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. 

 

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

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