IAS Program on High Energy Physics (HEP 2022)

Asia/Hong_Kong
Online via Zoom

Online via Zoom

(Details will be available in due course)
High Energy Physics HKUST IAS
Description

Update on February 7, 2022:

  • Thank you for attending the HEP 2022! The group photo is available for download here. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

Update on January 19, 2022:

  • We welcome the submission of articles for the White Paper of this program. For details, please visit the "White Paper Submission" page. 

Update on January 17, 2022:

  • The Conference will begin at 19:50 tonight.
     
  • The program registration was closed on January 16 (Sunday) at 23:59. The email of Zoom details has been sent to registrants who completed the registration by the closing time. If you have registered but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.

Update on January 14, 2022:

At 21:00

  • The program registration will be closed on January 16 (Sunday) at 23:59.
     
  • Email with Zoom details will be sent out at 10:00 on January 17 to registrants who complete the registration between 21:00 today and 23:59 on Sunday.

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  • The email containing the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 14:25 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
  • The next batch of email will be sent out at 19:15 today.

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  • The email containing the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 09:33 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
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Update on January 13, 2022:

At 19:30:

  • The email of Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 19:30 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
  • The next batch of email will be sent out at 09:30 on January 14.

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  • The email of Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered before 14:15 today. If you completed the registration by the mentioned time but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
  • The next batch of email will be sent out at 19:15 today.

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  • The email of Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered between 23:00 on January 12 and 09:45 today. If you completed the registration during the mentioned period but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
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Update on January 12, 2022:

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  • Another batch of email containing the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered between 17:30 and 23:00 today. If you completed the registration during the mentioned period but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
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  • The email of the Zoom links, IDs, and passcodes has been sent to the program registrants who registered at or before 17:30 today. If you completed the registration by the time mentioned but did not receive any email from us, please write to iashep@ust.hk.
     
  • Another batch of email will be sent out at 23:00 today.

At 12:06:

  • The 1-page version of all program schedules are now available for viewing and downloading on the "Program at a Glance" page.

Update on January 7, 2022:

  • The detailed schedule of the Mini-workshop on Experiment/ Detector on January 13-14 is now available on the "Program Schedule" page.
     
  • A Practical Zoom Handbook is now available on the "Practical Zoom Handbook" page. **You are strongly recommended to read it carefully to get familiar with the Zoom setting before attending the program.** It contains the details on:
    • The Zoom setting of this program.
    • The Roles in a Zoom Meeting.
    • The Organization of Session.
    • What you should do as a speaker or a session chair in a session.

Update on January 5, 2022:

  • The detailed schedules of the following sessions are now available on the "Program Schedule" page.
    • Mini-workshop on Theory on January 13-14
    • Conference on January 17-19

Update on January 3, 2022:

  • The closing date for receiving registration is extended to January 16.
     
  • The corresponding Zoom links and passcodes will be sent by email to the registered participants on the following dates (HK Time, GMT +8):
    • Mini-workshops: January 12 afternoon 
    • Conference: January 17 morning 

Update on December 23, 2021:

  • The detailed schedule of Mini-workshop on Accelerator Physics on January 13-14 is now available on the "Program Schedule" page.

Update on December 7, 2021:

  • The Registration is now open until January 10, 2022 (Monday). To register, please visit the "Registration" page.
     
  • The tentative Program Schedule is now available. Please refer to the "Program Schedule" page for details.


Mini-workshops: January 13-14, 2022
Conference: January 17-19, 2022

*Note: All sessions of this program will be held online via Zoom.


Mini-workshops:

Accelerator Physics — Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders

The mini-workshop entitled "Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders" aims to keep the momentum and the "temperature" of exchanging the newest progress in the beam physics, new ideas, and new technologies or experiences in operations of different colliders among the accelerator scientists to overcome the difficulties in scientific exchanges in the COVID-19 pandemic environment.

Experiment / Detector — Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing

Details will be available in due course.

Theory — Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics provides the foundation of modern high energy physics. The SM has been astonishingly successful and has passed a myriad of experimental tests, especially on microscopic lengths of scale that have been tested on high energy colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. However, the SM fails miserably in other aspects. First, the SM does not have a candidate particle to account for dark matter (DM). Also there are many other shortcomings, such as the gauge hierarchy problem, the strong CP problem, the mechanism for baryogenesis, etc. In addition to the ongoing and proposed (future) collider projects, the giant progress in astronomy and cosmology in last decade brings us great opportunities to address these puzzles. This workshop will gather the leading experts around the world to discuss the recent experimental and theoretical developments on physics beyond the SM. Especially, we will focus on the interface of the important frontiers in particle physics with astrophysics and cosmology.

Conference:

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 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 three-day conference will be held during January 17-19, 2022. Before that, three two-day mini-workshops focusing on theory, experiment/detector and accelerator physics respectively, will be organized on January 13-14. 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


Previous HEP Programs

2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Program Secretariat:
Participants
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 1 - Session 1: (MW-TH-D1-S1) / Theme: Ultra-heavy DM
      Convener: Yue ZHAO (The University of Utah)
      • 1
        Opening Remarks
        Speaker: Tao LIU (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
      • 2
        Dark Matter from Primordial Black Holes
        Speaker: Pearl SANDICK (The University of Utah)
      • 3
        Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? An Update
        Speaker: Simeon BIRD (University of California, Riverside)
      • 4
        Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter in the View of LIGO/Virgo Observations
        Speaker: Sébastien CLESSE (Free University of Brussels (ULB))
      • 10:30
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 1 - Session 2: (MW-TH-D1-S2) / Theme: Ultra-light DM
      Convener: Tao LIU (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
      • 5
        The Cosmic Axion Background
        Speaker: Jeff DROR (University of California, Santa Cruz)
      • 6
        Determining the Existence of Primordial Black Holes and Ultralight Dark Matter Using Ravitational-wave Detectors
        Speaker: Andrew MILLER (Université catholique de Louvain)
      • 7
        Axi-Higgs Cosmology
        Speaker: Henry TYE (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
      • 12:10
        Long Break
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 1 - Session 1 (MW-AP-D1-S1)
      Convener: Eugene LEVICHEV (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP))
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 1 - Session 1 (MW-ED-D1-S1) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Detectors
      Conveners: Franco BEDESCHI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Pisa), Joao GUIMARAES DA COSTA (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 13
        Opening Remarks
        Speaker: Joao GUIMARAES DA COSTA (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 14
        Blue Sky Research
        Speaker: Peter KRIZAN (The Jožef Stefan Institute)
      • 15
        Highlights on Silicon Sensor Developments
        Speaker: Philip ALLPORT (University of Birmingham)
      • 16:30
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 1 - Session 3 (MW-TH-D1-S3) / Theme: Ultra-light DM
      Convener: Yue ZHAO (The University of Utah)
      • 16
        Gravitational Wave Detection between NANOGRAV and LISA
        Speaker: Surjeet RAJENDRAN (The Johns Hopkins University)
      • 17
        Pulsar Polarization Arrays
        Speaker: Jing REN (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 18
        Solar Reflection of Dark Matter
        Speaker: Haipeng AN (Tsinghua University)
      • 16:30
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 1 - Session 2 (MW-ED-D1-S2) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Detectors
      Conveners: Franco BEDESCHI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Pisa), Joao GUIMARAES DA COSTA (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 19
        Next Generation Vertex Detectors Based on Bent CMOS Sensors Wafers
        Speaker: Magnus MAGER (CERN)
      • 20
        Semiconductor Detectors for 4D Tracking
        Speaker: Gregor KRAMBERGER (University of Ljubljana)
      • 18:00
        Long Break
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 1 - Session 4 (MW-TH-D1-S4) / Theme: Ultra-light DM
      Convener: Yue ZHAO (The University of Utah)
      • 21
        Dark Photon Dark Matter Searches at LIGO
        Speaker: Huaike GUO (The University of Utah)
      • 22
        Search for Ultralight Dark Matter and Cosmological Phase Transition with Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
        Speaker: Qiang YUAN (Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 23
        Heavy Sterile Neutrinos: From Cosmology to Experiment
        Speaker: Marco DREWES (Université catholique de Louvain)
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 1 - Session 2 (MW-AP-D1-S2)
      Convener: Yuhui LI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 1 - Session 3: (MW-ED-D1-S3) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Detectors
      Conveners: Franco BEDESCHI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Pisa), Joao GUIMARAES DA COSTA (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 30
        Pixelated Time Projection Chamber Tracker Detector Technology
        Speaker: Peter KLUIT (National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF))
      • 31
        Precision Timing in Calorimetry
        Speaker: Imad LAKTINEH (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
      • 32
        Digital SiPM and DR Calorimetry
        Speaker: Romualdo SANTORO (Insubria University and The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Milano)
      • 21:50
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 1 - Session 3 (MW-AP-D1-S3)
      Convener: Frank ZIMMERMANN (CERN)
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 1 - Session 4 (MW-AP-D1-S4)
      Convener: Jie GAO (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 1 - Session 4: (MW-ED-D1-S4) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Detectors
      Conveners: Franco BEDESCHI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Pisa), Joao GUIMARAES DA COSTA (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 42
        Scintillating Glass Hadronic Calorimeter
        Speaker: Yong LIU (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 43
        Fast Readout Electronics
        Speaker: Angelo RIVETTI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Torino)
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 2 - Session 1 (MW-TH-D2-S1) / Theme: Sub-GeV/ Gev/ Tev DM
      Convener: Ke FANG (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
      • 44
        Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter
        Speaker: Tongyan LIN (University of California, San Diego)
      • 45
        Indirect Detection limits on Minimal Electroweak Dark Matter
        Speaker: Matthew BAUMGART (Arizona State University)
      • 46
        Neutrino Astronomy at High Energies
        Speaker: Qinrui LIU (Queen's University)
      • 10:30
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 2 - Session 2 (MW-TH-D2-S2) / Theme: Sub-GeV/ Gev/ Tev DM
      Convener: Ke FANG (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
      • 47
        Ultra-diffuse Galaxies and Their Complications for Testing Dark Matter Theories
        Speaker: Hai-bo YU (University of California, Riverside)
      • 48
        Searching for Ultra-light Bosons in Stellar Tidal Disruption Events
        Speaker: Daniel EGANA-UGRINOVIC (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
      • 49
        Detecting High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Microwave Cavities
        Speaker: Jan SCHÜTTE-ENGEL (University of Illinois)
      • 12:10
        Long Break
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 2 - Session 1 (MW-AP-D2-S1)
      Convener: Jie GAO (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 2 - Session 1 (MW-ED-D2-S1) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Computing
      Conveners: Paolo GIACOMELLI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Bologna), Weidong LI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 2 - Session 3 (MW-TH-D2-S3) / Theme: Sub-GeV/ Gev/ Tev DM
      Convener: Ke FANG (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
      • 57
        TeV Halos: A New Class of TeV Sources Powered by Pulsars
        Speaker: Timothy LINDEN (Stockholm University)
      • 58
        Recent Developments in the Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Astronomy
        Speaker: Hao ZHOU (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
      • 59
        Multi-messenger Searches for New Physics
        Speaker: Daniele GAGGERO (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) UV-CSIC)
      • 16:30
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 2 - Session 2 (MW-ED-D2-S2) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Computing
      Conveners: Paolo GIACOMELLI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Bologna), Weidong LI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 60
        Tracking with A Common Tracking Software (ACTS)
        Speaker: Xiaocong AI (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
      • 61
        The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative
        Speaker: Sofia VALLECORSA (CERN)
      • 18:05
        Long Break
    • Mini-workshop: Theory - Searching for New Physics at Various Energy Scales: Day 2 - Session 4 (MW-TH-D2-S4) / Theme: Sub-GeV/ Gev/ Tev DM
      Convener: Tao LIU (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
      • 62
        Super Heavy Dark Matter
        Speaker: Eric KUFLIK (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
      • 63
        Searching for Dark Matter with High-energy Neutrinos
        Speaker: Kenny C. Y. NG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
      • 64
        Cosmic Ray Boosted Dark Matter for Overcoming the Direct Detection Threshold
        Speaker: Shao-Feng GE (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 2 - Session 2 (MW-AP-D2-S2)
      Convener: Winfried DECKING (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 2 - Session 3 (MW-ED-D2-S3) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Computing
      Conveners: Paolo GIACOMELLI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Bologna), Weidong LI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 71
        Application of Quantum Machine Learning to High Energy Physics Data Analysis
        Speaker: Chen ZHOU (Peking University)
      • 72
        Application of Quantum Machine Learning on PID at BESIII
        Speaker: Teng LI (Shandong University)
      • 73
        Cluster Counting
        Speaker: Francesco GRANCAGNOLO (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Lecce)
      • 21:40
        Break
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 2 - Session 3 (MW-AP-D2-S3)
      Convener: Makoto TOBIYAMA (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))
    • Mini-workshop: Accelerator Physics - Key Beam Physics and Technologies Issues for Colliders: Day 2 - Session 4 (MW-AP-D2-S4)
      Convener: Vladimir SHILTSEV (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
    • Mini-workshop: Experiment/Detector - Innovation in HEP Detectors and Computing: Day 2 - Session 4 (MW-ED-D2-S4) / Theme: Innovative Ideas in HEP Computing
      Conveners: Paolo GIACOMELLI (The Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Bologna), Weidong LI (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 83
        Application of AI Techniques to Data Analysis and Physical Interpretation of the Data
        Speaker: Tilman PLEHN (Heidelberg University)
      • 84
        Application of Machine Learning to Event Reconstruction and Analysis
        Speaker: Benjamin NACHMAN (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • 85
      Welcoming Remarks
      Speaker: Andrew COHEN (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; IAS Director, Acting Dean of Science and Lam Woo Foundation Professor)
    • Conference: Day 1 - Session 1 (CF-D1-S1)
      Convener: Jie GAO (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    • 21:30
      Break
    • Conference: Day 1 - Session 2 (CF-D1-S2)
      Convener: Frank ZIMMERMANN (CERN)
      • 89
        Storage Rings and Gravitational Waves
        Speaker: Katsunobu OIDE (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
      • 90
        Long-lived Particles at (Future) Colliders
        Speaker: Jonathan Lee FENG (University of California, Irvine)
      • 91
        Discussion
    • Conference: Day 2 - Session 1 (CF-D2-S1)
      Convener: Kirill PROKOFIEV (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
    • 18:00
      Long Break
    • Conference: Day 2 - Session 2 (CF-D2-S2)
      Convener: Kam-Biu LUK (The University of California, Berkeley and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (IAS Paul C W Chu Professor))
      • 95
        Overview on (future) DM Direct Detection
        Speaker: Jianglai LIU (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
      • 96
        The SENSEI Experiment: Latest Results and Prospects for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches
        Speaker: Ana Martina BOTTI (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
      • 97
        Discussion
    • 21:30
      Break
    • Conference: Day 2 - Session 3 (CF-D2-S3)
      Convener: Joao GUIMARAES DA COSTA (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 98
        Recent progress on Physics Opportunities at e-e+ Colliders
        Speaker: Liantao WANG (The University of Chicago)
      • 99
        Recent progress on Physics Opportunities at e-e+ Colliders (Flavor Physics)
        Speaker: Lingfeng LI (Brown University)
      • 100
        Discussion
    • Conference: Day 3 - Session 1 (CF-D3-S1)
      Convener: Yue ZHAO (The University of Utah)
      • 101
        Overview on the GWs Detections
        Speaker: Keith RILES (University of Michigan)
      • 102
        Multi-messenger Astronomy: An Overview for Particle Physicists
        Speaker: John F. BEACOM (Ohio State University)
      • 103
        Discussion
    • 21:30
      Break
    • Conference: Day 3 - Session 2 (CF-D3-S2)
      Convener: Tao LIU (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
      • 104
        Snowmass Status
        Speaker: Tao HAN (University of Pittsburgh)
      • 105
        Closing Talk
        Speaker: Kathryn M. ZUREK (California Institute of Technology)
      • 106
        Discussion
      • 107
        Panel Discussion & Closing Remarks

        Notes:
        23:10 - 24:10 Panel Discussion
        24:10 - 24:20 Closing Remarks (Tao LIU (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology))

        Speakers: Emilio A. NANNI (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University), Gavin SALAM (University of Oxford), Steinar STAPNES (CERN), Tao HAN (University of Pittsburgh), Tatsuya NAKADA (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Yifang WANG (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)