Summer Program
Leveraging the Lepton Sector as a Probe for New Physics
June 23–July 21, 2024
Organizers:
Simon Knapen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
*Shirley Li, University of California Irvine
Maxim Pospelov, University of Minnesota
Diego Redigolo, INFN Florence
Much of the expected progress in particle physics for the next few decades will come from experiments that leverage the lepton sector, include low-energy electron and muon beams, possible next-generation high-energy lepton colliders, precision measurements of the electron and muon magnetic dipole moments, searches for CP violation in the lepton sector and searches for dark matter with couplings to electrons. A wealth of new data related to the neutrino sector is also expected to become available, from long-baseline experiments to astrophysical and cosmological probes.This workshop will explore these physics opportunities and aims to impact the ongoing and future experimental programs.
Summer Workshops
The summer program, running for 16 weeks from late-May to mid-September, emphasizes exciting open problems at the cutting edge. Two or three concurrent workshops, each with a specific focus selected for timeliness and the potential for breakthroughs and of two to five weeks in length, establish the main themes of each week, with twelve or thirteen different workshops each summer, balanced across fields including particle physics, string theory, astrophysics and hard and soft condensed matter physics, as well as emerging areas including biological physics, ultra-cold atom physics, quantum information, and physical mathematics. Additional researchers participate in small working groups or as individual researchers. This framework is designed to maximize informal interactions and free discussion within each area and to promote cross-fertilization between different areas via the common language of theoretical physics. Participation in the summer program of the Aspen Center for Physics is by application and subsequent invitation only. View past workshops.
