QCD@LHC 2026

Europe/London
University of Oxford

University of Oxford

Description

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)

Registration
Late registration
Participants
    • Plenary
      • 1
        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)
      • 2
        Overview of CMS results
        Speaker: Robert Schoefbeck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
      • 3
        Overview of ATLAS results
      • 4
        Recent developments in PDFs
        Speaker: Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
    • 10:40
      Tea and coffee
    • Plenary
      • 5
        PDFs: an experimental perspective
        Speaker: Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))
      • 6
        Recent developments in shower matching
        Speaker: James Whitehead (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
      • 7
        Generators and Tools in the experiments
        Speaker: Dr Francesco Giuli (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))
    • 12:40
      Lunch
    • Higgs, EW, and BSM Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • PDFs and DIS Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • 15:40
      Tea and coffee
    • Heavy Quarks Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • High-scale QCD Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • New techniques, tools and generators Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • 18:00
      Reception
    • Plenary
      • 8
        QCD measurements at high scales
        Speaker: Matt LeBlanc (Brown University (US))
      • 9
        Recent developments in QCD predictions for collider physics
        Speaker: Chiara Signorile-Signorile (CERN)
      • 10
        EEC, Track functions and related topics
        Speaker: Wouter Waalewijn (University of Amsterdam)
    • 10:30
      Tea and coffee
    • Plenary
      • 11
        Recent lattice developments and results
        Speakers: Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich), Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich)
      • 12
        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
      Lunch
    • Heavy Quarks Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • Higgs, EW, and BSM Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • PDFs and DIS Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • 15:40
      Tea and coffee
    • High-scale QCD Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • Low-scale QCD, including heavy-ion physics Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • New techniques, tools and generators Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • Plenary
      • 13
        QCD measurements at low scales
        Speaker: Weijie Jin (University of Zurich (CH))
      • 14
        Low-scale QCD in simulations
        Speaker: Steffen Schumann
      • 15
        Recent spectroscopy measurements
        Speaker: Jibo He (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))
    • 10:30
      Tea and coffee
    • Plenary
      • 16
        Results on CP Violation and B anomalies
        Speaker: Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Heidelberg University (DE))
      • 17
        Heavy-flavour/Top precision predictions at colliders
        Speaker: Simon David Badger (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
      • 18
        Top measurements at the LHC
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Higgs, EW, and BSM Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • Joint: New techniques & High-scale QCD Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • PDFs and DIS Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • 10:40
      Tea and coffee
    • Heavy Quarks Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • High-scale QCD Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • Joint: New techniques & Higgs, EW, and BSM Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • 12:50
      Lunch
    • Higgs, EW, and BSM Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • Joint: Heavy Quarks & Low-scale QCD Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • 15:40
      Tea and coffee
    • Joint: Heavy Quarks & Low-scale QCD Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 8

      St Anne's College

    • Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

      Seminar Room 7

      St Anne's College

    • PDFs and DIS Tsuzuki Room (St Anne's College)

      Tsuzuki Room

      St Anne's College

    • 18:30
      Conference dinner
    • Plenary
      • 19
        Higgs, Electoweak, and Beyond at the LHC
        Speaker: Chris Pollard (University of Warwick (GB))
      • 20
        Recent developments in Electroweak/Higgs/SMEFT predictions
        Speaker: Laura Reina
      • 21
        AI and collider physics
        Speakers: Tilman Plehn, Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)
    • 10:30
      Tea and coffee
    • Plenary
      • 22
        Recent developments in heavy-ion physics
        Speakers: Dr Guilherme Milhano (LIP-Lisbon & CERN TH), Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano
      • 23
        Heavy ions and fixed-target measurements at LHCb
        Speaker: Michael Winn (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))
      • 24
        Plenary (ALICE)
      • 25
        Status of the EIC
        Speakers: Abhay Deshpande, Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University)