ICTP RESEARCH SECTION

High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

From string theory to physics at large energy colliders, from neutrino phenomenology to alternative cosmologies.

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Research Areas

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String Theory and Quantum Gravity

Unification of  General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics into a  coherent theory of Quantum Gravity has been one of the outstanding challenges in theoretical physics.  Such a framework is…

String Theory and Quantum Gravity
Phenomenology of Particle Physics

Researchers in this area, which bridges theoretical physics (such as quantum field theory and theories of the structure of spacetime) and experimental particle physics, are exploring: beyond the…

Phenomenology of Particle Physics
Cosmology

The study of the large-scale structure and the evolution of the universe has in the last few years entered a qualitatively new phase, driven by a host of experimental results. Topics being studied…

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Experimental Particle Physics

The Udine/ICTP ATLAS group, supported by the INFN, is part of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The group has made and continues to make measurements and observations…

Experimental Particle Physics

Permanent Scientists

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Paolo Creminelli

Coordinator HECAP Section, Senior Research Scientist
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Bobby Acharya

Senior Research Scientist
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Agnese Bissi

Research Scientist
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Atish Dabholkar

Director
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Joan Elias Miro

Research Scientist
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Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Research Scientist
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Pavel Putrov

Research Scientist
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Giovanni Villadoro

Research Scientist and Coordinator of the Diploma in High Energy Physics
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Upcoming Activities

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16
Jun
2025
27
Jun
2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Summer School on Particle Physics | (smr 4080)
Physical
31
May
2025
school
07
Jul
2025
11
Jul
2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Workshop on New Pathways in Exploration of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity beyond Supersymmetry IV | (smr 4086)
Physical
workshop
28
Jul
2025
08
Aug
2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology | (smr 4093)
Physical
17
May
2025
school

Upcoming Seminars

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High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
16:00
10
Jun
2025
10
Jun
2025
10
Jun
2025
17:00
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
HECAP Seminar by Nabamita Banerjee, Title TBA
Hybrid
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
16:00
12
Jun
2025
12
Jun
2025
12
Jun
2025
17:00
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
HECAP Seminar by Suvankar Dutta, Title TBA
Hybrid

News

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Celebrating Quantum Science  
ICTP week of events launches Monday 26 May, featuring Nobel laureates and public events  
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
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Honoring Euler and Lagrange
New lecture room named after famous mathematicians will be inaugurated on 23 April
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
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Science, Technology and Innovation
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Dirac Medal Ceremony 2 April  
Four recipients of 2024 award to be honored
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
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Call for Nominations, 2025 Dirac Medal
Nominees sought for ICTP's most prestigious prize
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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AI in Scientific Publishing
Seminar on Monday 10 March to explore navigating the future of scholarly communication
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation

Publications

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Journal article
2025
Reconstruction and identification of pairs of collimated $\tau $-leptons decaying hadronically using $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector
Eur.Phys.J.C (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Henso ABREU | Yiming Abulaiti ...
Journal article
2025
Search for vector-like leptons coupling to first- and second-generation Standard Model leptons in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Measurement of off-shell Higgs boson production in the $H^*\rightarrow ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ decay channel using a neural simulation-based inference technique in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Rept.Prog.Phys. (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Test of lepton flavour universality in W-boson decays into electrons and τ-leptons using pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Preprint
2025
Flowing from the Ising Model on the Fuzzy Sphere to the 3D Lee-Yang CFT
Joan Elias Miro | Olivier Delouche
Journal article
2025
Search for the jet-induced diffusion wake in the quark-gluon plasma via measurements of jet-track correlations in photon-jet events in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV with the ATLAS detector
Phys.Rev.C (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Henso ABREU | Yiming Abulaiti ...
Journal article
2025
Search for charged Higgs bosons produced in top-quark decays or in association with top quarks and decaying via H±→τ±ντ in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Phys.Rev.D (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Observation of tt¯ Production in Pb+Pb Collisions at sNN=5.02  TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Phys.Rev.Lett. (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Electroweak, QCD and flavour physics studies with ATLAS data from Run 2 of the LHC
Phys.Rept. (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Henso ABREU | Yiming Abulaiti ...
Journal article
2025
Observation of $t\bar{t}$ Production in Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$  TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Phys.Rev.Lett. (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse momentum and charm-tagged jets using 139 fb$^{−1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Henso ABREU | Yiming Abulaiti ...
Journal article
2025
Search for Higgs boson decays into a pair of pseudoscalar particles in the γγτ$_{had}$τ$_{had}$ final state using pp collisions at $ \sqrt{\textrm{s}} $ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Georges Aad | Erlend Aakvaag | Braden Abbott | Sara Abdelhameed | Kira Abeling | Nils Julius Abicht | Syed Haider Abidi | Mohammed Abdelrazek Aboelela | Asmaa Aboulhorma | Halina Abramowicz | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...

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  • High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Earth System Physics
  • Quantitative Life Sciences
  • Science, Technology and Innovation
ICTP Simons Associates
Associates Programme
01
Jul
2025
Opportunity
  • High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Earth System Physics
  • Quantitative Life Sciences
  • Science, Technology and Innovation
ICTP Simons Sabbaticals
Associates Programme
01
Jul
2025
Opportunity
  • High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
  • Earth System Physics
  • Quantitative Life Sciences
  • Science, Technology and Innovation
Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL)
Laboratory Opportunity
31
Dec
2025
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