SEARCH conference

20 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 24 Oct 2025, 18:30 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Maurizio Pierini (CERN), Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))

We are excited to introduce SEARCH, a bold new conference series designed to become a hub for exploring new physics discovery potential and breakthroughs at high-energy physics experiments. This annual event will gather leading minds from around the world for in-depth discussions and collaborations on the forefront of Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics.

SEARCH draws inspiration from the successful workshops series of the same name held between 2012 and 2016, where the focus was on vibrant, interactive discussion sessions. These workshops created a dynamic and open environment for debate and idea exchange. The aim of SEARCH is to reignite that spirit and offer an opportunity to shape the future direction of BSM physics research.

The inaugural event, SEARCH25, hosted at CERN from October 20th to 24th, 2025, will focus on the discovery potential of today and feature a dynamic mix of open discussions and thought-provoking presentations spanning theory and experiment across a variety of subfields in HEP, designed to spark new ideas and collaborations. The preliminary version of the conference agenda is now available. Registration is open at no fee. 

We warmly invite the high-energy physics community to join us in this exciting venture and to help define the roadmap for BSM physics in the coming years. We hope you join us at SEARCH25 to ignite the search together. 

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Note that no ZOOM connection is foreseen for this conference. 

International advisory committee: Nima ARKANI-HAMED Florencia CANELLI Monica D’ONOFRIO Aurelio JUSTE ROZAS Michelangelo MANGANO Margarete MÜHLLEITNER Mihoko NOJIRI Shahram RAHATLOU Geraldine SERVANT Raman SUNDRUM   search2025-iac_at_cern.ch

Programming committee: Yasmine AMHIS Ilaria BRIVIO Monica DUNFORD Julia GONSKI Stefania GORI Tianjun LI Patrick MEADE Michele PAPUCCI Maurizio PIERINI Seema SHARMA   search2025-pc_at_cern.ch

 

Monday 20 October

14:00 → 15:30 Session: Opening session: Theory

14:00 Theory landscapes - the future

Speaker: Patrick Meade

14:30 Theory landscapes - the future

Speaker: Raman Sundrum

14:45 Discussion

Speakers: Patrick Meade, Raman Sundrum

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: Opening session: Experiment

16:00 Experimental state of the art, new potential and capacities

Speaker: Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

16:45 Discussion

Speaker: Florencia Canelli (University of Zurich (CH))

18:00 → 20:00 Poster Session: Poster Session and Reception

Tuesday 21 October

09:00 → 10:30 Session: Breakthroughs in experimental capacities

09:00 New approaches in reconstruction and analysis

Speaker: Maximilian J Swiatlowski (TRIUMF (CA))

09:30 Back to the detector - AI and improvements to the inputs

Speaker: Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH))

10:00 Discussion

Speaker: Maurizio Pierini (CERN)

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session: Theory landscapes

11:00 Theory motivations - Hierarchy problem

Speaker: Raman Sundrum

11:30 What capabilities of the LHC are needed to further extend its coverage of theory landscapes?

Speaker: Prof. Matthew James Strassler (Harvard University)

12:00 Discussion

Speaker: Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Panel: New capacities for the LHC experiments

Conveners: Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB)), Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)), Liantao Wang, Maurizio Pierini (CERN), Valentina Cairo (CERN)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: Flavour

16:00 Theory perspectives and flavor constraints to BSM

Speaker: Luca Silvestrini

16:30 Experimental overview

Speaker: Yasmine Sara Amhis (IJCLab/CERN)

17:00 Discussion

Speaker: Michele Papucci (California Institute of Technology)

Wednesday 22 October

09:00 → 10:30 Session: Putting precision and searches together

09:00 Theory overview on SMEFT, direct searches in the tails

Speaker: Eleni Vryonidou (University of Cyprus (CY))

09:30 Direct vs indirect search probes (Higgs couplings, extended Higgs)

Speaker: Jana Schaarschmidt (University of Washington (US))

10:00 Discussion

Speaker: Roberto Salerno (CNRS/IN2P3 - LLR, École polytechnique)

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session: Precision and uncertainties

11:00 Our theory bottlenecks

Speaker: Josh Bendavid (CERN)

11:30 Our upcoming biggest theory improvements

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

12:00 Discussion

Speaker: Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Panel: Precision and Searches - what’s needed

Conveners: Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Marc Riembau (CERN), Miha Muskinja (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (SI)), Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University (DE)), Stefano Forte (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: The unconventional

16:00 The long-lived and unconventional theory landscape

Speaker: David Richard Curtin (University of Toronto)

16:30 Unconventional particles and new capacities

Speaker: Juliette Alimena (DESY)

17:00 Discussion

Speaker: Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))

Thursday 23 October

09:00 → 10:30 Session: Synergies - Dark Sector

09:00 Theory opportunities - is there any room for WIMPs?

Speaker: Benjamin Lehmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

09:30 LHC experimental status (including forward detectors)

Speaker: Bingxuan Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))

10:00 Discussion

Speaker: Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session: Synergies - Non-collider BSM

11:00 Theory perspectives

Speaker: Asimina Arvanitaki (PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA))

11:30 Atomic and low energy probes to BSM constraints and how they affect LHC searches

Speaker: Skyler Degenkolb

12:00 Discussion

Speaker: David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Panel: Theory perspective on interesting areas within the BSM landscape

Conveners: Dr Louie Dartmoor Corpe (Laboratoire de Physique Clermont Auvergne (LPCA)), Prateek Agrawal (University of Oxford), Sezen Sekmen (Kyungpook National University (KR)), Tim Cohen (CERN), Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: The BSM WG at the LHC: experiments meet experiments meet theory

16:00 Building the Experiment BSM bridge

Speaker: Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

16:25 Building the Theory-Experiment BSM bridge

Speaker: Tim Cohen (CERN)

16:45 Discussion

Friday 24 October

09:00 → 10:30 Session: Synergies - LHC and cosmology

09:00 Cosmology connection, phase transitions

Speaker: Pedro Klaus Schwaller (Mainz University)

09:30 Experimental searches for extended (light and heavy) scalars

Speaker: Bill Murray (University of Warwick (GB))

10:00 Discussion

Speaker: Geraldine Servant

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session: HL-LHC and beyond

11:00 New opportunities at the HL-LHC and beyond

Speaker: Cristina Botta (CERN)

11:30 Theory landscape: What we will be talking about in 10 years?

Speaker: Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN)

12:00 Discussion

Speaker: Monica D'Onofrio (University of Liverpool (GB))

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Panel: Closing Panel

Conveners: Flavia de Almeida Dias (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)), Gian Giudice (CERN), Nathaniel Craig, Raman Sundrum, Shahram Rahatlou (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))