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))

Monday 20 October

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

14:00 Theory landscapes - the future

14:45 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Break

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

16:00 New experimental capacities, new potential, the new state-of-the art

16:45 Discussion

Tuesday 21 October

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

09:00 New approaches in reconstruction and analysis

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

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session: Theory landscapes

11:00 Theory motivations - Hierarchy problem

11:30 What are the capabilities the LHC would need to get theorists excited

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

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

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: The unconventional

16:00 The long-lived and unconventional theory landscape

16:30 Unconventional particles and new capacities

17:00 Discussion

Wednesday 22 October

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

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

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

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Break

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

11:00 Our theory bottlenecks

11:30 Our upcoming biggest theory improvements

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Panel: Follow-up panel on precision and what’s needed

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: Flavor

16:00 Theory perspectives and flavor constraints to BSM

16:30 Experimental overview

17:00 Discussion

Thursday 23 October

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

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

09:30 LHC experimental status (including forward detectors)

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Break

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

11:00 Theory perspectives

11:30 The LHC connection to current and planned non-collider experiments

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

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

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 Session: Spontaneous topics

Friday 24 October

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

09:00 Cosmology connection, phase transitions

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

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Break

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

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

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

12:00 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Panel: Closing Panel