Particle Physics on the Plains​ 2026

Session

Collider and Higgs

14 Nov 2026, 11:00

2048 Malott Hall (University of Kansas)

44. Welcome

Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

14/11/2026, 11:00

Welcome to PPP

38. TBD

Liantao Wang, Liantao Wang

14/11/2026, 11:10

TBD

27. Electroweak Restoration: SMEFT and HEFT

Ishmam Mahbub (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

14/11/2026, 11:35

Colliders continue to push our understanding of electroweak (EW) interactions to ever higher energies. At high energies, many observables in the broken EW theory are expected to approach the unbroken theory. This is the electroweak restoration regime, where longitudinal gauge boson production corresponds to Goldstone boson production. As such, in this paper we investigate electroweak...

11. Higgs-Riched Scenarios at the LHC

Peiran Li (University of Minnesota)

14/11/2026, 11:53

Higgs final states are prime targets in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, in the conventional picture, di-Higgs channel does not have outstanding power, because $SU(2)$ symmetry and the Goldstone Equivalence Theorem suggest equal rates for heavy-resonance decays into $hh$, $ZZ$, and $WW$ channel. In this talk, I will introduce the “Busy Higgs” mechanism, in which...

9. Indirect Searches for Z' Bosons at a Muon Collider

Vivan Bhatt (University of Kansas)

14/11/2026, 12:11

We probe a large set of models with extra neutral gauge bosons (Z') and corresponding extended gauge sectors at the future multi-TeV muon collider. Pair production cross-sections and asymmetries for hadronic and leptonic final states allow indirect searches for Z' bosons with masses well beyond the collision energy in the neutral-current process. Projections for detector performance show that...