Collider Physics

6 Nov 2026, 08:00 → 8 Nov 2026, 14:30 Europe/Warsaw

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"Collider Physics"
6th Symposium of the Division for Physics of Fundamental Interactions of the Polish Physical Society 
 

Symposium of the Division for Physics of Fundamental Interactions of the Polish Physical Society will be held in Katowice in November 2026.

The meeting is organized jointly by

• the Polish Physical Society,
• and the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice.

 

The following sessions organized by corresponding conveners are foreseen:

Sessions:	Chair and Convener
LHC SM	Michał Bluj, Andrzej Siódmok
LHC BSM	Magdalena Sławińska, Krzysztof Rolbiecki
Heavy ions	Iwona Sputowska, Radosław Ryblewski
Low energy colliders	Andrzej Bożek, Andrzej Kupść
HL-LHC	Ewa Stanecka, Rene Poncelet
EIC	Mariusz Przybycień, Krzysztof Kutak
FCC	Tomasz Szumlak, Kazuki Sakurai
Other future collider options	Marcin Kucharczyk, Filip Żarnecki

Rough schedule (+coffee breaks): 

Sessions – 2 hours each; Chairs: a. Experiment, b. Theory

• Friday, Nov 6, 2026: 13:00–18:30 

  • LHC SM

  • LHC BSM

• Saturday, Nov 7, 2026: 9:00–19:00 (Lunch, Conference Dinner)

  • Heavy Ions

  • Low-Energy Colliders 

  • HL-LHC

  • EIC

• Sunday, Nov 8, 2026: 9:00–13:30 (Lunch)

  • FCC

  • Other Future Collider Options

 

      

Friday 6 November

13:00 → 13:05 Opening of the Symposium:

13:05 → 14:11 LHC SM: Experiment

Chair: Michał Bluj

13:05 Vector Boson Scattering with CMS

Speaker: Michał Szleper (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))

13:25 Probing the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking with Higgs boson pairs in the ATLAS expt

Speaker: Bartłomiej Żabiński (IFJ PAN)

13:45 Diffraction at the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Izabela Juszczak (IFJ PAN)

13:58 Beauty to charm hadron decays at LHCb

Speaker: Maciej Giza (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

14:11 → 15:04 LHC SM: Theory

Chair : Andrzej Siódmok

14:11 Alternative factorisation schemes for proton PDFs

Speaker: Stéphane Delorme (University of Silesia)

14:31 N3LO QCD result for boosted Higgsstrahlung" albo "Boosted Higgs pheno and/or qt-slicing results

Speaker: Federico Silvetti (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

14:51 Determination of proton PDFs in the nCTEQ framework

Speaker: Buddhadeb Dey (IFJ PAN)

15:04 → 15:45 Coffee break

with lunch

15:45 → 17:45 LHC BSM

Chairs: Magdalena Sławińska, Krzysztof Rolbiecki

15:45 Phenomenology of the Minimal R-symmetric Supersymmetric Standard Model

Speaker: Wojciech Kotlarski (TU - Dresden)

16:05 BSM Higgs searches with ATLAS

Speaker: Paweł Malecki (IFJ PAN)

16:25 Search for New Physics in rare decays at LHCb

Speaker: Michal Kazanecki (IFJ PAN)

16:45 MoEDAL-MAPP experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Rafał Masełek (Jozef Stefan Institute)

17:05 Searches for vector-like quarks in ATLAS

Speaker: Tomasz Procter

17:25 BSM Searches with the CMS detector

Speaker: Malgorzata Kazana (NCBJ (Warsaw, PL))

17:45 → 19:00 Poster Session

Saturday 7 November

09:00 → 10:10 Heavy ions: Experiment

09:00 NA61/SHINE Strong Interaction Program

Speaker: Seweryn Kowalski (University of Silesia)

09:25 Recent highlights and developments from the ALICE experiment

Speaker: Sahil Upadhyaya (IFJ PAN, Krakow)

09:50 Measurements of Photon–Photon Interactions in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions with ATLAS

Speaker: Karolina Ograbek (AGH University of Krakow (PL))

10:10 → 10:55 Heavy ions: Theory

10:10 The earliest phase of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Stanislaw Mrowczynski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

10:35 From Quantum Wigner Functions to Spin Hydrodynamics

Speaker: Sudip Kumar Kar (Jagiellonian University)

10:55 → 11:25 Coffee break

11:25 → 13:25 Low-energy colliders

11:25 Measurements with entangled baryon-antibaryon pairs at BES III

Speaker: Varvara Batozskaya (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

11:55 Kaon decays at KLOE-2

Speaker: Eryk Czerwiński (Instytut Fizyki im. Mariana Smoluchowskiego, Uniwersytet Jagielloński)

12:15 Non leptonic decays of hyperons

Speaker: Nora Salone (Uniwersytet Śląski)

12:35 Polarisation measurements in B->D* tau nu decays at Belle II

Speaker: Mateusz Kaleta

13:00 TBD

13:25 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:50 HL-LHC: Experiment

14:30 Towards the HL-LHC Era: The ATLAS Phase-II Upgrade

Speaker: Monika Juzek (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)

14:50 LHCb Upgrade 2

Speaker: Agnieszka Obłąkowska-Mucha (AGH UST)

15:10 The CMS Phase-2 Upgrade for the HL-LHC – Polish Contributions

Speaker: Karol Buńkowski (University of Warsaw (PL))

15:30 The Future of ALICE at the LHC: From Current Physics to ALICE 3

Speaker: Szymon Pulawski (Institute of Physics University of Silesia)

15:50 → 16:30 HL-LHC: Theory

15:50 Towards accurate theory uncertainties for precision measurements

Speaker: Giulia Marinelli (IFJ PAN)

16:10 Precision predictions, practical simulations: meeting the challenges of the HL-LHC

Speaker: James Whitehead (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:25 EIC

17:00 EPIC detector

Speaker: Mariusz Przybycień

17:30 GPD at EIC

Speaker: Jakub Wagner (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)

17:50 Saturation at EIC

Speaker: Tolga Altinoluk (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ))

18:10 Simultaneous Color Glass Condensate fit to deep inelastic scattering and forward hadron production at HERA, RHIC, and the LHC

Speaker: Truong My Hau Le (Jagiellonian University)

19:30 → 22:00 Dinner

Sunday 8 November

09:00 → 11:00 FCC

09:00 Detector challenges of the FCC experiments

Speaker: Tomasz Szumlak

09:30 Theoretical Calculations for the FCC-ee: Recent Progress and Outlook

Speaker: Ievgen Dubovyk (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach)

09:50 FCC-ee physics (title to be confirmed)

Speaker: Alan Price (UJ Krakow)

10:10 BSM physics at the FCC-ee/FCC-hh (title to be confirmed)

Speaker: Camila Ramos (IFJ PAN)

10:30 Gluon Fusion in Diboson Production at Future Hadron Colliders

Speaker: Mateusz Czaja (KIT TTP)

10:45 Beyond Conventional Searches: New Signatures of Vector-Like Quarks at the LHC and FCC-hh

Speaker: Mohammed Moukidi

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:25 Other future collider options

11:30 Exotic searches at future lepton colliders

Speaker: Mateusz Goncerz (AGH)

11:50 Reconstructing quantum channels at ILC

Speaker: Sakurai Kazuki (University of Warsaw)

12:15 Prospects for light exotic scalar measurements at the e+e- Higgs factory

Speaker: Bartłomiej Brudnowski (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics)

12:35 Future lepton-hadron colliders at CERN

Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (AGH)

13:00 New Physics Opportunities with Forward Neutrino and Muon Beams at the Muon Collider

Speaker: Sebastian Trojanowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

13:25 → 13:30 Closing of the Symposium

13:30 → 14:30 Lunch