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

de mercredi 16 septembre 2026 (09:00) à vendredi 18 septembre 2026 (19:00)

lundi 14 septembre 2026
mardi 15 septembre 2026
mercredi 16 septembre 2026

09:00 Registration (with coffee and croissants)
Registration (with coffee and croissants)
09:00 - 09:55
Room: 200/0-Cafétéria - Cafeteria 200

09:55 Prelude from the organizers
Prelude from the organizers
09:55 - 10:00
10:00 Plenary: Theory overview
Theory overview
10:00 - 10:45
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

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

10:45 Hidden new physics in PDF fits - Eleanor Cole

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

11:15 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 (Max Planck Society (MPP))
11:30 Plenary: H(125) properties
H(125) properties
11:30 - 12:55
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

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

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

12:10 H(125) property measurements - Overview - Matthias Schröder (University of Hamburg)

12:15 H(125) property measurements - Discussion of current status and prospects
12:55 Lunch
Lunch
12:55 - 14:00
Room: Bures Cafeteria

14:00 Coffee
Coffee
14:00 - 14:15
Room: 200/0-Cafétéria - Cafeteria 200
14:15 Topical talks: Part 2
Part 2
14:15 - 14:30
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

14:15 Measurement of the CP structure of the Higgs boson to tau lepton Yukawa coupling at CMS - Lucas Russell (Imperial College, Univ. of London)
14:30 Plenary: H(125) self-coupling and pair production
H(125) self-coupling and pair production
14:30 - 15:35
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

14:30 H(125) self-coupling and pair production - CMS - SOUMYA Mukherjee (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

14:45 H(125) self-coupling and pair production - ATLAS - Shota Izumiyama (Nagoya University)

15:00 H(125) self-coupling and pair production - Overview - Nicolas CHANON (IP2I Lyon)

15:05 H(125) self-coupling and pair production - Discussion
15:35 Plenary: Analysis methods
Analysis methods
15:35 - 16:30
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

15:35 Analysis methods - CMS - Zak Lawrence (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)

15:50 Analysis methods - ATLAS - Thomas Strebler (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR))

16:05 Analysis methods - Overview - Nicolas CHANON (IP2I Lyon)

16:10 Analysis methods - Discussion
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Topical talks: Part 3
Part 3
17:00 - 17:42
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

17:00 Search for nonresonant triple Higgs boson production in the six b quark final state in proton-proton collisions at CMS - Xinyue Geng (Peking University)

17:15 Advances in Hadronic Tau Reconstruction and Identification in ATLAS Using Graph Neural Networks - Pradhan Sudev (University of Sheffield)

17:30 Combined Run 2 and Run 3 Measurement of ttH and tH Production in H tautau with ATLAS - Morvan Vincent (IFIC (CSIC-UV) Valencia)
17:45 Plenary: ATLAS Joker talk
ATLAS Joker talk
17:45 - 18:10
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

17:45 Improved analysis of non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the bb̄ τ⁺τ⁻ final state - Salah-Eddine Dahbi (Academia Sinica (TW))
18:10 Plenary: Historical talk
Historical talk
18:10 - 19:00
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
Contributions

18:10 A Half Century of the Standard Theory - David Gross (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara)
19:00 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
19:00 - 20:30
Room: 200/0-Auditorium - Auditorium P. Lehmann
jeudi 17 septembre 2026

09:30 Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Plenary: CMS Joker talk
CMS Joker talk
10:00 - 10:25
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

10:00 Searching for HH in the bbττ final state at CMS - Davide Zuolo (University of Colorado - Boulder)
10:25 Plenary: H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons
H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons
10:25 - 12:15
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

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

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

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

11:30 H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - Overview - Sven Heinemeyer (IFT/IFCA (CSIC))

11:35 H(125) BSM aspects and searches for new scalar bosons - Discussion
12:15 Topical talks: Part 4
Part 4
12:15 - 13:00
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

12:15 Accidentally light scalars: naturalness and cosmology - Giacomo Ferrante (ULB)

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

12:42 Search for additional Higgs bosons decaying to a pair of tau leptons with CMS - Leyan Li (Peking Univ.)
13:00 Lunch buffet
Lunch buffet
13:00 - 14:25
14:25 Plenary: Effective field theories
Effective field theories
14:25 - 15:50
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

14:25 Effective field theories - Theory overview - Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus) Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)

14:45 Effective field theories - CMS - Andrew Gilbert (LLR / CNRS / École Polytechnique)

15:00 Effective field theories - ATLAS - Michiel Jan Veen

15:15 Effective field theories - Overview - Pierre Savard (University of Toronto and TRIUMF)

15:20 Effective field theories - Discussion
15:50 Topical talks: Part 5
Part 5
15:50 - 16:20
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

15:50 SMEFT fits - Marion Thomas (Max Planck Institut für Physik)

16:05 Two-loop RGE effects in EFT fits - Alejo Nahuel Rossia (Padova)
16:20 Plenary: Vision talk
Vision talk
16:20 - 17:00
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

16:20 After the Higgs: Looking for the Universe Behind the Particle - Veronica Sanz Gonzalez (Universitat de Valencia)
17:00 Dinner information
Dinner information
17:00 - 17:01

17:01 Travel to Excursion and dinner at Musée d'Orsay
Travel to Excursion and dinner at Musée d'Orsay
17:01 - 18:00

18:00 Visit of Musée d'Orsay and dinner
Visit of Musée d'Orsay and dinner
18:00 - 21:00
vendredi 18 septembre 2026

09:30 Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Topical talks: Part 6
Part 6
10:00 - 10:45
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

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

10:19 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)

10:33 ZH cross section, Higgs Mass and Branching Ratio measurements in ZH events at FCC-ee, at 240 and 365 GeV - Tom FOURNIER (APC, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris Cité (FR))
10:45 Plenary: Prospects for Higgs boson physics at future circular colliders
Prospects for Higgs boson physics at future circular colliders
10:45 - 12:45
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

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

11:05 Experimental roadmap to the FCC - Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford)

11:25 CEPC and the Future Plan of HEP in China - Yifang Wang (IHEP)

11:45 Overview and discussion - Daniela Bortoletto
12:45 Lunch buffet
Lunch buffet
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 Plenary: Higgs boson and cosmology
Higgs boson and cosmology
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

14:00 The Higgs boson and cosmology - Shinya Kanemura (Osaka University)
14:30 Plenary: Concluding talks
Concluding talks
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Amphithéâtre Buffon
Contributions

14:30 Theory concluding talk - Pier Monni (CERN)

15:15 Experimental concluding talk - Marco DELMASTRO (CNRS/IN2P3 LAPP)
16:00 Farewell coffee
Farewell coffee
16:00 - 17:00