Topical Lectures "CP violation"

30 Mar 2026, 09:30 → 1 Apr 2026, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Colloquium room (Nikhef)

Marieke Postma, Niels Tuning, Patrick Koppenburg

Organizers: Marieke Postma, Niels Tuning and Patrick Koppenburg

The aim is to focus on the theme “CP violation”, while remaining broad and inclusive across different approaches, energy scales, and communities. Various aspects are discussed where CP violation manifests itself:

• CP violation in the quark sector 
• CP violation in the electroweak sector
• CP violation at low energy
• CP violation in the lepton sector
• Cosmological implications

 

Monday, 30 March

09:30 Coffee

1 Welcome

Speakers: Marieke Postma, Niels Tuning, Patrick Koppenburg

Info

2 Introduction: Setting the Scene

Speaker: Marcel Merk

CP_Intro.pdf

CP_Intro.pptx

3 CP violation in the quark sector (1)

Speaker: Niels Tuning

CPV in quarks

CPV in quarks

Lecture Notes

PDG: CKM

PDG: CPV

11:30 Break

4 CP violation in the quark sector (1)

Speaker: Niels Tuning

12:30 PhD Lunch

5 CP violation in the quark sector (2)

Speaker: Patrick Koppenburg

Koppenburg-202603-TopicalCPV.pdf

Notes: Flavour at LHCb

6 Introduction Group Work

Info

Miniproject-Feb2013-Literature-Hints.pdf

15:15 Coffee break

7 Group work

Tuesday, 31 March

8 CP-odd Higgs

Speaker: Lydia Brenner

CP violation in the Higgs.pdf

10:15 Coffee

9 CP(T) violation at low energy (1)

Speaker: Lorenz Willmann (VSI, RuG)

11:15 Break

10 CP(T) violation at low energy (2)

Speaker: Lorenz Willmann (VSI, RuG)

12:30 Lunch

11 Group work

18:00 Social Event at 'The All Out'

Wednesday, 1 April

12 CP violation in neutrinos (1)

Speaker: Aart Heijboer

PDG: Neutrinos

toplec26.pptx

10:15 Coffee

13 CP violation in neutrinos (2)

Speaker: Aart Heijboer

toplec26.pptx

11:15 Break

14 Cosmological implications (1)

Speaker: Keri Vos (Maastricht University)

KKV_topical_lectures.pdf

12:30 Lunch

15 Cosmological implications (2)

Speaker: Keri Vos (Maastricht University)

14:15 Break

16 Closing presentations

• 10 groups: 5'+5'

17:00 Drinks