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TASI 2023

TASI 2023: “Aspects of Symmetry”

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2023. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of this TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory and some familiarity with the Standard Model and issues beyond it. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

FIPs in the ALPs

FIPs in the ALPs is the first edition of a foreseen series of schools fully dedicated to the physics of feebly-interacting particles and aims to gathering together highly renowned experts from collider, beam dump, fixed target experiments, as well as from astroparticle, cosmology, axion/ALP, ultra-light particle searches, and dark matter direct and indirect detection communities along with a set of young and brilliant physicists to discuss progress in experimental searches and underlying theory models for FIP physics.

The school is organized by the FIP Physics Centre of the Physics Beyond Colliders study group at CERN: https://pbc.web.cern.ch/fpc-mandate

The aim of the school is to embedding a new generation of physicists into the activities of the study group.

The School is organized along three main directions:

MeV-GeV Dark Matter and its searches at accelerator, direct and indirect detection experiments;
Heavy neutral leptons and their connection to active neutrino physics;
Ultra-light (< 1 eV) FIPs in particle physics, astroparticle, and cosmology.

Advanced PhD students and PostDocs are strongly encouraged to apply.

Tentative programme:

Marco Drewes, Mikhail Shaposhnikov: Heavy Neutral Leptons in particle physics and cosmology
Maxim Pospelov: FIPs in the early universe
Yevgeny Stadnik: Phenomenology of ultra-light FIPs
Joerg Jaeckel: ALPs in the FIPs
Stefania Gori: Phenomenology of MeV-GeV Dark Matter
Gaia Lanfranchi: FIPs at extracted beam lines.

Magnificent CEvNS 2023

The fifth iteration of the Magnificent CEvNS workshop focusing on the process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) will be held in Munich, Germany, from March 22 to March 24, 2023.

The workshop will take place at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung close to the Nymphenburg castle in the center of Munich. There will be a satellite workshop on March 25, 2023, bringing together new experimental approaches and new theoretical models. The workshop is followed by a CEvNS school (March 27 to March 29) aimed at students and postdoctoral researchers who may be new to the field of CEvNS. The satellite workshop and the school will take place at the Technical University of Munich in Garching. The workshop and school programs will include optional social activities.

Proposed in 1974, but unobserved until 2017, the physics accessible with CEvNS is extensive. Magnificent CEvNS aims to bring together a broad community of researchers working either directly or peripherally on CEvNS to foster enriching discussions, direct the field as it continues to grow, and form and strengthen connections between experimentalists and theorists/phenomenologists.

A limited amount of travel support will be available for students. The Magnificent CEvNS workshop is funded by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung. The CEvNS school is supported by the Collaborative Research Center “Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics” (SFB 1258) and the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster.

SLAC Summer Institute 2022 : Golden Opportunities Puzzles & Surprises – Past & Present (SSI 2022)

The SLAC Summer Institute (SSI) is an annual two-week-long Summer School tradition since 1973. The theme of the 50th SLAC Summer Institute for this Golden Anniversary year’s installment is “Golden Opportunities: Puzzles & Surprises – Past & Future”. These SSI lectures will discuss how our attempts to solve and understand the various puzzles and surprises presented to us by nature, whether we have been successful or not, have pushed – and continue to push – our field forward. This SSI intends to inspire reinvigorated effort for new revelations on these fundamental puzzles. SSI is especially targeted for graduate students and postdocs while senior researchers are also welcome.

This year’s SSI is proceeding with the on SLAC site full program in person, with lectures in the morning, Q&A discussions and projects in the afternoon. There will be also special 50th anniversary sessions at the end of SSI to look back at the history of SSI. We are evaluating the COVID-19 situation continuously and preparing precautionary measures, but unless the situation is taking a worse turn than the present orange level in California the program remains on site.

For SSI logistics questions, please use the contact us link on the web page

20th INFN-LNF Summer School ‘Bruno Touschek’ in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics

The XX LNF Summer School `Bruno Touschek’ in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics will take place at INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy, on July 11-15, 2022. The School is planned in a format with in-person participation and all safety measures will be implemented in order to guarantee a safe environment.

The School is intended for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in theoretical and experimental high-energy, nuclear and astroparticle physics and will feature the following lectures.

Quark flavour physics: theory aspects

Diego Guadagnoli (LAPTH Annecy)

Experimental heavy flavour physics

Marie-Helene Schune (LAL Orsay)

New Physics in the lepton sector and correlations with the electroweak fits

Andreas Crivellin (Zurich U. & PSI Villigen)

Flavour physics measurements with charged leptons

Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa)

QCD and jets at colliders

Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE & Paris 7 U.)

The next collider at the energy frontier: from accelerator and detector technology to the scientific programme

Marcel Vos (IFIC & CSIC & Valencia U.)

Early Universe Cosmology: Neutrinos, Dark Matter and Baryogenesis

Miguel Escudero Abenza (TUM Munich)

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Cosmological Probe

Gianpiero Mangano (Naples U. & INFN Naples)

Exploiting the finest details of the Cosmic Microwave Background: experimental challenges

Paolo De Bernardis (Sapienza U. & INFN Rome)

Jointly with the XX LNF Summer School, the 7th Young Researchers Workshop on `Physics Challenges in the LHC Era’ will take place on July 11th and 14th. Participants in the Summer School are strongly encouraged to apply to give talks. The contributions to the workshop will be published in Frascati Physics Series.

The Spring Colloquium on Science and Technology `Brave New Worlds: The Discovery and Characterisation of Planets Beyond Our Solar System’ will be given on July 12th by Daniel Bayliss (Warwick U.)

European School in Instrumentation for Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP)

The European School in Instrumentation for Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) aims at training Master, PhD students and professionals to the high standard of instrumentation in use in particle and astroparticle physics

CHIPP winter school of particle physics

The Swiss Institute for Particle Physics (CHIPP) hosts an annual winter school based on the activities of the swiss institutes involved in particle and astro-particle physics. The purpose of the school is to offer young physicists an opportunity to learn about recent advances in elementary-particle physics from local and world-leading researchers. The school program includes lectures on accelerator and non-accelerator particle physics (detectors, LHC physics, neutrinos, astrophysics, flavor physics) from an experimental and phenomenological perspective.

International Neutrino Summer School 2021

Neutrino experiments have evolved from single-purpose instruments into large, multi-purpose research facilities with a broad and diverse research program. Similarly, theoretical neutrino physics spans a multitude of topics, from theoretical model building, over oscillation phenomenology, all the way to cosmology and astrophysics.

The goal of this school is to prepare the next generation of scientists for work in this vibrant field. Aimed at PhD students and young postdocs in both experimental and theoretical neutrino physics, it will feature lectures by renowned experts spanning the full breadth of modern neutrino physics. Lectures will be complemented by mini-projects on which the students will work in small teams, with guidance from the lecturers and organizers.

The school will be hosted by CERN, but is planned to run fully in virtual mode. There might be options for lecturers and students to visit CERN during the program, depending on sanitary conditions at the time.

ERICE 2019 – International School of Nuclear Physics – 41st Course: Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter and Neutrinos in Nuclear, Particle and Astro-Physics, and in Cosmology

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts and young researchers in the areas of nuclear, particle and astro-physics as well as cosmology and the pertinent interrelations among these fields. The aim is to discuss the current status of the field and to explore future directions, both in experiment and theory. With the recent observation of gravitational-wave signals of black-hole and neutron-star mergers – for the latter in coincidence with electromagnetic signals -, the meeting is particularly timely. The aim is to cover a broad range of topics to elucidate synergies and identify areas of future progress. This should be especially beneficial to the younger participants of the meeting.

In detail, the following topics will be presented and discussed:

Binary Star Mergers – the observations of gravitational waves
Binary Star Mergers – simulations
Binary Star Mergers – nucleosynthesis
Direct and indirect Dark Matter Searches
Axions – Dark Matter?
Dark Matter Searches at the LHC
Neutrino Mass from Tritium Decay
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (Majorana versus Dirac Neutrino)
Neutrino Mass from electron Capture
Elastic Neutrino scattering – COHERENT
The Reactor Neutrino Spectrum Anomaly
Search for the Cosmic Neutrino Background
Neutrinos and Cosmology

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TASI 2023: “Aspects of Symmetry”