Name: New directions EXploring the Unknown beyond the Standard Model (NEXUS 2026)
Start: 2026-09-09T17:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-09-13T20:10:00+08:00
Location: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute

New directions EXploring the Unknown beyond the Standard Model (NEXUS 2026)

from Wednesday, September 9, 2026 (5:00 PM) to Sunday, September 13, 2026 (8:10 PM)

Monday, September 7, 2026
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

5:00 PM Registration for the workshop

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room

6:00 PM Welcome dinner

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Thursday, September 10, 2026

8:20 AM Registration for the workshop

8:20 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
8:50 AM Opening remark - Yuichiro Nakai
Opening remark
- Yuichiro Nakai
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
9:00 AM Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Yuichiro Nakai
Session chair: Yuichiro Nakai
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Large Hadronic Effects in B -> K* mu mu ? - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz)

9:30 AM Revisiting Minimal Models of Dark Matter - Koichi Hamaguchi (University of Tokyo)
10:00 AM Coffee break

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
10:20 AM Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Ke-Pan Xie
Session chair: Ke-Pan Xie
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

10:20 AM PPA/PTA Detection of Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter - Some Recent Progress - Tao Liu (HKUST)

10:50 AM Looking through loops: CMB birefringence from axion strings - Andrew Long (Rice University)

11:20 AM Primordial Imprints in Halo Distributions - Lingfeng Li (Brown U.)
11:50 AM Lunch break

11:50 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
1:10 PM Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Andrew Long
Session chair: Andrew Long
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

1:10 PM Dark Photon Dark Matter from Quantum Fluctuations during Starobinsky Inflation - Takeo Moroi (U. Tokyo)

1:40 PM The Inflationary Schwinger Effect and Dark Matter - Roberto Vega-Morales (University of Granada)

2:10 PM TeV gamma ray as probes of axions and neutrinos - Chen Sun (ICTP, Trieste)
2:40 PM Coffee break

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
3:00 PM Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Lorenzo Calibbi
Session chair: Lorenzo Calibbi
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

3:00 PM Implications of a μeV axion discovery - Luca Visinelli (University of Salerno & INFN)

3:30 PM Towards Quantum Simulations of Sphaleron Dynamics at Colliders - Hao Zhang (Theoretical Physics Division, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
4:20 PM Parallel talks (1A): Session chair: Luca Visinelli
Session chair: Luca Visinelli
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

4:20 PM Phantom crossing from the Standard Model and General Relativity - Antonino Marciano (Fudan University and INFN Frascati)

4:40 PM Scaling solutions for gauge invariant flow equations in dilaton quantum gravity - Yadikaer Maitiniyazi (JiLin University)

5:00 PM Modular invariant Inflation and reheating - 文斌赵 (中国科学院大学)

5:20 PM Effective field theory of in-in correlators - Guanhao Sun (Chongqing University)

5:40 PM Thermal $\mathbb{Z}_3$ domain wall of Standard Model in the universe - Yiming Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Parallel talks (1B): Session chair: Gang Li
Session chair: Gang Li
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S510 - Meetingroom
Contributions

4:20 PM Solar neutrinos in Direct Detection as probes of new physics - Andrew Cheek (TDLI, SJTU)

4:40 PM Earth rotation turns event timing into a geometric probe of UHE neutrino origin - Joao Paulo Pinheiro (TDLI)

5:00 PM Neutrino Magnetic Moments from Inverse Seesaw with Novel Horizontal Symmetry - Ajay Kaladharan (ICTP-AP)

5:20 PM Quantum Fisher Information and Quantum-State Distinguishability in Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Estimation - Bhavna Yadav (Wilczek Quantum Center, SIAS, USTC)

5:40 PM Electroweak baryogenesis from charged current anomalies in $B$ meson decays - CRISTIAN FELIPE SIERRA FONSECA (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)
Parallel talks (1C): Session chair: Sida Lu
Session chair: Sida Lu
4:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S511 - Meetingroom
Contributions

4:20 PM Environmental Paths of Dwarf Galaxies in Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Mass Segregation - Daneng Yang (Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210023, China)

4:40 PM Enhanced Cosmic-Ray Cooling in AGN from Dark Matter Deep Inelastic Scattering - Chih-Ting Lu (Nanjing Normal University)

5:00 PM Galactic Center gamma-ray excess from a generic triaxial halo - Leo Qiyuan Hu (City University of Hong Kong)

5:20 PM Mechanisms of Kinetic Equilibrium between SIMP and radiation - Yassine El Mohtadi (ICTP-AP, UCAS)

5:40 PM Baryogenesis from the Decay of Primordial U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau} Magnetic Helicity - di wu (HIAS)
Friday, September 11, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Xiao-Ping Wang
Session chair: Xiao-Ping Wang
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

9:00 AM As simple as possible, but not simpler - Pyungwon Ko (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

9:30 AM (A snapshot of) Future Collider - Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota)
10:00 AM Coffee break: photo session
photo session
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
10:30 AM Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Wenyuan Ai
Session chair: Wenyuan Ai
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

10:30 AM Reviving primordial black hole formation in slow first-order phase transitions - Ke-Pan Xie (Beihang University)

11:00 AM Symmetry dictates Operators: from Electroweak to Atomic EFTs - Jiang-Hao Yu

11:30 AM Muon g-2 as a probe of new physics: why you should still care - Peter Athron (Nanjing Normal University)
12:00 PM Lunch break

12:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
1:20 PM Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Takeo Moroi
Session chair: Takeo Moroi
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

1:20 PM Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Laser Interferometers in Space - Yong Tang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

1:50 PM Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Boosted Relic Neutrinos - Jiajun Liao (Sun Yat-sen University)

2:20 PM Novel signature of axion-like particles at neutrino experiments - Ningqiang Song (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2:50 PM Coffee break

2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
3:20 PM Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Lingfeng Li
Session chair: Lingfeng Li
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

3:20 PM Comprehensive Effective Field Theory Framework for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering - Gang Li (Sun Yat-Sen University)

3:50 PM Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos - Jia Liu (Peking University)
6:00 PM Banquet

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Saturday, September 12, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Keping Xie
Session chair: Keping Xie
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Dark Acoustic Oscillations as a Future detector for DM–Proton Scattering, Twin Baryons, and Neutrino Portals - Yue-Lin Sming Tsai (Purple Mountain Observatory)

9:30 AM What is a “Strong” First Order Electroweak Phase Transition? - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
10:00 AM Coffee break

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
10:20 AM Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Wolfgang Altmannshofer
Session chair: Wolfgang Altmannshofer
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

10:20 AM muTRISTAN - Ryuichiro Kitano (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

10:50 AM First-order phase transitions, primordial black holes, scalar-induced gravitational waves, and sound-wave gravitational waves from early Universe - Shao-Jiang Wang (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

11:20 AM Testing theory of gravity from the Shadow of the Supermassive Black Holes - Yosuke Mizuno (TDLI / Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
11:50 AM Lunch break

11:50 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
1:10 PM Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Koichi Hamaguchi
Session chair: Koichi Hamaguchi
1:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

1:10 PM Natural dark matter dark energy interaction - LianTao Wang

1:40 PM The Quantum Magic of Standard Model Parameters - Zhewei Yin (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2:10 PM Probing positivity bounds at colliders - Jiayin Gu (Fudan University)
2:40 PM Coffee break

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
3:00 PM Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Chen Sun
Session chair: Chen Sun
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

3:00 PM Dihadron Fragmentation as a Spin Analyzer at Lepton Colliders - Bin Yan (IHEP)

3:30 PM Direct Search for Millicharged Particles Using Correlated Quantum Sensors - Peizhi Du (University of Science and Technology of China)
4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
4:20 PM Parallel talks (2A): Session chair: Shao-Jiang Wang
Session chair: Shao-Jiang Wang
4:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

4:20 PM Sphalerogenesis - Masanori Tanaka (Peking University)

4:40 PM Bogoliubov approach for fermion production in Milne spacetime - Shota Nakagawa (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

5:00 PM Bubble Wall Velocity in the Electroweak Phase Transition of the New Physics Model - Shihang Tang (Sun Yat-sen University)

5:20 PM Particle Production via Rippled Bubble Walls - Yaoduo Wang (TDLI)
Parallel talks (2B): Session chair: Joao Paulo Pinheiro
Session chair: Joao Paulo Pinheiro
4:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S510 - Meetingroom
Contributions

4:20 PM WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter - Bingrong Yu (Cornell University)

4:40 PM Late-time Quantum Vacuum Decay and its Cosmological Implications - Sida Lu (Sun Yat-sen University)

5:00 PM Defect-Mediated Conversion: Dark Matter from Cosmological Domain-Wall Scattering - Mohamed Younes Sassi (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

5:20 PM Direct detection and cosmological constraints of dark matter with dark dipoles - Takumi Kuwahara (Jilin U)
Parallel talks (2C): Session chair: Wenyuan Ai
Session chair: Wenyuan Ai
4:20 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S511 - Meetingroom
Contributions

4:20 PM The lattice simulation method of SIGW - Xiang-Xi Zeng (TDLI)

4:40 PM Primordial Black Holes as Gravitational-Wave Probes of Reheating: From PTAs to LISA and ET - Md Riajul Haque (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

5:00 PM Background-Induced Forces from Quadratically Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter - Hailin Xu (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)

5:20 PM Constraining axion quadratic couplings with the Hulse-Taylor binary system - 孜文尹 (上海交通大学物理与天文学院（李政道研究所）)
Sunday, September 13, 2026
9:00 AM Plenary talks (4): Session chair: Jia Liu
Session chair: Jia Liu
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

9:00 AM New Physics Searches at LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA - Huaike Guo (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

9:30 AM Macroscopic Dark Matter under siege: from White Dwarf Data to Gravitational Wave Detectors - Fa Peng Huang (Sun Yat-sen University)
10:00 AM Coffee break

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
10:20 AM Plenary talks (4): Session chair: Yue-Lin Sming Tsai
Session chair: Yue-Lin Sming Tsai
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

10:20 AM Glueball Dark Matter：From Thermal Resummation to Gravitational Waves and Direct Detection - Zhi-Wei Wang (UESTC)

10:50 AM Detecting RG-stable relations in multi-Higgs models - Igor Ivanov (Sun Yat-sen University)

11:20 AM 3-form dark energy and cosmic birefringence - Tucker Manton (HIAS UCAS)
11:50 AM Lunch break

11:50 AM - 1:20 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
1:20 PM Parallel talks (3A): Session chair: Takumi Kuwahara
Session chair: Takumi Kuwahara
1:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

1:20 PM Specially Embedding a Composite Axion Model - Shihwen Hor (T. D. Lee Institute)

1:40 PM Deconstructing the Extra-Dimensional Axion - Junxuan Xu (TDLI)

2:00 PM Ultraviolet-Sensitive Axion Potentials from Small Instantons - Saurabh K Shukla (Nankai University)

2:20 PM MeV Electrophilic Axion-like Particles production from Sun and its detection - Sk Jeesun - (Tsung Dao Lee Institute)
Parallel talks (3B): Session chair: Igor Ivanov
Session chair: Igor Ivanov
1:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S510 - Meetingroom
Contributions

1:20 PM One-loop analysis of dark matter constraints in a complex scalar extension of the Standard Model - Chikako Idegawa (Sun Yat-sen University)

1:40 PM Dark Matter Inelastic Scattering with Nuclei - Oleg Titov (TDLI-SJTU)

2:00 PM Revisiting $\mu-e$ conversion in R-parity violating SUSY - Rong-Rong Zhang (TDLI)

2:20 PM Freeze-in $SU(2)$ vector dark matter at low reheating temperature - Xuan Hong
Parallel talks (3C): Session chair: Andrew Cheek
Session chair: Andrew Cheek
1:20 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S511 - Meetingroom
Contributions

1:20 PM New physics opportunities with DarkSHINE initiative - Xuliang Zhu (TDLI, SJTU)

1:40 PM Combination of ATLAS and CMS searches for Higgs boson pair production at √s = 13 TeV - Baihong Zhou (TDLI, SJTU)

2:00 PM Measurement of the Higgs boson decay to a low-mass dilepton system and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 and 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector - Matthias Tartarin (TDLI/SJTU)

2:20 PM Correlative study of flavor anomalies and dark matter in the light of scalar leptoquark - DHIREN PANDA (University of Hyderabad)
2:40 PM Coffee break

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
3:10 PM Plenary talks (4): Session chair: Ryuichiro Kitano
Session chair: Ryuichiro Kitano
3:10 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

3:10 PM The price for monopole dark matter - Felix Brümmer (LUPM Montpellier, France)
3:50 PM Closing remark

3:50 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room

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