The video of the workshop is now online:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3H18Jb-t7CxbOK-TmD5ATQ
Only registered participants will receive a link to the event.
Following the discovery of an SM-like Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider the chief focus is on the observation of new phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Such observations would provide clear guiding principles for the future of the entire field that are, given the present discussions on future colliders all over the world, more crucial than ever before.
So far, inclusive and model dependent searches have not provided evidence of new resonances, indicating that these could be driven by more subtle topologies, hidden by large backgrounds. Phenomenologists have found many classes of New Physics that are difficult to test with current LHC analyses.
In this light, it is important to keep investigating what theories could be further explored. In addition, we need to elaborate on methodologies that display less model dependencies. The use of Machine Learning may play a critical role here.
The opportunity to test a wide range of New Physics opened up very recently: CERN announced on the 11th of December 2020 a new open data policy, which "will make scientific research more accessible to the community". This opens up the testing ground for new search strategies.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together theory and experiment to identify novel signatures connected to such 'hidden' New Physics, to devise new methodologies, and to establish new search strategies.
International Organising Committee:
Stefan Antusch (University of Basel)
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)
Eduard Boos (Moscow State University)
Kingman Cheung (National Tsing Hua University)
Andreas Crivellin (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
Belen Gavela (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Rohini Godbole (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)
Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (IISER Kolkata)
Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)
Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing)
Oliver Fischer (University of Liverpool), co-chair
Bruce Mellado (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS), co-chair