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In recent years, phenomenology in physics has evolved beyond its traditional boundaries, adapting to new methodologies and challenges across subfields. In this talk, I reflect on the contemporary scope of phenomenological research and propose an operational definition grounded in my own work, examining how the role of a phenomenologist shifts with the availability, precision, and interpretability of experimental data. As a unifying thread, I follow the search for dark sectors, focusing in particular on new (pseudo-)scalar particles across a wide range of masses: from the ultralight sub-eV regime and the largest spatial scales, where their interactions with the visible sector are purely gravitational and cosmology provides the only viable probes, through the keV–MeV mass range, where hadronic interactions become relevant and—intriguingly—discovery may occur at nuclear fusion facilities, to the smallest scales and heavier GeV–TeV scalars explored by next-generation particle colliders. Addressing this breadth of scales requires an equally broad phenomenological toolkit, ranging from effective field theories of large-scale structure to artificial–intelligence–assisted modeling of atomic nuclei. This perspective highlights the flexible yet essential role phenomenology plays at the interface of theory, experiment, and data-driven inference.
Videoconference via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82249348474
