Name: Higgs Hunting 2026
Start: 2026-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: IJCLab Orsay / APC Paris

Higgs Hunting 2026

from Wednesday, September 16, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, September 18, 2026 (7:00 PM)

Monday, September 14, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

9:00 AM Registration (with coffee and croissants)
Registration (with coffee and croissants)
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: 200/0-Cafétéria - Cafeteria 200

9:55 AM Prelude from the organizers
Prelude from the organizers
9:55 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Plenary: Theory overview
Theory overview
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

10:00 AM Advances in Higgs Boson Theory - Matthias Steinhauser (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
10:45 AM Topical talks: Part 1
Part 1
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

10:45 AM Hidden new physics in PDF fits - Ella Cole (Cambridge)

11:00 AM Gauge anomalies on shell and collinear factorization - Edoardo Alviani (IJClab Orsay)

11:15 AM Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross sections in the four-lepton decay channel with the ATLAS detector using partial Run 3 data - Elena Cuppini (MPI Munich)
11:30 AM Plenary: H(125) properties
H(125) properties
11:30 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

11:30 AM H(125) property measurements - ATLAS - Matthew Basso (TRIUMF (CA))

11:50 AM H(125) property measurements - CMS - Tongguang Cheng (Beihang University)

12:10 PM H(125) property measurements - Overview

12:15 PM H(125) property measurements - Discussion of current status and prospects
12:55 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:55 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Bures Cafeteria

2:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Room: 200/0-Cafétéria - Cafeteria 200
2:25 PM Topical talks: Part 2
Part 2
2:25 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

2:25 PM Measurement of the CP structure of the Higgs boson to tau lepton Yukawa coupling at CMS - Lucas Russell (Imperial College, Univ. of London)
2:40 PM Plenary: H(125) self-coupling and pair production
H(125) self-coupling and pair production
2:40 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

2:40 PM H(125) self-coupling and pair production - CMS - Soumya Mukherjee (UC San Diego)

2:55 PM H(125) self-coupling and pair production - ATLAS - Shota Izumiyama (Nagoya University)

3:10 PM H(125) self-coupling and pair production - Overview

3:15 PM H(125) self-coupling and pair production - Discussion
3:45 PM Plenary: Analysis methods
Analysis methods
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

3:45 PM Analysis methods - CMS - Zak Lawrence (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)

4:00 PM Analysis methods - ATLAS - Thomas Strebler (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))

4:15 PM Analysis methods - Overview

4:20 PM Analysis methods - Discussion
4:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM Topical talks: Part 3
Part 3
5:00 PM - 5:42 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

5:00 PM Search for nonresonant triple Higgs boson production in the six b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at CMS - Xinyue Geng (Peking Univ.)

5:15 PM Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbtautau final state using Run 2 + partial Run 3 data recorded by the ATLAS detector - Leonardo Splendori (CPPM Marseille)

5:30 PM Combined Run 2 and Run 3 Measurement of ttH and tH Production in H tautau with ATLAS - Morvan Vincent (IFIC Valencia)
5:45 PM Plenary: ATLAS Joker talk
ATLAS Joker talk
5:45 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
6:10 PM Plenary: Historical talk
Historical talk
6:10 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

6:10 PM TBA - David Gross (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara)
7:00 PM Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Thursday, September 17, 2026

9:30 AM Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Plenary: CMS Joker talk
CMS Joker talk
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

10:00 AM CMS Joker talk (TBA)
10:25 AM Plenary: H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons
H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons
10:25 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

10:25 AM H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - ATLAS - Edson Carquin Lopez (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

10:40 AM H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - CMS - Georgia Karapostoli (National Technical University of Athens)

10:55 AM Status of deviations from the SM in the Higgs sector - Livia Soffi (INFN Rome)

11:30 AM H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - Overview

11:35 AM H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - Discussion
12:15 PM Topical talks: Part 4
Part 4
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

12:15 PM Accidentally light scalars: naturalness and cosmology - Giacomo Ferrante (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

12:30 PM Phenomenology of the light CP odd Higgs - Claire Chevallier (IJCLab)

12:42 PM Search for additional Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons with CMS - Leyan Li (Peking Univ.)
1:00 PM Lunch buffet
Lunch buffet
1:00 PM - 2:25 PM
2:25 PM Plenary: Effective field theories
Effective field theories
2:25 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

2:25 PM Effective field theories - Theory overview - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus)

2:45 PM Effective field theories - CMS - Andrew Gilbert (LLR, Ecole Polytech., IN2P3-CNRS)

3:00 PM Effective field theories - ATLAS - Michiel Jan Veen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

3:15 PM Effective field theories - Overview

3:20 PM Effective field theories - Discussion
3:50 PM Topical talks: Part 5
Part 5
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

3:50 PM Two-loop RGE effects in EFT fits - Alejo Rossia (Padova)

4:05 PM SMEFT fits - Marion Thomas (MPI Munich)
4:20 PM Plenary: Vision talk
Vision talk
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

4:20 PM After the Higgs: Looking for the Universe Behind the Particle - Veronica Sanz (Universitat de Valencia)
5:00 PM Dinner information
Dinner information
5:00 PM - 5:01 PM

5:01 PM Travel to Excursion and dinner at Musée d'Orsay
Travel to Excursion and dinner at Musée d'Orsay
5:01 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Visit of Musée d'Orsay and dinner
Visit of Musée d'Orsay and dinner
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, September 18, 2026

9:30 AM Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Topical talks: Part 6
Part 6
10:00 AM - 10:47 AM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

10:05 AM Search for the Rare Higgs Boson Decay H → Zγ with Run 2 and Early Run 3 CMS Data - Jiehan He (Peking Univ.)

10:20 AM Advances in Hadronic Tau Reconstruction and Identification in ATLAS Using Graph Neural Networks - Pradhan Sudev (University of Sheffield)

10:35 AM ZH cross section, Higgs Mass and Branching Ratio measurements in ZH events at FCC-ee, at 240 and 365 GeV - Tom Fournier (APC Paris)
10:45 AM Plenary: Prospects for Higgs boson physics at future circular colliders
Prospects for Higgs boson physics at future circular colliders
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

10:45 AM Theory roadmap towards FCC - Laura Reina (Florida State University (US))

11:05 AM Experimental roadmap towards FCC - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

11:25 AM Status of CEPC - Yifang Wang (IHEP)

11:45 AM Discussion
12:45 PM Lunch buffet
Lunch buffet
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Plenary: Higgs boson and cosmology
Higgs boson and cosmology
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

2:00 PM The Higgs boson and cosmology - Shinya Kanemura (Osaka University)
2:30 PM Plenary: Concluding talks
Concluding talks
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

2:30 PM Theory concluding talk - Pier Monni (CERN)

3:15 PM Experimental concluding talk - Marco DELMASTRO (CNRS/IN2P3 LAPP)
4:00 PM Farewell coffee
Farewell coffee
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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