Event Schedule

Testing the Standard Model in Charged-Weak Decays

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Week 1

Monday, January 12, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Format Location Slides
Check-In C411
Welcome to the INT & Introductions Wouter Dekens Institute for Nuclear Theory C520 PDF
Beta decays as a probe of new physics Vincenzo Cirigliano Institute for Nuclear Theory C520 PDF
One-loop analysis of decays in SMEFT Maria Dawid Washington University in St. Louis C520 PDF
Coffee Break
Cabibbo angle anomalies and vector-like quarks Benedetta Belfatto Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) C520 PDF
Latest constraints on light sterile neutrino from the KATRIN Experiment Shailaja Mohanty Queen’s University, Canada Virtual C520 PDF
Lunch
The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle Chen-Yu Liu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign C520 PDF
Neutron beta-decay experiments at Los Alamos Steven Clayton Los Alamos National Laboratory C520 PDF
Coffee Break
Discussion C520

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides
The gamma-W box correction to Vud with dispersion relations: certainties and uncertainties Misha Gorshteyn Mainz University C520 PDF
Overview of Neutron Decay Angular Correlation Measurements (with some comments about beta energy-dependent observables) Albert Young North Carolina State University/Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory C421 PDF
Coffee Break
A sub-percent Determination of the Nucleon Axial Coupling from Lattice QCD Zack Hall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory C520 PDF
Nab: a precise measurement of correlations in unpolarized neutron beta decay Dinko Pocanic University of Virginia C520 PDF
Lunch
Progress Towards Radiative Corrections in Nuclear Electroweak Matrix Elements through the Renormalization Group Thomas Richardson UC Berkeley C520 PDF
Testing the Standard Model in neutron decay with pNAB Wolfgang Schreyer Oak Ridge National Laboratory C520
Coffee Break
Discussion C520 PDF

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides
Effective Field Theory approach for radiative corrections to superallowed β decays Emanuele Mereghetti Los Alamos National Lab C520 PDF
Nuclear beta decay for fundamental science Garrett King Los Alamos National Laboratory C520 PDF
Coffee Break
Refined shell-model calculations of the isospin-symmetry breaking correction to 0+ -> 0+ nuclear beta decay Nadezda Smirnova University of Bordeaux C520
Probing the Standard Model via Mixed Mirror Transitions with St. Benedict Regan Zite University of Notre Dame C520 PDF
Lunch
Discussion C520
Coffee Break
Lattice QCD calculation of Electroweak box diagrams: from beta decays to proton weak charge Xu Feng Peking University C520 PDF
Workshop Dinner

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides
Charged-weak currents in pion beta decay and tau --> pi pi nu Martin Hoferichter Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern C520 PDF
Penning trap beta-decay Q value measurements for BSM Physics searches Matthew Redshaw Central Michigan University C520 PDF
Coffee Break
Impact for Rare Kaon decays of Testing the Standard Model in Charged-Weak Decays Giancarlo D'Ambrosio INFN Sezione di Napoli C520 PDF
Testing CKM Unitarity with the NA62 Experiment Victor Shang TRIUMF C520 PDF
Lunch
Status and prospects on Vus determination Emilie Passemar Indiana University C520 PDF
Lattice Calculation of Radiative Corrections to Light Meson Leptonic Decays Xin-Yu Tuo Brookhaven National laboratory C520 PDF
Coffee Break
Discussion C520

Friday, January 16, 2026

Start Time Presentation Title Presenter Presenter Organization Location Slides
New Ideas & Short Talks C520 PDF
Coffee Break
The recent measurement of the neutrino electron correlation coefficient a in free neutron beta decay with the aSPECT spectrometer Stefan Baessler University of Virginia C520 PDF
PIONEER: A Next Generation Rare Pion Decay Experiment Quentin Buat University of Washington C520 PDF
Lunch
Discussion & white paper writing