PIC-2025

20 Oct 2025, 00:30 → 23 Oct 2025, 18:00 Africa/Cairo

Zewail CIty of Science and Technology

PIC2025 -admin, Shaaban Khalil, Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL)), Yasser Ahmad (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))

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The International Symposium on Physics in Collision is a prestigious conference series that was first held in 1981 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. The symposium primarily features review talks that highlight the latest experimental research findings, with a strong emphasis on particle physics. It also includes discussions on related fields such as heavy ion physics, astroparticle physics, and gravitational physics. In addition to the review talks, the symposium incorporates shorter contributions through poster sessions and parallel talk sessions, which further explore these topics. Invited speakers are tasked with reviewing and updating key areas in particle physics and related disciplines, focusing on significant results published in the past year or anticipated before the next symposium. The presentations are designed to foster informal discussions on new experimental findings and their broader implications. The symposium covers a diverse array of physics topics, ranging from accelerator-based particle physics to astroparticle physics, providing a comprehensive platform for scientific exchange and collaboration.

PIC-2025_Poster.pdf

Monday 20 October

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome: Opening Session

Convener: Prof. Shaaban Khalil (Zewail City of Science and Technology)

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Wael Akl

09:10 Particle in Collisions (PIC) History

Speaker: Representative AIC

09:20 PIC 2025 Overview

Speaker: Prof. Shaaban Khalil Ibrahim (ENHEP Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics (EG))

09:30 → 11:00 session I

Plenary

Convener: Tamer Tolba

09:30 Reactor neutrinos and JUNO

Speaker: Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)

10:00 Solar and geoneutrinos

Speaker: Livia Ludhova (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany)

10:30 Neutrino-less beta decay

Speaker: George Marshall

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 session II

11:30 QCD at the LHC

Speaker: Zhibo Wu (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:00 BSM searches at the LHC

Speaker: Tomoya Iizawa (University of Tokyo (JP))

12:30 BSM searches at the LHC (SUSY, top partners, heavy exotic particles, extended Higgs sector)

Speaker: Meng Lu (Northeastern University (US))

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:00 session III

Convener: Antonio De Maria

14:30 W mass and precision ewk

Speaker: Sushil Chauhan

15:00 A Quantum Leap Forward: Unlocking the Mysteries of Particle Physics with Future Colliders

Speaker: Markus Klute

15:30 Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Charles Timmermans

19:00 → 21:00 Welcom cocktail

Tuesday 21 October

09:00 → 11:00 session I

Convener: Charles Timmermans

09:00 HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC

Speaker: Antonio De Maria (Nanjing University (CN))

09:30 H->cc,bb, Higgs properties

Speaker: Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)

10:00 di/tri-boson production

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giuli (Remote) (INFN e Universita Roma Tor Vergata (IT))

10:30 Top quark production, mass, propertie

Speaker: Christopher Neu (University of Virginia (US))

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 session II

Convener: Sonia Kabana

11:30 Recent results on EW physics at LHCb

Speaker: Ahmed Abdelmotteleb (University of Warwick (GB))

12:00 Heavy ion physics at the LHC

Speaker: Martin Spousta (Charles University)

12:30 The legacy of high energy nuclear physics experiments at RHIC & SPS

Speaker: Ahmed M. Hamed (American University in Cairo)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:50 Parallel Session IA

14:30 Update on the progress and prospects of the ESSnuSBplus project

Speaker: Marcos Dracos

14:50 The Status of the RENE Experiment

Speaker: Jiyoung Choi

15:10 BUTTON, a technology demonstrator for neutrino detectio

Speaker: Deb Sankar Bhattacharya

15:30 Pulse Shape Discrimination Studies for the RENE Experiment

Speaker: Jubin Park

14:30 → 15:50 Parallel Session IB

Convener: Thomas Muller

14:30 New physics searches with kaon and pion decays at NA62 experiment

Speaker: Cristina Biino

14:50 Contraints of heavy flavor couplings of Higgs boson from CMS

Speaker: Ming-Yan Lee

15:10 Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector

Speaker: Qichen Dong

15:30 Analyzing the semileptonic and nonleptonic $B_c \to J/\psi, \eta_c$ decays

Speaker: Aritra Biswas

14:30 → 15:50 Parallel Session IC

Convener: Christian Buck

14:30 Gauge Bosons Polarization Study at the LHC

Speaker: Vladislav Shalaev

14:50 Searches for new particles or interactions using unconventional workflows or final states using the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Monica Verducci

15:10 Searches for supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Daiya Akiyama

15:30 Classifying hadronic objects in ATLAS with ML/AI algorithms

Speaker: Mohammed Aboelela

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:40 Parallel Session IIA

16:20 DarkSide-20k Experiment Status or DUNE Near Detector Overview

Speaker: Jelena Maricic

16:40 Zero gravity Galileo (Ze-Ga) - testing minimum of gravitational action in small satellite experiment

Speaker: Radovan Milincic

17:00 Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics

Speaker: Yousif El-Feky

17:20 Search for resonant HH/Y production with bbVV decays in CMS

Speaker: Aarif Aarif

16:20 → 17:40 Parallel Session IIB

Convener: Thomas Muller

16:20 The hadronic decays of charmed mesons at BESIII

Speaker: Han Zhang

16:40 Quirk SUEP

Speaker: David Rousso

17:00 ATLAS

Speaker: TBA

17:20 Characteristics of the chemical freeze-out conditions in the framework of HRG model

Speaker: Maha Maher Mohammed Sliem

16:20 → 17:40 Parallel Session IIC

Convener: Christian Buck

16:20 New techniques for reconstructing and calibrating hadronic objects with ATLAS

Speaker: Jackson Barr

16:40 Results from muon reconstruction performance with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC using Run-3 proton-proton collision data

Speaker: Davide Cieri

17:00 The detection of electrons and photons with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Leo Boudet

17:20 Analysis of geomagnetic Pi2 pulsations during solar cycle 24 maximum and minimum regions

Speaker: Abdelmoamen Nosier

19:00 → 21:00 Conference dinner

Wednesday 22 October

09:00 → 10:30 session I

Convener: Martin Spousta

09:00 Open heavy flavor and quarkonia at RHIC

Speaker: Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))

09:30 [Belle II/LHCb] B decays

Speaker: Bhagyashree Pagare (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

10:00 Heavy Spectroscopy

Speaker: Alexander Bondar

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 session II

Convener: Bhagyashree Pagare

11:00 Pure-(semi) Leptonic Charm Decays

Speaker: Dr Bai-Cian Ke

11:30 Rare Kaon Decays

Speaker: Tadashi Nomura

12:00 → 18:00 Excursion

Thursday 23 October

09:00 → 11:00 session I

Convener: Hans Steiger

09:00 Laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors: current status, latest results and future prospects

Speaker: Raffaele FLAMINIO (CNRS/LAPP)

09:30 Status of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering measurements

Speaker: Christian Buck

10:00 Current landscape of accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments

Speaker: Artur Sztuc (University of London (GB))

10:30 Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement: Status, Recent Advances, and Future Prospects

Speaker: Khushbakht Habib (National Centre for Physics (PK))

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:00 session II

Convener: Christos Markou

11:30 Latest Results from the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

Speaker: Soebur Razzaque

12:00 Light Dark Sector

Speaker: Felix Kling (DESY)

12:30 WIMP Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Cecilia Levy (University at Albany, SUNY)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 Closing Session

14:30 High Energy and Particle Physics in Africa

Speaker: Ahmed Meissa

14:50 Next PIC 2026

Speaker: TBD

15:10 Closing

Speaker: Shaaban Kalil