2024 Belle II Physics Week

14 Oct 2024, 08:30 → 18 Oct 2024, 19:00 Asia/Tokyo

Kobayashi Hall (KEK)

James Frederick Libby (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment)), Kenji Inami (Nagoya), Laura Zani (INFN of Roma Tre), Torben Ferber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

The 2024 Belle II Physics Week will be in-person gathering intended to foster open discussion among Belle II experimentalists and theory experts.

 

All collaborators are invited to join KEK for in-person attendance. 

 

The week will consist of two parts: 

 

- Mornings: a school for PhD students and early postdocs with general pedagogical lectures about aspects of Belle II and flavour physics. It will include plenary sessions on phenomenology, detectors, and benchmark analyses along with in-person hands-on work. Plenary lectures will be recorded. In-person hands-on will be conducted on-site. Online participation will be also possible.

 

 - Afternoons: a workshop, this is the first in a series of workshops focusing on special topics at the interface of theory and experiment that are priorities for the Belle II program. 

 

This year the workshop is on tau and dark sector at Belle II. 

 

We’d like to openly take on challenges, issues and opportunities at Belle II to generate a program of prioritised measurements/studies to advance the knowledge of these fundamental sectors in the next 3 years. 

 

A generous amount of discussion time is allotted to each talk in the program, which also includes extensive break out sessions. In this spirit, participation to the workshop is intended to be only in person to maximize the interactions and discussion. The workshop's discussions and conclusions will be documented in a short KEK report. 

 

Note that Wednesday evening we will have a poster session where Belle II students can present their work (analysis or else).

 

 Previous edition of physics week in 2023 was on Vcb determination.

 

Confirmed speakers include: Marco Ardu, Anke Biekoetter, Adrian Casais Vidal, Lorenzo Calibbi, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Stefania Gori, Martin Hoferichter, Nazila Mahmoudi, Giordon Stark, Olcyr Sumensari, Jure Zupan...

 

Organization committee: T.Ferber, L.Zani, K.Inami, E.Passemar, M.Endo, G.Z.Krnkaic, S. Hashimoto, J.Libby, K. Trabelsi.

 

 - The registration fee will be 8,000 JPY covering coffee breaks and a social dinner on Tuesday. For those who does not join the social dinner, a reduced registration fee of 2,500 JPY will be applied. An invoice from PayPal will be sent to registrants' email address, according to the information given at the registration.

 

- There will be a social dinner on Tuesday, October 15th. Participation is warmly recommended.

 

Further details about logistics can be found in 'Transportation' and 'Accommodation' sections on the left menu. 
 

Monday, 14 October

09:00 → 12:30 School

09:00 Theory introduction to the dark sector

Speaker: Prof. Stefania Gori (UCSC)

10:00 tau analyses 101

Speaker: Soeren Prell (Iowa State University)

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Event generators for low multiplicity and tau

Speaker: Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville (U.S.))

13:30 → 19:00 Workshop on taus and dark sectors

Conveners: Emilie Passemar (Indiana), Laura Zani (INFN of Roma Tre), Torben Ferber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Tuesday, 15 October

09:00 → 12:30 School

09:00 Theory introduction to the dark sector

Speaker: Prof. Stefania Gori (UCSC)

10:00 Introduction to the trigger

Speaker: Taichiro Koga (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

11:00 Coffee

11:30 tau and the standard model

Speaker: Prof. Emilie Passemar (Indiana)

13:30 → 19:00 Workshop on taus and dark sectors

Conveners: Emilie Passemar (Indiana), Laura Zani (INFN of Roma Tre), Torben Ferber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Wednesday, 16 October

09:00 → 12:30 School

09:00 Connection between flavour and the dark sector

Speaker: Dr Olcyr Sumensari (IJCLab)

10:00 Dark sector analysis basics

Speaker: Luigi Corona (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Limit setting: a how to

Speaker: Enrico Graziani (INFN - Roma 3)

13:30 → 18:00 Workshop on taus and dark sectors

Conveners: Emilie Passemar (Indiana), Laura Zani (INFN of Roma Tre), Torben Ferber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

13:30 State of the art statistics: pyhf

Speaker: Giordon Stark

18:30 → 20:00 Poster session (sake and otsumami)

Thursday, 17 October

09:00 → 12:30 School

09:00 Basics of lepton flavour violation

Speaker: Prof. Jure Zupan (Cincinnati)

10:00 CDC: the heart of Belle II

Speaker: Nanae Taniguchi (BELLE (BELLE II Experiment))

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Dark sector at LHCb

Speaker: Dr Adrian Casais Vidal (MIT)

13:30 → 19:00 Workshop on taus and dark sectors

Conveners: Emilie Passemar (Indiana), Laura Zani (INFN of Roma Tre), Torben Ferber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Friday, 18 October

09:00 → 12:00 School

09:00 Searching for the dark sector in B decay

Speaker: Slavomira Stefkova (KIT)

10:00 Particle ID overview

Speaker: Stefan Wallner (Max Planck Institute for Physics)