EPS-HEP

EPS-HEP
Name	EPS-HEP
Status	Active
Genre	Academic conference
Frequency	Biennial / Annual (varies)
First	1971
Organiser	European Physical Society
Location	Europe (rotating)

EPS-HEP is the principal high-energy physics conference associated with the European Physical Society that convenes researchers, institutions, and experiments across Europe and worldwide. The meeting brings together collaborations, laboratories, and universities to present developments in particle physics, accelerator physics, and related instrumentation. Participants often include representatives from major facilities and projects who report results, roadmaps, and technical advances.

History

The origins trace to initiatives aligned with European Physical Society activities and national labs such as CERN, DESY, INR-affiliated groups, and university departments including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, École Polytechnique, ETH Zurich, University of Bologna, University of Paris, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, University of Warsaw, University of Amsterdam, University of Geneva, University of Pisa, Sapienza University of Rome, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Helsinki University, University of Oslo, Stockholm University, Lund University and others. Early meetings featured speakers from collaborations such as ALEPH, DELPHI, OPAL, L3, UA1, UA2 and experiments at facilities like CERN SPS, LEP, ISR. Over decades the program expanded to include results from LHC experiments ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE and neutrino projects tied to Gran Sasso Laboratory, Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande and SNO. Landmark presentations at the conference have paralleled major announcements from Tevatron experiments CDF and DØ, and from collider projects involving Fermilab, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, KEK, J-PARC, and TRIUMF.

Organization and Governance

Governance is typically overseen by the European Physical Society committees with national representation from bodies such as Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Max Planck Society, INFN, CNRS, STFC, DFG, Swiss National Science Foundation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Polish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and university consortia including University College London and TU München. Program committees appoint conveners from institutions like CERN, DESY, IHEP (Beijing), IHEP (Protvino), JINR, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Nikhef. Advisory boards have included representatives linked with awards committees such as Nobel Prize in Physics nominators, prize committees of European Research Council, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and leaders from experiments such as IceCube, Planck, LIGO, VIRGO and accelerator projects including XFEL, ESS, HL-LHC.

Conferences and Meetings

Meetings rotate among host cities and institutions including Geneva, Prague, Stockholm, Warsaw, Munich, Lisbon, Barcelona, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, London, Rome, Zurich, Copenhagen, Athens, Reykjavík, Bucharest, Milan, Leipzig, Salzburg and venues affiliated with CERN, DESY, INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and major universities. Sessions cover plenary talks, parallel sessions, poster sessions and topical workshops where speakers from ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE, CDF, DØ, BaBar, Belle, Belle II, KLOE, NA62, COMPASS, HERA and SPS present. Satellite meetings have included collaborations with IHEP (Beijing), US LHC Users' Association, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute, CPTAC-type networks and instrument-focused workshops with CERN Openlab and industry partners such as Siemens and Thales.

Scientific Themes and Notable Results

Themes span results from collider physics, neutrino oscillations, dark matter searches, astrophysical connections, precision tests of the Standard Model (particle physics), beyond-Standard-Model proposals, flavor physics, CP violation, heavy-ion collisions, jet substructure, parton distribution functions, detector R&D, computing and software frameworks. Notable results presented have included Higgs boson measurements following ATLAS and CMS discoveries, top-quark properties from Tevatron and LHC experiments, rare-decay searches from LHCb and NA62, neutrino mixing angles from T2K, NOvA, DUNE planning updates, dark-matter limits from XENON, LUX-ZEPLIN, indirect searches with Fermi-LAT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and multimessenger reports involving IceCube, LIGO–Virgo coincidence analyses. Instrumentation highlights include calorimetry advances pioneered by groups from CERN and DESY, silicon tracking developments associated with FNAL and Brookhaven National Laboratory, and computing initiatives leveraging GRID and cloud collaborations with European Grid Infrastructure.

Membership and Participation

Attendees comprise experiment spokespeople, principal investigators from labs such as CERN, DESY, Fermilab, SLAC, INFN, KEK, JINR, staff from national funding agencies including UK Research and Innovation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and representatives of collaborations like ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE, Belle II, BaBar, IceCube, Super-Kamiokande, SNO+, DUNE, Hyper-Kamiokande, NOvA, T2K, MINOS, OPERA, and theory groups from IAS, CERN Theory Department, Perimeter Institute, IPPP Durham, Niels Bohr Institute, Mathematical Institute, Oxford. Participation also includes industrial partners (detector vendors, computing firms), early-career researchers from institutions like University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Sorbonne University, University of Freiburg and delegates from funding bodies such as European Commission program officers.

Awards and Recognitions

The conference often features prize lectures and awards coordinated with entities such as the European Physical Society prizes, coordination with the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Division awards, and recognitions aligning with major prizes like the CERN Medal, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics announcements by laureates associated with conference participants, and presentations by previous Nobel Prize in Physics winners. Special sessions honor major collaboration milestones from ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE, CDF, DØ and lifetime achievements by figures affiliated with CERN, DESY, FNAL, SLAC and universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology.

Category:Physics conferences