Offshell-2021 is different from many other conferences in the high energy physics community: we accept mainly talks and presentations of novel ideas in the context of physics at the LHC during the high luminosity phase and beyond that have not been published in a journal before. If selected, your contribution will appear as a full journal article in EPJ-C. A two-step selection procedure has been agreed in close collaboration with EPJ-C:
- An extended abstract has to be submitted by 14th February 2021, where the basic idea as well as the main techniques are described within a one page summary. This document will be reviewed within a two weeks period. Abstracts that are sufficiently novel, relevant and promising, are selected for the second round.
- The authors of the selected abstracts have time to submit a full paper draft 28 days (i.e. until 8th June) before the start of the conference, which will be then reviewed in cooperation with an EPJ-C panel. Proponents of all papers that pass the second review stage will be invited to present their work as a plenary talk. After addressing the referees' feedback as well as the main points of the discussion during the conference, the paper is accepted as a journal publication by EPJ-C and candidate for the best-paper award of the conference.
Selected contributions that do not pass the first step, will be invited to present their work during the poster sessions. The same holds true for material that was fully or partly already published previously or is based on preliminary results. Those contributions will be summarized in a standalone overview article, which will be available on https://arxiv.org.
Please note, that results should not be obtained using data or tools of the major LHC collaborations, in line with the policies to publish outside ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations.
