Name: 9th Plenary Workshop of the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative
Start: 2026-08-03T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-07T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

9th Plenary Workshop of the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative

from Monday, August 3, 2026 (8:30 AM) to Friday, August 7, 2026 (5:00 PM)

Monday, August 3, 2026

8:30 AM Registration + Coffee + Snack
Registration + Coffee + Snack
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119

9:20 AM Welcome
Welcome
9:20 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
9:30 AM Experimental inputs HVP
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

9:30 AM Exp inputs HVP CMD2/3 by Vanya Logashenko - Ivan Logashenko (BINP)

9:50 AM e+e- -> pi+pi- generation using KKMC - Swagato Banerjee (University of Louisville)
10:20 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
10:50 AM Experimental inputs HVP
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

10:50 AM Exp inputs HVP from KLOE - Lorenzo Punzi (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN Pisa)

11:20 AM Exp inputs HVP from BESIII - Riccardo Aliberti (JGU Mainz)
11:50 AM Exp input HVP Discussion

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

12:05 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:05 PM - 1:35 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

1:35 PM Exp input HVP Discussion

1:35 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
2:20 PM MC, radiative corrections
2:20 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

2:20 PM Overview on radiative corrections and Monte Carlo codes: an update on the RadioMonteCarlow2 activities - Fulvio Piccinini (INFN Pavia and GGI Arcetri)

2:50 PM McMule update - Sophie Kollatzsch (PSI / UZH)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
3:45 PM MC, radiative corrections
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

3:45 PM High-precision Monte Carlo predictions for radiative return with BabaYaga@NLO - Marco Ghilardi (University of Pavia-INFN Section of Pavia)

4:15 PM Phokhara beyond NLO -- an update - William Torres Bobadilla (University of Liverpool)
4:45 PM MC RC Discussion

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

5:15 PM Break
Break
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
5:30 PM Reception & poster
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Light Court
Contributions

5:30 PM Dark Photon Search at BESIII using Initial State Radiation - Maurice Anderson (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

5:50 PM Towards the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon g−2 with C∗boundary conditions - Khai Phan (ETH Zurich)
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
9:00 AM Dispersion HVP
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

9:00 AM Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation Contributions to Muon g-2: KNTW Update - Aidan Wright (University of Liverpool)

9:30 AM Data-driven HVP in a_\mu, a_e and muonic atoms - Bogdan Malaescu (LPNHE, CNRS) Vladimir Pascalutsa
9:50 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
10:20 AM Dispersion HVP
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

10:20 AM The pion vector form factor with explicit inelasticities - Leon Heuser (HISKP, University of Bonn)
10:45 AM Disp HVP Discussion

10:45 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119

11:50 AM MC RC Discussion

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
2:00 PM Tau decay exp
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

2:00 PM Tau decay measurements at BESIII and super tau-charm factory - Christoph Florian Redmer (JGU Mainz)
2:25 PM Tau and IB corrections
2:25 PM - 3:25 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

2:25 PM RBC/UKQCD results - Mattia Bruno (Univesita' di Milano-Bicocca)

2:55 PM Comparison of the hadronic vacuum polarization between hadronic $\tau$-decay data and the lattice - Maarten Golterman (San Francisco State University)
3:25 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
3:55 PM Tau and IB corrections
3:55 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

3:55 PM Bern group results - Martin Hoferichter (University of Bern)

4:15 PM Short distance contribtions - Vincenzo Cirigliano (University of Washington)

4:40 PM Isospin breaking in rho parameters - Gabriel Lopez Castro (Departamento de Fisica, Cinvestav, Mexico)
5:00 PM Tau and IB Discussion: complete calculation of IB corrections
complete calculation of IB corrections
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

5:00 PM Tau isospin breaking discussion - Mattia Bruno (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
9:00 AM Muon g-2 experiments
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

9:00 AM Experiment Update J-PARC - Takashi Yamanaka (Kyushu University)

9:30 AM BSM searches with the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment - Hogan Nguyen (Fermilab)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
10:30 AM Lattice HVP
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

10:30 AM The Muon g-2 HVP contribution from the BMW/DMZ collaboration - Bálint Tóth (University of Wuppertal)

11:00 AM Update on $a_\mu^\text{HVP, isoQCD}$ from the ETM collaboration - Simone Romiti (University of Bern)

11:30 AM Lattice HVP from FNAL/HPQCD/MILC - Shaun Lahert (University of Utah)

12:00 PM Mainz status update - Arnau Beltran (JGU Mainz)
12:30 PM Lunch & SC members meeting
Lunch & SC members meeting
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
2:00 PM Lattice HVP
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

2:00 PM Lattice HVP from RBC/UKQCD - Julian Parrino (Universität Regensburg)

2:30 PM Lattice HVP with RC* - Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich)

3:00 PM Lattice HVP from Aubin et al. - Vaishakhi Moningi (University of Connecitcut)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
4:00 PM Lattice HVP
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

4:00 PM PACS Collaboration for Muon g-2 Precision Physics - Kohtaroh Miura (University of Tsukuba)
4:15 PM Lattice HVP short talks
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

4:15 PM The lattice scale setting procedure in the BMW/DMZ muon (g-2) calculation - Davide Giusti (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

4:30 PM Improved calculational setup for isospin-breaking corrections to the HVP contribution - Sebastian Lahrtz

4:45 PM Improved estimators for the HVP - Christoph Lehner (University of Regensburg)

5:00 PM Spurion Matching of HVP and HLbL Diagrams - Jake Sitison (University of Colorado Boulder)
5:15 PM Lat HVP Discussions
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

5:15 PM Lattice HVP discussions - Christoph Lehner (University of Regensburg)
Thursday, August 6, 2026
9:00 AM Experimental inputs HVP
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of the Experimental Inputs for HVP by SND - Andrey Kupich (BINP)
9:20 AM MUonE
9:20 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

9:20 AM Status and plans for MUonE experiment - Riccardo Nunzio Pilato (University of Liverpool)
9:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
10:15 AM Connections
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

10:15 AM The running of the electroweak gauge couplings from first principles - Alessandro Conigli (JGU Mainz)
10:45 AM Connections Discussion: Towards a consensus evaluation of Delta alpha_had(M_Z)?
Towards a consensus evaluation of Delta alpha_had(M_Z)?
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
11:15 AM Lattice HLbL
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

11:15 AM Update on the calculation of the long-distance $\pi^0$ exchange part of the hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) contribution to muon g-2 from RBC-UKQCD. - Anton Shcherbakov (UCONN)

11:45 AM Mainz update on the HLbL - Domink Erb (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

12:15 PM Towards hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon g-2 with C* boundary conditions - Khai Phan (ETH Zurich)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
2:00 PM Lattice HLbL
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

2:00 PM The hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon $g-2$ using staggered fermions - Christian Zimmermann (University of Kentucky)

2:30 PM HLbL contributions from twisted-mass lattice QCD - Urs Wenger (University of Bern)
3:00 PM Lat HLbL Discussion

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

4:00 PM Excursion
Excursion
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

7:00 PM Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Friday, August 7, 2026
9:00 AM Experimental input HLbL
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental input for hadronic light-by-light from JLab - Liping Gan

9:30 AM Experimental Inputs for Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering from the BESIII Collaboration - Max Lellmann (JGU Mainz)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119

10:30 AM Dispersive HLbL

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: GS117 and GS119
11:45 AM a_e session
11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

11:45 AM Report from MITP alpha workshop - Hartmut Wittig

12:15 PM On HVP contribution to $g-2$ of the muon versus the electron - Siyuan Li (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU))
12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
2:00 PM Implications for NP
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119
Contributions

2:00 PM Muon g-2 and the Status of Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Kilian Möhling (TU Dresden, Institut für Kern- und Teilchen Physik)
2:30 PM Implications for NP Discussion

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

2:45 PM TI future plans Discussion

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: GS117 and GS119

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