Particle physics is at crossroads: the Standard Model is confirmed with unprecedented precision after decades of experimental explorations, and yet it offers no explanation to some of the most profound scientific puzzles such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy. Moreover, past theoretical guiding principles such as naturalness have not bore fruit in experimental searches. Quo vadis particle physics?
Pondering on the future, we would like to gather a small group of theoretical and experimental experts in an informal setting to evaluate the current state of affairs and devise future strategies, all surrounded by the natural beauty of Hokkaido in the winter.
This is the 2nd workshop of this series.
(last one in 2024: https://conference-indico.kek.jp/event/248/)
Invited Speakers:
So Chigusa (MIT)
Takeo Moroi (U. Tokyo)
Shinya Kanemura (Osaka U.)
Federico Meloni (DESY)
Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN)
LianTao Wang (U. Chicago)
Josh Ruderman (NYU)
Gilad Perez (Weizmann)
Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)
Jianwei Qiu (JLab)
Paddy Fox (Fermilab)
Stefania Gori (UC Santa Cruz)
Martin White (Adelaide)
Shih-Chieh Hsu (U. Washington)
Tova Holmes (U. Tennessee)
Yuta Hamada (KEK)
Toshifumi Noumi (U. Tokyo)
Tom Melia (IPMU)
Gurucharan Mohanta (APCTP)
Audrey Fung (APCTP)
Seung Joon Lee (KIAS)
Masahiro Ibe (ICRR)
Sungwoo Hong (KAIST)
Misao Sasaki (IPMU/APCTP)
Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang U.)
Satoshi Shirai (IPMU)
Keisuke Harigaya (U. Chicago)
random order, more to be confirmed
Organizers:
Kento Asai (YITP, Kyoto U.)
Arindam Das (Hokkaido U.)
Shusei Kamioka (KEK)
Ryuichiro Kitano (YITP, Kyoto U.)
Ian Low (Northwestern U./ANL)
Ryutaro Matsudo (YITP, Kyoto U.)
Tsutomu Mibe (KEK)
Shinji Ogawa (KEK)
Shohei Okawa (APCTP)
Osamu Seto (Hokkaido U.)
Sponsors:
KEK, YITP, APCTP
This workshop is supported by the JSPS KAKENHI grants, "Promotion of muon particle physics in an international framework," JP22K21350 and the U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program in High Energy Physics. The workshop is also supported by the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University (YITP-X-25-06).
