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The 12th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2024, HP2024) will take place in Nagasaki, Japan from 22nd September until 27th September 2024. The student lectures will take place on Sunday, September 22nd. The conference is in-person only.

The conference is focused on experimental and theoretical developments on perturbative probes of hot and dense QCD matter as studied in high-energy nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and proton-proton collisions. Specifically, topics for discussion will include:

• Jets and their modification in QCD matter
• High momentum hadrons and correlations
• Heavy quarks and quarkonia
• Electromagnetic and electroweak probes
• Early time dynamics and nuclear PDFs
• Future experimental facilities

The registration and abstract submission period is scheduled to start on April 15.

INDICO page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1339555/

Two of our PhD students (Nuno Olaves and João Silva) as well as one of our researchers (Andrey Sadofyev) will attend and deliver talks. Click on their names to see their respective contributions!

The International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (IDPASC, https://idpasc.lip.pt) is an interdisciplinary network whose aim is to train a new generation of high-level experts in the fields of Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The 13th edition of the IDPASC school will be held in Palermo (Italy) from 17th to 27th September 2024, organized by the Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Palermo, Italy in collaboration with INFN Catania and National South Laboratory (LNS), with organizational support from Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Portugal (LIP) and IDPASC Committee.

This school aims at training the next generation of physicists that will investigate open questions in the PASC domains in the coming decades. The school offers a multi-disciplinary approach that will help each student, which starts to specialize in one domain, to keep a broad view on the different PASC domains. This will be a key skill to optimally use the complementarity between different approaches to shed light on the same problems with a different angle such as Dark Matter, physics beyond the Standard Model or multi-messenger physics. On top of the main courses, the school will also propose some hands-on session in specific domains such as ML for PASC problems. A two day visit to INFN Laboratory in Catania and KM3NET infrastructure in Porto Palo di Capo Passero are foreseen.

The fee is 800€ and it includes accommodation, coffee-breaks, lunches, school dinner, excursion and is to be paid via bank transfer. A very limited amount of grants covering half of the fee will be available for selected students registered in the IDPASC network. The grant will not cover travel expenses. To apply for such a grant please upload in additional application form the letter of recommendation from your supervisor until 1st June 2024. The evaluation of the application for grant support will be communicated until 15th June 2024.

Registration deadline: 1st June 2024

INDICO page: https://indico.lip.pt/event/1710/

This summer school will take place from June 9th to June 15th at the IJCLab in Orsay, close to the city of Paris (France). The school welcomes all PhD students and young postdocs in the fields of QCD, hadron and/or heavy-ion physics, both experimentalists and theorists. The scientific program of this school will provide the participants with the tools to navigate from the multidimensional structure of the nucleon (quantum chromodynamics, modifications in nuclei and parton saturation) to the properties and influence of the hot and dense QCD medium created in heavy-ion collisions (HIC). The formation of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), its thermodynamic properties and the phase transition to hadronic matter will be discussed. The origin and observation of collective effects will also be discussed. Attention will be paid to the interplay between theory, phenomenology and experiment, and interdisciplinary links to nuclear structure physics. 

Internationally recognized researchers will give introductory lectures on hydrodynamics, nucleon and nuclear structure, probes of the QGP such as jets and heavy flavors both from theory and experiment, the simulation of HIC via event generators, the modification of hadrons in the medium and the initial state of a HIC.

The deadline for application is April 30th 2024.

INDICO page: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/31210/

One of our researchers (Carlota Andres) was invited to deliver lectures on jet quenching.

Energy-energy correlators (EECs) are powerful tools for collider QCD. They simultaneously enable precision measurements of complex collider phenomena whilst retaining strong links with highly developed techniques from conformal field theory and light-ray operator product expansions. The last decade has seen substantial growth in the field of EECs and the deep connections among conformal theories, jet substructure, heavy-ion physics and analytic QCD have just started to be explored. The goal of this workshop is to enable researchers across these different fields to meet and elaborate concrete strategies to fully exploit the potential of the EEC framework for collider phenomenology.

Some keys areas of focus include:

• Identifying new/unique phenomenological applications
• Developing techniques for computations of energy correlators in QCD
• Extending the links between EECs in conformal theories and EECs in QCD.
• Finding synergy between jet physics and heavy-ion physics within the EEC framework.
• Identifying how recent EEC developments can feedback into broader collider phenomenology and Monte Carlo generators.

The workshop will take place in Mainz (Germany), at the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP), between the 8th and the 19th of July, 2024. Applications will be open until the 11th of March.

INDICO page: https://indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/358/

Our group is directly involved as part of the organizing committee of this event.

ICHEP is a series of international conferences organized by the C11 commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). At ICHEP, physicists from around the world gather to discuss plans for major future facilities and share the latest advancements in particle physics, astrophysics/cosmology, and accelerator science.

The 42nd edition of this conference will take place in Prague on July 18-24, 2024. The registration process is open and the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to February 29, 2024. To submit abstracts, please visit: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1291157/abstracts.

The conference program covers all aspects of High Energy Physics and consists of plenary lectures, multiple parallel sessions and a poster event; more details are provided at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1291157/program.

One of our researchers, Liliana Apolinário, will act as chairperson for the heavy ion session of this conference.

The QCD Master Class 2024 will take place on June 23-July 6, 2024 in Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, a small village in Brittany (west of France) close to the city of Saint-Malo and the world famous Mont Saint-Michel. Five lectures in QCD, of approximately 10 hours each, will be given to 35 young researchers and faculty staff members. The lectures will cover three different topics each week, from Monday to Friday. The week-end in between the two weeks is left free (a visit to the Mont Saint-Michel will be scheduled).

Interested candidates should apply via the pre-registration form given here. Deadline for application is fixed to March 15, 2024. The candidates are expected to apply for the complete duration of the school, with preferably arrival on June 23 (afternoon) and departure on July 6 (morning). The selected 35 participants will be contacted in order to process with the payment of the fee to confirm final registration.

The registration fee is fixed to 850 euros and includes the full board accommodation from June 23 (evening) to July 6 (morning) as well as a round-trip bus ticket from Saint-Jacut to Mont Saint-Michel.

INDICO page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1326749/

The mini-school on Particle and Astroparticle Physics, organized jointly by CFTP (Centro de Física Teorica de Particulas) and LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas), provides undergraduate students with an overview of the field, covering both theoretical and experimental aspects.

The school is primarily aimed at third-year undergraduate physics students and will be held fully in in-person mode in Oeiras (Lisbon, Portugal), from the 5th to the 6th of February, 2024.

In the first day there will be introductory lectures on different topics. The second day will consist of hands-on tutorials (morning) and a session in which research opportunities will be presented to the participants by CFTP and LIP researchers (afternoon). MSc and PhD students from both research centres will present posters on their current research work. This will be an oportunity for the undergraduate students to exchange views with more advanced colleagues.

The deadline for (regular) registration is January 25, 2024. The deadline for registration requesting a grant is January 15, 2024.

INDICO page: https://indico.lip.pt/event/1652/

Several of our members will participate in this school: Liliana Apolinario and Dario Vaccaro will present a hands-on tutorial on QCD jets, Grigorios Chachamis will deliver a lecture on phenomenology, and Pablo Guerrero will discuss research opportunities within the Pheno group.

An illuminating exploration into QCD theory, phenomenology, and experiments amidst the vibrant Nordic summer nights. This comprehensive two-week program will take place in Saariselkä (Finland) from the 24th of June to the 6th of July. Its first week will be dedicated to theory, followed by the second week, delving into phenomenology and experiments.

Proposed topics:

• Perturbative QCD: hard and high energy processes
• Small x physics and saturation
• Algorithms: jets, particle flow, machine learning
• Event generators
• Experiments and detectors: LHC, EIC and cosmic rays

The program will also include several hands-on parts with practical exercises using CMS Open Data, MC generators, and Machine Learning. The exact offering will be defined closer to the date.

The inclusive price for the school will be 1700 Euros and will include all lectures, coffee breaks, lodging (in a shared room), all breakfasts, lunches and dinners as well as the tour on Sunday.

The deadline for registration is January 31, 2024.

INDICO page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1134577/overview

One of our researchers, Grigorios Chachamis, was invited to give lectures on “BFKL and low-x physics”.

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/