IAS Program on High Energy Physics (HEP 2022)

Update on February 7, 2022:

• Thank you for attending the HEP 2022! The group photo is available for download here. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

Update on January 19, 2022:

• We welcome the submission of articles for the White Paper of this program. For details, please visit the "White Paper Submission" page. 

Update on January 17, 2022:

• The Conference will begin at 19:50 tonight.
   
• The program registration was closed on January 16 (Sunday) at 23:59. The email of Zoom details has been sent to registrants who completed the registration by the closing time. If you have registered but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.

Update on January 14, 2022:

At 21:00

• The program registration will be closed on January 16 (Sunday) at 23:59.
   
• Email with Zoom details will be sent out at 10:00 on January 17 to registrants who complete the registration between 21:00 today and 23:59 on Sunday.

At 14:28

• The email containing the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 14:25 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• The next batch of email will be sent out at 19:15 today.

At 09:34:

• The email containing the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 09:33 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• The next batch of email will be sent out at 14:25 today.

Update on January 13, 2022:

At 19:30:

• The email of Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 19:30 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• The next batch of email will be sent out at 09:30 on January 14.

At 14:21:

• The email of Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 14:15 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• The next batch of email will be sent out at 19:15 today.

At 09:54:

• The email of Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered between 23:00 on January 12 and 09:45 today. If you completed the registration during the mentioned period but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• The next batch of email will be sent out at 14:15 today.

Update on January 12, 2022:

At 23:00:

• Another batch of email containing the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered between 17:30 and 23:00 today. If you completed the registration during the mentioned period but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• The next batch of email will be sent out at 09:30 on January 13.

At 18:23:

• The email of the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered at or before 17:30 today. If you completed the registration by the time mentioned but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
   
• Another batch of email will be sent out at 23:00 today.

At 12:06:

• The 1-page version of all program schedules are now available for viewing and downloading on the "Program at a Glance" page.

Update on January 7, 2022:

• The detailed schedule of the Mini-workshop on Experiment/ Detector on January 13-14 is now available on the "Program Schedule" page.
   
• A Practical Zoom Handbook is now available on the "Practical Zoom Handbook" page. **You are strongly recommended to read it carefully to get familiar with the Zoom setting before attending the program.** It contains the details on:
  • The Zoom setting of this program.
  • The Roles in a Zoom Meeting.
  • The Organization of Session.
  • What you should do as a speaker or a session chair in a session.

Update on January 5, 2022:

• The detailed schedules of the following sessions are now available on the "Program Schedule" page.
  • Mini-workshop on Theory on January 13-14
  • Conference on January 17-19

Update on January 3, 2022:

• The closing date for receiving registration is extended to January 16.
   
• The corresponding Zoom links and passcodes will be sent by email to the registered participants on the following dates (HK Time, GMT +8):
  • Mini-workshops: January 12 afternoon 
  • Conference: January 17 morning 

Update on December 23, 2021:

• The detailed schedule of Mini-workshop on Accelerator Physics on January 13-14 is now available on the "Program Schedule" page.

Update on December 7, 2021:

• The Registration is now open until January 10, 2022 (Monday). To register, please visit the "Registration" page.
   
• The tentative Program Schedule is now available. Please refer to the "Program Schedule" page for details.

Mini-workshops: January 13-14, 2022
Conference: January 17-19, 2022

*Note: All sessions of this program will be held online via Zoom.

Mini-workshops:

Accelerator Physics — Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders

The mini-workshop entitled "Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders" aims to keep the momentum and the "temperature" of exchanging the newest progress in the beam physics, new ideas, and new technologies or experiences in operations of different colliders among the accelerator scientists to overcome the difficulties in scientific exchanges in the COVID-19 pandemic environment.

Experiment / Detector — Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing

Details will be available in due course.

Theory — Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides the foundation of modern high energy physics. The SM has been astonishingly successful and has passed a myriad of experimental tests, especially on microscopic lengths of scale that have been tested on high energy colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. However, the SM fails miserably in other aspects. First, the SM does not have a candidate particle to account for dark matter (DM). Also there are many other shortcomings, such as the gauge hierarchy problem, the strong CP problem, the mechanism for baryogenesis, etc. In addition to the ongoing and proposed (future) collider projects, the giant progress in astronomy and cosmology in last decade brings us great opportunities to address these puzzles. This workshop will gather the leading experts around the world to discuss the recent experimental and theoretical developments on physics beyond the SM. Especially, we will focus on the interface of the important frontiers in particle physics with astrophysics and cosmology.

Conference:

After the discovery of the Higgs boson, the main objectives of high-energy physics are the precise measurement of Higgs properties and searches for new physics. These objectives strongly motivate the construction of next-generation experimental facilities such as e+e- Higgs factory and 100TeV pp collider or muon collider.

The Higgs boson plays a crucial role in explaining spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking and the mass generation of the known fundamental particles. It is thus important to measure precisely the Higgs-gauge couplings, the Higgs-Yukawa couplings and the Higgs self-couplings. A future Higgs factory would achieve such a goal significantly better than the LHC. Such precise measurements also provide an indirect probe for new physics that alters the Higgs properties.

Addressing fundamental puzzles in nature such as hierarchy problem, dark matter, etc. results in expectation that new physics should emerge at the TeV scale or above. A higher energy machine like new pp collider or muon collider will be crucial for directly exploring new physics and the properties of any to-be-discovered particles at the LHC.

This High Energy Physics (HEP) program in Hong Kong started in 2015. The objective of this program is to bring theorists, experimentalists and accelerator physicists together, to stimulate discussions and exchange thoughts on the future collider programs. As part of this HEP program, a three-day conference will be held during January 17-19, 2022. Before that, three two-day mini-workshops focusing on theory, experiment/detector and accelerator physics respectively, will be organized on January 13-14. It is also hoped that some white papers for the particle physics community documenting the physics goals, options of future colliders, and the reach of the related experiments could be released. 


Joint Organizers

• Center for Future High Energy Physics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
   
• Joint Consortium of Fundamental Physics, Hong Kong

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