QUARKS-2026

18 May 2026, 00:00 → 23 May 2026, 23:59 Europe/Moscow

Cosmos Petrozavodsk Hotel

"Quarks-2026" is the 23d in the series of conferences on high-energy physics taking place biennially since 1980 in various historical and cultural places of Georgia (before 1992) and Russia. The previous off-line seminar, "Quarks-2024", was held in Pereslavl, while “Quarks-2020” was organized online in June 2021. 

Topics:

• Physics beyond the Standard Model  
  (rare processes, Higgs phenomenology, exotica)
• Cosmology and astroparticle physics
• Gravity and its modifications
• Neutrino physics
• Quantum chromodynamics, strong interactions
• Aspects of mathematical physics
• Selected experimental results

 

There is also online translaion of talks available via the link 

 

The Seminar is organized by the Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.

Conference poster.pdf

Ship_1.pdf

Ship_2.pdf

Monday, 18 May

08:30 → 10:00 Arrival

10:00 → 12:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Irina Aref'eva (Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAN)

10:00 Progress on neutrino physics

Speaker: Liudmila Kolupaeva (JINR)

quarks2026_Kolupaeva.pdf

10:40 Recent advances in machine learning for physics

Speaker: Ivan Kharuk (INR & MIPT)

quarks2026_Kharuk.pdf

11:20 Perturbations in scalar-tensor and scalar-vector-tensor theories

Speaker: Sergey Mironov (INR RAS, ITMP MSU, ITEP (NRCKI))

quarks2026_Mironov.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Coffee-Break

12:20 → 14:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Dmitry Gal'tsov (Moscow State University)

12:20 Inflationary models with the Gauss-Bonnet term and nonminimal coupling

Speaker: Sergey Vernov (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Vernov.pdf

12:40 Axion-like potential in late-universe models

Speaker: George Krugan (INR RAS, MIPT)

quarks2026_Krugan.pdf

13:00 Theoretical and observational probes of extended gravities

Speaker: Stanislav Alexeyev (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Alexseev.pdf

13:20 Non-minimal Effective Scalar-Tensor Gravity in the Early Universe

Speaker: Roman Stamov (Department of Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy, Physics Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Stamov.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Vladimir Petrov (Logunov Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU))

12:20 Relativistic effects in heavy mesons

Speaker: Ivan Obraztsov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

quarks2026_Obraztsov.pdf

12:40 Heavy quark initiated deep-inelastic scattering

Speaker: Kirill Kudashkin (Shandong University)

quarks2026_Kudashkin.pdf

13:00 On the Possibility of Vortex Light Heavy Quarkonium Spectroscopy

Speaker: Petr Korolev (Tomsk State University)

quarks2026_Korolev.pdf

13:20 Developing universal foundational models for top-quark physics

Speaker: Emil Abasov (SINP)

quarks2026_Abasov.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 Selected experimental results

Convener: Yury Kudenko (INR RAS)

12:20 First JUNO results on the solar oscillation parameters

Speaker: Dmitrii Dolzhikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

2026-05-JUNO-first-results-QUARKS-2026.pdf

12:40 Search for aligned muons recorded by the underground LVD experiment

Speaker: Natalia Agafonova (INR RAS)

13:00 Recent results and prospects of the SND@LHC experiment

Speaker: Daria Morozova (University Federico II and INFN, Naples (IT))

13:20 Experiments on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Current Status and Prospects.

Speaker: Vladimir Kazalov (BNO INR RAS)

13:40 Rare four-leptonic decays of B-mesons with three charged leptons in the final state

Speaker: Dmitrii Ostapovich (Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov MSU; P.N Lebedev Institute of Physics)

14:00 → 15:40 Lunch

15:40 → 17:00 Gravity and it's modification

Convener: Stanislav Alexeyev (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

15:40 Quantum black holes and unitarity test

Speaker: Maxim Fitkevich (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Fitkevich.pdf

16:00 Quantum spectroscopy of black holes

Speaker: Vyacheslav Dockuchaev (INR RAS)

16:20 Solutions in Quadratures of Einstein-Dilaton-Maxwell Models with 3-form Fields

Speaker: Viktor Zlobin (ITMP MSU)

16:40 Gravitational radiation in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity

Speaker: Polina Dyadina (SAI MSU)

15:40 → 17:00 Neutrino physics

Convener: Liudmila Kolupaeva (JINR)

15:40 Project SATURNE: The study of coherent elastic scattering of tritium antineutrinos and constraint on the neutrino magnetic moment

Speaker: Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Studenikin.pdf

16:00 Quantum field-theoretic framework for neutrino decoherence

Speaker: Konstantin Stankevich (Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Stankevich.pdf

16:20 Formalism of Open Quantum Systems in Neutrino Scattering on Superfluid Helium

Speaker: Maxim Vyalkov (MSU Sarov, NCPhM)

quarks2026_Vyalkov.pdf

16:40 Neutrino mass variables in 3 active and 2 sterile neutrino model

Speaker: Rajeev Narasimhamurthy (BLTP, JINR)

quarks2026_Rajeev.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Sergei Afonin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI))

15:40 Recent progress in the holographic QCD

Speaker: Irina Aref'eva (Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAN)

quarks2026_Arefeva.pdf

16:00 Spatial Wilson Loops in Holographic QCD Models and Experimental Observables

Speaker: Pavel Slepov (Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS)

quarks2026_Slepov.pdf

16:20 on particle sizes

Speaker: Vladimir Petrov (Logunov Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU))

quarks2026_Petrov.pdf

16:40 Entanglement viscosity and conformal quantum anomaly

Speaker: Georgy Prokhorov (Dubna, JINR, BLTP)

quarks2026_Prokhorov.pdf

17:00 → 17:20 Coffe-Break

17:20 → 19:00 Gravity and it's modification

Convener: Sergey Vernov (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

17:20 Formation of a black hole by a scalar field

Speaker: Mikhail Katanaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)

BH formation.pdf

17:40 Casimir Energy in Non-Standard Backgrounds: Rotation and Unstable Modes

Speaker: Michael Bordag (BLTP at JINR, Dubna)

18:00 Electromagnetic hair of charged black holes with NUT-parameter

Speaker: Rostom Karsanov (Moscow State University)

17:20 → 19:00 Neutrino physics

Convener: Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS)

17:20 High-energy motivation and low-energy signatures of the Inverse Seesaw model

Speaker: Dmitrii Kazarkin (SINP MSU)

quarks2026_Kazarkin.pdf

17:40 The potential of directional neutrino detection to observe neutrino spin oscillations

Speaker: Fedor Lazarev (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Lazarev.pdf

18:00 Testing of beta and antineutrino spectra symmetry by the use of multi-kiloton detector

Speaker: Svetlana Ingerman (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Ingerman.pdf

18:20 Daya Bay final results with open data and model

Speaker: Vitalii Zavadskyi (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

2026-05-18-Zavadskyi-Quarks_.pdf

18:40 The possibility of limitation by JUNO detector of 40K antineutrino and neutrino flux for obtaining its abundance in the Earth

Speaker: Valery Sinev (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS)

quarks2026_Sinev.pdf

17:20 → 19:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Andrei Kataev (INR RAS and JINR)

17:20 Global analysis of J/psi production in non-relativistic QCD with kT-factorization

Speaker: Sergey Baranov (P.N.Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

quarks2026_Baranov.pdf

17:40 Optimization of perturbation series for physical quantities using the QCD renormalization group: necessary conditions and partial results

Speaker: Sergey Mikhailov (BLTP, JINR Dubna)

quarks2026_Mikhailov.pdf

18:00 Color superconductivity in general dimensional via holography

Speaker: Nguyen Hoang Vu (BLTP/JINR)

quarks2026_Nguyen.pdf

18:20 Direct and reconstruction methods in phenomenological holography

Speaker: Aleksandr Polevov (MI RAS)

quarks2026_Polevov.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Conference Event I

Tuesday, 19 May

10:00 → 12:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Sergey Troitsky (INR RAS)

10:00 New ERA in UHECR (TBC)

Speaker: Pavel Klimov (SINP MSU)

quarks2026_Klimov.pptx

10:40 Physics at future ee colliders

Speaker: Andrej Arbuzov (JINR)

quarks2026_Arbuzov.pdf

11:20 New physics - new light particles?!

Speaker: Sergey Demidov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Demidov.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Cofee-Break

12:20 → 14:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Nikolay Budnev (Irkutsk State University)

12:20 Изображения источников космических лучей ультравысоких энергий в турбулентном межгалактическом магнитном поле

Speaker: Константин Долгих (ИЯИ РАН)

quarks2026_Dolgikh.pdf

12:40 Limiting the number density of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources

Speaker: Anastasia Pavliuk (MIPT, INR)

quarks2026_Pavlyuk.pdf

13:00 Identifying nearby sources of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays using graph convolutional neural networks

Speaker: Iuliia Moroz (INR RAS, MIPT)

quarks2026_Moroz.pdf

13:20 Interaction of a gamma-ray burst with the interstellar gas of the parent galaxy: observational signatures

Speaker: Aleksandr Nesterenok (Ioffe Institute)

quarks2026_Nesterenok.pdf

13:40 Dark-matter relay for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Speaker: Mikhail Sekretov (MSU, INR)

Sekretov_quarks.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Mikhail Kirsanov (JINR)

12:20 New physics with NICA beams

Speaker: Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS)

12:40 Rare signatures at missing momentum experiments

Speaker: Dmitry Kirpichnikov (INR RAS)

13:00 Pion bremsstrahlung as a possible source for dark photons

Speaker: Ekaterina Kriukova (INR RAS & ITMP)

13:20 A self-consistent U(1)-extended model of fermionic dark matter with scalar and gauge portals: associated production with third-generation fermions at electron–positron colliders

Speaker: Sergei Trykov (SINP MSU)

Quarks-2026-Trykov.pdf

13:40 Towards a muon collider

Speaker: Lev Dudko (SINP MSU)

12:20 → 14:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Sergey Mikhailov (BLTP, JINR Dubna)

12:20 Optimization of factorization scale for QED e+e- annihilation process

Speaker: Uliana Voznaya (JINR)

quarks2026_Voznaya.pdf

12:40 Electron-positron annihilation into heavy leptons at two loops

Speaker: Peter Krachkov (BINP)

quarks2026_krachkov.pdf

13:00 Single Top Quarks physics at future Lepton Colliders

Speaker: Maxim Perfilov (SKOBELTSYN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY)

quarks2026_Perfilov.pdf

13:20 Dilepton production at CMS LHC: inverse gluon and photon emission vs the Drell-Yan process and photon fusion

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Zykunov (JINR)

quarks2026_Zykunov.pdf

13:40 EDM of hyperons generated by CP-violated three pseudoscalar meson transition

Speaker: Evgenii Oleinik (JINR / TSU)

quarks2026_Oleynik.pdf

14:00 → 15:40 Lunch

15:40 → 17:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Pavel Klimov (SINP MSU)

15:40 From TAIGA-1 to TAIGA-100 for PeV gamma astronomy

Speaker: Nikolay Budnev (Irkutsk State University)

quarks2026_Budnev.pdf

16:00 Latent representation for TA SD events and search for anomalies

Speaker: Robert Fitagdinov (INR, MIPT)

quarks2026_Fitagdinov.pdf

16:20 Arrival Directions of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays in TA FD

Speaker: Alisa Surai (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Surai.pdf

16:40 Anisotropy of mass components of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in the KASCADE experiment data

Speaker: Egor Shinkevich (MSU, INR RAS)

quarks2026_Shinkevich.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Dmitry Kirpichnikov (INR RAS)

15:40 Precise research of neutron decay and the need to Standard Model extension

Speaker: Аnatoli Serebrov (NRC KI - PNPI)

16:00 Search for heavy axion-like particles in light-by-light scattering at the FCC-hh

Speaker: Alexander Kisselev (NRC Kurchatov Institute - IHEP)

16:20 Searching for heavy neutrinos in $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^-$: it is all about unitarity

Speaker: Sergey Godunov (LPI)

16:40 Lepton number violating processes and dark matter in models with a type I+II seesaw mechanism

Speaker: Elena Fedotova (SINP MSU)

15:40 → 17:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Roman Lee (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

15:40 On the possibility of an avalanche of particle creation

Speaker: Emil Akhmedov (MIPT)

quarks2026_Akhmedov.pdf

16:00 Multiparticle production in electron-positron annihilation

Speaker: Elena Kokoulina (JINR LHEP)

quarks2026_Kokoulina.pdf

16:20 One-dimensional Schroedinger equation: fast and precise

Speaker: Dmitry Levkov (INR RAS & ITMP MSU)

quarks2026_Levkov.pdf

16:40 Renormalized multiparticle amplitudes from exact Landau method

Speaker: Bulat Farkhtdinov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Farkhtdinov.pdf

17:00 → 17:20 Coffe-Break

17:20 → 19:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Anton Baushev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)

17:20 Domain walls and all that

Speaker: Sabir Ramazanov (Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (ITMP, MSU))

quarks2026_Ramazanov.pdf

17:40 Interaction of primordial plasma with domain walls in the early Universe

Speaker: Danila Filippov (NRNU MEPhI)

quarks2026_Filippov.pdf

18:00 Search for cosmic strings: modeling of gravitational lensing and observational perspectives

Speaker: Olga Sazhina (SAI MSU)

quarks2026_Sazhina.pdf

18:20 Search for Wormhole Candidates in Astrophysical Binary Systems via Radial Velocity Analysis

Speaker: Iurii Moiseev (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

quarks2026_Moiseev.pdf

18:40 Generalized Models for Spinning Field Lumps on Plane

Speaker: Yulia Galushkina (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Galushkina.pdf

17:20 → 19:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Sergey Demidov (INR RAS)

17:20 Recent results and plans of the NA64 experiment

Speaker: Mikhail Kirsanov (JINR)

17:40 Constraints on millicharged particles from thunderstorms on the Solar system planets

Speaker: Ekaterina Dmitrieva (INR RAS, MSU)

18:00 One-loop corrections to photon velocity in scalar LIV QED

Speaker: Anastasia Zuzikova (No)

18:20 P,T-violating effects in molecules

Speaker: Анна Захарова (NRC «Kurchatov Institute» - PNPI)

18:40 One-stage first-order phase transition with a light supersymmetry-breaking sector

Speaker: Nikolay Efremov

17:20 → 19:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Andrej Arbuzov (JINR)

17:20 Generalized Vector Dominance Model describing the data up to 2 GeV

Speaker: Alexey Kiselev (Sobolev Institute for Mathematics)

quarks2026_Kiselev.pdf

17:40 On alpha_s determinations from the e^+e^- annihilation to hadrons dats below thresholds of charm quarks production

Speaker: Andrei Kataev (INR RAS and JINR)

quarks2026_Kataev.pdf

18:00 High energy behaviour of Fermi theory

Speaker: Arthur Borlakov (BLTP JINR)

quarks2026_Borlakov.pdf

18:20 Slightly-offshell 5-point amplitudes in SYM

Speaker: Roman Lee (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

quarks2026_Lee.pdf

18:40 One-Loop Renormalization of Anisotropic Two-Scalar Quantum Field Theories

Speaker: Yulia Ageeva (INR RAS)

QUARKS_2026_Ageeva.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 20 May

10:00 → 12:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Andrei Barvinsky (Theory Department, Lebedev Physics Institute)

10:00 Progress in Higher-Spin Gauge Theory (TBC)

Speaker: Mikhail Vasiliev (Lebedev Institute)

quarks2026_Vasiliev.pdf

10:40 Progress in non-Abelian SUSY models and.. (TBC)

Speaker: Alexei Yung (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

quarks2026_Yung.pdf

11:20 Progress in Baikal neutrino project (TBC)

Speaker: Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Aynutdinov.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Coffe-Break

12:20 → 14:00 Aspects of mathematical physics

Convener: Mikhail Vasiliev (Lebedev Institute)

12:20 Symmetry breaking in the self-dual higher-spin theory

Speaker: Ilgam Faliakhov (MIPT & LPI RAS)

12:40 Structure of N=2 superfield higher-spin Abelian cubic interactions

Speaker: Nikita Zaigraev (JINR, MIPT)

13:00 Averaging over N and quantum chaos: view from random matrix theory

Speaker: Mikhail Khramtsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute)

RMT-averaged-large-N-talk-Quarks26.pdf

13:20 Novel gauging in N=(2,2) superspace

Speaker: Dmitry Bykov

13:40 Applying geometric methods for decomposition of single-qubit gates

Speaker: Ljudmila Bordag (MLIT JINR, Dubna)

12:20 → 14:00 Neutrino physics

Convener: Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University)

12:20 Neutrino oscillations: CP violation and mass ordering

Speaker: Yury Kudenko (INR RAS)

kudenko_quarks2026_final.pdf

12:40 Analysis of atmospheric neutrino interactions in the NOvA far detector

Speaker: Aleksandra Ivanova (JINR, ISU)

Ivanova.pdf

13:00 Suppression of noise hits and events from extensive air showers by neural networks using domain adaptation in the Baikal-GVD experiment.

Speaker: Albert Matseiko (MIPT, INR RAS)

quarks2026_Matseiko.pdf

13:20 Wave packet treatment of neutrino oscillations in astrophysical environments

Speaker: Artem Popov (Moscow State University)

Popov.pdf

13:40 Effects of vector NSI in elastic neutrino-atom scattering

Speaker: Maksim Verkhovtsev (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Verkhovtsev_QUARKS2026.pdf

12:20 → 14:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Lev Dudko (SINP MSU)

12:20 Confinement Potential for Heavy Quarks from Soft Wall Holographic Approach to QCD

Speaker: Sergei Afonin (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI))

quarks2026_Afonin.pdf

12:40 Extending Anisotropic Einstein-Dilaton-Maxwell Gravity for Holographic QCD

Speaker: Dr Kristina Rannu (Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR))

quarks2026_Rannu.pdf

13:00 Role of diquarks for baryon and exotic state production with large pT in pp- and dd-collisions

Speaker: Andrey Zelenov (NRC KI - PNPI)

quarks2026_Zelenov.pdf

13:20 Anisotropic drag force in finite density QGP from rotating 5D black holes

Speaker: SERGEI OVCHINNIKOV (ITMP at Lomonosov MSU)

quarks2026_Ovchinnikov.pdf

14:00 → 15:40 Lunch

15:40 → 17:00 Aspects of mathematical physics

Convener: Alexei Yung (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

15:40 On deformations of the Yang--Mills theory: cutoff + background field

Speaker: Aleksandr Ivanov (PDMI RAS and SPBGU)

16:00 Presymplectic BV-AKSZ for supersymmetric theories

Speaker: Alexander Mamekin (MSU, ITMP)

16:20 A brief introduction to the method of orthogonal amplitudes

Speaker: Sergey Baranov (P.N.Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences)

16:40 Field-Theoretic Renormalization Group in Models of Self-Organized Criticality, Growth Processes and Surface Roughening

Speaker: Nikolay Gulitskiy (Saint Petersburg State University)

Quarks_Gulitskiy.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Mikhail Kuznetsov (INR RAS)

15:40 Ultra-high energy event KM3-230213A as a cosmogenic neutrino

Speaker: Nikita Petrov (INR RAS)

Quarks'26_NPetrov.pdf

16:00 Neutrinos from AGN coronae

Speaker: Simon Sotirov (INR RAS, MSU)

quarks_2026_Simon.pdf

16:20 Detection of Gamma-ray Halos around Nearby Late-type Galaxies

Speaker: Maxim Pshirkov (SAI MSU)

quarks2026_Pshirkov.pdf

16:40 Search for correlations between Fermi-LAT very high energy photons and active galactic nuclei

Speaker: Mariia Kudenko (INR RAS)

quarks2026_M.Kudenko.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 QCD physics and Standard Model

Convener: Prof. Vladimir Zykunov (JINR)

15:40 Inhomogeneous phases in QCD and other models

Speaker: Roman Zhokhov (IZMIRAN, IHEP)

quarks2026_Zhokov.pdf

16:00 Quantum mechanical analogy for unstable particle collisions

Speaker: Alexey Kiselev (Sobolev Institute for Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia)

quarks2026_Kiselev.pdf

16:20 Effective potential in NLLA for general scalar model

Speaker: Ravil Iakhibbaev (BLTP JINR)

quarks2026_Iakhibbaev.pdf

16:40 Coulomb corrections in rare decays of neutral $B$ mesons with $\ell^+\ell^-$-pair in final state

Speaker: Stepan Manukhov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics)

quarks2026_Manukhov.pdf

17:00 → 17:20 Coffe-Break

17:20 → 19:00 Aspects of mathematical physics

Convener: Emil Akhmedov (MIPT)

17:20 Schwinger-Keldysh-DeWitt technique and covariant pseudodifferential calculus

Speaker: Andrei Barvinsky (Theory Department, Lebedev Physics Institute)

17:40 Path Integrals in the Future Light Cone

Speaker: Vsevolod Chistiakov (MSU, Faculty of physics)

Chistiakov.pdf

18:00 Gravitational S-duality

Speaker: Dmitry Gal'tsov (Moscow State University)

18:20 Nonlocal gravitational effective action and its implications in cosmology

Speaker: Nikita Kolganov (LPI RAS)

talk.pdf

18:40 Lessons from quantum strings for quantum gravity

Speaker: Yuri Makeenko (No)

17:20 → 19:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Maxim Pshirkov (SAI MSU)

17:20 Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

Speaker: Dmitry Kalashnikov (INR RAS)

Kalashnikov.pdf

17:40 Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun in Models with a Hidden Sector

Speaker: Smirnov Danila (INR RAS)

Smirnov_NeutrinosFromDMAnnihilation.pdf

18:00 Thermalization of inelastic dark matter in the SUN

Speaker: Artem Tovstun (INR RAS)

Tovstun.pdf

18:20 Can the dark matter directly collapse into black holes in the standard LambdaCDM?

Speaker: Anton Baushev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)

quarks2026_Baushev.pdf

18:40 New results on dynamical flattening of halo density cusps by Q-ball dark matter

Speaker: Alexander Libanov (INR RAS)

Libanov_Quarks2026_Prozrachki_2.pdf

17:20 → 19:20 Gravity and it's modification

Convener: Sergey Mironov (INR RAS, ITMP MSU, ITEP (NRCKI))

17:20 Cosmological dynamics in the scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a generalized non-minimal coupling

Speaker: Sergey Sushkov (Kazan Federal University)

quarks2026_Sushkov.pdf

17:40 Dimensional analysis of Horndeski theory

Speaker: Равиль Фатыхов (Kazan Federal University)

quarks2026_Fatykhov.pdf

18:00 Slow-roll approximations in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Speaker: Ekaterina Pozdeeva (SINP MSU)

quarks2026_Pozdeeva.pdf

18:20 Scalar-Vector-Tensor theories and Disformal transformations

Speaker: Mauricio Valencia Villegas (ITMP, MSU and INR, RAS)

quarks2026_Villegas.pdf

18:40 Cosmology in Cuscuton theory and minimally modified gravity

Speaker: Victoria Volkova (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Volkova.pdf

19:00 Image of a wormhole with an arbitrary throat profile

Speaker: Valeria Ishkaeva (Kazan Federal University)

IshkaevaQUARKS2026.pdf

quarks2026_Ishkaeva.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Thursday, 21 May

10:00 → 17:30 Excursion

19:00 → 22:00 Conference event II

Friday, 22 May

11:00 → 12:20 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Olga Sazhina (SAI MSU)

11:00 Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from Stellar Evolution with MESA

Speaker: Aleksey Kudashov (Moscow State University Faculty of Physics)

quarks2026_Kudashov.pdf

11:20 Search for new physics with giant stars in globular clusters after Gaia

Speaker: Sergey Troitsky (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Troitsky.pdf

11:40 Axion–neutrino interactions in seesaw models and astrophysical probes

Speaker: Polina Kivokurtseva (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Kivokurtseva.pdf

12:00 Axion-like particle emission from type Ia supernovae

Speaker: Daniil Davydov (INR, MSU)

quarks2026_Davydov.pdf

11:00 → 12:20 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Victor Kim (NRC KI - PNPI, Gatchina)

11:00 Approximate renormalization group invariants and the Yukawa unification

Speaker: Konstantin Stepanyantz (Moscow State University)

quarks2026_Stepanyantz.pdf

11:20 Constraints on scalar-mediated dark-matter searches from accelerator-based experiments and direct detection.

Speaker: ilia Voronchikhin (INR RAS)

quarks2026_VoronchikhinIV.pdf

11:40 Spontaneous symmetry breaking as a result of extra dimensions compactification

Speaker: Alexey Toporensky (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)

quarks2026_Toporensky.pdf

12:00 Smallness of neutrino masses and leptogenesis in 331 composite Higgs model

Speaker: Roman Nevzorov (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

quarks2026_nevzorov.pdf

12:20 → 12:40 Coffee-Break

12:40 → 14:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Ivan Kharuk (INR & MIPT)

12:40 Extraction of the muon signal using LSTM in the TA experiment

Speaker: Gleb Suzdalov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Suzdalov.pdf

13:00 Diffuse isotropic gamma ray flux constraints in the PeV energy range from Carpet-3 data using domain adaptation

Speaker: Nikita Pozdnukhov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Pozdnukhov.pdf

13:20 Knocking at the Door of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)

Speaker: Adeela Afzal (JINR Dubna)

quarks2026_Adeela.pdf

13:40 Astrophysical positronium and Dicke superradiance

Speaker: Abd Aljalel Alizzi Alnakishbandey (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk State University, and Al Furat University)

quarks2026_Alizzi.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Maxim Perfilov (Lomonosov Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP MSU))

12:40 General constraints on Extra Dimensional gravity in SMEFT approach

Speaker: Aleksei Aleshko (Научно-исследовательский институт ядерной физики имени Д. В. Скобельцына (НИИЯФ МГУ))

quarks2026_Aleshko.pdf

13:00 Dijets with a large rapidity separation for search of gravity with large extra dimensions in the trans-Planckian eikonal regime

Speaker: Anatolii Egorov (NRC «Kurchatov Institute» - PNPI)

quarks2026_Egorov.pdf

13:20 Testing Higgs CP properties at the CEPC with an additional ISR parameter

Speaker: Alexey Drutskoy (LPI)

quarks2026_Drutskoy.pdf

13:40 Z production via vector boson fucion

Speaker: Alsu Bagdatova (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics)

quarks2026_Bagdatova.pdf

14:00 → 15:40 Lunch

15:40 → 17:00 Aspects of mathematical physics

Convener: Konstantin Stepanyantz (Moscow State University)

15:40 Progress of polyvector Yang-Baxter deformations in context of holography

Speaker: Timophey Petrov (MIPT, ITMP MSU)

16:00 \(\beta\)-deformed \(\widetilde W\) algebras

Speaker: Yaroslav Drachov (MIPT)

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16:20 BRST Lagrangian formulation of partially massless bosonic fields

Speaker: Sergey Fedoruk (BLTP JINR)

15:40 → 17:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Dmitry Levkov (INR RAS & ITMP MSU)

15:40 False vacuum decay around black holes

Speaker: Ratmir Gazizov (INR RAS & MSU)

quarks2026_Gazizov.pdf

16:00 Thermal false vacuum decay near large black holes is aspherical

Speaker: Vasily Maslov (Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)

quarks2026_Maslov.pdf

16:20 Spinning Q-balls in the Maxwell-Chern-Simons gauge model

Speaker: Eduard Kim (MIPT, INR RAS)

quarks2026_E.Kim.pdf

16:40 Stable "pockets" of macroscopic extra dimensions in F(R)-gravity

Speaker: Valery Nikulin (MEPhI)

QUARKS-2025 Nikulin V.V.pdf

quarks2026_Nikulin.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Petr Satunin (INR RAS)

15:40 Development of the microMEGAS package for calculating dark matter signals.

Speaker: Alexander Pukhov (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics)

quarks2026_Pukhov.pdf

16:00 Unremovable neutrino induced background ebents for GERDA-like experiments

Speaker: Andrei Vyborov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

16:20 Probing Dirac dark matter in xenon and argon experiments

Speaker: Maria Belyakova (LPI RAS)

quarks2026_Belyakova_M.pdf

16:40 Decays and annihilation of galactic dark matter: determine D-, Js-, Jpand Jd-factors with dark matter profiles inferred from GravSphere fit to stellar observations

Speaker: Ekaterina Koreshkova (MSU, INR RAS)

quarks2026_Koreshkova.pdf

17:00 → 17:20 Coffe-Break

17:20 → 19:00 Aspects of mathematical physics

Convener: Dmitri Bykov (Steklov Mathematical Institute)

17:20 Landau method for potentials with soft singularities

Speaker: Roman Kolosov (MSU, INR RAS)

Quarks26Kolosov.pdf

17:40 The study of the quark-gluon plasma evolution using holographical thermodynamics with multiple quantum numbers

Speaker: Anton Anufriev (Saint Petersburg State University)

18:00 Form factors in the sine-Gordon model at the reflectionless points

Speaker: Vitaly Anikeev (MIPT, Skoltech)

18:20 Islands in the exterior of Schwarzschild black hole with a boundary

Speaker: Anastasia Zueva (Steklov Mathematical Institute)

17:20 → 19:00 Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Convener: Sergey Vernov (Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

17:20 Constraining modified gravity with DES Y3 in the post-DESI era

Speaker: Nikita Nedelko (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Nedelko.pdf

17:40 Asymmetric antimatter evolution in baryon asymmetrical Universe

Speaker: Anna Dembitskaia (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)

quarks2026_Dembitskaia.pdf

18:00 Can Primordial Black Holes Explain the $^7$Li Deficit?

Speaker: Elena Arbuzova (Dubna State University and Novosibirsk State University)

quarks2026_Arbuzova.pdf

18:20 Recombination Epoch, special relativity effects and Hubble tension

Speaker: Igor Krasnov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Krasnov.pdf

18:40 Systematics of high-energy photonuclear cross section and challenges in extensive air shower physics

Speaker: Mr Nickolay Martynenko (MSU & INR RAS)

quarks2026_Martynenko.pdf

17:20 → 19:00 Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Convener: Yulia Ageeva (INR RAS)

17:20 The Cosmological Axion Sarov Haloscope (CASH) project: search for dark-matter axions, dark photons and high-frequency gravitational waves beyond the quantum limit

Speaker: Petr Satunin (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Satunin.pdf

17:40 Prospects for Laboratory Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Single-Photon Detectors in RF Cavities

Speaker: Dmitry Salnikov (INR RAS & Lomonosov MSU)

quarks2026_Salnikov.pdf

18:00 EM effects of gravitational shock waves

Speaker: Irina Pirozhenko (BLTP JINR)

quarks2026_Pirozhenko.pdf

18:20 Electromagnetic response to impulsive gravitational impact

Speaker: Davydov Evgeny (JINR)

quarks2026_E.Davydov.pdf

18:40 Bootstrap approach for bispectrum in Bounce Universe model

Speaker: Maxim Stepanov (MSU)

quarks2026_MaximStepanov.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Saturday, 23 May

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary Session

Convener: Dmitry Gorbunov (INR RAS)

11:00 UHECR anisotropy and search for their sources

Speaker: Mikhail Kuznetsov (INR RAS)

quarks2026_Kuznetsov.pdf

11:40 Progress in Charm and Beauty (TBC)

Speaker: Pavel Pakhlov

quarks2026_Pakhlov.pdf

12:20 Progress in physics at NICA (TBC)

Speaker: Victor Kim (NRC KI - PNPI, Gatchina)

quarks2026_Kim.pdf

13:00 → 13:20 Closing