QCD@LHC 2026

28 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 2 Oct 2026, 13:00 Europe/London

University of Oxford

The 16th edition of QCD@LHC, aimed at fostering discussions and collaboration between experimenters and theorists working on strong interactions at the LHC, will be held at the University of Oxford, in the Department of Physics and St. Anne's College.

The workshop will will run from 9am on Monday 28 September to 1pm on Friday 2 October and consist of plenary and parallel sessions.

Scientific Programme

The parallel sessions will be on the following topics:

• Higgs, EW, BSM physics. Conveners: Alexander Karlberg (TH), Caterina Vernieri (ATLAS), Mika Vesterinen (LHCb) + Daniel Winterbottom (CMS)
• Heavy-quarks. Conveners: Chiara Savoini (TH), Riccardo Manzoni (CMS), Ivan Polyakov (LHCb) + Marcos Miralles Lopez (ATLAS)
• PDFs and DIS. Conveners: Thomas Cridge (TH), Gitanjali Poddar (ATLAS), Kenneth Long (CMS), Ciprian Gal (EIC)
• High-scale QCD. Conveners: Federico Buccioni (TH), Federico Sforza (ATLAS), Jennifer Roloff (CMS)
• Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics. Conveners: Adam Takacs (TH), Alice Ohlson (ALICE), Ynyr Harris (ATLAS), Georgios Krintiras (CMS), Imanol Corredoira (LHCb)
• New techniques, tools and generators. Conveners: Emanuele Re (TH), Frank Siegert (ATLAS), Kyle Cormier (CMS)

Confirmed theory plenary speakers are Simon Badger, Stefano Forte, Marina Marinkovic, Guilherme Milhano, Tilman Plehn, Laura Reina, Steffen Schumann, Chiara Signorile-Signorile, Wouter Waalewijn, James Whitehead.

There will also be a panel discussion on the value of the strong coupling constant, with David d'Enterria, Alberto Ramos and Giulia Zanderighi as panellists.

Schedule

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
morning	plenary	plenary	plenary	parallel	plenary
afternoon	parallel	parallel	free	parallel
evening	reception			dinner

Registration and abstract submission

Registration and abstract submission are expected to open in April. Deadlines will be

• 1 July for abstract submission, now extended to 15 July
• 2 August for early registration (fee of £350), now extended to 16 August
• 4 September for final registration (fee of £380)

The registration fee will include the cost of lunches (Monday-Thursday), the reception and conference dinner. Thanks to support from the IPPP (Durham), we are able to offer a reduced fee for PhD students, of £300 for early registration (£330 late registration)

Accommodation

We have a block booking for accommodation at St. Anne's College for the 5 nights from Sunday 27 September to Friday 2 October. The price will be £450. 

International Advisory Committee

Sergey Alekhin (Hamburg), Johannes Blümlein (DESY), Stefan Dittmaier (Freiburg), Claude Duhr (Bonn), Keith Ellis (Durham), Thomas Gehrmann (Zürich), Nigel Glover (Durham), Joey Huston (Michigan State), Karl Jacobs (Freiburg), Judith Katzy (DESY), Frank Krauss (Durham), Jean-Philippe Lansberg (Orsay), Fabio Maltoni (Louvain), Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Zoltan Nagy (DESY), Eram Syed Rizvi (QMUL), Frank Siegert (Dresden), Dominik Stöckinger (Dresden), Robert Szafron (BNL), Zoltan Trocsanyi (Budapest), Doreen Wackeroth (Buffalo), Ciaran Williams (Buffalo).

Local Organising Committee

Co-chairs: Fabrizio Caola (Oxford), Claire Gwenlan (Oxford), Chris Hays (Oxford), Gavin Salam (Oxford)

Members: Sneha Malde (Oxford), Martin Völkl (University of Birmingham), Nick Wardle (Imperial College London)

Monday 28 September

09:00 → 10:40 Plenary

09:00 Welcome

Speakers: 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 Overview of CMS results

Speaker: Robert Schoefbeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

09:40 Overview of ATLAS results

10:10 Recent developments in PDFs

Speaker: Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

10:40 → 11:10 Tea and coffee

11:10 → 12:40 Plenary

11:10 PDFs: an experimental perspective

Speaker: Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))

11:40 Recent developments in shower matching

Speaker: James Whitehead (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

12:10 Generators and Tools in the experiments

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Higgs, EW, and BSM

Convener: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

14:00 → 15:40 Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics

14:00 → 15:40 PDFs and DIS

15:40 → 16:00 Tea and coffee

16:00 → 17:40 Heavy Quarks

16:00 → 17:40 High-scale QCD

16:00 → 17:40 New techniques, tools and generators

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday 29 September

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary

09:00 QCD measurements at high scales

Speaker: Matt LeBlanc (Brown University (US))

09:30 Recent developments in QCD predictions for collider physics

Speaker: Chiara Signorile-Signorile (CERN)

10:00 EEC, Track functions and related topics

Speaker: Wouter Waalewijn (University of Amsterdam)

10:30 → 11:00 Tea and coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary

11:00 Recent lattice developments and results

Speakers: Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich), Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich)

11:30 Panel discussion on alpha_s

Speakers: Alberto Ramos Martinez (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES)), David d'Enterria (CERN), Giulia Zanderighi (Max Planck Institut für Physik)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Heavy Quarks

14:00 → 15:40 Higgs, EW, and BSM

Convener: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

14:00 → 15:40 PDFs and DIS

15:40 → 16:00 Tea and coffee

16:00 → 17:40 High-scale QCD

16:00 → 17:40 Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics

16:00 → 17:40 New techniques, tools and generators

Wednesday 30 September

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary

09:00 QCD measurements at low scales

Speaker: Weijie Jin (University of Zurich (CH))

09:30 Low-scale QCD in simulations

Speaker: Steffen Schumann

10:00 Recent spectroscopy measurements

Speaker: Jibo He (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

10:30 → 11:00 Tea and coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary

11:00 Results on CP Violation and B anomalies

Speaker: Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Heidelberg University (DE))

11:30 Heavy-flavour/Top precision predictions at colliders

Speaker: Simon David Badger (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

12:00 Top measurements at the LHC

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

Thursday 1 October

09:00 → 10:40 Higgs, EW, and BSM

Convener: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

09:00 → 10:40 Joint: New techniques & High-scale QCD

09:00 → 10:40 PDFs and DIS

10:40 → 11:10 Tea and coffee

11:10 → 12:50 Heavy Quarks

11:10 → 12:50 High-scale QCD

11:10 → 12:50 Joint: New techniques & Higgs, EW, and BSM

Convener: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 Higgs, EW, and BSM

Convener: Daniel Winterbottom (Imperial College (GB))

14:00 → 15:40 Joint: Heavy Quarks & Low-scale QCD

14:00 → 15:40 Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes

15:40 → 16:00 Tea and coffee

16:00 → 17:40 Joint: Heavy Quarks & Low-scale QCD

16:00 → 17:40 Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes

16:00 → 17:40 PDFs and DIS

18:30 → 21:00 Conference dinner

Friday 2 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary

09:00 Higgs, Electoweak, and Beyond at the LHC

Speaker: Chris Pollard (University of Warwick (GB))

09:30 Recent developments in Electroweak/Higgs/SMEFT predictions

Speaker: Laura Reina

10:00 AI and collider physics

Speakers: Tilman Plehn, Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)

10:30 → 11:00 Tea and coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary

11:00 Recent developments in heavy-ion physics

Speakers: Dr Guilherme Milhano (LIP-Lisbon & CERN TH), Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano

11:30 Heavy ions and fixed-target measurements at LHCb

Speaker: Michael Winn (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

12:00 Plenary (ALICE)

12:30 Status of the EIC

Speakers: Abhay Deshpande, Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University)