Particle Physics on the Plains​ 2026

Session

Collider, Amplitudes, Quantum Information

15 Nov 2026, 09:00

2049 Malott (University of Kansas)

3. The Neutrino Flux and its Secondaries at The Muon Collider

Ju-Yeol Choi (University of Iowa)

15/11/2026, 09:00

Muon colliders offer a new path towards studying particle physics beyond the standard model at energy and intensity levels beyond our current limits. The low lifetime of muons makes them a natural choice for an intense neutrino beam study. We built MINT, a Monte Carlo simulation to model neutrino fluxes accounting for muon beam dynamics in the accelerators and the interaction region of the...

33. Neutrino Interactions in FCC-ee Detector Concepts During the Tera-Z Run

Sean Chisholm (University of Iowa)

15/11/2026, 09:15

The Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee), a proposed electron-positron collider at CERN, is designed for precision studies of the electroweak sector, Higgs boson, and flavor physics due to its high luminosity. Its Tera-Z run will produce roughly $6 \times 10^{12}$ Z bosons on-shell, making it a strong and reliable neutrino source with well-defined energies. Although they are usually treated as...

30. Di-Higgs rate and trilinear coupling benchmarks of the real singlet scalar extension

Jacob Scott

15/11/2026, 09:30

Although the simplest extension to the Standard Model (SM), the real singlet scalar offers potential avenues for questions regarding electroweak (EW) baryogenesis due to its effects on the Higgs potential. Additionally, its relative simplicity makes it an advantageous model to analyze. As such, it is a worthwhile extension to pursue. For current LHC results as well as for the HL-LHC, and the...

10. Probing the Higgs Self-Coupling through Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs-Pair Production.

Tunde Kushimo (Wichita State University)

15/11/2026, 09:45

The shape of the Higgs potential and the strength of the Higgs boson’s self-interaction remain central open questions following the discovery of the Higgs boson. Higgs-pair production offers sensitivity to the trilinear Higgs self-coupling, but in vector-boson fusion (VBF), the same final state is also sensitive to interactions between Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons and potentially to...

43. Saturation effects in diffractive deep inelastic scattering

Jarno Vierros (The University of Kansas (US))

15/11/2026, 10:00

We study the production of c and b quarks in photon-induced processes as a probe of gluon saturation, with a focus on the high-energy region accessible in ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC. We compare predictions for inclusive and diffractive heavy quark production with and without saturation effects by using the nonlinear Balitsky-Kovchegov and the linear Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov...

14. Spurious-Pole-Free Amplitude Reconstruction without Explicit Pole Solutions

Mr Zong-En Chen (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

15/11/2026, 10:15

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On-shell recursion determines constructible amplitudes from lower-point factorization data, but explicit evaluation at deformation poles can obscure their local structure. We develop an ordered reconstruction that avoids explicit pole solutions and keeps every retained contribution free of spurious poles. Each contribution supplies the current factorization deficit while remaining regular on...

35. Scattering entanglement and spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Rahul Muraleedharan (University of Oklahoma)

15/11/2026, 10:30

Quantum entanglement offers a new perspective on the structure of particle scatterings and its connection to fundamental symmetries. In this talk, I will explore how spontaneous symmetry breaking affect the entanglement properties of scattering amplitudes. I will show how symmetry breaking changes the correlations between different degrees of freedom using simple models. Viewing the scattering...

31. Non-stabilizerness and Entanglement as Quantum Computational Resource

Gaurab Sedhain (University of Kansas)

15/11/2026, 10:45

We introduce the notion of non-stabilizerness, which, in addition to entanglement, serves as a resource that drives quantum computational advantage. We discuss the application of measures associated with non-stabilizerness to discriminate between the performance of various quantum optimization algorithms. This serves as a tractable, toy problem with lessons that could possibly be utilized for...