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

Welcome: Opening Session

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

1 Opening Remarks by the Chair of the Conference

Speaker: Prof. Shaaban Khalil

2 History of PIC Conference

Speaker: Ulrich Heintz

3 Welcome Speech by the President of Zewail City

Speaker: Prof. Wael Akl

session I

Plenary

Convener: Tamer Tolba

4 Reactor neutrinos and JUNO

Speaker: Hans Steiger (Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+)

5 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)

6 Neutrino-less beta decay

Speaker: George Marshall

Coffee Break

session II

Convener: Bai-Cian Ke

7 QCD at the LHC

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

8 BSM searches at the LHC

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

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

Speaker: Meng Lu (Northeastern University (US))

Lunch Break

session III

Convener: Antonio De Maria

10 W mass and precision ewk

Speaker: Sushil Chauhan

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

Speaker: Markus Klute

12 Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Charles Timmermans

Welcom cocktail

Tuesday 21 October

session I

Convener: Charles Timmermans

13 HH, HHH searches, Higgs potential at the LHC

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

14 H->cc,bb, Higgs properties

Speaker: Elisabetta Gallo (DESY)

15 di/tri-boson production

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

FGiuli_PIC2025.pdf

16 Top quark production, mass, propertie

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

Coffee Break

session II

Convener: Sonia Kabana

17 Recent results on EW physics at LHCb

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

18 Heavy ion physics at the LHC

Speaker: Martin Spousta (Charles University)

19 Open heavy flavor and quarkonia at RHIC

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

Lunch Break

Parallel Session IA

Convener: Christopher Neu

20 Update on the progress and prospects of the ESSnuSBplus project

Speaker: Dr Marcos Dracos (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

21 The Status of the RENE Experiment

Speaker: Jiyoung Choi

22 BUTTON, a technology demonstrator for neutrino detectio

Speaker: Deb Sankar Bhattacharya (The University of Edinburgh (GB))

23 Pulse Shape Discrimination Studies for the RENE Experiment

Speaker: Jubin Park (Soongsil University and OMEG institute)

Parallel Session IB

Convener: Thomas Muller

24 New physics searches with kaon and pion decays at NA62 experiment

Speaker: Cristina Biino (INFN Torino (IT))

PIC2025_NA62_CBiino_vf.pdf

25 Contraints of heavy flavor couplings of Higgs boson from CMS

Speaker: Ming-Yan Lee (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

26 Beyond the Standard Model in the Higgs sector

Speaker: Qichen Dong (University of Oxford (GB))

27 Analyzing the semileptonic and nonleptonic $B_c \to J/\psi, \eta_c$ decays

Speaker: Dr Aritra Biswas

Parallel Session IC

Convener: Christian Buck

28 Gauge Bosons Polarization Study at the LHC

Speaker: Vladislav Shalaev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (RU))

29 Searches for new particles or interactions using unconventional workflows or final states using the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Monica Verducci (remote) (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))

30 Searches for supersymmetric particles with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Daiya Akiyama (Waseda University (JP))

31 Classifying hadronic objects in ATLAS with ML/AI algorithms

Speaker: Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela (Southern Methodist University)

15:50 Coffee Break

Parallel Session IIA

Convener: Christopher Neu

32 DarkSide-20k Experiment Status or DUNE Near Detector Overview

Speaker: Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii)

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

Speaker: Radovan Milincic

34 Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics

Speaker: Yousif El-feky (American University in Cairo)

35 Search for resonant HH/Y production with bbVV decays in CMS

Speaker: Aarif Aarif (Northeastern University)

Parallel Session IIB

Convener: Thomas Muller

36 The hadronic decays of charmed mesons at BESIII

Speaker: Han Zhang

37 Quirk SUEP

Speaker: David Rousso (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

38 ATLAS

Speaker: TBA

39 Characteristics of the chemical freeze-out conditions in the framework of HRG model

Speaker: Maha Maher (Teaching assistant and master's student at Physics department Faculty of Science Sohag University.)

Parallel Session IIC

Convener: Christian Buck

40 New techniques for reconstructing and calibrating hadronic objects with ATLAS

Speaker: Jackson Barr (UCL)

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

Speaker: Davide Cieri (Max Planck Society (DE))

42 The detection of electrons and photons with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Leo Boudet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

43 Analysis of geomagnetic Pi2 pulsations during solar cycle 24 maximum and minimum regions

Speaker: Abdelmoamen Nosier

Conference dinner

Wednesday 22 October

session I

Convener: Martin Spousta

44 [Belle II/LHCb] B decays

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

45 Heavy Spectroscopy

Speaker: Alexander Bondar

46 Pure-(semi) Leptonic Charm Decays

Speaker: Bai-Cian Ke

47 Rare Kaon Decays

Speaker: Tadashi Nomura

Coffee Break

Excursion

Thursday 23 October

session I

Convener: Hans Steiger

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

Speaker: Raffaele FLAMINIO (CNRS/LAPP)

49 Status of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering measurements

Speaker: Christian Buck

50 Current landscape of accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments

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

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

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

Coffee Break

session II

Convener: Christos Markou

52 Latest Results from the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope in the Mediterranean Sea

Speaker: Soebur Razzaque

53 WIMP Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Cecilia Levy (remote) (University at Albany, SUNY)

54 High Energy and Particle Physics in Africa

Speaker: Ahmed Meissa

55 Next PIC 2026

Speaker: TBD

56 Closing

Speaker: Shaaban Kalil

Lunch Break