Zurich Particle Physics PhD Seminar 2026

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

001 (WHGA)

Monday 23 March

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

09:10 → 10:30 Session 1

09:10 2-Loop Electroweak Corrections to Higgs Pair Production via Gluon Fusion

Speaker: Jamie Chang

09:30 Triple differential cross section of Drell-Yan production (tentative)

Speaker: Fabian Stäger

09:50 ttHbb @ CMS

Speaker: Giorgia Bonomelli

10:10 An automated parton level generator based on LTD

Speaker: Nicolo Giraudo

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:20 Session 2

11:00 Construction and Commissioning of the Mu3e Vertex Detector

Speaker: Thomas Senger (University of Zürich)

11:20 Pixel detectors for muSR

Speaker: Pascal Isenring (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:40 Fast imaging of neutrinos in monolithic scintillator (tentative)

Speaker: Till Dieminger

12:00 An efficient spin transport system for ultra-cold neutrons in the n2EDM experiment

Speaker: Gian Caratsch (ETH Zürich)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:40 Session 3

14:00 Pulse Shape Discrimination modelling for LEGEND-200 HPGe detectors

Speaker: Giovanna Saleh

14:20 Temporal evolution of the broadband emission from Blazars: from observations to modelling

Speaker: Jayant Abhir

14:40 ALPs and iDM searches in NA64 (tentative)

Speaker: Martina Mongillo

15:00 First Observation of the Full the $^{125}\text{Xe}$ Positron Emission Decay

Speaker: Miguel Hernandez

15:20 Probing lepton flavor universality with the R(Ds) ratios at CMS

Speaker: Patricia Wagner

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 → 17:30 Session 4

16:10 Search for Higgs boson produced via gluon-fusion and decaying to b quarks using b-parking data with the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Giovanni Celotto

16:30 Short flow-time expansion of the LEFT

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

16:50 Triboson production at the LHC

Speaker: Paolo Garbarino

17:10 HH4b @ CMS

Speaker: Thierry Harte

18:00 → 20:00 Social Event

Tuesday 24 March

09:00 → 10:20 Session 5

09:00 Dark matter searches with Qrocodile

Speaker: Noah Brugger

09:20 Climbing the peak of precision physics with McMule

Speaker: Sophie Kollatzsch

09:40 Leveraging Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Algorithms and Transformers for background determination in particle physics (tentative)

Speaker: Guillermo Hijano Mendizabal

10:00 TBD

Speaker: David Höhl

10:20 → 10:40 Coffea Break

10:40 → 12:00 Session 6

10:40 Higgs to diphoton: Fiducial cross-sections and EFT interpretation

Speaker: Nico Härringer

11:00 Measurement of tau(g-2) via photon+photon→ tau+tau in PbPb UPC at CMS

Speaker: Eslam Shokr

11:20 Flavour Deconstruction without fundamental scalars

Speaker: Sebastiano Covone

11:40 Di-Higgs production (tentative)

Speaker: Filip Bilandzija

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:00 Tours through PSI Experimental Facilities

14:10 → 15:30 Session 7

14:10 Ultrafast Anomaly Detection at CMS

Speaker: Patrick Odagiu

14:30 TBD

Speaker: Anson Kwok

14:50 Measurement of the branching fraction ratio B0 →ω→π+π−π0 Kπ/B0 →J/ψ→π+π−π0 Kπ

Speaker: Pasquale Andreola

15:10 5 Particle 2 Loop Amplitudes with Gluons, Photons and Quarks

Speaker: Viktor Kuschke

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Session 8

16:00 Parity-violating asymmetries at low energies

Speaker: David Radic (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:20 TBD

Speaker: Fanqiang Meng

16:40 Calibration of LEGEND-200 and BSM searches

Speaker: Aravind Remesan Sreekala