UKLFT Annual Meeting 2026

Session

Session 1

25 Mar 2026, 13:00

65/1175 (Avenue Campus, University of Southampton)

25. Flavour Physics on the Lattice

Matthew Black (University of Edinburgh)

25/03/2026, 13:00

Flavour physics is an important area of phenomenology for performing tests of the Standard Model and searching for new physics using the rich category of decays available. These pursuits require high-precision theoretical predictions to compare to experiment, where lattice QCD has been instrumental in driving the precision of many processes. I will first give a short overview of the...

26. TBD

Max Hansen (Edinburgh)

25/03/2026, 13:35

27. Variance reduction for inclusive semileptonic decays on the lattice

Ahmed Elgaziari (University of Southampton)

25/03/2026, 14:10

We discuss the calculation of the inclusive semileptonic decay for the process $B_s \to X_c l \nu_l$ using lattice QCD. Such a calculation could be decisive in understanding the CKM matrix puzzle: the long-standing tension between inclusive and exclusive determinations of the CKM matrix element, $|V_{cb}|$. A key quantity in these inclusive decays is the four-point correlation function. In...

28. Topological structure of Abelian monopole current networks & deconfinement in QCD

Mr Xavier Crean (Swansea University)

25/03/2026, 14:35

Recent numerical results have provided evidence for a conjectured regime of finite temperature QCD where chiral symmetry remains unbroken but the system still confines. Moreover, it has been shown that observables constructed from non-perturbative excitations of the Yang-Mills vacuum, namely monopoles and vortices, can be highly sensitive to the deconfinement transition in pure...