Blois 2023: 34th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"

14 May 2023, 15:00 → 19 May 2023, 13:45 Europe/Paris

Gaston d'Orléans

Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin)), Jacques Dumarchez (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

This will be the 34th meeting in this series of annual international multidisciplinary meetings, created in 1989 by Jean Trân Than Vân and which has in the past covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place in the Château of Blois, a beautiful renaissance castle which has housed many French kings, and notably François 1st. The 34th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology" (Blois2023) will emphasize the increasing interplay between high energy accelerator based physics and cosmology. The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited in-depth oral presentations (review talks) and contributed papers, in the form of relatively short oral papers. We will aim to achieve a balance between review talks, provocative talks given by recognized specialists, and shorter contributions. Special emphasis is being placed on active participation by younger researchers and post-docs. Parallel sessions are foreseen, and are being organised as the need arises.

Blois_2023_HR.pdf

Sunday, 14 May

16:00 → 19:00 Registration

19:00 → 20:00 Reception

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Monday, 15 May

09:00 → 09:30 Opening

Convener: Jean TRAN THANH VAN

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 → 12:30 Highlights

Convener: Daniel Froidevaux (CERN)

10:00 Future Colliders

Speaker: Jorgen D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

FutureColliders-Blois-JorgenDHondt-May2023.pdf

10:30 Gamma Ray Bursts

Speaker: Andrew Taylor (DESY)

GRBs_Blois.pdf

11:00 Theoretical challenges in inflationary cosmology

Speaker: Vincent Vennin (LPENS Paris)

Vennin.pdf

11:30 CMB B-mode polarisation observation status and perspectives

Speaker: Josquin Errard (CNRS)

04_errard.pdf

12:00 Large Scale Survey theory and observational prospects

Speaker: Camille Bonvin (Université de Genève)

Bonvin.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Beyond Standard Model

Convener: Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))

14:00 Higgs and cosmology

Speaker: David Weir (University of Helsinki)

Link to slides

14:30 Long Lived Particles (and beyond colliders)

Speaker: Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University (SE))

Blois2023-RGS.pdf

15:00 Highlights on BSM/exotic searches

Speaker: Swagata Mukherjee (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

Blois_swagata.pdf

15:30 → 15:40 Conference Photograph

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Higgs

Convener: Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))

16:00 Higgs couplings and properties measurements

Speaker: Aliya Nigamova (University of Hamburg (DE))

Blois23_Higgs_ATLASCMS.pdf

16:30 Higgs theory

Speaker: Spencer Chang (University of Oregon)

Blois_Chang_23.pdf

Blois_Chang_23.pdf

17:15 → 18:45 Visit of the Chateau

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 16 May

09:00 → 10:30 Collider

Convener: Javier Mazzitelli (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

09:00 State of the art in perturbative QCD for LHC

Speaker: Alexander Yohei Huss (CERN)

Blois_Huss.pdf

09:30 Electoweak sector with single and multi bosons

Speaker: Karol Krizka (University of Birmingham (GB))

blois2023-20230516.pdf

10:00 Top quark rare or BSM interactions and the studies at new energy at CMS

Speaker: Laurids Jeppe (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Blois 2023 v6.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 BSM/DM

Convener: Christopher McCabe (King's College London)

11:00 Status of searches in the long-lived particle and dark sectors

Speaker: Marianna Liberatore (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

20230516_Blois.pdf

11:30 Searches for supersymmetry and additional Higgses

Speaker: Sarah Louise Williams (University of Cambridge (GB))

Blois2023-susyadditionalhiggs-150523.pdf

12:00 Dark Matter Theory

Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

kboddy.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 Dark Matter and Astroparticles

Convener: Nicholas Llewellyn Rodd (CERN)

14:00 Direct Detection Searches

Speaker: Peter Sorensen (LBL / Berkeley Lab)

Direct Detection Rencontres de Blois -- Sorensen

14:30 Indirect Detection Searches

Speaker: Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS)

Calore.pdf

15:00 Low Mass Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

Figueroa-Blois-2023.pdf

15:30 Axions and wavelike DM

Speaker: Asher Berlin (NYU)

Berlin_Blois_3_23.pdf

16:00 Multimessenger astroparticles/ HESS

Speaker: Emmanuel Moulin (CEA Saclay)

Moulin.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 19:30 Parallel Session Tuesday - Dark Matter

Convener: Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS)

17:00 The COSINUS dark matter search with cryogenic NaI detectors

Speaker: Leonie Einfalt (HEPHY & TU Vienna)

COSINUS_Blois.pdf

17:20 The CRESST-III Dark Matter Search: Status and Outlook

Speaker: Anna Bertolini (Max Planck Society (DE))

CRESST.pdf

17:40 Search for new physics with the XENONnT detector

Speaker: Riccardo Biondi

Riccardo Biondi - Blois 2023.pdf

18:00 Dark Matter Search with Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Nagisa Hiroshima (University of Toyama)

deBlois_20230516_v3.pdf

18:20 A landscape of H.E.S.S. results on indirect dark matter search

Speaker: Alessandro Montanari

Montanari_Blois2023_LandscapeHESSDMIndDet.pdf

18:40 Implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultra-high energies on scenarios of superheavy dark matter

Speaker: Olivier Deligny

shdm160523.pdf

19:00 Insights on Galactic dark matter from polarized synchrotron emission

Speaker: Silvia Manconi (LAPTh, CNRS)

Manconi.pdf

17:00 → 19:30 Parallel Session Tuesday - Heavy Ions and QCD

Convener: Laure Marie Massacrier (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

17:00 Studies on the hadronization of charm and beauty quarks with ALICE

Speaker: Luigi Dello Stritto (Universita e INFN, Salerno (IT))

ldellost_Blois.pdf

17:20 Long-range correlation at low-multiplicity in pp collisions at 13TeV with ALICE

Speaker: Jasper Parkkila (CERN)

Blois23-Jasper.pdf

17:40 Recent results on J/psi photoproduction in UPCs with ALICE

Speaker: Tomas Herman (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

Blois-2023_v3 - final.pdf

18:00 New directions in the study of (hyper)nuclei formation in ALICE

Speaker: Bhawani Singh (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

Recontre_de_Blois_Bhawani_final.pdf

18:20 ALICE insights into strangeness production in pp collisions

Speaker: Francesca Ercolessi (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

Blois34th_FErcolessi_v3.pdf

18:40 Heavy-flavour jet measurements in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE

Speaker: Vit Kucera (Inha University (KR))

2023-05-16_Blois_Kucera.pdf

17:00 → 19:30 Parallel Session Tuesday - Neutrinos, BSM, Collider Physics

Convener: Spencer Chang (University of Oregon)

17:00 First Physics Results from FASER

Speaker: Charlotte Cavanagh (University of Liverpool (GB))

CharlotteCavanagh_Blois23.pdf

17:20 Probing Beyond the Standard Model physics with the GERDA experiment

Speaker: Elisabetta Bossio

Blois2023_GERDA_BossioE.pdf

17:40 ttH production in NNLO QCD

Speaker: Simone Devoto (UNIMI)

Blois_devoto.pdf

18:00 Searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Tina Potter (University of Cambridge (GB))

TinaPotter_Blois2023.pdf

18:20 Highlights on top quark physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

Speaker: Lucio Cerrito (University and INFN Rome Tor Vergata (IT))

lcerrito_Blois_2023.pdf

20:00 → 21:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 17 May

08:00 → 12:00 Excursion to Chateau de Chenonceau

BusPlan.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:30 → 15:35 Flavour

Convener: Bolek Pietrzyk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

14:30 Rare decays

Speaker: Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Heidelberg University (DE))

langenbruch.pdf

15:00 Heavy quarkonium and multiquark states

Speaker: Roberto Mussa

Mussal.pdf

15:35 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 19:20 Parallel Session Wednesday - Colliders Physics

Convener: Luca Buonocore (University of Zurich)

16:00 Measurements of Higgs boson properties (mass, width, and Spin/CP) with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Stylianos Angelidakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))

AngelidakisS_Blois2023.pdf

16:20 Measurements of Higgs boson production and decay rates and their interpretation with the ATLAS experiment

Speaker: Maria Teresa Camerlingo (Universita e INFN sezione di Napoli (IT))

ParallelSessionBlois2023_MTCamerlingo_vFin.pdf

16:40 Higgs boson cross section measurements at CMS

Speaker: Benedetta Camaiani (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))

Higgs_XSections_CMS_BCamaiani.pdf

17:00 Probing the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking with Higgs boson pairs in ATLAS

Speaker: Angela Maria Burger (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))

Blois_HH_ABurger_May2023_v2.pdf

17:20 Vector boson production in CMS

Speaker: Cristiano Tarricone (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

CTarricone_Blois23_VBProduction_CMS.pdf

17:40 Measurement of electroweak gauge boson production in association with jets at ATLAS

Speaker: Danning Liu (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (CN) & Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.(CN))

Blois_2023_DaningLiu.pdf

18:00 Weak boson production at hadron colliders: combined QCD-QED transverse-momentum resummation formalism

Speaker: Andrea Autieri

Blois_Autieri.pdf

18:20 Results from muon reconstruction performance with ATLAS at Run-3

Speaker: Marco Sessa (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

Blois2023_MarcoSessa.pdf

18:40 Redefining Performance: New Techniques for ATLAS Jet & MET Calibration

Speaker: Peter Berta (Charles University, Prague (CZ))

NewTechniquesForJets_PeterBerta_17.5.2023.pdf

16:00 → 19:20 Parallel Session Wednesday - Dark Matter & Cosmology

Convener: Asher Berlin (Fermilab)

16:00 Dark Matter searchs with the MAGIC telescopes

Speakers: Vincenzo Vitale, Vincenzo Vitale (Dip. Fisica Roma 2)

Vitale.Blois23.pdf

16:20 Updated constraints on sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Jordan Koechler (LPTHE - Sorbonne Université)

2023_Blois_Talk.pdf

16:40 NEWSdm : directional dark matter searches with nuclear emulsion

Speaker: Andrey Alexandrov (INFN sez. di Napoli)

Alexandrov_Blois2023.pdf

17:00 DAMIC-M: Status and First results

Speaker: Agustin Lantero Barreda (Universidad de Cantabria and CSIC (ES))

DAMIC-M: Status And First Results.pdf

17:20 Spectral Distortions from Dark Turbulence

Speaker: Wolfram Ratzinger (Weizmann Institute)

spectral_distortions_from_dark_turbulence_blois.pdf

17:40 Unveiling dark fifth forces with linear cosmology and LSS

Speaker: Salvatore Bottaro (Tel Aviv University)

Bottaro_Blois_2023.pdf

18:00 Gravitational production of matter and radiation during reheating

Speaker: Simon Clery (IJCLab - Théorie)

Blois_2023_Simon_Clery.pdf

18:20 Probing solutions to the S8 tension with galaxy clustering

Speaker: Pedro Carrilho (University of Edinburgh)

Pedro_Carrilho_Blois_v2.pdf

16:00 → 19:20 Parallel Session Wednesday - Heavy Flavour & QCD

Convener: Christoph Michael Langenbruch (Heidelberg University (DE))

16:00 Recent Belle II results on time-dependent CP violation and charm physics

Speaker: Jakub Kandra (Charles University)

Kandra_Blois_2023.pdf

16:20 Recent Belle II results on hadronic B decays

Speaker: Shu-Ping Lin (National Taiwan University)

Belle2_Bhadronic.pdf

16:40 Recent tau and dark-sector results at Belle II

Speaker: Zuzana Gruberova

blois_belle2_dark_tau_v5.pdf

17:00 Lepton flavour universality tests and related measurements at LHCb

Speaker: Razvan-Daniel Moise (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

LFUatLHCb.pdf

17:20 Recent Belle II results on semileptonic B decays and LFU tests

Speaker: Lau Tak-Shun (IJCLab, Orsay)

20230517_Vub_Vcb_LFU.pdf

17:40 Rare decays and flavor anomalies at CMS

Speaker: Luca Guzzi (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))

raredecays_CMS_blois2023_guzzi.pdf

18:00 Interplay between Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and new physics

Speaker: Elie Hammou

Hammou_Blois.pdf

18:20 Measurements of jet production and the strong coupling constant at ATLAS

Speaker: Henry Day-Hall (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

DayHall.pdf

18:40 Improving ATLAS Hadronic Object Performance with ML/AI Algorithms

Speaker: Xiang Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

Blois_05_17.pdf

19:00 R value measurement at BESIII

Speaker: Weiping Wang (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

WeipingWang.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

20:30 → 22:00 Conférence Grand Public (in french): De quoi le vide est-il plein ?

Convener: Etienne Klein (CEA Saclay)

22:00 → 23:00 Sound and Light Show

Thursday, 18 May

09:00 → 10:30 Collider 2

Convener: Alexander Yohei Huss (CERN)

09:00 Heavy ion experimental results at the LHC

Speaker: Laure Marie Massacrier (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

HeavyIonBlois.pdf

09:30 Top quark physics

Speaker: Javier Mazzitelli (MPP Munich)

Mazzitelli.pdf

10:00 Leptons in the proton

Speaker: Luca Buonocore (University of Zurich)

Blois_LB.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Neutrinos

Convener: Sotiris Loucatos (Université Paris-Saclay (FR) and APC)

11:00 Neutrino masses and mixing

Speaker: Mariam Tórtola

MTortola-Blois2023.pdf

11:30 Neutrinoless Beta Decay: present and future

Speaker: Ben Jones (UTA)

Jones.pdf

12:00 Reactor neutrinos: spectra and oscillations

Speaker: Patrick Huber

blois-2023.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 AstroParticle

Convener: Subodh Patil (University of Leiden (NL))

14:00 Results from Pierre Auger collaboration

Speaker: Olivier Deligny

Blois-Auger.pdf

14:30 Atom interferometry for GW and DM search

Speaker: Christopher McCabe (King's College London)

mccabe_AI_v3.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 18:10 Parallel Session Thursday - BSM

Convener: Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez (Uppsala University (SE))

15:30 Searches for new physics in the Higgs sector at ATLAS 15:50-

Speaker: Imma Riu (IFAE Barcelona (ES))

ImmaRiu-RencontresBlois-May-2023.pdf

15:50 Searches for new physics in CMS in events with jets, leptons and photons in the final state

Speaker: Devin Mahon (University of Minnesota (US))

Blois2023.pdf

16:10 Searches for leptoquarks with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Volker Andreas Austrup (University of Manchester (GB))

austrup_blois2023.pdf

16:30 Search for new physics with long-lived and unconventional signatures in CMS

Speaker: Soham Bhattacharya (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Blois-2023_long-lived.pdf

16:50 Searches for BSM resonances in ATLAS

Speaker: Elise Maria Le Boulicaut (Duke University (US))

SearchesBSMResonances_ATLAS_Blois2023.pdf

15:30 → 18:10 Parallel Session Thursday - Cosmology and Dark Matter

Convener: David Weir (University of Helsinki)

15:30 The case for, and against, solar-mass primordial black holes as dark matter

Speaker: Samuel Young (University of Leiden)

Young.pdf

15:50 Latest results from the Dark Energy Survey

Speaker: Agnes Ferte (SLAC Stanford University)

Ferte_v2.pdf

16:10 The Simons Observatory: Science Goals, Sensitivity Forecasting, and Instrumentation

Speaker: Ben Westbrook

Westbrook.pdf

16:30 Constraining the Spectral Signatures of Cosmic Strings

Speaker: Bryce Cyr (McGill U.)

BryceCyr.pdf

16:50 Searching for Neutrinos with Solar WIMP Annihilation with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Speaker: Jeffrey Lazar

jlazar_blois_20230518.pdf

17:10 Scalar Dark Matter Production from the inflaton

Speaker: Mathias Pierre

Pierre.pdf

17:30 Studying the sterile baryonic neutrino using direct detection and spallation source experiments

Speaker: Dr Martín de los Rios (ICTP-SAIFR)

delosRios_Blois2023.pdf

15:30 → 18:10 Parallel Session Thursday - Neutrinos

Convener: Mariam Tórtola

15:30 A new Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (SND@LHC)

Speaker: Carlo Battilana (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

SNDLHC_Blois_18052023.pdf

15:50 Towards the implementation of the ENUBET neutrino cross section experiment at CERN

Speaker: Anselmo Meregaglia (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Meregaglia_ENUBET_BLOISNoBK.pdf

16:10 Status of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory to measure Neutrino Mass Ordering

Speaker: Mariam Rifai

Mariam_JUNOReview_talk_Rencontre_BLois.pdf

16:30 The ESSnuSB+ project

Speaker: Eric Baussan

20230518_ESSnuSBPlus.pdf

16:50 LEGEND: a new generation experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay search

Speaker: Michele Morella

LEGEND_Morella_Blois2023.pdf

17:10 The KM3NeT neutrino telescope: first results and perspectives

Speaker: Sergio Navas Concha (Universidad de Granada (ES))

KM3NeT_Results_Blois2023_Sergio.pdf

17:30 Probing heavy neutrino physics

Speaker: Juraj Klaric (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain))

main.pdf

20:00 → 23:00 Dinner: Cocktail and Conference Dinner

Friday, 19 May

08:45 → 10:15 Highlights & Cosmology

Convener: Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

08:45 GW now and future

Speaker: Mario Martinez-Perez (The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (ES))

Blois_2023_GWs.pdf

09:15 Spectral distortions of the CMB: new portals to BSM physics

Speaker: Subodh Patil (University of Leiden (NL))

Blois_SD.pdf

09:45 Machine learning and artifical intelligence for physics

Speaker: Ayan Paul (Northeastern University)

RdB2023.pdf

10:15 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:30 Summary Talk

Convener: Jean TRAN THANH VAN

Gia_Talk_Blois__Oct_22_21_ccc.pdf

10:30 Perspective and Vision

Speaker: Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

Blois-Tait-2023.pdf

11:30 → 11:40 Concluding Remarks

11:40 → 13:10 Lunch