Zurich Particle Physics PhD Seminar 2026

23 Mar 2026, 09:00 → 24 Mar 2026, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

001 (WHGA)

Monday 23 March

1 Welcome

Session 1

2 2-Loop Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Pair Production via Gluon Fusion

Speaker: Jamie Chang

3 Triple differential cross section of Drell-Yan production (tentative)

Speaker: Fabian Stäger

4 An automated parton level generator based on LTD

Speaker: Nicolo Giraudo

5 Probing lepton flavor universality with the R(Ds) ratios at CMS

Speaker: Patricia Wagner

10:30 Coffee Break

Session 2

6 Construction and Commissioning of the Mu3e Vertex Detector

Speaker: Thomas Senger (University of Zürich)

7 Pixel detectors for muSR

Speaker: Pascal Isenring (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

8 Fast imaging of neutrinos in monolithic scintillator

Speaker: Till Dieminger

9 An efficient spin transport system for ultra-cold neutrons in the n2EDM experiment

Speaker: Gian Caratsch (ETH Zürich)

12:20 Lunch Break

Session 3

10 Pulse Shape Discrimination modelling for LEGEND-200 HPGe detectors

Speaker: Giovanna Saleh

11 Temporal evolution of the broadband emission from Blazars: from observations to modelling

Speaker: Jayant Abhir

12 ALPs and iDM searches in NA64 (tentative)

Speaker: Martina Mongillo

13 First Observation of the Full the $^{125}\text{Xe}$ Positron Emission Decay

Speaker: Miguel Hernandez

14 Edge Transient-Current Technique Investigation of Single-crystalline CVD Diamond

Speaker: Chen Xie

15:40 Coffee Break

Session 4

15 Search for Higgs boson produced via gluon-fusion and decaying to b quarks using b-parking data with the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Giovanni Celotto

16 Short flow-time expansion of the LEFT

Speakers: Oscar Lara Crosas, Òscar Lara Crosas (Universität Zürich)

17 Triboson production at the LHC

Speaker: Paolo Garbarino

18 HH4b @ CMS

Speaker: Thierry Harte

19 Social Event

Tuesday 24 March

Session 5

20 Dark matter searches with Qrocodile

Speaker: Noah Brugger

21 Climbing the peak of precision physics with McMule

Speaker: Sophie Kollatzsch

22 Leveraging Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms and Transformers for background determination in particle physics (tentative)

Speaker: Guillermo Hijano Mendizabal

23 TBD

Speaker: David Höhl

24 Coffea Break

Session 6

25 Higgs to diphoton: Fiducial cross-sections and EFT interpretation

Speaker: Nico Härringer

26 Measurement of tau(g-2) via photon+photon→ tau+tau in PbPb UPC at CMS

Speaker: Eslam Shokr

27 Flavour Deconstruction without fundamental scalars

Speaker: Sebastiano Covone

28 The search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbττ final state

Speaker: Filip Bilandzija

12:00 Lunch Break

29 Tours through PSI Experimental Facilities

Session 7

30 Ultrafast Anomaly Detection at CMS

Speaker: Patrick Odagiu

31 TBD

Speaker: Anson Kwok

32 Measurement of the branching fraction ratio B0 →ω→π+π−π0 Kπ/B0 →J/ψ→π+π−π0 Kπ

Speaker: Pasquale Andreola

33 5 Particle 2 Loop Amplitudes with Gluons, Photons and Quarks

Speaker: Viktor Kuschke

15:30 Coffee Break

Session 8

34 Parity-violating asymmetries at low energies

Speaker: David Radic (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

35 TBD

Speaker: Fanqiang Meng

36 Calibration of LEGEND-200 and BSM searches

Speaker: Aravind Remesan Sreekala

37 Real-time Data Acquisition For Triggerless Experiments

Speaker: Yifeng Wang