provide a scalar DM...
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Henry James Linton (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 16:00
High performance particle identification has traditionally employed Cerenkov detectors due to their accuracy and elegance.
All current Cerenkov detectors in use today at LHC experiments rely on fluorocarbons as their radiating material.
However, the environmental impacts of fluorocarbon gasses prompts a search for a replacement.This talk presents a novel glass radiator for use in high...
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Betsy Cunnett (University of Sussex (GB))08/04/2026, 16:00
A combined measurement of processes in which a top-quark is produced in association with additional particles using the full Run 2 dataset collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is presented. The results are interpreted within the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), allowing constraints to be placed on dimension-six, top-sector operators.
ATLAS top-quark...
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Andrzej Gawdzik08/04/2026, 16:00
The nature of dark matter remains one of the pivotal questions in physics. To date, large-scale direct detection experiments have primarily focused on weakly interacting massive particles with masses above the GeV scale, leaving much of the eV–GeV mass range comparatively unexplored. This motivates the development of alternative detection strategies capable of probing sub-GeV dark matter,...
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Joseph Bateman08/04/2026, 16:00
The MicroBooNE experiment is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) that operated for six years at Fermilab, located on-axis of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target, and 8° off-axis to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) beam. In this talk, I will present searches for Beyond the Standard Model physics producing electron-positron final states using data from both the BNB and...
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Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)08/04/2026, 16:15
Longitudinal electroweak gauge bosons are the most technically delicate ingredient of electroweak parton showers: in the broken Standard Model, the gauge component of a longitudinal polarisation does not cancel diagram by diagram, but is related by Ward identities to amplitudes with an insertion of the associated would-be Goldstone field. Building on the default \textsf{Herwig~7} treatment...
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Bethany McCusker (Lancaster University)08/04/2026, 16:15
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) serves as the near detector for Fermilab's Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) programme. It is a 112-ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) designed to search for new physics phenomena such as sterile neutrinos and study neutrino-argon interactions. Situated only 110 meters from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB), SBND has completed its first physics...
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Isabelle Darlington (UCL)08/04/2026, 16:15
Accidental coincidence events have emerged as the dominant background in low-energy rare event searches using dual-phase xenon time projection chambers. Interactions in the liquid xenon result in a primary scintillation signal (S1) and the release of electrons. These electrons then drift up under an electric field to the liquid surface where they are extracted and produce a secondary...
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Jakub Andrzej Gajownik (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))08/04/2026, 16:15
The High-Luminosity LHC (2030+) will operate at unprecedented intensities and radiation levels, with up to 200 overlapping proton-proton collisions per LHC bunch crossing, requiring significant upgrades to the CMS detector to maintain its physics performance. As part of the Phase-2 upgrade of CMS, the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) readout electronics will be upgraded, providing a 160 MHz...
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Tom Runting (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 16:15
Precision measurements of Higgs boson production are essential for testing the Standard Model and searching for new physics. This talk presents progress towards measuring Higgs boson production cross sections in the diphoton decay channel at CMS using the Simplified Template Cross Section (STXS) framework. We leverage the first part of the Run 3 dataset collected at $\sqrt{s} =...
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Julian Friedrich Wack (University of Cambridge (GB))08/04/2026, 16:30
Many BSM models predict the existence of neutrally-charged long-lived particles (LLPs) with macroscopic lifetimes. When these LLPs decay back into SM particles, they leave a striking detector signature in the form of displaced vertices (DVs). Due to its large size and shielding provided by more inward detector systems, the ATLAS muon spectrometer (MS) is a powerful tool for such DV...
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Alice Hamer08/04/2026, 16:30
The Boulby UnderGround Screening (BUGS) facility is a world-class materials screening lab based at the Boulby Underground Laboratory in North Yorkshire. The facility has been, and continues to be, used for screening a wide variety of parts and materials prior to their use in low background experiments in the UK and worldwide. The BUGS facility is continuously improving and currently houses a...
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Hannah Alarakia-Charles (Lancaster University)08/04/2026, 16:30
Tokai to Kamioka is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. The primary goal of the T2K experiment is to investigate neutrino oscillations and CP-violation using neutrino and antineutrino beams. To make precision measurements of these oscillations, the un-oscillated beam is characterised using the off-axis near detector, ND280, at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex...
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Alberto Plebani (University of Cambridge (GB))08/04/2026, 16:30
The $W^+W^−$ process is very interesting in that it can provide important tests of the electroweak gauge structure of the Standard Model. This contribution focuses on the opposite-sign opposite-charged $W^+W^-\to e\mu\nu\nu$ production, where a measurement with the partial Run3 dataset could provide insights on the CP nature of the anomalous triple gauge coupling.
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Neda Darvishi (Royal Holloway University of London)08/04/2026, 16:30
The QUEST-DMC experiment utilises surface-based superfluid helium-3 bolometers to search for sub-GeV dark matter with ultra-low energy thresholds. This talk presents a study of how different dark matter interaction types impact QUEST-DMC's projected sensitivity. As a central component, we map the non-relativistic EFT operators onto the relativistic bilinear DM-nucleon interactions basis...
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Callum James White (University of Cambridge (GB))08/04/2026, 16:45
The ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors of the LHCb experiment provide charged-particle identification by reconstructing characteristic Cherenkov rings of photons produced when particles traversing gaseous radiators ($C_{4}F_{10}$, $CF_{4}$) exceed the phase velocity of light. These photons are detected by planes of multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (MAPMTs), where precise timing is...
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Bhupesh Dixit (University of Liverpool (GB))08/04/2026, 16:45
HH->bbtautau lies in the sweetspot for the study of di-Higgs owing to its relatively low background and significant branching ratio, making it the most sensitive channel according to the ATLAS Run2 results for the study of Higgs self-coupling. Using Run2+Run3 data collected by the ATLAS Experiment, a significant improvement is expected in the sensitivity to the signal strength. This is an...
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Saashiv Valjee (University of London (GB))08/04/2026, 16:45
We present here a search for semi-visible jets (SVJs) arising from a QCD-like dark sector in ATLAS data. The signal model used predicts a heavy leptophobic Z' mediator and we consider a resonant production via an s-channel. The Z' promptly decays to two dark quarks, which hadronise into both standard model and dark matter particles generating SVJs in our final states. The search for SVJs is...
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Dr Lachlan Milligan (University of Birmingham)08/04/2026, 16:45
DarkSPHERE is a next generation spherical proportional counter to explore light dark matter candidates in the 0.05 - 10 GeV mass range. To maximise radiopurity, the detector is planned to be fully electroformed underground at the Boulby Underground Laboratory. This approach opens up the potential to achieve sensitivity reaching the neutrino fog in the 1 GeV region. In this talk, current...
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Emerson Bannister (University of Sussex)08/04/2026, 16:45
The NOvA (NuMI Off-Axis electron neutrino Appearance) Experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment composed of two functionally identical detectors, a 300 ton Near Detector, and a 14 kton Far Detector separated by 809 km and placed 14 mrad off the axis of the NuMI neutrino beam created at Fermilab. This configuration enables NOvA's rich neutrino physics program, which includes...
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Andrew Mastronikolis (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 17:00
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will operate with up to 200 simultaneous proton–proton interactions per bunch crossing, requiring upgraded detector readout, triggering, and data acquisition systems. The Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker introduces new detector modules and a trigger architecture designed to contribute to online trigger decisions within 12.5 $\mu$s. Demonstrating the performance and...
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Anju Bhasin (University of Liverpool)08/04/2026, 17:00
Identified charged-hadron production ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, and $p(\bar{p})$) in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.02$ TeV is investigated within the EPOS4 framework to study the role of late-stage hadronic interactions. Simulations are performed both with and without the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) hadronic afterburner, enabling a quantitative...
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Angus Thompson (University of Oxford)08/04/2026, 17:00
DarkSide-20k, currently under construction at LNGS, is a dark matter direct-detection experiment employing a dual-phase liquid argon TPC filled with more than 50 tonnes of underground argon. As the largest detector of its kind, it presents substantial technical and integration challenges.
To validate new technologies and reduce construction risk, an intermediate-scale prototype (the Mockup)...
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Rachel Ashby Pickering (University of Warwick (GB))08/04/2026, 17:00
Two-Higgs-Doublet-Models are theoretical extensions of the standard model that are able to account for some of its unanswered questions, for example the source of the matter/antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. They predict 5 bosons, the scalar/pseudoscalar H/A and the charged H+ and H-, alongside the h (the standard model Higgs boson). This talk will present the (currently blind) search for...
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John Waiton (University of Manchester)08/04/2026, 17:00
The NEXT collaboration is focused on the development of high-pressure gaseous xenon time projection chambers to investigate the Majorana nature of the neutrino via the search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). The previous NEXT-WHITE detector demonstrated the technology's excellent capabilities with respect to energy resolution (sub-1%), topological discrimination, and a good...
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George Hallett (University of Warwick (GB))08/04/2026, 17:15
Following the recent first observation of baryonic CP violation in $\Lambda_b \rightarrow p K^- \pi^+ \pi^+$ with the Run 1 and 2 dataset, it is vital to study the pattern of CP asymmetries and branching fractions in a wide range of baryonic decay modes. These measurements form important inputs to theoretical approaches such as QCD factorisation.
The upgraded LHCb detector operates at an...
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Mr Arnav Sunil Avad (University of London (GB))08/04/2026, 17:15
This contribution presents the search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson ($H\rightarrow\mu\mu$) in the vector boson associated production (VH) mode using 2022–2024 ATLAS Run 3 pp collision data at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV. The $H\rightarrow\mu\mu$ channel probes the Higgs coupling to second-generation fermions despite its small branching ratio and challenging...
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Athavan Ramalingam08/04/2026, 17:15
The Electron-Ion Collider is a future facility that will provide unprecedented insight into the structure of matter by colliding polarised electrons with polarised protons/light ions and unpolarised heavy ions. The project detector, ePIC, is being developed to enable precision measurements of the internal dynamics of quarks and gluons.
The tracking detector is the innermost subdetector of...
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Dr Ash Ritchie-Yates (The University of Manchester)08/04/2026, 17:15
Darkside-20k is a direct dark matter detection experiment situated at LNGS, Italy, featuring a dual-phase liquid argon TPC with an active target mass of 50 tonnes. Due to the zero nuclear spin of argon, liquid argon detector data is typically interpreted only in terms of spin-independent dark matter interactions. However, in the non-relativistic effective field theory (NREFT) framework, liquid...
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Annora Sundararajan08/04/2026, 18:00Poster
Axions remain one of the most compelling dark matter candidates, arising from the Peccei–Quinn solution to the strong CP problem. Detecting them requires sensitivity to microwave signals with power levels below
10^−22W.Haloscope experiments search for photons generated through axion–photon conversion in resonant cavities embedded in strong magnetic fields. Achieving the required...
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Lizzie Bloomfield (University of Oxford)08/04/2026, 18:01Poster
QUEST-DMC is a dark matter direct detection experiment aiming for world-leading sensitivity to interactions with sub-GeV mass dark matter. The experiment is comprised of a superfluid helium-3 bolometer equipped with a NEMS acting as our detector and a SQUID readout system. A Geant4 model of the detector and surrounding cryostat has been developed to simulate the background energy deposits in...
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Jonathan Gutteridge (Boulby Underground Laboratory)08/04/2026, 18:02Poster
Delivering high-quality public engagement and outreach from 1.1km underground introduces a unique set of challenges. Restricted access to site, an unfamiliar and extreme environment, and a wide range of science that cuts across disciplines make the Boulby Underground Laboratory science programme difficult to convey to a varied audience. This poster covers the goals of the laboratory's outreach...
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Penghui Li (university of edinburgh)08/04/2026, 18:03
The SuperNEMO Demonstrator is a double-beta-decay detector currently taking physics data at the LSM, France. It has a unique ability to measure the full topology of decay events, providing strong background rejection for $\beta\beta$ decay searches. However, extremely rare backgrounds from high-energy beta emitters can mimic $\beta\beta$-like signatures via secondary interactions. An important...
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Saule Piguleviciute (University of Manchester)08/04/2026, 18:04Poster
Direct detection experiment data is typically interpreted in terms of a single non-relativistic effective theory (NREFT) operator, for instance liquid argon detector data is historically interpreted only in terms of spin-independent dark matter interactions due to the zero nuclear spin of argon. However, in the NREFT framework multiple operators contribute. While the contribution of the...
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Robyn Evren (university of sheffield)08/04/2026, 18:05Poster
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a low-background 7-tonne dual-phase xenon time projection chamber based at Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. While the primary physics motivation is the search for WIMP dark matter interactions, investigations of other rare physics processes such as neutrinoless double beta decay are also being pursued.
If observed, neutrinoless...
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21. Production Modelling of the ATLAS ITk Strip Detector Using the ITk Project Production SimulationFawaz Mutllaq S. Alhawiti (University of Sheffield (GB))08/04/2026, 18:06Poster
The High-Luminosity LHC upgrade of the ATLAS detector requires the large-scale, distributed production of the Inner Tracker (ITk), posing significant challenges in scheduling, logistics, yield management, and risk mitigation. To support this effort, the ITk Project Production Simulation (IPPS) has been developed as a flexible, process-based discrete-event simulation framework that models the...
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Holly Lea Rose Davies (University of Sheffield (GB))08/04/2026, 18:07Poster
The reconstruction of electrons and photons in ATLAS, produced from proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is based on the performance of the Topo-Clustering algorithm developed for electron and photon reconstruction in Run-4. To extract the signal, the algorithm reconstructs three-dimensional energy deposits in the calorimeter by grouping neighbouring cells with signal...
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Adam Ting (Royal Holloway, University of London)08/04/2026, 18:08Poster
We present a calculation from first-principles of the dark matter scattering rates in a superfluid $^3$He target, for both spin-independent and spin-dependent dark matter interactions. This study develops a complementary approach to studying the dark matter signal, accounting for the many-body physics of the target using the dynamic structure function. We find this both validates previous...
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Nicola Wilson (University of Liverpool, GSI Darmstadt)08/04/2026, 18:09Poster
The ALICE experiment at the LHC studies the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter formed at extreme temperatures/densities with partonic degrees of freedom produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jets, generated in the initial hard scatterings, are valuable for probing QGP properties. As they traverse through the QGP medium, their energy and structure are modified by medium...
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Ms Kayleigh Johnson (STFC - Boulby Underground Laboratory)08/04/2026, 18:10Poster
The Boulby Underground Laboratory provides a world class material screening suite for the radioassay of materials for rare-event particle research. This poster will present the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer which is one of four instruments used at Boulby for the quantification of long-lived naturally occurring radionuclides Uranium-238 and Thorium-232 to high sensitivities....
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Haoxiang Zhan08/04/2026, 18:11Poster
DarkSide-20k is a direct dark-matter detection experiment which is under construction underground at LNGS. It deploys a 50 tonne dual-phase liquid-argon TPC designed for nearly instrumental background-free operation. DarkSide-20k is projected to probe spin-independent dark matter-nucleon scattering down to 7.4 x 10-48 cm2 for a 1 TeV/c2 dark matter candidate, approaching the neutrino floor....
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Andrew Mastronikolis (Imperial College (GB))08/04/2026, 18:12Poster
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will operate with up to 200 simultaneous proton–proton interactions per bunch crossing, requiring upgraded detector readout, triggering, and data acquisition systems. The Phase-2 CMS Outer Tracker introduces new detector modules and a trigger architecture designed to contribute to online trigger decisions within 12.5 $\mu$s. Demonstrating the performance and...
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William Wang (The University of Edinburgh)08/04/2026, 18:13Poster
Many current forefront precision neutrino experiments are studying neutrinos and their properties, including the MicroBooNE experiment. The MicroBooNE detector employs a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), a detector technology at the forefront of the field due to its excellent capabilities in tracking, calorimetry, and particle identification. However, like most LArTPCs, the...
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Beth Green (Boulby Underground Laboratory)08/04/2026, 18:14Poster
Boulby Underground screening facility is our work class assay suite. This poster will contain a description of the different Ultra Low Background Germanium detectors at Boulby Underground laboratory, how they work and their properties. It will also explain the contributions our Germanium detectors make to world class science and the different projects we collaborate with on a global scale. Our...
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Cheng Jiang (University of Edinburgh)08/04/2026, 18:15Poster
High precision calorimeter simulation is essential for particle reconstruction, and precision measurements at the LHC and its High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. In precision channels such as H→γγ, accurate photon shower modeling directly impacts the diphoton mass resolution and signal sensitivity. Achieving the required precision demands very large Monte Carlo samples to constraint systematic...
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George Ramsey (The University of Edinburgh (GB))08/04/2026, 18:16
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Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))08/04/2026, 18:17Poster
The Boulby Underground Technology Testbed for Observing Neutrinos (BUTTON-30) is a technology demonstrator installed in the Boulby Underground Laboratory (BUL) in the north-east of England. Situated at a depth of 1070 m in a polyhalite mine, BUL provides an ideal low-background environment for studying neutrinos and searching for dark matter. BUTTON-30 will study the performance of novel...
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Rebecca Chislett09/04/2026, 09:00Plenary
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Gediminas Sarpis (University of Edinburgh)09/04/2026, 09:30
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Jamie McDonald (University of Manchester)09/04/2026, 11:00
Axions are now one of the best motivated candidates for physics beyond the standard model. Cavity haloscopes search for these particles by converting them into microwaves in strong laboratory magnetic fields. I will give an overview of cavity searches for the QCD axion taking place at the University of Manchester in 26 - 40 GHz. I will also describe recently demonstrated quantum-noise limited...
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90. Precision Measurement of the Two-Pion Contribution to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarization with KLOENiels Vestergaard (University of Liverpool)09/04/2026, 11:00
The KLOE detector at the DA$\Phi$NE electron–positron collider has delivered some of the most precise measurements of the two-pion contribution to the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) term in the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_{\mu}$. A precise determination of the HVP term is essential to clarify the longstanding tension between the theoretical...
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Peter Walters09/04/2026, 11:00
The spherical proportional counter, a novel gaseous detector, has been employed in direct, low-mass particle dark matter (DM) searches thanks to its radiopure material construction, single-electron energy threshold, and flexibility to operate with a range of gases. Gases containing low-mass nuclei such as hydrogen, carbon, and neon are used in the detector to provide good kinematic matching to...
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George Ramsey (The University of Edinburgh (GB))09/04/2026, 11:00Parallel talk
The FastRICH is a novel ASIC central to the implementation of a time resolved readout chain for the two ring-imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors in LHCb. The upgraded electronics will be installed during Long Shutdown Three (LS3) to retain RICH's excellent particle identification (PID) performance after transition to the high multiplicity environment provided by the High Luminosity LHC...
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Penghui Li (university of edinburgh)09/04/2026, 11:00
The SuperNEMO Demonstrator is a double-beta-decay detector, currently taking physics data at LSM, France. It has a unique ability to measure the full topology of decay events, thanks to a tracking detector filled with a carefully-controlled gas mixture consisting of 95$\%$ ultra-pure helium, 4$\%$ ethanol, and 1$\%$ argon. To achieve SuperNEMO's ambitious radiopurity target of 0.15mBq/m3,...
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Toby Dixon (UCL)09/04/2026, 11:15
The discovery of neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) would have a profound impact on particle physics. This would show Lepton number is not conserved and neutrinos are Majorana particles. Unfortunately for us, the expected rate of this decay is vanishingly small. This creates an extremely large experimental challenge, the largest of which is to control the rate of background...
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Fani Nathalie E. Henry (University of Glasgow (GB))09/04/2026, 11:15
The production of four top quarks ($t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$) was observed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2023 and the cross section was measured to be slightly higher than the prediction from the Standard Model. This is an important process as it has sesntivity to the top quark yukawa coupling and new physics signals. Since the start of the LHC Run-3 in 2022 and until the end of 2024, the ATLAS...
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Michael James Kane (University of Edinburgh (GB))09/04/2026, 11:15
Two Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors enable LHCb to identify charged hadrons between 2-100 GeV with unprecedented Cherenkov angle resolution. While primarily designed for particle identification, novel developments enable direct mass inference using reconstructed Cherenkov photons, paving the way for new precision mass measurements of charged hadrons.
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Difei Xu (UCL)09/04/2026, 11:15
Detection for extremely rare events such as 0nbb requires great background modelling. In this research, I work with Boulby Underground Laboratory and apply pulse shape analysis methods developed by LEGEND experiment to improve their material screening efficiency.
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Lucy Kotsiopoulou (University of Edinburgh)09/04/2026, 11:15
In just under a ten-second period, a supernova explosion ejects debris and photons, while up to 99% of its entire explosive energy is carried away by neutrinos, the smallest known weakly-interacting fundamental particles. The explosion emits all neutrino flavours at tens-of-MeV energies, but the electron neutrino charged-current interaction (CCI) is the only way to infer the neutrino type and...
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Mr Miguel Angel Avendano Bernal (University of Southampton)09/04/2026, 11:30
In the study of dark matter detection at colliders, novel candidates have emerged to bridge between experimental data and theoretical models. Dark Showers (DS) are being studied as an extension of the Standard Model (SM), containing both invisible and visible particles that allow us to predict scenarios involving collider observables. Among these, Semi-Visible Jets (SVJs), represent a novel...
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Emma Ellingwood (University of Edinburgh)09/04/2026, 11:30
DarkSide-20k is a direct detection dark matter experiment currently under construction at LNGS in Italy. The central detector is a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with 50 tonnes of liquid low-radioactivity underground argon (UAr). The TPC is surrounded by an additional 32 tonnes of UAr which acts as a neutron veto. The neutron veto plays a vital part in ensuring that DarkSide-20k...
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Hank Hua (Imperial College (GB))09/04/2026, 11:30
The upcoming next-generation neutrino experiments, notably the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), and the joint analysis of existing experiments, such as that of T2K and NOvA, bring long-baseline neutrino experiments into the precision era. Performing $5\sigma$ measurements of neutrino properties using Bayesian analysis typically requires hundreds of billions of Markov-Chain Monte...
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Daniel Foulds-Holt (University of Edinburgh (GB))09/04/2026, 11:30
As the LHCb experiment transitions to the conditions imposed by the High-Luminosity LHC, the performance requirements for it's detectors will increase significantly. To meet these demands, all detectors in LHCb will undergo an upgrade during long shutdown 4 in 2035, collectively called Upgrade II. One of the most significant design changes will be applied to the SciFi tracking detector which...
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Clement Loic Devanne (University of Liverpool (GB))09/04/2026, 11:30
The MUonE experiment at CERN aims to determine the leading-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_{µ}$, which plays a central role in the present differences among theoretical determinations and in the comparison with experimental measurements. MUonE follows an innovative approach based on a precise measurement...
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Lucas Russell (Imperial College (GB))09/04/2026, 11:45
Despite the many successes of the Standard Model (SM), it is known to be incomplete, for instance, it does not provide an explanation for the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. One of the necessary conditions to generate this asymmetry is charge-parity (CP) violation on a scale many orders of magnitude larger than SM predictions. An intriguing possibility is new sources of CP violation...
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Lucien Heurtier (King's College London)09/04/2026, 11:45
A lot. In this talk, I will present a non-perturbative framework that allows to track the dynamics of slow-roll inflation while consistently incorporating quantum corrections, based on an alternative functional renormalisation group (RG) approach. I will guide you through the derivation of a set of coupled Friedmann-RG flow equations governing the joint evolution of spacetime, the inflaton...
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Sinead Eley (University of Liverpool (GB))09/04/2026, 11:45
FASER is a compact, purpose-built experiment at the LHC, investigating long-lived BSM particles and collider neutrinos, located approximately 480m from the ATLAS interaction point. As the first experiment to directly measure collider neutrinos, it continues to probe the previously unexplored energy gap between neutrinos from man-made sources and astrophysical processes. Its latest results use...
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Isobel Sargeant (Science and Technology Facilities Council)09/04/2026, 11:45
DarkSide-20k is a direct dark matter detection experiment employing a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) to search for rare dark matter interactions. DarkSide-20k is instrumented with silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array photon detectors, termed Photo-Detector Units (PDUs). This talk focuses on installation metrology and QA/QC, inheriting from methods developed during the...
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Giovanni Rogers (University of Birmingham (UK), STFC - Boulby Underground Laboratory)09/04/2026, 11:45
Rare-event search experiments, for example those looking for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay, require increasingly sensitive detectors. A critical aspect of this is the reduction of backgrounds from detector materials, especially those in contact with the sensitive volume. High-grade copper is an attractive construction choice, due to its commercial availability and lack of...
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Magnus Handley (University of Cambridge)09/04/2026, 12:00
The MicroBooNE experiment is an 85-tonne liquid argon time-projection chamber (LArTPC) that operated at Fermilab from 2015 to 2021, exposed to both the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) and the Main Injector Neutrino Beamline (NuMI). Uniquely positioned, MicroBooNE sits off-axis to the NuMI beam and upstream of the NuMI hadron absorber, providing strong sensitivity to heavy, long-lived...
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Karol Hennessy (University of Liverpool (GB))09/04/2026, 12:00
RadPix is a High-Voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) pixel sensor developed collaboratively by the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment, and the DRD3 collaboration for Solid State Detector R&D. It represents the first monolithic pixel sensor capable of operating in the high radiation environment of the High Luminosity LHC. Building on the RD50-MPW chip series (led by Liverpool/UK) — established...
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Alexia Alexander Wight (UCL)09/04/2026, 12:00
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a planned cubic-kilometre-scale Cherenkov neutrino telescope to be deployed off the west coast of Canada, designed to detect high-energy neutrinos, from TeV to PeV energy scales, from astrophysical sources. The first string will be deployed later this year, with the full detector planned to be operational within the decade. P-ONE will join a...
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Marcelo Bovill (University of Oxford)09/04/2026, 12:00
Precision measurements of the CKM angle $\gamma$ provide a theoretically clean test of the unitarity of the CKM matrix and are therefore a powerful probe for physics beyond the Standard Model. Despite significant experimental progress, $\gamma$ remains one of the least precisely determined CKM parameters, with current measurements dominated by statistical uncertainties. This makes $\gamma$...
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Sania Lewis (King's College London)09/04/2026, 12:00
Hyper-Kamiokande is a state-of-the-art water Cherenkov neutrino detector, currently under construction in Japan. In its capacity as the far detector within a long baseline program, Hyper-K aims to make high precision measurements of key neutrino oscillation parameters and has the ability to observe exotic phenomena such as proton decay and other BSM physics. One of the main backgrounds to such...
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Harry Victor Cliff (University of Cambridge (GB))09/04/2026, 13:45
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Harriet Watson (The University of Edinburgh (GB))09/04/2026, 14:15
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Holly Pacey (University of Oxford (GB))10/04/2026, 09:30
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Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))10/04/2026, 10:00
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Ivo Young (University of Glasgow (GB))10/04/2026, 11:00
Both the ATLAS Collaboration and the CMS Collaboration have recently observed quantum entanglement in top-quark pairs using Run 2 data; the highest energy scale at which quantum phenomena have ever been probed. I will present new measurements of quantum discord and related quantum observables in ttbar events, focusing on both the dileptonic and single-lepton decay channels. I will discuss the...
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Simran Dave10/04/2026, 11:00
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dual phase xenon time projection chamber, searching for WIMP dark matter, and other rare phenomena. Decays from the $^{222}$Rn chain pose a dominant background in LZ, requiring multiple mitigation strategies targeting either $^{222}$Rn or its daughters. One method utilised by LZ is an inline radon removal system, separating radon from gaseous xenon using a charcoal...
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Mehrnoosh Moallemi (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))10/04/2026, 11:00
Anomaly detection at the LHC aims to identify events that deviate from dominant Standard Model (SM) processes while minimizing assumptions inherent to predefined trigger selections, enabling model-agnostic searches for new physics. The CMS experiment employs a two-stage trigger system that reduces the LHC bunch-crossing rate of up to 40 MHz to an output rate of approximately 9 kHz for offline...
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Leah Wolf10/04/2026, 11:00
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment is located at a depth of about 4850 feet at Sanford Underground Research Facility (South Dakota, USA). The LZ detector constitutes a dual-phase time projection chamber with a 7-tonne liquid xenon target. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), well motivated dark matter candidates, are expected to produce nuclear recoils while interacting with...
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Mr Bilal Ganie (University of Manchester)10/04/2026, 11:00
The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider will undergo a major
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high-luminosity upgrade during Long Shutdown 4, targeting instantaneous luminosities
up to 1.5×1034 cm−2 s−1, representing a tenfold increase over previous
operations. This will lead to a significant rise in recorded data, from 50 fb−1 to
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Tom Elliot (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))10/04/2026, 11:15
Heavy Z' gauge bosons are predicted to exist by a number of promising theories of physics beyond the Standard Model, including GUTs. Many Z' models predict decay into a pair of oppositely charged electrons or muons. These decay channels offer clear, low-background signatures with fully reconstructed final states - ideal for discovery by a general purpose collider experiment like ATLAS. A...
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Snigdho Chakraborty (University of Warwick (GB))10/04/2026, 11:15
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will push the ATLAS experiment into an unprecedented regime of pile-up, data volume, and analysis complexity. In this environment, traditional calibration paradigms, while robust, face increasing pressure in terms of scalability and development effort.
For small-radius jets, the current Monte Carlo (MC) Jet Energy Scale (JES) calibration proceeds through...
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WONJONG CHANG (University of Warwick/STFC RAL)10/04/2026, 11:15
nuSTORM (neutrinos from STORed Muons) is a future-generation accelerator-based neutrino facility that is currently being designed to have %-level flux uncertainty. This facility produces neutrinos from the decay of muons circulating in a storage ring. nuSTORM will be able to measure ν-nucleus cross-section with great precision for both electron and muon neutrinos. The storage ring will store...
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Alessandro Sturniolo (University of Liverpool (GB))10/04/2026, 11:15
During the LHC Long Shutdown 3 (2026-2030), the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS) upgrade to ITS3 will see the replacement of the innermost 3 layers (also referred to as Inner Barrel, or IB) of the current ITS2 with 6 large-area (26 cm long), flexible, stitched 65 nm CMOS sensors. The ITS3 sensors will be air cooled, with integrated power and signal transmission, and for the first time in a...
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Catherine Lawes (King's College London)10/04/2026, 11:15
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber designed to search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter via nuclear recoils within a 7-tonne active target. In addition to its primary WIMP search programme, LZ is sensitive to a wide range of other dark matter signatures.
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Mr Yuri Venturini (CAEN S.p.A.)10/04/2026, 11:30
The CAEN x2740/x2745, x2730, and x2751 digitizers belong to the Digitizer 2.0 family and are designed to meet the high data rate requirements of modern nuclear and particle physics experiments, medical imaging systems, and large-scale detector readouts. These platforms support both triggered acquisition and continuous streaming readout, integrating high-speed Flash ADCs, FPGA-based real-time...
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Yuanda Zhu (UCL)10/04/2026, 11:30
This study investigates the enhancement of boosted top quark tagging at the ATLAS detector by integrating jet substructure features, captured through the Lund Jet Plane (LJP) and the LundNet Graph Neural Network, with b-tagging information from the GN3X transformer model. The study demonstrates that combining these orthogonal data sources improves background rejection compared to using...
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Juan Jose Juan Castella (University of Cambridge (GB))10/04/2026, 11:30
Precision measurements of rare decays of b-mesons are excellent probes for indirect new physics searches. They are greatly suppressed in the standard model and thus are highly sensitive to contributions from new physics. Many observables serve as targets for these studies, allowing for a wide range of tests of the standard model (SM). For example, charge-parity (CP) asymmetries allow to test...
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Elizabeth Leason10/04/2026, 11:30
Dark matter direct detection experiments have historically focused on searches for GeV-TeV/c$^2$ mass WIMP dark matter, undergoing spin-independent scattering interactions with a target. However, there are well motivated models at lower masses including those with spin-dependent interactions. This parameter space remains significantly less constrained due to the challenge of achieving lower...
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Gill Turnbull (University of Edinburgh)10/04/2026, 11:30
The SuperNEMO Demonstrator is a double-beta-decay experiment with a unique capability to reconstruct the full topology of decay events. The ability to identify and measure the energy and trajectory of individual particles enables sophisticated background rejection, as well as the ability to search for not only neutrinoless double-beta decay, but also exotic decays and nuclear effects on the...
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Alex Veltman (The University of Edinburgh (GB))10/04/2026, 11:45
Searches for new BSM physics at the ATLAS experiment typically target particles that decay promptly, very close to the collision point. New physics has so far evaded these searches. Multiple BSM models predict new long-lived particles (LLPs) with decay lengths ranging from millimetres to kilometres. In new physics scenarios where LLPs couple preferentially to heavy particles or to leptons, tau...
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Daria Santone10/04/2026, 11:45
DarkSide-20k is a global direct dark matter detection experiment in the construction phase at LNGS (in Italy). The core of the detector is a dual-phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with 50 tonnes of low-radioactivity liquid argon. The entire TPC wall is surrounded by a pure polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) of 15 cm, which acts as a neutron veto, immersed in a second low-radioactivity...
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Dominic Langridge (Royal Holloway University of London)10/04/2026, 11:45
The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, providing world-leading measurements of oscillation parameters and CP violation using the Super-Kamiokande (SK) water cherenkov detector, 295km downstream of a neutrino beam created at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). These measurements benefit from neutrino cross-section and beam...
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William Bishop (University of Warwick/RAL)10/04/2026, 11:45
Muon colliders are one of the next-generation accelerators being proposed for the future of particle physics but their development faces limitations throughout the system, with new innovations required to achieve the desired performance. The focus here is on the target system which needs to withstand multi-MW pulsed proton beams in order to produce the muons through pion decay. Because of...
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Callum Duffy (University College London)10/04/2026, 11:45
Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology with potential applications in particle physics. From the direct simulation of quantum field theories on quantum hardware to the acceleration of computationally demanding components of data analysis, the interface between quantum information science and high-energy physics has become an active and expanding area of research. Potential...
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Joel Davidson (University of Warwick (GB))10/04/2026, 12:00
At the Large Hadron Collider, the ATLAS detector experiences a collision rate of about 1 billion proton-proton collisions per second. This rate of collisions is far too large for us to store all observed events, so only interesting events are stored. The ATLAS trigger system reduces this input rate to a manageable 3 kHz via the use of the hardware-based Level 1 trigger and the software-based...
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Albanik Gashi (Queen Mary University of London)10/04/2026, 12:00
Nuclear decommissioning requires a thorough understanding of the radiological hazards present, typically achieved through a combination of in-situ detection and complementary radiochemical analysis. A major
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challenge with in-situ detection arises from the diverse functions at nuclear installations, which impose constraints on detector geometry, precision, and the chemical and environmental... -
Dr Paolo Franchini (University of Oxford)10/04/2026, 12:00
Darkside-20k is a global direct dark matter detection experiment situated underground at LNGS (in Italy), designed to reach a total exposure of 200 tonne-years, nearly free from instrumental backgrounds. The core of the detector is a dual-phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with 50 tonnes of low-radioactivity liquid argon. This is surrounded by inner and outer active veto volumes. Both...
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Jack Holguin10/04/2026, 13:45
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Rhiannon Susan Jones (University of Sheffield (GB))10/04/2026, 14:15Plenary
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Jack Y. Araz (Stony Brook University)10/04/2026, 14:45
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Dr Silvia Gambetta10/04/2026, 15:15Plenary
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Dr Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))
Large particle physics collaborations offer powerful opportunities to connect fundamental research with skills development and public engagement. In this talk, I will highlight outreach and training initiatives developed at Sussex using ATLAS and DUNE to create pathways from first inspiration to advanced data science skills.
The DUNE UK exhibition has toured nationally for almost two years,...
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Po-Wei Huang (University of Oxford)
The SNO+ Experiment is a 780-ton liquid-scintillator detector located approximately 240, 250, and 355 kilometers from the nearest dominant nuclear reactors. Using a dataset corresponding to 684.9 live days, the SNO+ Collaboration reports an updated measurement of the solar neutrino oscillation parameter $\Delta m^2_{21}=(7.93^{+0.21}_{-0.24})\times10^{-5}$ eV$^2$. When combined with Particle...
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Hanfei Cui (University College London)
This study presents a QCD jet substructure measurement of the Lund jet plane and the dead cone effect in b- and c-jets from $t\overline{t}$ events. Latest jet flavour tagger (GN2) identifies heavy flavour jets and their decay tracks to probe suppressed emissions at small angles. To isolate pure flavour contributions, we implement a matrix decomposition based on calibrated 2D flavour-tagging...
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Mr Kieren Joseph (Imperial College)
WCTE is a small water Cherenkov detector instrumented with O(100) multi-PMT modules. The detector collected charged particle beam data at the CERN T9 beam line in 2024 and 2025 and has both charged particle and tagged photons over a momentum range from 200 MeV/c up to 1 GeV/c.
This talk will present the development of CNN-based reconstruction algorithms for water Cherenkov neutrino...
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