Month: December 2023

The Rencontres de Moriond, created by Jean Tran Thanh Van in 1966, is a gathering of physicists for in-depth discussions in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The upcoming session, focused on QCD and high energy interactions, will be held in La Thuile, a winter sports resort in the Italian Alps. The meeting aims to foster collaboration between experimentalists and theorists in a beautiful setting.

The main topics include:

• Searches for New Physics
• SPhenomenology of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Production and Properties of the Higgs Boson
• Properties of the Top quark
• Production and decay of b and c quarks
• CP Violation
• High pT QCD physics
• Heavy Ion collisions
• Recent developments in QCD
• New theoretical developments in particle physics

The detailed program of the meeting will be established according to the latest experimental and theoretical results at the time of the meeting. Participants who wish to present new results are requested to send an abstract of their proposed presentation to one member of the program committee  as soon as possible. Due to limitation of time, only a restricted number of talks can be accepted.

Both calls for registration and abstracts are open. Registration deadline: January 31, 2024. Abstract submission deadline: January 14, 2024.

For more information, see https://moriond.in2p3.fr/2024/QCD/

This workshop aims to bring together several communities studying the dynamics of jets in Heavy Ion Collision experiments, the response of the matter to these probes, and the matter evolution itself. These communities study different but highly entangled subjects and would benefit from the combined developments and new opportunities to utilize the available tomographic tools jointly. The main goals of the workshop are to review and analyze the recent experimental and theoretical results, discuss the short term needs of each sub-field to be prioritized in the near future, and facilitate the cross-talk between them.

The main questions to be addressed in this workshop are the following:

• Could we utilize the existing theories of probe-matter interactions to access the real-time matter evolution and its differential properties?
• Can we provide a self-consistent description for the hard probes in QCD matter produced in HIC during all the stages of its evolution?
• Which novel measurements would be needed to extract the information about the evolution of the underlying nuclear matter?
• What is the current status of the tomographic toolkit for different hard probes on the experimental side?
• Can the new developments in jet quenching and initial stages physics help understand the evolution of jets in smaller systems?

The workshop will take place in Trento (Italy) between the 12th and the 16th of February, 2024. Applications will be open until the 19th of January.

INDICO page: https://indico.ectstar.eu/event/198/

The Pheno group is involved in the organization of this event. In addition, several of our members (André Cordeiro, Guilherme Milhano, João Gonçalves, João Silva, Nuno Olavo and Pablo Guerrero) will attend and deliver talks.

Marco Leitão, MEFT student at IST, is our most recent MSc. His thesis, QGP effects on Energy Correlators inside jets’ was defended on 6 December. Marco’s work, supervised by Guilherme Milhano, examined the unique potential of energy correlators to isolate the effect of the QGP response to the passage of a jet and to determine the critical temperature for existence of QGP. The jury members were Mário Pimenta, Liliana Apolinário, and Guilherme Milhano.

Congratulations to Master Marco!