Name: Particle Physics on the Plains 2026
Start: 2026-11-14T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-11-15T17:00:00-06:00
Location: University of Kansas

Particle Physics on the Plains 2026

from Saturday, 14 November 2026 (08:00) to Sunday, 15 November 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 9 November 2026
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Thursday, 12 November 2026
Friday, 13 November 2026
Saturday, 14 November 2026

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 08:50
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
08:50 Logistics for PPP - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)
Logistics for PPP
- Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)
08:50 - 09:00
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
09:00 Dark Matter
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
Contributions

09:00 Producing the GeV Galactic Center Excess via Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Scattering - Deepak Sathyan

09:18 A Phase-Transition Portal to Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation - Kairui Zhang (University of Oklahoma-Norman)

09:36 Supernova Bounds on Neutrinophilic Dark Matter - Christopher Cappiello

09:54 Threading a Narrow Neutrino Needle through LZ - Dibya S. Chattopadhyay (Oklahoma State University)

10:12 Low-Energy Solar Neutrinos at XENONnT: Atomic Effects, Tensions, and New Physics - Aparajitha Karthikeyan (University of Iowa)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 2055 Malott
11:00 Collider and Higgs
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
Contributions

11:00 Welcome - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

11:10 TBD - Liantao Wang Liantao Wang

11:35 Electroweak Restoration: SMEFT and HEFT - Ishmam Mahbub (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

11:53 Higgs-Riched Scenarios at the LHC - Peiran Li (University of Minnesota)

12:11 Indirect Searches for Z' Bosons at a Muon Collider - Vivan Bhatt (University of Kansas)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 3005 Malott
14:00 Neutrinos
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
Contributions

14:00 Particle Transport for Neutrino Telescopes - Stephan Meighen-Berger (University of Iowa)

14:18 Confronting Cosmic-Ray-Boosted Relic Neutrinos with the Cosmogenic Neutrino Flux - Luke Kupari (University of Iowa)

14:36 Probing Scalar-Induced First-Order Phase Transitions with the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background - Sudipta Das (University of Iowa)

14:54 Exploring Quantumness at Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments - Murshed Alam (Oklahoma State University)

15:12 SNAPPY, the First Successful Satellite Mission from Kansas and First Results from Space - Brian Doty
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 2055 Malott
16:00 Early Universe
16:00 - 17:55
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
Contributions

16:00 TBD - Carlos E.M. Wagner

16:25 Cosmological Implications of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes - TaeHun Kim (KIAS)

16:43 Constraints on Supermassive Primordial Black Holes from Early Reionization - Badal Bhalla (University of Utah)

17:01 Electroweak Supercooling and Gravitational-Wave Enhancement with a Weakly Coupled Light Scalar - Ankur Verma (University of South Dakota)

17:19 Holographic phase transition in a soft-wall model - Arpon Paul (University of Minnesota)

17:37 Echoes of global cosmic strings - Antonios Kyriazis (University of Iowa)
Sunday, 15 November 2026

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
09:00 Collider, Amplitudes, Quantum Information
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 2049 Malott
Contributions

09:00 The Neutrino Flux and its Secondaries at The Muon Collider - Ju-Yeol Choi (University of Iowa)

09:15 Neutrino Interactions in FCC-ee Detector Concepts During the Tera-Z Run - Sean Chisholm (University of Iowa)

09:30 Di-Higgs rate and trilinear coupling benchmarks of the real singlet scalar extension - Jacob Scott

09:45 Probing the Higgs Self-Coupling through Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs-Pair Production. - Tunde Kushimo (Wichita State University)

10:00 Saturation effects in diffractive deep inelastic scattering - Jarno Vierros (The University of Kansas (US))

10:15 Spurious-Pole-Free Amplitude Reconstruction without Explicit Pole Solutions - Zong-En Chen (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

10:30 Scattering entanglement and spontaneous symmetry breaking. - Rahul Muraleedharan (University of Oklahoma)

10:45 Non-stabilizerness and Entanglement as Quantum Computational Resource - Gaurab Sedhain (University of Kansas)
Neutrinos, scalars, phase transitions
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
Contributions

09:00 Scalar-Mediated Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches at Short-Baseline Neutrino Detectors - Yatharth Sirohi (University of Iowa)

09:15 Exploring Neutrino Interactions with Dark Matter - Soumya Bonthu

09:30 A New Probe of Strongly-Interacting Dark Sector using Neutrino Telescopes - Jose Padron (Washington University in Stl)

09:45 Is the Earth an ALP Factory? - Anirudh Chandra Shekar (Texas A&M University)

10:00 Measurement of Decays from Cobalt-57 and Arsenic-71 for Applications in Neutrino Detection - Brooks Hartsock (Wichita State University)

10:15 Cosmic Colliders Revisited: Heavy Particle Production from Bubble Collisions and Its Implications - Pratyay Pal (Oklahoma State University)

10:30 Leptophilic Multi-Higgs Doublet Model and Baryogenesis at Muon Colliders: Part 1 - Brady Child (The University of Kansas)

10:45 Leptophilic Multi-Higgs Doublet Model and Baryogenesis at Muon Colliders: Part 2 - Isabella Estes (University of Kansas)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: 2055 Malott
11:30 Astroparticle & Quantum Sensing
11:30 - 13:20
Room: 2048 Malott Hall
Contributions

11:30 Solar Constraints on HNL Mixing with Tau Neutrinos - Samiur R. Mir (Oklahoma State University)

11:48 E pur si rotat: Axion magnetic resonance in the coherent magnetic field of the Milky Way - Sai Charan Chandrasekar (PhD Student at Oklahoma State University)

12:06 A Stepping Stone Solution to the QCD Axion Isocurvature Problem - Kunfeng Lyu

12:24 Ultrashort Gamma-Ray Burst Search in VERITAS Data - Ngan Nguyen (University Of Oklahoma)

12:42 Quantum Networks for Dark Matter - Miguel Angel Soto Alcaraz

13:00 Entanglement Protocol for Scalar-Mediated Forces - Writasree Maitra (Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis)
13:20 Closing - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)
Closing
- Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)
13:20 - 13:30
Room: 2048 Malott Hall