Name: IOP Joint APP and HEPP Annual Conference 2026
Start: 2026-04-08T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-10T19:00:00+01:00
Location: John McIntyre Conference Centre

IOP Joint APP and HEPP Annual Conference 2026

from Wednesday, 8 April 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 10 April 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 6 April 2026
Tuesday, 7 April 2026
Wednesday, 8 April 2026

09:45 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
09:45 - 10:15
10:15 Plenary: Wednesday morning plenary
Wednesday morning plenary
10:15 - 12:35
Contributions

10:15 Welcome from LOC - Cheryl Patrick Victoria Martin (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

10:20 Welcome to Edinburgh - Philip Best

10:30 Welcome from IOP

10:40 Cosmic Questions, Human Answers - Catherine Heymans

11:35 News from the Halo – Recent Developments in Dark Matter Searches - Christian Wittweg (Universität Zürich)

12:05 An update from the Boulby Underground Laboratory - Paul Scovell (STFC)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 13:45
13:45 Plenary: Wednesday afternoon plenary
Wednesday afternoon plenary
13:45 - 15:15
Contributions

13:45 CMB - Blake Sherwin

14:15 Particle Physics Methods for Precision Gravitational Wave Physics - Mao Zeng (University of Edinburgh)

14:45 Gravitational Waves - Laura Nuttall (University of Portsmouth)
15:15 Afternoon Coffee
Afternoon Coffee
15:15 - 15:45
15:45 Parallel Talks: Wednesday 1 - dark matter
Wednesday 1 - dark matter
15:45 - 17:45
Contributions

15:45 Projected Sensitivity of the XLZD Rare Event Observatory to New Physics via Low Energy Electron Recoils - Huan Zhang

16:00 Probing Light Dark Matter with Levitated Quantum Sensors - Andrzej Gawdzik

16:15 Modelling the accidental coincidence background in LUX-ZEPLIN for a light dark matter search - Isabelle Darlington (UCL)

16:30 QUEST-DMC sensitivity across dark matter interaction types: linking direct detection, colliders, and freeze-out - Neda Darvishi (Royal Holloway University of London)

16:45 Searching for light dark matter with DarkSPHERE - Lachlan Milligan (University of Birmingham)

17:00 Prototype Validation Studies for the DarkSide-20k TPC - Angus Thompson (University of Oxford)

17:15 Spin-dependent dark matter sensitivity of DarkSide-20k - Ash Ritchie-Yates (The University of Manchester)
Parallel Talks: Wednesday 2 - collider
Wednesday 2 - collider
15:45 - 17:45
Contributions

15:45 Run 3 measurement of tau identification performance in $t\bar{t}$ events with the GNtau algorithm in ATLAS - Sudev Pradhan (University of Sheffield (GB))

16:00 Constraining top-sector EFT effects with combined associated top-quark production measurements at ATLAS - Betsy Cunnett (University of Sussex (GB))

16:15 Gauge-Invariant Longitudinal Modes in Electroweak Parton Shower - Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)

16:30 Opposite-sign WW production with Run3 data in ATLAS - Alberto Plebani (University of Cambridge (GB))

16:45 Search for Di-Higgs Pair Production in the bbtautau decay channel using Run2+Run3 Data with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. - Bhupesh Dixit (University of Liverpool (GB))

17:00 Searching for BSM Higgs bosons in the bbWW final state at the ATLAS detector - Rachel Ashby Pickering (University of Warwick (GB))

17:15 Analysis of Λb → Λ h+h- decays at LHCb in Run 3 - George Hallett (University of Warwick (GB))
Parallel Talks: Wednesday 3 - neutrino
Wednesday 3 - neutrino
15:45 - 17:45
Contributions

15:45 Improving Uncertainty Estimates from Final State Interactions using the NEUT Event Generator - Tom Peacock (University of Sheffield)

16:00 Searches for Beyond the Standard Model physics with e+e- signatures in MicroBooNE - Joseph Bateman

16:15 Measuring Electron Diffusion in the Short-Baseline Near Detector - Bethany McCusker (Lancaster University)

16:30 Neutron detection using the T2K ND280 Electromagnetic Calorimeters - Hannah Alarakia-Charles (Lancaster University)

16:45 The NOvA Test Beam Program - Emerson Bannister (University of Sussex)

17:00 The NEXT experiment: Results from the NEXT-100 detector - John Waiton (University of Manchester)
Parallel Talks: Wednesday 4 - detectors
Wednesday 4 - detectors
15:45 - 17:45
Contributions

15:45 The Beam Momentum Spectrometer Stations for the MUonE experiment - Giorgia Cacciola (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:00 A Novel Cherenkov Radiator for Particle Identification - Henry James Linton (Imperial College (GB))

16:15 Phase-2 CMS ECAL APD Spike Rejection Studies Using 2021 and 2025 Test Beam Data - Jakub Andrzej Gajownik (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

16:30 Materials screening at Boulby Underground Laboratory - Alice Hamer

16:45 Inter-Channel Timing Variations in RICH MAPMTs - Callum James White (University of Cambridge (GB))

17:00 Commissioning of the CMS Phase-2 Tracker Cosmic Test Stand - Andrew Mastronikolis (Imperial College (GB))

17:15 Performance studies of the ePIC Barrel Tracking Detector for the Electron-Ion Collider - Athavan Ramalingam
Parallel Talks: Wednesday 5 - collider
Wednesday 5 - collider
15:45 - 17:45
Contributions

15:45 Quantum correlated D mesons in LHCb Run 3 data - Ho Sang Lee (University of Liverpool (GB))

16:00 2l+MET signature from two-component dark matter at the LHC - Shu Chen (University of Southampton)

16:15 Simplified Template Cross Section measurements of Higgs Boson production in the diphoton decay channel at CMS - Tom Runting (Imperial College (GB))

16:30 ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Displaced Vertex Searches - Julian Friedrich Wack (University of Cambridge (GB))

16:45 Search for new physics in final states with semi-visible jets or anomalous signatures using the ATLAS detector - Saashiv Valjee (University of London (GB))

17:00 Impact of Hadronic Transport on Identified Particle Production in Pb–Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV\\ - Anju Bhasin (University of Liverpool)

17:15 Dimuon decay of Higgs Boson through VH - Arnav Sunil Avad (University of London (GB))
18:00 Poster Evening: Posters
Posters
18:00 - 19:00
Contributions

18:00 Quantum-Limited Instrumentation for Axion Dark Matter Detection - Annora Sundararajan

18:01 Spin Dependent Sensitivity Projection for QUEST-DMC - Lizzie Bloomfield (University of Oxford)

18:02 From Cavern to Classroom - Outreach at Boulby Underground Laboratory - Jonathan Gutteridge (Boulby Underground Laboratory)

18:03 Time calibration of SuperNEMO calorimeter - Penghui Li (university of edinburgh)

18:04 Spin-dependent dark matter sensitivity within the non-relativistic effective field theory framework - Saule Piguleviciute (University of Manchester)

18:05 Neutrino-Less Double Beta Decay Searches with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Robyn Evren (university of sheffield)

18:06 Production Modelling of the ATLAS ITk Strip Detector Using the ITk Project Production Simulation - Fawaz Mutllaq S. Alhawiti (University of Sheffield (GB))

18:07 Electron and Photon Reconstruction Performance in High Pile-Up Conditions for ATLAS Run-4 Using the Topo-Clustering Algorithm - Holly Lea Rose Davies (University of Sheffield (GB))

18:08 Spin-Independent and Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Scattering in a Many-Body Superfluid $^3$He Target - Adam Ting (Royal Holloway, University of London)

18:09 Semi-inclusive hadron+jet spectra in central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV with ALICE using mixed events - Nicola Wilson (University of Liverpool, GSI Darmstadt)

18:10 Ultra-Trace Radioassay of U-238 and Th-232 using ICP-MS at Boulby Underground Laboratory - Kayleigh Johnson (STFC - Boulby Underground Laboratory)

18:11 DarkSide-20k Low-Mass Sensitivity and Implications for 5σ Discovery Prospects of Future Detectors - Haoxiang Zhan

18:12 Commissioning of the CMS Phase-2 Tracker Cosmic Test Stand - Andrew Mastronikolis (Imperial College (GB))

18:13 MicroBooNE NuMI Muon Neutrino and Muon Antineutrino Charged-Current Separation Using BDT - William Wang (The University of Edinburgh)

18:14 Germanium Detectors in the Boulby Underground Screening Facility - Beth Green (Boulby Underground Laboratory)

18:15 CaloTrilogy: One Step, End-to-End Shower Generation for Calorimeter - Cheng Jiang (University of Edinburgh)

18:16 The FastRICH ASIC for a time resolved LHCb RICH - George Ramsey (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

18:17 Underwater Characterisation of a BUTTON Optical Module - Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
Thursday, 9 April 2026
09:00 Plenary: Thursday morning plenary
Thursday morning plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Precision measurements - Rebecca Chislett

09:30 Energy-energy correlators - Jack Holguin

10:00 Particle Physics Action Group
10:30 Morning coffee
Morning coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Parallel Talks: Thursday 1 - detectors
Thursday 1 - detectors
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 The FastRICH ASIC for a time resolved LHCb RICH - George Ramsey (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:15 Pulse Shape Analysis for Low Radioactivity Material Screeening - Difei Xu (UCL)

11:30 The LHCb Mighty Tracker pixel sensor characterisation and multi-module serial powering prototyping - Daniel Foulds-Holt (University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:45 Preparing for DarkSide-20k veto photodetector installation - Isobel Sargeant (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

12:00 RadPix: A High-Voltage CMOS Sensor for the LHCb Upgrade - Karol Hennessy (University of Liverpool (GB))
Parallel Talks: Thursday 2 - precision measurements
Thursday 2 - precision measurements
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Precision Measurement of the Two-Pion Contribution to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarization with KLOE - Niels Vestergaard (University of Liverpool)

11:15 Differential cross-section measurement of $t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$ production with ATLAS using 2022-2024 data - Fani Nathalie E. Henry (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:30 The MUonE Experiment and First Results from the 2025 Test run - Clement Loic Devanne (University of Liverpool (GB))

11:45 Analysis of the CP Structure of the Tau Lepton Yukawa Coupling at the CMS Experiment - Lucas Russell (Imperial College (GB))

12:00 Towards Precise Determination of the CKM angle $\gamma$ - Marcelo Bovill (University of Oxford)
Parallel Talks: Thursday 3 - neutrinos
Thursday 3 - neutrinos
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 The helium recycling system for SuperNEMO - Penghui Li (university of edinburgh)

11:15 Detector and background modelling for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in LEGEND - Toby Dixon (UCL)

11:30 Efficient sampling for the precision era of neutrino experiments - Hank Hua (Imperial College (GB))

11:45 Latest collider neutrino measurements with the FASER detector - Sinead Eley (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:00 Maximising MicroBooNE's sensitivity to Heavy Neutral Leptons produced in the NuMI beam - Magnus Handley (University of Cambridge)
Parallel Talks: Thursday 4 - detectors
Thursday 4 - detectors
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Single-Electron Gas Characterisation for Dark Matter Searches using Spherical Proportional Counters - Peter Walters

11:15 Novel Mass Measurement Methods using the LHCb RICH Detectors - Michael James Kane (University of Edinburgh (GB))

11:30 Cryogenic characterization of the DarkSide-20k veto photo-detector units - Emma Ellingwood (University of Edinburgh)

11:45 Ultra-pure copper electroforming at Boulby deep underground laboratory - Giovanni Rogers (University of Birmingham (UK), STFC - Boulby Underground Laboratory)

12:00 Tyvek reflectance study for the outer detector of the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. - Sania Lewis (King's College London)
Parallel Talks: Thursday 5 - astroparticle
Thursday 5 - astroparticle
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 High Frequency Axion Searches at the University of Manchester - Jamie McDonald (University of Manchester)

11:15 When Supernova Neutrinos met Liquid Argon: using muons decaying-at-rest to look for MeV-scale electron neutrinos in SBND - Lucy Kotsiopoulou (University of Edinburgh)

11:30 Are dark showers observables visible for us? - Miguel Angel Avendano Bernal (University of Southampton)

11:45 How Sensitive is Cosmic Inflation to Quantum Corrections? - Lucien Heurtier (King's College London)

12:00 The Anatomy of a P-ONE Optical Module - Alexia Alexander Wight (UCL)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
13:45 Plenary: Thursday afternoon plenary
Thursday afternoon plenary
13:45 - 14:45
Contributions

13:45 LHCb - Harry Victor Cliff (University of Cambridge (GB))

14:15 Early-career researchers report - Harriet Watson (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
14:45 STFC Town Meeting: Early afternoon
Early afternoon
14:45 - 15:45

15:45 Coffee
Coffee
15:45 - 16:15

16:15 STFC Town Meeting: Late afternoon
Late afternoon
16:15 - 18:15

19:15 Dinner & Ceilidh

19:15 - 22:45
Friday, 10 April 2026
09:30 Plenary: Friday morning plenary
Friday morning plenary
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Collider physics results - Holly Pacey (University of Oxford (GB))

10:00 EDI - Kate Shaw (University of Sussex (GB))
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Parallel Talks: Friday 1 - dark matter
Friday 1 - dark matter
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 First Measurements of the Effectiveness of Radon Removal in Liquid Xenon via Charcoal Chromatography - Simran Dave

11:15 Using Computer Vision to Reject Instrumental Background in LUX-ZEPLIN and Multi-Vertex Inelastic Dark Matter Signal Searches - Catherine Lawes (King's College London)

11:30 Probing low mass dark matter with superfluid helium - Elizabeth Leason

11:45 Construction Progress of the DarkSide-20k Dark Matter Search Experiment - Daria Santone

12:00 Production of 26 m2 of SiPM Detectors for DarkSide-20k - Paolo Franchini (University of Oxford)
Parallel Talks: Friday 2 - Collider
Friday 2 - Collider
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Everything Quantum - Ivo Young (University of Glasgow (GB))

11:15 A Search for Z' Dilepton Resonances Using the ATLAS Detector in Run 3 at the LHC - Tom Elliot (Royal Holloway, University of London (GB))

11:30 Measuring the Binned CP Asymmetry in B to K mu mu - Juan Jose Juan Castella (University of Cambridge (GB))

11:45 A search for displaced tau production from long-lived particles at the ATLAS experiment - Alex Veltman (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
Parallel Talks: Friday 3 - Neutrino
Friday 3 - Neutrino
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment - Leah Wolf

11:15 Simulation studies for the nuSTORM facility - WONJONG CHANG (University of Warwick/STFC RAL)

11:30 β Backgrounds Using the 1-Electron Channel in SuperNEMO - Gill Turnbull (University of Edinburgh)

11:45 ML Reconstruction at the Water Cherenkov Test Experiment - Kieren Joseph (Imperial College)

12:00 Latest developments in near detector analyses at T2K - Dominic Langridge (Royal Holloway University of London)
Parallel Talks: Friday 4 - Detectors
Friday 4 - Detectors
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 The LHCb Mighty Tracker: Thermo-mechanical design and prototype testing. - Bilal Ganie (University of Manchester)

11:15 Testing stitched devices for the upcoming ALICE ITS3: results of babyMOSS chip characterisation at a test beam - Alessandro Sturniolo (University of Liverpool (GB))

11:30 Benchmarking SRO Performance of CAEN Digitizers - Yuri Venturini (CAEN S.p.A.)

11:45 Physics studies for the Muon Collider target system. - William Bishop (University of Warwick/RAL)

12:00 Flexible Organic Semiconductor Radiation Sensors for use in Industry and Particle Physics - Albanik Gashi (Queen Mary University of London)
Parallel Talks: Friday 5 - machine learning / reconstruction
Friday 5 - machine learning / reconstruction
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Particle-Based Representation Learning for Anomaly Detection in the CMS High-Level Trigger - Mehrnoosh Moallemi (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

11:15 ML based Jet Calibration for HL-LHC - Snigdho Chakraborty (University of Warwick (GB))

11:30 Boosted Top Jet Tagging Based on LundNet - Yuanda Zhu (UCL)

11:45 Quantum Computing for Particle Physics: Simulation and Machine Learning - Callum Duffy (University College London)

12:00 A Hadronic Tau Preselection in the ATLAS detectors High Level Trigger - Joel Davidson (University of Warwick (GB))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
13:45 Plenary: Friday afternoon plenaries
Friday afternoon plenaries
13:45 - 15:45
Contributions

13:45 Neutrinos - Rhiannon Susan Jones (University of Sheffield (GB))

14:15 LHC Upgrades - Silvia Gambetta

14:45 AI for theory - Jack Y. Araz (Stony Brook University)
15:45 Closeout
Closeout
15:45 - 16:00

17:00 Public Event: Particles with Purpose - How Fundamental Physics Benefits Society: Outreach Event
Outreach Event
17:00 - 18:30

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