International Workshop on New Opportunities for Particle Physics 2026

Asia/Shanghai
Room 124, Multi-discipline Research Center (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Room 124, Multi-discipline Research Center

Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

No. 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China
Mingshui CHEN (IHEP) , Shun Zhou (高能所) , Zhewei Yin (IHEP)
Description

The discovery of neutrino oscillations, implying for nonzero neutrino masses, and the existence of dark matter call for new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles and cosmology. Fundamental questions regarding the origin of electroweak scale, the generation of neutrino masses and matter-antimatter asymmetry, the nature of dark matter and the dynamical evolution of the early Universe may find their answers in a new paradigm of particle physics. On the one hand, the next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments, with JUNO being in the successful operation and Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE being under construction, bring us to the era of precision measurements at low energies. On the other hand, the Higgs factories (e.g., CEPC and FCC-ee), 100 TeV hadron colliders (e.g., SppC and FCC-hh), and Muon colliders have been planned by the international high-energy physics community to explore new physics beyond the electroweak scale. Meanwhile, recent advancements in quantum information science, gravitational wave observations, and multi-messenger astronomy have further opened new avenues for probing new physics. Interdisciplinary interactions that integrate insights and tools from various fields may be crucial for uncovering more clues.

This workshop aims to bring together experimentalists and theorists from neutrino physics, collider physics and other closely related areas. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of recent advancements and foster discussions on the pursuit of new physics.

Time: August 14-16, 2026

Venue: 
Room 124, Multidisciplinary Building
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China

Registration Fee:
- 1000 CNY / person for faculty and postdoc. Pay via the payment code. 
- 500 CNY / person for student. Pay via the payment code.

Invited Speakers: 
Yoav Afik (U. of Chicago)
Rafael Aoude (DESY)
Yosuke Ashida (Tohoku U.)
Sergey Barsuk (IJCLab)
Ligong Bian (Chongqing U.)
Massimo Blasone (Università di Salerno and INFN)
Zhen Cao (IHEP)
Didar Dobur Lowette (Ghent University)
Marco Drewes (UCLouvain)
Shao-Feng Ge (TDLI)
Ke Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong U.)
Tao Han (U. of Pittsburgh)
Yi Jia (IHEP)
Shan Jin (Nanjing U.)
Tianjun Li (Henan Normal U.)
Jia Liu (Peking U.)
Zhen Liu (U. of Minnesota) 
Francesca Di Lodovico (King's College U. of London)
Ian J. Moult (Yale U.) 
Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Hideki Okawa (IHEP)
Serguey T. Petcov (INFN/SISSA)
Huilin Qu (TDLI)
Subir Sarkar (U. of Oxford)
Michael A. Schmidt (UNSW Sydney) 
Dingyu Shao (Fudan U.)
David Shih (Rutgers U.)
Shufang Su (U. of Arizona) 
Jinzhao Sun (Queen Mary U. of London)
Liantao Wang (U. of Chicago) 
Yusheng Wu (USTC) 
Minglei Xiao (SYSU)
Jinmin Yang (Henan Normal U. and ITP-CAS)
Chen Zhou(Peking U.)
Yeling Zhou (HIAS)
Huaxing Zhu (Peking U.)


International Advisory Committee:
Mark Chen (Queen's U., Canada)
Estia Eichten (Fermilab, USA)
John Ellis (King's College London, UK)
Gian Giudice (CERN, Switzerland)
Christophe Grojean (DESY and Humboldt University-Berlin, Germany)
Francis Halzen (U. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Tao Han (U. of Pittsburgh, USA)
Johannes Henn (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany)
Andreas Hoecker (CERN, Switzerland)
Joseph Incandela (U. of California-Santa Barbara, USA and CERN, Switzerland)
Takaaki Kajita (U. of Tokyo, Japan) 
David Kosower (IPhT, Saclay, France)
Luciano Maiani (U. of Rome and INFN-Rome, Italy and CERN, Switzerland) 
Michelangelo Mangano (CERN, Switzerland)
Ulf-G. Meißner (U. of Bonn and FZ Jülich, Germany)
Henry Tye (Hong Kong U. Sci. Tech., China and Cornell University, USA)
Yifang Wang (IHEP, China)

Local Organizing Committee:

Xiaoxia Cai (IHEP, CAS)          Mingshui Chen*(IHEP, CAS) 
Shuo Han (IHEP, CAS) Yanping Huang (IHEP, CAS)
Yingying Li (IHEP, CAS)   Tao Liu (IHEP, CAS)  
Zelong Liu (IHEP, CAS)   Jing Ren (IHEP, CAS) 
Zhewei Yin*(IHEP, CAS)  Zeyuan Yu (IHEP, CAS) 
Hao Zhang (IHEP, CAS)   Shun Zhou* (IHEP, CAS)  

 

*co-chair

Local Steering Committee:

Jun Cao (IHEP, CAS)  Liangjian Wen (IHEP, CAS) 
Zhizhong Xing (IHEP, CAS)  Qiang Zhao (IHEP, CAS) 
Participants
  • Aman Gupta
  • Bhavna Yadav
  • Bin Yan
  • Bingfang Yang
  • Bingrong Yu
  • chang-jie dai
  • Chayan Majumdar
  • Chen Sun
  • Chen(辰) Zhou(周)
  • Chongsheng Li
  • David Shih
  • Dayong Wang
  • Didar Dobur Lowette
  • Dingyu Shao
  • Francesca Lodovico
  • Gaetano Lambiase
  • Gang Li
  • Haichen Wang
  • Hao Zhang
  • Hao-Lin Li
  • Hideki OKAWA
  • Hongtao Yang
  • Huaqiao ZHANG
  • Huaxing Zhu
  • Huilin Qu
  • Huirong Qi
  • Ian Moult
  • Jia Liu
  • Jiajie Ling
  • Jiaxuan Shen
  • Jie Gao
  • Jin Min Yang
  • Jing Ren
  • Jinger Wu
  • Jingya ZHU
  • Jinzhao Sun
  • Joao Paulo Pinheiro
  • Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova
  • Jun Cao
  • Junquan (军全) TAO (陶)
  • Ke Han
  • Keping (可平) Xie (谢)
  • Lailin Xu
  • Liang Zhan
  • Liangjian Wen
  • Liantao Wang
  • Ligong Bian
  • Linwei Qiu
  • Linyun He
  • Luca Visinelli
  • Luis A. Delgadillo
  • Luyang Feng
  • Marco Drewes
  • Massimo Blasone
  • Mengru Wu
  • Michael Schmidt
  • Ming-Lei Xiao
  • Mingshui CHEN
  • Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat
  • Peilian Li
  • Prantik Sarmah
  • Qian Jiang
  • Qiang Zhao
  • Rafael Aoude
  • Ronggang Ping
  • Saiyad Ashanujjaman
  • Sasha Tomalak
  • Sergey Barsuk
  • Serguey PETCOV
  • Shan Jin
  • Shao-Feng (韶锋) Ge (葛)
  • shi-yuan li
  • Shubing Liu
  • Shufang Su
  • Shun Zhou
  • Shuo Han
  • Sida Lu
  • Subir Sarkar
  • Supriya Senapati
  • Tao Han
  • Tianjun Li
  • Tong Arthur Wu
  • Wei Su
  • Wenjun Li
  • Wenwen Xie
  • Wuming Luo
  • Xiang-Peng Wang
  • Xiao Yuqi
  • Xiao-Bo Jin
  • Xiaojun Bi
  • Xiaoping Wang
  • Xiaoxia Cai
  • Yakefu Reyimuaji
  • Yang Zhang
  • Yanping Huang
  • Ye-Ling Zhou
  • Yi Jia
  • Yifan Wu
  • Yifang Wang
  • Ying Chen
  • Yingying Li
  • Yoav Afik
  • Yong Tang
  • Yongchao Zhang
  • Yonghao Liu
  • Yonghua Wang
  • Yosuke Ashida
  • Yu(宇) Zhang(张)
  • Yu-Chen(禹辰) Guo(郭)
  • Yuanning Gao
  • Yun-Long Zhang
  • Yusheng Wu
  • Zeyuan Yu
  • Zhaofeng Liu
  • Zhen Cao
  • Zhen Liu
  • Zhen-Hua (振华) Zhang (张)
  • Zhen-hua Zhao
  • Zhewei Yin
  • Zhi-zhong Xing
  • Zijun 子骏 Xu 徐
  • 俊谋 谌
  • 强 李
  • 恩泽 张
  • 明依(Mingyi) 刘(Liu)
  • 晓盈 芦
  • 梁志均 LIANG Zhijun
  • 润清 王
  • 瑞(Rui) 张(Zhang)
  • 达 柳
  • 鑫鑫 祁
  • 鹏程 赵
    • 08:00 08:50
      Registration 50m
    • 08:50 09:00
      Opening Speech
      Convener: Jun Cao (IHEP)
    • 09:00 10:00
      Highlights from IHEP Room 124, Multi-discipline Research Center

      Room 124, Multi-discipline Research Center

      Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

      No. 19B Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China
      Convener: Shun Zhou (高能所)
      • 09:00
        Lightest 0-+ Glueball as Dominant Constituent of X(2370) 30m
        Speaker: Shan Jin (Nanjing University)
      • 09:30
        Recent progress from JUNO 30m
        Speaker: Yi Jia (IHEP,)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:00
      Neutrino
      Convener: Ye-Ling Zhou (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study)
      • 10:30
        Neutrino mass models in the era of precision neutrino physics 30m
        Speaker: Michael A. Schmidt (UNSW Sydney)
      • 11:00
        Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetry Approach to Lepton Mixing and CP Violation and its Experimental Tests 30m
        Speaker: SERGUEY PETCOV (SISSA/INFN, Trieste, Italy)
      • 11:30
        Phenomenological consequences of RG running & CP violation at JUNO detectors 30m
        Speaker: Shao-Feng Ge (SJTU)
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch 2h Expert Restaurant

      Expert Restaurant

    • 14:00 16:00
      Quantum & AI
      Convener: Tao Han (Univ. of Pittsburgh & TsingHua University)
      • 14:00
        Highlights of Top quark related results from LHC 30m
        Speaker: Didar Dobur Lowette (Ghent University)
      • 14:30
        Determining the Spin-Analyzing Powers via Invariants and Probing the Quantum Entanglement and Bell Non-Locality at the Lepton Colliders 30m
        Speaker: Tianjun Li (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 15:00
        Collider Spin Tomography with Missing Neutrinos 30m
        Speaker: Jia Liu (Peking University)
      • 15:30
        Quantumness in Field Theory 30m
        Speaker: Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:30 18:00
      Quantum & AI
      Convener: Jin Min Yang (ITP, Beijing)
      • 16:30
        Quantum Tops: Quantum Information Meets High-Energy Physics 30m
        Speaker: Yoav Afik (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)
      • 17:00
        Quantum information with elementary particles: from neutrino oscillations to electroweak processes 30m
        Speaker: Massimo Blasone (Università di Salerno and INFN)
      • 17:30
        Entanglement and Decoherence at Colliders 30m
        Speaker: Rafael Aoude (DESY)
    • 09:00 10:00
      Quantum & AI
      Convener: Ying-Ying Li (IHEP)
      • 09:00
        Quantum probe advantage in learning many-body systems 30m
        Speaker: Jinzhao Sun (Queen Mary University of London)
      • 09:30
        Quantum machine learning for collider physics 30m
        Speaker: Hideki (英希) OKAWA (大川) (中国科学院高能物理研究所)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:00
      Quantum & AI
      Convener: Ian J. Moult (Yale University)
      • 10:30
        Adventures with Agentic AI in Particle Physics 30m
        Speaker: David Shih (Rutgers University)
      • 11:00
        Some thoughts on AI in High Energy Physics 30m
        Speaker: Huaxing Zhu (Peking University)
      • 11:30
        AI for HEP: A Representation Learning Perspective 30m
        Speaker: Huilin Qu (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch 2h Expert Restaurant

      Expert Restaurant

    • 14:00 16:00
      Collider & Particle theory
      Convener: Liantao Wang (University of Chicago)
      • 14:00
        Probing Electroweak Symmetry Breaking with Vector Bosons 30m
        Speaker: Yusheng Wu (University of Science and Technology of China)
      • 14:30
        EW Physics at Very High Energies — Splitting and Showering 30m
        Speaker: Tao Han (Univ. of Pittsburgh & TsingHua University)
      • 15:00
        Some Studies on Cosmological First-Order Phase Transitions 30m
        Speaker: Jinmin Yang (Henan Normal University/ITP-CAS)
      • 15:30
        Vacuum decay and its observables 30m
        Speaker: Ligong Bian (Chongqing University)
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:30 18:00
      Collider & Particle theory
      Convener: Hao-Lin Li (Sun Yat-sen University)
    • 18:00 20:00
      Banquet 2h Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant

      Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant

    • 09:00 10:00
      Collider & Particle theory
      Convener: Mingshui CHEN (IHEP)
      • 09:00
        Higgs Physics at the LHC 30m
        Speaker: Chen(辰) Zhou(周) (Peking University(北京大学))
      • 09:30
        Higgs Bosons Beyond the Standard Model 30m
        Speaker: Shufang Su (University of Arizona)
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:00
      Collider & Particle theory
      Convener: Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota)
      • 10:30
        Flavour physics at LHCb 30m
        Speaker: Sergey Barsuk (IJCLab)
      • 11:00
        Non-Relativistic Conformal Collider Physics: Explosions of Mini-Neutron Bombs 30m
        Speaker: Ian J. Moult (Yale University)
      • 11:30
        New Perspectives on Precision Nucleon Tomography 30m
        Speaker: Dingyu Shao (Fudan University)
    • 12:00 14:00
      Lunch 2h Expert Restaurant

      Expert Restaurant

    • 14:00 16:00
      Neutrino
      Convener: SERGUEY PETCOV (SISSA/INFN, Trieste, Italy)
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:30 18:00
      Neutrino
      Convener: Zhi-zhong XING (IHEP, Beijing)
      • 16:30
        Double beta decay experiments 30m
        Speaker: Ke Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
      • 17:00
        Overview of long baseline accelerator neutrino experiments 30m
        Speaker: Francesca Di Lodovico (King's College University of London)
      • 17:30
        GUTs in light of neutrino precision measurements 30m
        Speaker: Ye-Ling Zhou (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study)
    • 18:00 18:10
      Concluding Remarks 10m
      Speaker: Liangjian Wen (高能所)