International Conference on High Energy Physics

The 42nd edition of the International Conference on High Energy Physics 2024 was organized jointly by five Czech universities and two institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It should be noted that Prague already had the privilege to organize the jubilee 40th edition of this conference in 2020. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the whole event had to be organized virtually, which, at that time, brought many new challenges. Therefore, we are very proud that we hosted almost 1400 in-person participants from all continents in 2024. We have enjoyed 45 excellent plenary talks, over 900 oral contributions in 18 parallel sections, and more than 280 posters organized in two sessions.

In parallel, the conference hosted a discussion panel with directors of world-leading laboratories on the future of particle physics and another discussion forum on education and outreach in our field. We would like to thank all speakers, presenters, and participants for sharing excellent scientific results and many exciting discussions. We hope that you enjoyed them all. These proceedings summarize a good fraction of the material presented at the conference.

We wish to thank the International Advisory Committee, the Local Organizing Committee, and the session convenors for preparing an excellent scientific program. Many thanks also go to our conference agency, C-IN, for the smooth running of the event. The conference could not have been organized without the support of large laboratories and numerous sponsors. We are grateful to all of them.

Tomáš Davídek and Zdeněk Doležal (chairs of ICHEP 2024)

Editorial Board

Jaroslav Adam; Czech Technical University in Prague
Dagmar Adamova; Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Petr Balek (chairperson); AGH University of Krakow
Peter Berta; Charles University in Prague
Jana Faltova; Charles University in Prague
Tomas Jakoubek; Weizmann Institute of Science
Jiri Kral; DESY
Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova; Czech Technical University in Prague
Renann Lipinski; Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Michal Malinsky; Charles University in Prague
Marek Matas; Czech Technical University in Prague
Jan Matousek; Charles University in Prague
Marcela Mikestikova; Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Michaela Mlynarikova; CERN
Miroslav Myska; Czech Technical University in Prague
Jaroslava Obertova; Czech Technical University in Prague
Viktor Pec; Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Martin Spousta (co-chairperson); Charles University in Prague
Alexander Vikman; Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Vit Vorobel; Charles University in Prague

ICHEP is a series of international conferences organized by the C11 commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). It has been held every two years for more than 50 years, and is the reference conference of particle physics where most relevant results are presented. At ICHEP, physicists from around the world gather to share the latest advancements in particle physics, astrophysics/cosmology, and accelerator science and discuss plans for major future facilities. ICHEP 2022 will be the first time of a ICHEP conference to be held in Italy and will mark a return to the in-presence meeting of the HEP community after the pandemic emergency, even if remote participation will also be granted to favour in particular people from countries still affected by mobility restrictions. The Conference falls just ten years after the Higgs boson discovery and will offer the occasion to celebrate this important anniversary as well as to make the point on the progresses achieved in this sector that opened a new window for precision Standard Model studies and Beyond Standard Model investigations.

Our Czech particle physics community was very proud to be selected to organize the 40th ICHEP conference in Prague. Actually, it is a nice coincidence of two ICHEP jubilees as it is also exactly 70 years from the first ICHEP meeting in Rochester, New York in 1950. Prague is a city of stunning beauty and magnificent architecture. Hand in hand with culture, the tradition of science dates back to the 14th century when Charles IV established here one of the oldest universities in Europe. The list of famous scientists who have worked in Prague includes T. Brahe, J. Kepler, Ch. Doppler, B. Bolzano, E. Mach and A. Einstein. Z. Dolezal and R. Leitner, chairs of this conference, wanted to do their best to welcome all participants in a stimulating and pleasant environment. However, for the first time in its history we had to cancel this live event and did it only as a virtual conference. We had more than 3000 participants and around 1000 talks. We hope we again succeeded in bringing together experimentalists and theorists working in particle physics literally all around the world. Hopefully, it will be possible to welcome all participants in person again in Prague in 2024.


Co-chairperson:
Martin Spousta (Charles University)

 

The ICHEP is the vital platform for exchanging recent achievements and discussing future facilities in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. The first conference was held at Rochester in 1950. Since then, the ICHEP has served as the core arena for leading experimentalists and theorists of the world to share exciting results and new ideas.

A wide-ranging scientific program consisting of plenary lectures, parallel sessions, and satellite meetings as well as poster sessions for young scientists covering all topics in high energy physics will be scheduled. At ICHEP2018 in Seoul, many important results came from the LHC Run II experiments, neutrino physics, dark matter, gravitational wave, and cosmology.

The Australian particle physics community was honoured to host the 36th ICHEP conference in 2012 in Melbourne. This conference has long been the reference event for our international community. The announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC was a major highlight, with huge international press coverage. ICHEP2012 was described by CERN Director-General, Professor Rolf Heuer, as a landmark conference for our field.
In additional to the Higgs announcement, important results from neutrino physics, from flavour physics, and from physics beyond the standard model also provided great interest.
There were also updates on key accelerator developments such as the new B-factories, plans for the LHC upgrade, neutrino facilities and associated detector developments.
ICHEP2012 exceeded the promise expected of the key conference for our field, and really did provide a reference point for the future.

Many thanks to the contribution reviewers: Andy Bakich, Csaba Balazs, Nicole Bell, Catherine Buchanan, Will Crump, Cameron Cuthbert, Ben Farmer, Sudhir Gupta, Elliot Hutchison, Paul Jackson, Geng-Yuan Jeng, Archil Kobakhidze, Doyoun Kim, Tong Li, Antonio Limosani (Head Editor), Kristian McDonald, Nikhul Patel, Aldo Saavedra, Mark Scarcella, Geoff Taylor, Ian Watson, Graham White, Tony Williams and Bruce Yabsley.