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, 9 September 2026 (17:00) to Sunday, 13 September 2026 (20:10)

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

17:00 Registration for the workshop

17:00 - 18:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room

18:00 Welcome dinner

18:00 - 20:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Thursday, 10 September 2026

08:20 Registration for the workshop

08:20 - 08:50
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
08:50 Opening remark - Yuichiro Nakai
Opening remark
- Yuichiro Nakai
08:50 - 09:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
09:00 Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Yuichiro Nakai
Session chair: Yuichiro Nakai
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

09:00 Large Hadronic Effects in B -> K* mu mu ? - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz)

09:30 Revisiting Minimal Models of Dark Matter - Koichi Hamaguchi (University of Tokyo)
10:00 Coffee break

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

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

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

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

11:50 - 13:10
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
13:10 Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Andrew Long
Session chair: Andrew Long
13:10 - 14:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

13:10 Dark Photon Dark Matter from Quantum Fluctuations during Starobinsky Inflation - Takeo Moroi (U. Tokyo)

13:40 The Inflationary Schwinger Effect and Dark Matter - Roberto Vega-Morales (University of Granada)

14:10 TeV gamma ray as probes of axions and neutrinos - Chen Sun (ICTP, Trieste)
14:40 Coffee break

14:40 - 15:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
15:00 Plenary talks (1): Session chair: Lorenzo Calibbi
Session chair: Lorenzo Calibbi
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

15:00 Implications of a μeV axion discovery - Luca Visinelli (University of Salerno & INFN)

15:30 Towards Quantum Simulations of Sphaleron Dynamics at Colliders - Hao Zhang (Theoretical Physics Division, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:20
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
16:20 Parallel talks (1A): Session chair: Luca Visinelli
Session chair: Luca Visinelli
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

16:20 Phantom crossing from the Standard Model and General Relativity - Antonino Marciano (Fudan University and INFN Frascati)

16:40 Scaling solutions for gauge invariant flow equations in dilaton quantum gravity - Yadikaer Maitiniyazi (JiLin University)

17:00 Modular invariant Inflation and reheating - 文斌赵 (中国科学院大学)

17:20 Effective field theory of in-in correlators - Guanhao Sun (Chongqing University)

17:40 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
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S510 - Meetingroom
Contributions

16:20 Solar neutrinos in Direct Detection as probes of new physics - Andrew Cheek (TDLI, SJTU)

16:40 Earth rotation turns event timing into a geometric probe of UHE neutrino origin - Joao Paulo Pinheiro (TDLI)

17:00 Neutrino Magnetic Moments from Inverse Seesaw with Novel Horizontal Symmetry - Ajay Kaladharan (ICTP-AP)

17:20 Quantum Fisher Information and Quantum-State Distinguishability in Neutrino Oscillation Parameter Estimation - Bhavna Yadav (Wilczek Quantum Center, SIAS, USTC)

17:40 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
16:20 - 18:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S511 - Meetingroom
Contributions

16:20 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)

16:40 Enhanced Cosmic-Ray Cooling in AGN from Dark Matter Deep Inelastic Scattering - Chih-Ting Lu (Nanjing Normal University)

17:00 Galactic Center gamma-ray excess from a generic triaxial halo - Leo Qiyuan Hu (City University of Hong Kong)

17:20 Mechanisms of Kinetic Equilibrium between SIMP and radiation - Yassine El Mohtadi (ICTP-AP, UCAS)

17:40 Baryogenesis from the Decay of Primordial U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau} Magnetic Helicity - di wu (HIAS)
Friday, 11 September 2026
09:00 Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Xiao-Ping Wang
Session chair: Xiao-Ping Wang
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

09:00 As simple as possible, but not simpler - Pyungwon Ko (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

09:30 (A snapshot of) Future Collider - Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota)
10:00 Coffee break: photo session
photo session
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
10:30 Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Wenyuan Ai
Session chair: Wenyuan Ai
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 - 13:20
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
13:20 Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Takeo Moroi
Session chair: Takeo Moroi
13:20 - 14:50
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

13:20 Probing Ultralight Dark Matter with Laser Interferometers in Space - Yong Tang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:50 Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Boosted Relic Neutrinos - Jiajun Liao (Sun Yat-sen University)

14:20 Novel signature of axion-like particles at neutrino experiments - Ningqiang Song (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 15:20
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
15:20 Plenary talks (2): Session chair: Lingfeng Li
Session chair: Lingfeng Li
15:20 - 16:20
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

15:20 Comprehensive Effective Field Theory Framework for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering - Gang Li (Sun Yat-Sen University)

15:50 Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos - Jia Liu (Peking University)
18:00 Banquet

18:00 - 21:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Saturday, 12 September 2026
09:00 Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Keping Xie
Session chair: Keping Xie
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

09:00 Dark Acoustic Oscillations as a Future detector for DM–Proton Scattering, Twin Baryons, and Neutrino Portals - Yue-Lin Sming Tsai (Purple Mountain Observatory)

09:30 What is a “Strong” First Order Electroweak Phase Transition? - Michael Ramsey-Musolf (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
10:00 Coffee break

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

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

10:50 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 Testing theory of gravity from the Shadow of the Supermassive Black Holes - Yosuke Mizuno (TDLI / Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
11:50 Lunch break

11:50 - 13:10
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
13:10 Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Koichi Hamaguchi
Session chair: Koichi Hamaguchi
13:10 - 14:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

13:10 Natural dark matter dark energy interaction - LianTao Wang

13:40 The Quantum Magic of Standard Model Parameters - Zhewei Yin (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

14:10 Probing positivity bounds at colliders - Jiayin Gu (Fudan University)
14:40 Coffee break

14:40 - 15:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
15:00 Plenary talks (3): Session chair: Chen Sun
Session chair: Chen Sun
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

15:00 Dihadron Fragmentation as a Spin Analyzer at Lepton Colliders - Bin Yan (IHEP)

15:30 Direct Search for Millicharged Particles Using Correlated Quantum Sensors - Peizhi Du (University of Science and Technology of China)
16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:20
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
16:20 Parallel talks (2A): Session chair: Shao-Jiang Wang
Session chair: Shao-Jiang Wang
16:20 - 17:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

16:20 Sphalerogenesis - Masanori Tanaka (Peking University)

16:40 Bogoliubov approach for fermion production in Milne spacetime - Shota Nakagawa (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

17:00 Bubble Wall Velocity in the Electroweak Phase Transition of the New Physics Model - Shihang Tang (Sun Yat-sen University)

17:20 Particle Production via Rippled Bubble Walls - Yaoduo Wang (TDLI)
Parallel talks (2B): Session chair: Joao Paulo Pinheiro
Session chair: Joao Paulo Pinheiro
16:20 - 17:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S510 - Meetingroom
Contributions

16:20 WIMP Meets ALP: Coherent Freeze-Out of Dark Matter - Bingrong Yu (Cornell University)

16:40 Late-time Quantum Vacuum Decay and its Cosmological Implications - Sida Lu (Sun Yat-sen University)

17:00 Defect-Mediated Conversion: Dark Matter from Cosmological Domain-Wall Scattering - Mohamed Younes Sassi (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

17:20 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
16:20 - 17:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S511 - Meetingroom
Contributions

16:20 The lattice simulation method of SIGW - Xiang-Xi Zeng (TDLI)

16:40 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)

17:00 Background-Induced Forces from Quadratically Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter - Hailin Xu (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)

17:20 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, 13 September 2026
09:00 Plenary talks (4): Session chair: Jia Liu
Session chair: Jia Liu
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

09:00 New Physics Searches at LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA - Huaike Guo (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:30 Macroscopic Dark Matter under siege: from White Dwarf Data to Gravitational Wave Detectors - Fa Peng Huang (Sun Yat-sen University)
10:00 Coffee break

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

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

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

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

11:50 - 13:20
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
13:20 Parallel talks (3A): Session chair: Takumi Kuwahara
Session chair: Takumi Kuwahara
13:20 - 14:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

13:20 Specially Embedding a Composite Axion Model - Shihwen Hor (T. D. Lee Institute)

13:40 Deconstructing the Extra-Dimensional Axion - Junxuan Xu (TDLI)

14:00 Ultraviolet-Sensitive Axion Potentials from Small Instantons - Saurabh K Shukla (Nankai University)

14:20 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
13:20 - 14:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S510 - Meetingroom
Contributions

13:20 One-loop analysis of dark matter constraints in a complex scalar extension of the Standard Model - Chikako Idegawa (Sun Yat-sen University)

13:40 Dark Matter Inelastic Scattering with Nuclei - Oleg Titov (TDLI-SJTU)

14:00 Revisiting $\mu-e$ conversion in R-parity violating SUSY - Rong-Rong Zhang (TDLI)

14:20 Freeze-in $SU(2)$ vector dark matter at low reheating temperature - Xuan Hong
Parallel talks (3C): Session chair: Andrew Cheek
Session chair: Andrew Cheek
13:20 - 14:40
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S511 - Meetingroom
Contributions

13:20 New physics opportunities with DarkSHINE initiative - Xuliang Zhu (TDLI, SJTU)

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

14:00 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)

14:20 Correlative study of flavor anomalies and dark matter in the light of scalar leptoquark - DHIREN PANDA (University of Hyderabad)
14:40 Coffee break

14:40 - 15:10
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
15:10 Plenary talks (4): Session chair: Ryuichiro Kitano
Session chair: Ryuichiro Kitano
15:10 - 15:50
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room
Contributions

15:10 The price for monopole dark matter - Felix Brümmer (LUPM Montpellier, France)
15:50 Closing remark

15:50 - 16:00
Room: Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Room

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