Bormio Conference 2026

Session

Wednesday Afternoon

21 Jan 2026, 17:00

Bormio, Italy

49. Proton structure, from HERA to the EIC

Tyler Kutz (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

21/01/2026, 17:00

The discovery of the pointlike constituents of the proton inspired massive experimental efforts to use deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to understand the partonic structure of hadrons. Early experiments were performed at fixed-target facilities, which made important findings but were limited in accessible kinematics. The Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA), operated at DESY between...

32. The DUNE experiment

Esteban Javier Cristaldo Morales (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

21/01/2026, 17:30

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is one of the most ambitious neutrino oscillation projects ever conceived. Currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, DUNE will exploit a high-power, wide-band neutrino beam produced at Fermilab. In this talk, I will review the broad physics program of the experiment, which includes precision...

40. Isospin-breaking corrections to the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon g-2

Sebastian Lahrtz (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)

21/01/2026, 18:00

Isospin-breaking corrections to the hadronic vacuum polarisation contribution to the muon g-2 are one of the largest contribution to the error in the latest lattice calculations. To reach the precision of the direct measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, it is therefore crucial to reduce the uncertainties contributing to the total error of hadronic vacuum polarisation. I will...

34. First observation of (anti)deuteron formation from resonance-decay nucleons

Maximilian Mahlein (TU Munich, Germany)

21/01/2026, 18:18

The microscopic mechanism responsible for the formation of light (anti)(hyper)nuclei in hadron–hadron collisions remains one of the open questions in high-energy nuclear physics. While statistical hadronization and nucleon coalescence models both reproduce measured yields, momentum spectra, and fluctuations in pp, p–A, and A–A collisions at ultra-relativistic energies, they are based on...

2. Direct Measurement of the $^{59}$Cu(p,$\alpha$)$^{56}$Ni Reaction with the Multi Sampling Ionization Chamber Detector (MUSIC)

Prof. Eilens Lopez Saavedra (Argonne National Laboratory)

21/01/2026, 18:36

We report the preliminary results from a direct cross‐section measurement of the $^{59}$Cu(p, $\alpha$) $^{56}$Ni reaction, performed in inverse kinematics using the high-efficiency MUSIC active-target detector at the ReA6 facility at FRIB. This reaction is critical in explosive astrophysical environments. In type I X-ray bursts, where rapid proton capture and $\alpha$-induced processes drive...

52. Hidden Engines: The Rise of non-jetted AGN as Cosmic Neutrino Sources

Chiara Bellenghi (TU Munich, Germany)

Recent IceCube observations reveal a significant excess of TeV neutrinos from the Seyfert II galaxy NGC 1068, marking the first robust association of astrophysical neutrinos with a non-jetted AGN despite the absence of gamma-ray emission. The remarkable X-ray brightness of this source suggests that dense X-ray photon fields near the supermassive black hole may act simultaneously as targets for...