Standard Model at the LHC 2025

7 Apr 2025, 08:45 → 10 Apr 2025, 23:30 Europe/London

Appleby W103 (Durham)

Jeppe Andersen (IPPP), Matteo Marcoli (University of Durham)

Registration closes March 27.

The SM@LHC Workshop brings together theorists and experimenters to discuss the latest developments and future prospects in Standard Model phenomenology at the LHC, with emphasis on the most interesting and topical aspects at the interface between theory and experiment. The workshop has sessions devoted to Electroweak, QCD, Higgs, Top, Heavy Flavour and EFT.

The 2025 edition will take place at the IPPP in Durham (UK).

Previous workshops of the SM@LHC series took place in Rome (SM@LHC 2024), FNAL (SM@LHC 2023), CERN (SM@LHC 2022), Online (SM@LHC 2021), Zurich (SM@LHC 2019), Berlin (SM@LHC 2018), Amsterdam (SM@LHC 2017), Pittsburgh (SM@LHC 2016), Florence (SM@LHC 2015), Madrid (SM@LHC 2014), Freiburg (SM@LHC 2013), Copenhagen (SM@LHC 2012), Durham (SM@LHC 2011) and London (SM@LHC 2009).

Apart from the topical invited talks the conference will host a poster session during the welcome reception Monday evening. Please register your interest in such contributions at the link to submit abstracts.

Be aware of phishing emails about accommodation in Durham following your registration, especially if you chose to have your name in the participant list visible to anyone. To avoid further problems the list of participants is no longer publically accessible.

International Organizing Committee: 

Juan Alcaraz Maestre, Jeppe R. Andersen, William Barter, Mario Campanelli, Tancredi Carli, Vitaliano Ciulli, Ayres Freitas, Stefan Hoeche, Aleandro Nisati, Giulia Zanderighi

Confirmed conveners: 

• QCD: Javier Llorente Merino (CIEMAT Madrid, CMS), Stefan Kluth (MPI, ATLAS), Ronan McNulty (UCD, LHCb), Thomas Cridge (Univ. of Antwerpen, Theory)
• Electroweak: Kenneth David Long (MIT, CMS), Mathieu Pellen (Univ. Freiburg, Theory), Miguel Ramos Pernas (Warwick Univ., LHCb), Hannes Mildner (Univ. of Mainz, ATLAS)
• Flavour: Francesco Dettori (Univ. Cagliari, LHCb), Chiara Rovelli (Roma I, CMS), Noam Hod (Weizmann, ATLAS), Alexander Lenz (Siegen, Theory)
• Top: Clara Nellist (NIKHEF, ATLAS), Andre Hoang (Univ. of Vienna, Theory), Andreas Werner Jung (Purdue, CMS)
• EFT: Robert Schöfbeck (HEPHY, CMS), Karolos Potamianos (Univ. of Warwick, ATLAS), Céline Degrande (UC Louvain, Theory)
• Higgs Physics: Stephen Jones (IPPP, Theory), Matthias Schröder (Univ. Hamburg, CMS), Alexander Held (U. of Wisconsin, ATLAS)

 

Local Organizing Committee: 

Jeppe R. Andersen, Matteo Marcoli

Conference Dinner:

The conference dinner will be held in the Great Hall of Durham Castle next to Durham Cathedral Wednesday April 9th.

                                       

Monday 7 April

08:45 Registration

Higgs physics

Conveners: Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Matthias Schröder (Universität Hamburg), Stephen Jones (IPPP, Durham)

1 Precise predictions for ttH production at the LHC

Speaker: Chiara Savoini (TUM)

2 Advances in ttH/tH (including ttH CP)

Speaker: Giantonio Pezzullo

3 Current Multi Higgs Measurements and Projections for the European Strategy Update

4 Higgs Boson Production and Decay in Weak Boson Fusion

ESR

5 Measurements of Higgs boson associate production with a leptonically decaying vector boson in the H to bb/cc decay channel within the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Gabriele D'Anniballe (Pisa)

11:00 Coffee

Flavour

Conveners: Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham), Chiara Rovelli (INFN Roma), Francesco Dettori, Noam Tal Hod (Weizmann Institute of Science)

6 Spectroscopy (Theory)

7 Spectroscopy (experiment)

8 Rare decays (theory)

Speaker: Aoife Bharucha

9 Rare decays (experiment)

12:50 Lunch

EFT

Conveners: Celine Degrande (IPPP), Karolos Potamianos (University of Warwick (GB)), Robert Schoefbeck

10 Recent experimental EFT result in the Higgs sector

11 Recent results on dimension-eight in EFT

Speaker: Guilherme Guedes

12 Recent vector boson results

15:15 Coffee

Electroweak

Conveners: Hannes Mildner (University of Sheffield (GB)), Kenneth Long (MIT), Mathieu Pellen (University of Freiburg), Miguel Ramos Pernas (University of Warwick)

13 diboson at NNLO QCD+PS

Speakers: Alessandro Gavardi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Alessandro Gavardi (alessandro.gavardi@desy.de)

14 Recent measurements of diboson production (including VBS) from ATLAS and CMS

ESR

15 VBS measurement in semileptonic final states with ATLAS Run-2 data

Speaker: Mathieu Markovitch (UCLab)

17:00 Welcome and Poster Session

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday 8 April

EFT

Conveners: Celine Degrande (IPPP), Karolos Potamianos (University of Warwick (GB)), Robert Schoefbeck

16 Recent results for fermion

17 Electroweak corrections in the SMEFT

Speaker: Hesham El Faham (UCLouvain and VUB)

18 Experimental EFT combination

Speaker: Eleonora rossi

10:15 Coffee

QCD

Convener: Thomas Cridge (DESY)

19 "Overview of alpha_s from EECs / TEECs in e+e- and pp collisions"

20 "Experimental results on Energy-Energy Correlators at the LHC"

21 "Precise Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant from Dijet Cross Sections up to the Multi-TeV Range"

We determine the value of the strong coupling α_s and study its running over a wide range of scales as probed by the dijet production process at hadron colliders. The analysis is performed using the complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) predictions in perturbative QCD and is based on dijet data published by ATLAS and CMS at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. From a large subset of these data we infer a value of α_s(m_Z)=0.1178±0.0022 for the strong coupling at the scale of the Z-boson mass m_Z. Complementing the LHC data with dijet cross sections measured at HERA, we extend the range to test the predicted running of the strong coupling towards smaller scales. Our results exhibit excellent agreement with predictions based on the renormalization group equation of QCD. This study represents the a very comprehensive test of the asymptotic
behaviour of QCD, spanning over three orders of magnitude in energy scale from 7GeV up to 7TeV. (Work based on arXiv:2412.21165)

Speaker: Prof. Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford)

ESR

22 Overview of ATLAS Forward Proton Detectors: Status, Performance and Physics Results

Speaker: Sergio Javier Arbiol Val

23 Exploring Surprising Non-Perturbative Effects in Drell-Yan plus Jets

Speaker: Maximilian Horzela (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

12:40 Lunch

Flavour

Conveners: Alexander Lenz (IPPP, Durham), Chiara Rovelli (INFN Roma), Francesco Dettori, Noam Tal Hod (Weizmann Institute of Science)

24 CPV theory

Speaker: Ulrich Nierste (KIT)

25 CPV experiment

26 Future

15:00 Coffee

Joint QCD+EW

Conveners: Mathieu Pellen (University of Freiburg), Thomas Cridge (DESY)

27 Precision measurements of Z boson production (with a focus on the weak mixing angle)

28 PDFs for EW precision

Overview of PDFs for EW precision across all groups, including approximate N3LO and theoretical uncertainties amongst other important aspects

Speaker: Dr Roy Stegeman (University of Edinburgh)

29 Non-perturbative Effects and Uncertainties on the pTV spectrum

Speaker: Dr Valerio Bertone (IRFU, Saclay)

ESR

30 Second Order Corrections to Diphoton Transverse Momentum Distribution at the LHC

Speaker: Weijie Feng

31 Compact Two-Loop QCD Corrections for $Vjj$ Production in Proton Collisions

Speaker: Giuseppe De Laurentis (University of Edinburgh)

18:00 Dinner

Wednesday 9 April

Higgs physics

Conveners: Alexander Held (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Matthias Schröder (Universität Hamburg), Stephen Jones (IPPP, Durham)

32 Recent Highlights in Differential / STXS Results for Higgs

33 Higgs NNLO+PS

Speaker: Christian Biello (MPP Munich)

34 Quark Mass Effects in Higgs Boson Processes

Speaker: Rene Poncelet (Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge)

35 Higgs Measurements using Simulation Based Inference Techniques

Speaker: Tae Hyoun Park

ESR

36 Top-induced NLO electroweak corrections to di-Higgs boson production

Speaker: Dr Arunima Bhattacharya (IFIC, University of Valencia)

11:00 Coffee

Top

12:50 Lunch

QCD

Convener: Thomas Cridge (DESY)

37 "Theoretical progress on jet substructure"

38 Measurements on jet substructure at the LHC (ATLAS+CMS)

Speaker: Mr Toni Mlinarevic (University College London)

39 Robust estimates of theoretical uncertainties at fixed-order in perturbation theory

Speaker: Dr Matthew Lim (University of Milan Biccoca)

15:15 Coffee

Joint QCD+EW

Convener: Mathieu Pellen (University of Freiburg)

40 Perturbative uncertainties on the pTV spectrum

Speaker: Dr Giulia Marinelli (DESY)

41 Precision measurements of W boson production (with a focus on the W boson mass)

42 Progress on theoretical predictions for Drell-Yan production and prospectives for future precision measurements.

Speaker: Dr Luca Buonocore

18:30 Dinner

Thursday 10 April

Top

10:30 Coffee

Electroweak

Conveners: Hannes Mildner (University of Sheffield (GB)), Kenneth Long (MIT), Mathieu Pellen (University of Freiburg), Miguel Ramos Pernas (University of Warwick)

43 EFT in the EW sector from exp perspective - exp.

44 Off-shell computation of triboson (interplay with VH)

Speaker: Marek Schoenherr (IPPP Durham)

45 Recent measurements of triboson production, including overlap with VH production

12:30 Lunch