Name: QCD@LHC 2026
Start: 2026-09-28T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-02T13:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Oxford

QCD@LHC 2026

from Monday, 28 September 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 2 October 2026 (13:00)

Monday, 28 September 2026

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Chris Hays (University of Oxford (GB)) Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford (GB)) Fabrizio Arturo Caola (University of Oxford (GB)) Gavin Salam (University of Oxford)

09:10 Highlights from CMS - Robert Schoefbeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

09:40 Highlights from ATLAS - Nuno Castro (LIP and University of Minho)

10:10 Recent developments in PDFs - Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
10:40 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
11:10 - 12:45
Contributions

11:10 PDFs: an experimental perspective - Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

11:40 Low-scale QCD in simulations - Steffen Schumann

12:10 QCD measurements at low scales - Weijie Jin (University of Zurich (CH))

12:40 Lunch directions
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Higgs, EW, and BSM
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

14:00 Higgs boson production and decay rate measurements with the ATLAS experiment - Bai-Hong Zhou (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (CN))

14:20 Higgs Cross section measurements at CMS, bosonic channels - Nico Härringer (ETH Zurich (CH))

14:40 Higgs properties (mass, width, CP) measurements from ATLAS - Runxuan (Max) Wang (University of Michigan (US))

15:00 Higgs property measurement - Leyun Gao (Peking University (CN))

15:20 Higgs Combinations & EFT interpretations - Matthew Kenneth Maroun (University of Massachusetts (US))
Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

14:00 Soft QCD measurements with pp collisions in ATLAS - José Pretel (University of Victoria (CA))

14:20 Minibias measurements with pO collisions in ATLAS - Lydia Audrey Beresford (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

14:40 Jet production in photon-lead collisions at NLO+PS accuracy - Peter Meinzinger (Zürich University)

15:00 Using low-pt dimuon events to measure transverse proton structure - Kyle Cormier (University of Zurich (CH))

15:20 Beam-spin induced polarization of lambda and anti-lambda hyperons in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (REMOTE) - Denis Veretennikov (AANL - Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory) Denis Veretennikov
PDFs and DIS
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

14:00 Towards the NNPDF4.1 global PDF analysis - Kamil Laurent (Nikhef)

14:25 MSHT: Updates - Lucian Alexander Harland-Lang (University College London)

14:50 New Directions in Precision PDF Analysis - Timothy Hobbs (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:15 Prospects for proton structure functions, PDFs, and strong coupling determinations at the EIC - Stephen Maple
15:40 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:00
16:00 Heavy Quarks
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

16:00 Hadronization studies at LHCb - Esteban Felipe Molina Cardenas (University of Michigan (US))

16:20 Heavy-flavour jet measurements with ALICE - Yoshini Bailung (Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis (IP2I) de Lyon, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Lyon)

16:40 Substructure of Heavy Quark Jets - Andrea Ghira (Università degli studi di Genova)

17:00 Flavor Anomalies and Lepton Flavor Universality at CMS - Patricia Helena Wagner (ETH Zurich (CH))

17:20 Analytic Computation of the Two-Loop Penguin Jet Function - Kevin Brune (JGU Mainz)
High-scale QCD
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

16:00 QCD jet measurements in ATLAS - Hanfei Cui (University College London)

16:20 Accurate predictions for LHC Processes at the highest partonic energies - JEPPE ROSENKRANTZ ANDERSEN (IPPP, University of Durham)

16:40 Drell-Yan precision measurements in ATLAS - James Ferrando (Lancaster University (GB))

17:00 Diphoton production at N3LO - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)

17:20 Photon-induced QCD@FCC-ee - Peter Meinzinger (Zürich University)
New techniques, tools and generators
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

16:00 "Hadron-in-fat-jet'' AI Tagging to Detect Rare Decays - Linrui Chen (Peking University) Qiang Li (Peking University (CN)) Youpeng Wu (Peking University (CN))

16:20 (YSF) Advances in Hadronic Tau Reconstruction and Identification in ATLAS Using Graph Neural Networks - Pim Bijl (University of Freiburg (DE))

16:40 Scaling Neural Simulation Based Inference to Large Datasets - Chris Pollard (University of Warwick (GB))

17:00 DIS-secting the universe with high-energy neutrinos - Lorenzo Guerra (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
09:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 QCD measurements at high scales - Matt LeBlanc (Brown University (US))

09:30 Recent developments in QCD predictions for collider physics - Chiara Signorile-Signorile (CERN)

10:00 EEC, Track functions and related topics - Wouter Waalewijn (University of Amsterdam)
10:30 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Recent lattice developments and results - Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich) Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich)

11:30 Panel discussion on alpha_s - Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)) David d'Enterria (CERN) Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Institut für Physik)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Heavy Quarks
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

14:00 ATLAS results on top properties and threshold region - Lucas Cremer (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))

14:20 Top quark pair in the threshold at the LHC: NRQCD and key-uncertainties - Giovanni Limatola (II. Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Hamburg)

14:40 ATLAS results on top quark cross section measurements and recent progress on modelling - Daniel Ernani Martins Neto Daniel Ernani Martins Neto (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

15:00 Complete NLO corrections to off-shell $t \bar{t}$ production in the $\ell+j$ decay channel - Leon Mans (RWTH Aachen University)

15:20 Top Quark Pair Production and Decay: The 1-Higgs-Singlet Model and Pseudoscalar Decay - Vishakha Lingadahally
Higgs, EW, and BSM
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

14:00 Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion: Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweak Corrections - Jamie Chang (ETH Zurich / PSI)

14:20 Recent analytic progress for di-Higgs production - Kay Schoenwald (CERN)

14:40 CMS search for non-resonant HH - Benjamin Lawrence-Sanderson (Northwestern University (US))

15:00 HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC - Mirella Dimitrova Vassilev (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

15:20 N3LO QCD predictions for boosted Higgs-strahlung off a W boson at the LHC - Federico Silvetti (IPPP)
PDFs and DIS
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

14:00 Proton structure at the LHC with neural simulation-based inference - Robert Schoefbeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

14:20 Drell-Yan measurements with CMS for PDF determinations - Cedric Verstege (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

14:40 Simultaneous PDF fits and parameter extractions (including weak mixing angle and alpha_s) at CMS - Klaus Rabbertz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

15:00 ATLAS measurements of alphaS - Laura Fabbri (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

15:20 Electroweak measurements at LHCb and their interplay with proton PDFs - William Barter (University of Edinburgh)
15:40 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:00
16:00 High-scale QCD
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

16:00 New Opportunities for Precision Hadronic Measurements at the LHC with Energy Correlators - Zhen Xu (DESY)

16:20 Accounting for the Effect of Fiducial Cuts on Energy-Energy Correlators - Alessio Vorona (Nikhef/UvA)

16:40 Recent Highlights from the Electron–Positron Alliance - Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University (US))

17:00 Event isotropy in perturbative QCD - Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Paris)
Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

16:00 Measurement of the jet quenching effect with Z+jet events in PbPb and pp collisions at 5.36 TeV with Run 3 data - Raffaele Delli Gatti (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))

16:20 How to actually measure jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions - Peter Martin Jacobs (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

16:40 Measurement of hyperon spin correlation in pp and pPb collisions at CMS - Jieke Wang (Shandong University (CN))

17:00 Collective flow measurements in OO and NeNe collisions with CMS - Jiateng Peng (Fudan University)
New techniques, tools and generators
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

16:00 Status of the Alaric Parton Shower - Daniel Reichelt

16:20 Double-real corrections to color singlet decay in a parton-shower inspired scheme - Max Knobbe (Fermilab)

16:40 A first glimpse of matching beyond NLO with logarithmically accurate showers - Nicolas Francois Schalch (University of Oxford (GB))

17:00 Resummed Distribution Functions: Making Perturbation Theory Normalized and Positive - Rikab Gambhir (University of Cincinnati)

17:20 Quarkonium parton shower in Herwig 7 (REMOTE) - Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
09:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Generators and Tools in the experiments - Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

09:30 Recent developments in shower matching - James Whitehead (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

10:00 Recent spectroscopy measurements - Jibo He (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
10:30 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Results on CP Violation and B anomalies - Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:30 Heavy-flavour/Top precision predictions at colliders - Simon Badger (University of Turin)

12:00 Top measurements at the LHC - Andreas Werner Jung (Purdue University (US))

12:30 Introducing QCD@LHC27 - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow) Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 OPMD Lab Tours
OPMD Lab Tours
14:00 - 16:00
1/2-hour blocks, sign up at registration
Thursday, 1 October 2026
09:00 Higgs, EW, and BSM
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

09:00 Multiboson measurements in ATLAS - Zihan Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))

09:20 Multiboson Measurements at CMS - Cristiano Tarricone (Torino University and INFN (IT))

09:40 Vector boson fusion and scattering measurements in ATLAS - Josu Cantero (IFIC/UV-CSIC (ES))

10:00 Vector boson scattering results in CMS - Ruobing Jiang (Peking University (CN))

10:20 Diboson polarisation measurements in ATLAS - Luka Selem (IN2P3/LPNHE - Université Paris Cité)
Joint: New techniques & High-scale QCD
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

09:00 Monte Carlo Event Generator Modelling and Validation with Jet Measurements in CMS - Jennifer Roloff (Brown University (US))

09:20 Gauge-Invariant Longitudinal Modes in the Herwig 7 Electroweak Parton Shower (REMOTE) - Aidin Masouminia (IPPP, Durham University)

09:40 Recent progress on logarithmic accuracy in PanScales - Keith Hamilton (University College London (GB))

10:00 Recent jet substructure measurements in CMS - Attila Jozsef Radl (HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU))
PDFs and DIS
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

09:00 Interpreting Parton Distributions with Shapley Values - Eva Groenendijk (University of Milan)

09:20 MORPH: Multimodal Observables and Representations for the Physics of Hadrons - Brandon Kriesten (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:40 Designing Precision-Oriented PDF Sets for Electroweak Measurements at Hadron Colliders - Baris Tuncay (University of Oxford (GB))

10:00 Analaysis of the impact on data uncertanties with the MSHT framework - Matthew Reader (University College London)

10:20 Studies of N3LO corrections and resummation scale uncertainties in fits to DIS data using xFitter - Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
10:40 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Heavy Quarks
11:10 - 12:50
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

11:10 ATLAS results on associated top quark production (Top+X) and EFT interpretations - Oliver Rieger (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

11:30 NNLO QCD corrections to $t\bar{t}W$ production at the LHC - Vsevolod Chestnov (University of Oxford)

11:50 State-of-the-art predictions for four-top production with invariant-mass threshold resummation. - Tommaso Saracco (Nikhef)

12:10 Top quark mass interpretation from simulation of top-flavoured mesons - Alexander Lind (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))

12:30 Matching flavour schemes via isolation of heavy-quark mass power corrections - Christian Biello (ETHZ)
High-scale QCD
11:10 - 12:50
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

11:10 Charm and bottom quark pair production cross sections at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading-order accuracy - David d'Enterria (CERN)

11:30 Observation of W, Z, and jet production with a tagged forward proton in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13.6 TeV - Elisabetta Manca (CERN)

11:50 Uncharted Logarithmic Structures in QCD Transverse-Energy Flow - Alexander Fraley (University of Manchester)

12:10 High-precision QCD physics at FCC-ee - Rene Poncelet (IFJ PAN Krakow)
Joint: New techniques & Higgs, EW, and BSM
11:10 - 12:50
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

11:10 Hunting the unseen: Boosting Semi-Visible Jet via Jet Substructure metrics - Miguel Angel Avendano Bernal (University of Southampton)

11:30 MiNNLOps for ttH: first NNLO+PS predictions at the LHC - Chiara Savoini (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

11:50 NNLO+PS Higgs-pair production in MiNNLOPS - Francesco Garosi (Max Planck Institut für Physik)

12:10 Resonance aware MC@NLO QCD+EW matched parton showers - Joanne Roper (Durham University)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00 Higgs, EW, and BSM
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

14:00 Gauge Boson Polarization as a Probe of SMEFT Effects in Production - Maryam Bayat Makou (Southern Methodist University)

14:20 Searches for BSM Higgs and Additional Scalars at ATLAS - Qichen Dong (University of Oxford (GB))

14:40 Searches for New Resonances with CMS - Irene Andreou (University of Cyprus (CY))

15:00 Searches for SUSY, Dark Matter, and Heavy Resonances at ATLAS - Sukanya Sinha (The University of Manchester (GB))

15:20 Searches for dark sector signatures with CMS - Jaime Leon Holgado (CERN)
Joint: Heavy Quarks & Low-scale QCD
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

14:00 Recent results in Lambda and Ks production cross sections at LHCb - Noah Albin Behling (TU Dortmund University (DE))

14:20 Heavy-flavour production in heavy-ion collisions with ALICE - Luigi Dello Stritto (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

14:40 Heavy flavour production with SMOG2 - Aleksandra Petkovic (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole polytechnique)

15:00 Isolating Unisolated Upsilons with Anomaly Detection in CMS Open Data - Radha Mastandrea

15:20 The ALADDIN experiment at LHC - Paolo Gandini
Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes
14:00 - 15:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

14:00 Three-loop full-color QCD corrections to Higgs-plus-jet amplitudes (REMOTE) - Xin Guan (SLAC)

14:20 Taking the First Steps Toward Higgs Production at N4LO in QCD - Adi Suresh (SLAC)

14:40 Two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs plus two-jet production through gluon fusion - Viktor Kuschke (Paul Scherrer Institut, Universitaet Zuerich)

15:00 Two-loop Feynman integrals for ttgamma hadron production in the leading colour approximation - Federico Ripani

15:20 Efficient Calculation of Soft functions - Jonathan Richard Gaunt (University of Cyprus)
15:40 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
15:40 - 16:00
16:00 Joint: Heavy Quarks & Low-scale QCD
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Seminar Room 8
Contributions

16:00 Recent Heavy-Flavor Spectroscopy and Rare Decay Results from ATLAS - Yuxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University (CN))

16:20 Recent results of hadron spectroscopy at LHCb - Chen Chen (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

16:40 Excited heavy mesons and exotics from lattice QCD - Christopher Thomas (University of Cambridge)

17:00 Recent results in seaches for tetraquark states in CMS - Adriano Di Florio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

17:20 All-charm tetraquarks at hadron colliders: A high-precision fragmentation perspective - Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH Madrid)
Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Seminar Room 7
Contributions

16:00 Local Infrared Factorisation: a Road to Numerical Scattering Amplitudes - Giulio Gambuti (ETH Zurich)

16:20 Feynman integral relations from infrared singularities - Federico Coro (Ghent University)

16:40 Leading Singularities and Canonical Bases Beyond Polylogarithms - Felix Forner (TUM)

17:00 QCD–Gravity Duality and Discrete BFKL Evolution in Multi-Regge Kinematics - Josep Rubi Bort (Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT))

17:20 Tropical Monte Carlo Integration - Felix Tellander (Trinity College Dublin)
PDFs and DIS
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Tsuzuki Room
Contributions

16:00 The 3-loop variable flavor number scheme (REMOTE) - Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)

16:20 On the N3LO evolution of the PDFs from moments - Giulio Falcioni

16:40 On recent extractions of TMD distributions - Valerio Bertone (C.E.A. Paris-Saclay)

17:00 Status of Nuclear PDF Determinations - Michael Klasen (University of Münster)

17:20 Constraining proton structure and deuteron effects at large x: the CJ26 global analysis - Matteo Cerutti (CEA Paris-Saclay)
18:30 Pre-dinner drinks
Pre-dinner drinks
18:30 - 19:15

19:15 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
19:15 - 21:30
Friday, 2 October 2026
09:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Higgs, Electoweak, and Beyond at the LHC - Chris Pollard (University of Warwick (GB))

09:30 Global fits of the Standard Model and beyond - Laura Reina

10:00 AI and collider physics - Tilman Plehn Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)
10:30 Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Plenary: Plenary
Plenary
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Recent developments in heavy-ion physics - Guilherme Milhano (LIP-Lisbon & CERN TH) Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano

11:30 Heavy ions and fixed-target measurements at LHCb - Michael Winn (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

12:00 Overview of ALICE results - Maximiliano Puccio (CERN)

12:30 Status of the EIC - Abhay Deshpande Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University)