European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics

European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics
Name	European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics
Abbreviation	EPS-HEP
Established	1971
Discipline	Particle physics
Frequency	Biennial (primarily)
Organiser	European Physical Society

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European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics is a major biennial forum where researchers present developments in CERN, DESY, Fermilab, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and other experimental and theoretical efforts. It brings together scientists from institutions such as University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, and Max Planck Society to discuss results related to the Standard Model, Higgs boson, top quark, neutrino oscillation, and beyond-Standard-Model searches like supersymmetry, dark matter, and extra dimensions.

Overview

The meeting traces roots to early gatherings at centres like CERN and DESY in the 1970s and evolved alongside milestones including the discovery of the W boson, Z boson, and the Higgs boson. Influential figures associated with the conference circuit include Peter Higgs, François Englert, Tom W. B. Kibble, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and Abdus Salam. It has reflected shifts from fixed-target experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory to collider physics at LEP and the Large Hadron Collider, and to intensity-frontier programmes exemplified by NA62 experiment, T2K, NOvA, and DUNE.

Sessions are organised into thematic tracks overseen by programme committees drawn from universities like Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, Universität Heidelberg, and laboratories such as Brookhaven National Laboratory, KEK, TRIUMF, and Paul Scherrer Institute. The committee invites plenary speakers from projects including IceCube Neutrino Observatory, XENONnT, LUX-ZEPLIN, AMS-02, and PANDA (experiment), while parallel sessions host contributions from groups at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Institut Laue–Langevin, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Italy). Poster sessions and workshops often involve collaborations with European Research Council, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020, and industry partners such as Siemens, Thales Group, and ASML for detector and computing developments.

The scientific programme covers experimental reports from collider collaborations (ATLAS experiment, CMS experiment, LHCb experiment, ALICE experiment), neutrino experiments (Super-Kamiokande, Hyper-Kamiokande, DUNE), flavor physics experiments (Belle II, BaBar, CLEO), and astroparticle observatories (Pierre Auger Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Planck (spacecraft)). Theoretical sessions include work on quantum chromodynamics, electroweak symmetry breaking, grand unified theory, string theory, and lattice computations from groups affiliated with Institute for Advanced Study, Perimeter Institute, CERN Theory Department, and Niels Bohr Institute. Computing and instrumentation tracks discuss developments in GRID computing, High-Performance Computing, silicon pixel detectors, calorimetry, cryogenics, and superconducting radio-frequency cavities.

Historically the conference has been the venue for significant announcements related to precision measurements from LEP, discovery confirmations from Tevatron (particle accelerator), and LHC updates from ATLAS experiment and CMS experiment including early Higgs boson characterisation that involved work by groups led by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Princeton University, and University of Chicago. Announcements have included limits on supersymmetry from analyses by CMS Collaboration and ATLAS Collaboration, searches for dark matter signals from XENON1T and PandaX, and neutrino mixing parameter updates from T2K and NOvA. Detector R&D breakthroughs presented have influenced projects like High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, FCC studies, and proposals for the Muon g-2 experiment follow-ups.

The conference typically rotates among European host cities such as Geneva, Prague, Vienna, Stockholm, Barcelona, Paris, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Milan. On occasion, satellite meetings and workshops are held in collaboration with non-European centres like Fermilab, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, TRIUMF, and KEK. While primarily biennial under the aegis of the European Physical Society, special sessions align with international events such as the International Conference on High Energy Physics and preparatory meetings for the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

Participants include personnel from ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration, LHCb Collaboration, ALICE Collaboration, national laboratories including CERN, DESY, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and universities like Oxford University, Cambridge University, École Normale Supérieure, and Moscow State University. Awards and recognitions presented or associated with the conference involve associations with prizes like the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, Humboldt Prize, Sakurai Prize, and visibility leading to Nobel Prize in Physics recognition for work related to discoveries reported at the conference. Young researcher prizes and poster awards often reference support from European Research Council and national funding agencies such as Science and Technology Facilities Council and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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