The XXIII Annual Workshop on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

2 Mar 2026, 08:30 → 5 Mar 2026, 12:40 Asia/Seoul

Room 1503, 5th Floor, Building 1 (KIAS (Korea Institute for Advanced Study))

Junegone Chay (Korea University) , Hee Sok Chung (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U) , Daekyoung Kang (Fudan University) , Chul Kim (seoultech) , June-Haak Ee (MIT) , Seyong Kim (Sejong University) , Taehyun Kwon (seoultech) , Seung J. Lee (KIAS)

Overview

The XXIII Annual Workshop on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) will take place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from March 2 to 5, 2026, at Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS). This workshop aims to gather researchers working on SCET, resummation, and (non)perturbative QCD to exchange ideas on recent advances and their applications in particle and nuclear physics.

For those interested in giving a talk, please submit an abstract through the Call for Abstract tab, which will be opening soon. Be advised that talks are by invitation only, and submitting an abstract does not guarantee a slot for a talk.

 

Pre-Workshop School for SCET 2026 will be held from February 26 to 28 at KIAS, preceding the main workshop. The program features introductory lectures and hands-on sessions for graduate students and early-career researchers.
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SCET2026 group photo.jpeg

SCET2026 poster.pdf

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Monday, 2 March

09:00 → 10:00 Registration

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome

10:10 → 11:10 Energy correlators

10:10 Fragmentation energy correlators

Speaker: Shu-Tao Zhang

SCET_FEC.pdf

10:40 The Post-Confinement Plateau of Energy–Energy Correlators as a Precision Probe of \alpha_s (M_Z)

Speaker: Zhan Wang (Beijing normal university)

ZhanWang_SECT26.pdf

11:10 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:30 Top Quark & Heavy Quarks

11:30 Factorization for Semileptonic Decays of Boosted and Off-Shell Top Quarks with a Wide Bottom Jet

Speaker: Andre Hoang (University of Vienna)

Hoang-topdecay-scet-2026.pdf

12:00 NNLO soft function for 0-jettiness in $t\bar{t}$ production

Speaker: Sebastian Edelmann (University of Siegen)

SCET2026.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Energy correlators

14:30 Azimuthal Asymmetries in Energy Correlators: Probing Transversity and NGLs

Speaker: Wanchen Li (Fudan University)

WanchenLi_EECAsymmetry.pdf

15:00 High precision heavy-boson-jet substructure with energy correlators

Speaker: Aditya Pathak (DESY)

AP_SCET_KIAS_26.pdf

15:30 Higher-point energy correlators made practical

Speaker: Wouter Waalewjin (NIKHEF)

SCET_2026.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:30 Event shape and jet substructure resummation

16:30 Resumming transverse observables for NNLO+PS matching in GENEVA

Speaker: Rebecca von Kuk (Univerisity of Bern)

SCET2026_RvonKuk.pdf

17:00 Event shapes at hadron colliders with ARES and CAESAR

Speaker: Daniel Reichelt (CERN)

SCET_2026_DReichelt.pdf

18:30 → 21:00 Reception

Tuesday, 3 March

09:00 → 10:30 Precision QCD

09:00 Perturbative uncertainties in the back-to-back EEC and sensitivity to alpha_s

Speaker: Nicole Oberth (DESY)

Scet slides_oberth.pdf

09:30 A Precise $\alpha_s$ Determination from the R-improved QCD Static Energy

Speaker: José Manuel Mena Valle (Universidad de Salamanca)

MenaValle_Scet26.pdf

10:00 Born-projected leptons in Drell-Yan final state

Speaker: Roger Balsach (DESY)

Balsach_scet26.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Power Corrections & Nonperturbative Effects

11:00 Probing Nonperturbative Power Corrections to Event Shapes

Speaker: Brian Jiang (MIT)

Brian_Jiang_SCET_2026.pdf

11:30 Renormalon analysis of SCET-II observables in the large-$\beta_0$ approximation

Speaker: Kevin Brune (JGU Mainz)

SCET26_Brune.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Nonglobal & Super-Leading Logarithms

14:00 Bridging Multiple Roads to Non-Global Resummation

Speaker: Nicolas Schalch (Oxford University)

scet2026-korea-schalch.pdf

14:30 Multi-Jet Final States with Recoil-Free Axes: Generalized $q_T$-Slicing and Dijet Resummation

Speaker: Rong-Jun Fu (Fudan University)

RJF_qtSlicing_dijetResum.pdf

15:00 Two Loop Anomalous Dimension for Non Global Logarithms

Speaker: Jürg Haag (Universität Bern)

SCET2026.pdf

15:30 → 15:40 Photo Session

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Nonglobal & Super-Leading Logarithms

16:00 Automated Calculation of Soft Functions for Non-global Observables

Speaker: Rudi Rahn (University of Vienna)

SCET26_Rahn.pdf

16:30 Super-Leading Logarithms and Sommerfeld Effect in $t \bar{t}$-Production

Speaker: Romy Grünhofer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

SCET26_Grünhofer.pdf

17:00 Towards Multiple Soft Emissions in LHC Jet Production

Speaker: Josua Scholze (JGU Mainz)

Towards Multiple Soft Emissions in LHC Jet Production_JosuaScholze.pdf

Wednesday, 4 March

09:00 → 10:40 TMD & Nucleon Structure

09:00 Transverse momentum measurements in SIDIS with jets at next-to-leading power

Speaker: Max Jaarsma (JGU Mainz)

SCET_2026_Talk_Max-17.pdf

09:25 Physical and spurious thresholds in NNLO SIDIS hard functions

Speaker: Fabian Wunder (University of Tübingen)

SCET2026_FabianWunder_SIDISwithSVPs.pdf

09:50 Nucleon Tomography with 0-jettiness

Speaker: Shen Fang (Fundan University)

fang 2026.pdf

10:15 qT/Q correction for unpolarized Drell-Yan in TMD factorization

Speaker: Arturo Arroyo Castro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

4 qT over Q for DY_scet2026.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:00 Exclusive Processes & Heavy Flavor

11:10 An effective hadronic field theory for B-meson decays at high recoil

Speaker: Jaime del Palacio Lirola (University of Siegen)

SCHHChPT_SCET.pdf

11:35 $B_c \to \eta_c$ form factors at large recoil: SCET analysis and a three-loop check

Speaker: Dennis Horstmann (KIT)

HorstmannSCET26.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Glauber, Regge & Diffraction

14:00 Compton Scattering Total Cross Section at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order and Resummation of Leading Logarithms

Speaker: Chengtai Tan (Peking University)

7 Tan Compton.pdf

14:30 Energy-Energy Correlator in the Regge Limit

Speaker: Hongyi Ruan (Peking University)

SCET2026.pdf

15:00 Diffraction across colliders

Speaker: Philipp Benjamin Aretz (MIT)

Diffraction-SCET26.pdf

15:30 → 15:35 Announcement: SCET 2027

Speaker: Rudi Rahn (University of Vienna)

SCET2027_Announcement_Vienna.pdf

15:35 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 17:15 Event shape and jet substructure resummation

15:50 Centauric Event Shapes in DIS

Speaker: Christopher Lee (LANL)

Lee_C_SCET26 (2).pdf

16:15 Resummation of Flattened Jet Angularity

Speaker: Yang-Ting Chien (Georgia State University)

Flat_SCET2026.pdf

16:40 Resummed Radiation of Light BSM States in Parton Showers and Novel Jet Signatures

Speaker: Joon-Bin Lee (Seoul National University)

SCET2026.pdf

18:20 → 20:50 Workshop Banquet

Thursday, 5 March

09:00 → 10:30 Amplitudes & Formal Developments

09:00 Collinear limits of multi-leg scattering amplitudes

Speaker: Sebastian Jaskiewicz (University of Bern)

scet26-multi-collinear-limits-jaskiewicz.pdf

09:30 Correlation Function/Wilson Loop Duality in Gauge Theory from EFT

Speaker: Zhaoyan Pang (School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China)

202603.pdf

10:00 Extraction of quantum interference within the proton

Speaker: Guillermo Portela (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

PORTELA_GUILLERMO_SCET2026.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Heavy quarkonium

11:00 Relativistic corrections to exclusive photo production of quarkonia near-threshold

Speaker: Sarah K. Blask (University of Arizona)

Blask_SCET Meeting 2026.pptx

11:30 SCET Approach to Quarkonium-in-Jet Production at LHC and EIC

Speaker: Taewook Ha (Fudan University)

TW SCET2026.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Closing Remarks