The International Workshops on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos have been organized regularly for the past 40 years at venues in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin and North America.
The 28th edition (WIN 2021) will take place virtually, June 7-12, 2021.
The goal of these Workshops is to offer the physics community a significant opportunity to assess the status of major topics within the field and initiate collaborative efforts to address current challenges. The Workshops attract leading experimentalists and theorists, from all over the world, allowing them to exchange ideas and to develop new strategies. In many cases the efforts initiated at these Workshops result in completed projects that are published in international journals. These projects have sometimes proven to be major breakthroughs such as the MSW effect, which was first discussed at the WIN85 meeting in Finland.
As customary in this workshop series, the program will be structured to allow ample time for formal and informal discussions in the four working groups:
- Neutrino Physics
- Electroweak Interactions
- Flavor and Precision Physics
- Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology
For more, visit the WIN 2021 indico page.
Following the discovery of an SM-like Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider the chief focus is on the observation of new phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Such observations would provide clear guiding principles for the future of the entire field that are, given the present discussions on future colliders all over the world, more crucial than ever before.
So far, inclusive and model dependent searches have not provided evidence of new resonances, indicating that these could be driven by more subtle topologies, hidden by large backgrounds. Phenomenologists have found many classes of New Physics that are difficult to test with current LHC analyses.
In this light, it is important to keep investigating what theories could be further explored. In addition, we need to elaborate on methodologies that display less model dependencies. The use of Machine Learning may play a critical role here.
The opportunity to test a wide range of New Physics opened up very recently: CERN announced on the 11th of December 2020 a new open data policy, which “will make scientific research more accessible to the community”. This opens up the testing ground for new search strategies.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together theory and experiment to identify novel signatures connected to such ‘hidden’ New Physics, to devise new methodologies, and to establish new search strategies.
The Neutrino Telescopes Workshop dates back to 1988 when Prof. Milla Baldo Ceolin conceived it and launched the first edition.
The 2021 edition will focus to the original, at the time pioneering, topics of the workshop: Large Detectors for Neutrino Astrophysics, Neutrino Physics and Cosmology.
Due to Covid19 – Sars-Cov-2 circumstances, it will be held online. Registration is free but mandatory
Abstract submission for contributed talks and flash talks is now open. Conference proceedings will be published under the Zenodo platform.
The XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes is organized by INFN Sezione di Padova and by the Physics and Astronomy Department of Padova University.
The 12th Workshop on Accelerator Operations (WAO) will take place in Barcelona (Spain), from October 4th to October 9th, 2020.
WAO’2020 will be hosted by the ALBA Synchrotron and the Worskhop venue will be the Parc de Recerca Biomèdica located on the Barceloneta seafront downtown in Barcelona.
The objective of the workshop is to create an open forum for those involved in the daily operation of particle accelerators to present, discuss, and exchange ideas with their peers from around the world. Accelerator operations staff from facilities of all sizes gather to collaborate on topics such as accelerator operation, performance, organization, maintenance, documentation, software, control room layout, remote operation, and safety. It also serves the accelerator operations community to establish benchmarks by facilitating comparisons of methods, efficiencies, costs, reliability, beam quality and other performance measures.
The workshop style atmosphere, which allows for interpersonal communication, is organized with scheduled talks, a poster session, and discussion periods; along with the opportunity for further discussion at breaks and meals.
The Institute of Physics of Jagiellonian University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, INFN-LNF Frascati and Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS Cracow are organizing a biennial workshop to establish closer contacts between experimentalists and theorists involved in the studies of meson production, properties and interaction. The workshop will cover lectures on both experimental and theoretical aspects, in particular the presentation of new results.
The main topics of the workshop are:
- hadronic and electromagnetic meson production,
- meson interaction with mesons, baryons, ground state nuclei as well as
hot and dense nuclear matter,
- structure of hadrons,
- precision measurements as tests of fundamental symmetries,
- exotic systems in QCD,
- novel approaches in theory and experiment.
The intention is to provide an overview of the present status in these fields, as well as of new developments, and a preview of the forthcoming investigations. This workshop – the sixteenth of the series – will maintain the tradition of the workshops organized since 1991 at Cracow.
The International Workshop on Vertex Detectors (VERTEX) is a major annual series of international workshops for physicists and engineers from the high energy and nuclear physics community. VERTEX provides an international forum to exchange the experiences and needs of the community, and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities on silicon based vertex detectors. The workshop covers a wide range of topics: existing and future detectors, new developments, radiation hardness, simulation, tracking and vertexing, electronics and triggering, applications to medical and other fields.
The Swampland program gives general constraints on effective theories to be compatible with quantum gravity, which defines the Landscape of consistent theories, and is quickly gaining command of the fundamental understanding of open questions in particle physics and cosmology, ranging from the hierarchy of fundamental scales in nature, to the origin and final fate of the universe.
Current research surfs over several powerful conjectures, whose riptide deposits valuable implications on the structure of effective theories, their spectrum of particles, their moduli spaces and potentials. Time is ripe to navigate the swampland, collecting these results and conjectures, and weaving them up to unveil fundamental structures in quantum gravitational theories. This workshop plans to gather the leading experts in the field to review our knowledge on the Swampland extension, the underlying related fundamental questions within quantum gravity and string theory as well as possible constraints for particle physics and cosmology.
The bi-annual 12th International Workshop COOL’19 will be held on September 23 – 27, 2019, and co-hosted by the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University. The workshop will be focused on the various aspects of the cooling methods and technics of charged particles. The workshop Topics:
- electron cooling
- stochastic cooling
- muon cooling
- cooled beam dynamics
- new concepts and theoretical advancements in beam cooling
- facility status updates and beam cooling reviews
