Summer Program

New Opportunities in High Energy Physics

June 11–July 9, 2023

Organizers:

Masha Baryakhtar, University of Washington
Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Zhen Liu, University of Minnesota
*Jessica Turner, Durham University

New physics is highly expected to be not far from the electroweak scale, particularly the physics of the Higgs boson and dark matter. While ensuring that established new physics searches remain powerful in the complex high-luminosity LHC environment, the community is increasing efforts on challenging signatures as exotic Higgs decays and long-lived particles. Specialized detectors positioned off of the collision point have opened exciting opportunities. In parallel, ongoing revolutions in quantum information science, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, and precision and cosmological probes of the dark sector have brought new questions and perspectives. This program aims to foster interdisciplinary interactions among the energy, neutrino, precision, and cosmic frontiers and open new frontiers in our explorations of particle physics.

*organizer responsible for participant diversity

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.