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IAS Program on High Energy Physics (HEP 2021)

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High Energy Physics HKUST IAS (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Description

Mini-workshops: January 14-15, 2021
Conference: January 18-21, 2021

Update on February 3, 2021 (Wednesday):

  • Thank you for attending the HEP 2021! The group photo is available for download here. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

    Group photo

Update on January 21, 2021 (Thursday):

  • [Change of Time] The Panel Discussion of the Plenary Session will be held at 22:30 - 23:30 tonight (HK Time, GMT+8).
    (The scheduled 10-minute break at 22:30 - 22:40 is cancelled.)

Updates on January 13, 2021 (Wednesday):

  • The Zoom links, IDs and Passcodes are sent to all registrants on January 13, 2021.
     
  • The Zoom links are also uploaded to the "Zoom Links to Sessions" page in this website.
     
  • A PDF file of the 1-page schedules of all sessions is available here for download (the file will be updated if there is any change on the schedule).
     
  • You are strongly advised to read the "Practical Zoom Handbook" before attending the program.
     
  • Please check out the latest program schedule regularly at the "Timetable" page.

Updates on January 12, 2021 (Tuesday):

  • The Registration will be closed on January 12, 2021 (Tuesday).
     
  • The Call for Talk Abstracts is closed on January 8, 2021. 
     
  • The Zoom link and the passcode to each event will be sent in one-go to all registrants by January 13, 2021 (Wednesday).
     
  • A guide about the Zoom set-up of this program is uploaded to the page of "Practical Zoom Handbook" in this website. Please access to the page in the menu at the left hand side and read carefully. This would help you to get familiar with the Zoom arrangements of this program.
     
  • Please check out the latest program schedule regularly at the "Timetable" page.

Update on December 29, 2020:

  • The deadlines for Registration and Call for Talk Abstracts are now extended to January 8, 2021 (Friday).

*Note: In view of the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, all sessions of this program will be held online via Zoom.

After the discovery of the Higgs boson, the main objectives of high-energy physics are the precise measurement of Higgs properties and searches for new physics. These objectives strongly motivate the construction of next-generation experimental facilities such as e+e- Higgs factory and 100TeV pp collider or muon collider.

The Higgs boson plays a crucial role in explaining spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking and the mass generation of the known fundamental particles. It is thus important to measure precisely the Higgs-gauge couplings, the Higgs-Yukawa couplings and the Higgs self-couplings. A future Higgs factory would achieve such a goal significantly better than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Such precise measurements also provide an indirect probe for new physics that alters the Higgs properties.

Addressing fundamental puzzles in nature such as hierarchy problem, dark matter, etc. results in expectation that new physics should emerge at the TeV scale or above. A higher energy machine like new pp collider or muon collider will be crucial for directly exploring new physics and the properties of any to-be-discovered particles at the LHC.

This High Energy Physics (HEP) program in Hong Kong started in 2015. The objective of this program is to bring theorists, experimentalists and accelerator physicists together, to stimulate discussions and exchange thoughts on the future collider programs. As part of this HEP program, a four-day conference will be held during January 18-21, 2021. Before that, three two-day mini-workshops focusing on theory, experiment/detector and accelerator physics respectively, will be organized on January 14-15, 2021. It is also hoped that some white papers for the particle physics community documenting the physics goals, options of future colliders, and the reach of the related experiments could be released.


Joint Organizers

  • Center for Future High Energy Physics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
     
  • Joint Consortium of Fundamental Physics, Hong Kong

 

Sponsors


MDPI Physics Journal
 


International Journal of Modern Physics A



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