2026 Belle II Summer Workshop

27 Jul 2026, 08:00 → 31 Jul 2026, 12:00 America/Kentucky/Louisville

The Floyd Theater (University of Louisville)

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

Welcome to the 2026 Belle II Summer Workshop hosted by the University of Louisville.

The purpose of this workshop is to help students, postdocs, and more senior researchers get started and make progress on Belle II analyses, either studying a physics channel or studying detector performance. It will cover physics topics, computing, software and professional development in a hands-on tutorial format.

This workshop is open to all Belle II collaborators and we welcome attendance from across the collaboration.

Monday 27 July

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction to Particle Physics

Speaker: Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville)

11:00 → 12:00 MasterClass

Speaker: Jake Bennett (University of Mississippi)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:10 SuperKEKB, the first nanobeam collider

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Browder (University of Hawaiʻi)

14:10 → 14:50 Belle II

Speaker: Leo Piilonen (Virginia Tech)

14:50 → 15:30 Overview of Belle II Physics Analysis

Speaker: Soeren Prell (Iowa State University)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 BASF2 Hands on

Tuesday 28 July

09:40 → 10:15 B physics

Speaker: Prof. Chunhui Chen (Iowa State University)

10:15 → 10:50 Charm Physics

Speaker: Alan Schwartz (University of Cincinnati)

10:50 → 11:25 Tau Physics

Speaker: Petar Kevin Rados (KMI Nagoya)

11:25 → 12:00 Dark Sector

Speaker: William Jacobs (CEEM / Indiana University)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 13:45 Measurement of the $e^+e^- \to \pi^+\pi^-$ cross-section via the ISR method at Belle II

Speaker: Leonel Lin (Duke University)

13:45 → 14:00 Radiative $\tau^- \rightarrow \pi^- \nu_\tau$ decays

Speaker: Naveen Baghel (University of Louisville)

14:00 → 14:15 Searching for an ALP in the LFV decay tau->l alpha using a new two-dimensional kinematic technique.

Speaker: Johan Andres Colorado (University of Mississippi)

14:15 → 14:30 Search for $W_{bj}$ via $W_{bj} \rightarrow \rho^{0} \Upsilon(1S)$ decays

Speaker: Kimika Arai (University of Pittsburgh)

14:30 → 15:00 Data production

Speaker: Jake Bennett (University of Mississippi)

15:00 → 15:30 Grid computing

Speaker: Quinn Campagna (University of Mississippi)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 GBASF2 Hands on

Wednesday 29 July

09:40 → 10:15 CKM overview

Speaker: Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati)

10:15 → 10:50 Anomalies in Hadronic B Decays (David London)

10:50 → 11:25 B->K(*) nu nu

Speaker: Yubo Han (University of Hawaiʻi)

11:25 → 12:00 Calorimetry

Speaker: Savino Longo (University of Manitoba)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 13:45 $\alpha (\phi_2)$ sensitivity Study Using MC Ensembles of $B \rightarrow 3 \pi$ Decays

Speaker: Wenhai Gao (University of Pittsburgh)

13:45 → 14:00 Time-dependent CP violation in B0 -> eta’ K0 decays

Speaker: Noah Brenny (Iowa State University)

14:00 → 14:15 Measurement of time dependent CP asymmetry in $B^0 \rightarrow \phi K^0$ using run 1 and 2 data

Speaker: Mehraj Chhetri (Iowa State University)

14:15 → 14:30 Measurement of the branching fraction for $B^0 \rightarrow \omega K_{S}^0$ decays at Belle II

Speaker: Maedeh Farhoush (University of Cincinnati)

14:30 → 15:30 Professional Development

Speakers: Kay Kinoshita (University of Cincinnati), Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaiʻi), Kimika Arai (University of Pittsburgh), Todd Pedlar (Luther College)

We plan to feature a panel discussion with a graduate student, postdoc, early-career faculty member, and senior professor. We would like to make this session useful and interesting to all of you at every career stage, but we need your input to make it so. Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey to share topic suggestions and let us know what you would like to discuss most. Please complete the form by July 14th, 2026.

15:30 → 18:00 Free time

18:00 → 20:00 Banquet dinner

Thursday 30 July

09:40 → 10:15 Machine Detector Interface

Speaker: Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaiʻi)

10:15 → 10:50 Trigger/DAQ

Speaker: Horacio Crotte Ledesma (University of Hawaiʻi)

10:50 → 11:25 TOP

Speaker: Tommy Lam (University of Hawaiʻi)

11:25 → 12:00 KLM

Speaker: Haruki Kindo (Virginia Tech / KEK)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Pyhf/Zfit

Speaker: Varghese Babu (University of Louisville / KEK)

14:00 → 14:15 Lambda spin correlations

Speaker: Cynthia Nunez (Duke University)

14:15 → 14:30 R(D) measurement

Speaker: Boyang Zhang (University of Hawaiʻi)

14:30 → 14:45 XRM

Speaker: Cody Driver (University of Hawaiʻi)

14:45 → 15:15 AI/ML on hardware

Speaker: Keisuke Yoshihara (University of Hawaiʻi)

15:15 → 15:30 AI/ML in K*ll

Speaker: Ethan Lee (University of Hawaiʻi)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 AI/ML hands on

Speaker: Shawn Dubey (University of Hawaiʻi)

Friday 31 July

09:40 → 10:15 Quantum Entanglement

Speaker: Regina Demina (University of Rochester)

10:15 → 10:50 Search for CP-violation in charged $B^\pm$ penguin decays into the 4-body mode $\phi K_0^S \pi^\pm (\phi \rightarrow K^+K^-)$.

Speaker: Milind Purohit (University of South Carolina)

10:50 → 12:00 Summary/Closing

Speaker: Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville)