Month: October 2023

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MPI@LHC 2023

MPI@LHC 2023 is the 14th International Conference on Multiple Parton Interactions at the LHC. This workshop brings together the world’s leading experts from theory and LHC experiments to discuss the latest progress on the physics relevant to Multiple Partonic Interactions. This year it will take place in person, at the University of Manchester, from the 20th to the 24th of November.

The conference will cover the following topics, divided in working groups:

  • WG1: Minimum Bias, Underlying Event and Monte Carlo generators
  • WG2: Double Parton Scattering
  • WG3: High multiplicities and small systems
  • WG4: Diffraction and small-x
  • WG5: Heavy Ion Collisions

Both calls for registration and abstracts are open. Registration and abstract submission deadline: October 27, 2023

INDICO page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1281679/

One of our researchers, Guilherme Milhano, will contribute with a talk.

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CFNS workshop: Advancing the Understanding of Non-Perturbative QCD Using Energy Flow

Much of the theoretical uncertainty in realistic QCD calculations comes from the inaccurate model description of non-perturbative (np) effects in the low energy regime. These np effects present themselves in lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron collisions, with substantial overlap in their phase space along with a distinct set of contributions for each system. Manifestation of the np effects exists in the initial state of the parton/nucleon distributions and also persists in the final state via target fragmentation and hadronization.

The goal of this workshop (the second in the series) is to aggregate current knowledge related to np effects across systems in order to brainstorm novel measurements at the EIC to investigate the fundamental transition from p-np QCD, utilizing collinear energy flows of jets, heavy flavor (HF) hadrons and target fragments. This workshop brings together theorists and experimentalists towards envisioning a collective framework, conceptually and via observables, that are aimed at understanding np QCD.

The scientific program of this 4-day workshop is focused on Jet substructure, Heavy-Flavor, Initial State & Spin Physics and EIC Prospects. This event may be attended in person, or virtually using Zoom, from the 6th to the 9th of November.

The Pheno group is involved in the organization of this event. Link to INDICO page: https://indico.cfnssbu.physics.sunysb.edu/event/110/

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IST Distinguished Lecture and Physics Department Colloquium

Professor Francis Halzen, principal investigator of the ICECUBE project, and Gregory Breit, Professor at the University of Wisconsin (USA), will talk about “ICECUBE: The Under-the-Ice Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole”.

The ICECUBE project at the South Pole melted 86 holes 2.5-kilometer-deep in the Antarctic icecap to construct an enormous astronomical observatory. The experiment discovered a flux of neutrinos from deep space with energies more than a million times those of neutrinos produced at accelerator laboratories. These cosmic neutrinos are created in some of the most violent processes in the universe since the Big Bang, gaining their energy in the cosmic particle accelerators that are still enigmatic sources of cosmic rays. This lecture will discuss the IceCube neutrino telescope and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin. It will highlight the recent discovery that high-energy neutrinos—and cosmic rays—originate in sources powered by rotating supermassive black holes.

This event is organised by the Department of Physics (DF) at Instituto Superior Técnico. It will be held on October 9th, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the auditorium of Técnico Congress Centre, Alameda Campus.

Link: https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/eventos/ist-distinguished-lecture-e-coloquio-do-departamento-de-fisica/