International Workshop on New Opportunities for Particle Physics 2024 Held in Beijing

2024-08-06

The "International Workshop on New Opportunities for Particle Physics 2024," hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was held from July 19 to 21, 2024. The workshop was also jointly supported by the Center for Future High Energy Physics, the China Center for Advanced Science and Technology, and the Center for High Energy Physics at Peking University.

As a satellite conference of the 2024 International Conference on Basic Science (ICBS 2024), the workshop invited several internationally renowned scholars, including Prof. John Ellis, recipient of the Dirac and Maxwell Prizes; Prof. Tao Han, Fellow of the American Physical Society; Prof. Christophe Grojean, Fellow of the European Physical Society; Prof. Surjeet Rajendran, recipient of the New Horizons in Physics Prize; and Profs. Wolfgang Altmannshofer and Masha Baryakhtar, recipients of the ICBS Frontiers of Science Award. Outstanding scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, and various domestic institutions such as the Institute of Theoretical Physics, IHEP, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Fudan University, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study of UCAS, Nanjing Normal University, and South China Normal University contributed over 30 excellent academic presentations. More than 100 experts and graduate students attended the workshop. Prof. Jun Cao, Deputy Director of IHEP, delivered an opening speech, introducing the construction and latest progress of IHEP's large scientific facilities and wishing the conference a complete success.

The conference delved into the most up-to-date challenges and opportunities in particle physics. Despite the exceptional success of the Standard Model of elementary particles and cosmology in describing the fundamental interactions in nature and the evolution of the Universe, many mysteries remain unsolved, such as the origin of the electroweak scale, the mechanism of neutrino mass generation, matter-antimatter asymmetry, the nature of dark matter, and the dynamics of cosmic inflation. The invited speakers discussed these important frontier issues from various perspectives, including collider physics, multi-messenger astronomy, cosmology, neutrino physics, formal theory, and quantum information. The collision of new developments and ideas from different research directions is expected to pave new paths for the exploration of new physics beyond the Standard Model.

After the conference, Prof. John Ellis remarked that the presentations were rich and diverse, with some offering particularly novel ideas. Prof. Tao Han expressed his impression of the rapid development of new physics research in China and the vibrant energy of young researchers. This workshop was the first medium-scale international workshop organized by the Center for Future High Energy Physics after the pandemic, providing a platform for thorough exchanges on the development of particle physics among domestic and international theoretical colleagues.


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Ms. JIA Yinghua

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