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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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07
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2025
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Jul
2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
*** CANCELLED *** Workshop on New Pathways in Exploration of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity beyond Supersymmetry IV | (smr 4086)
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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
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Upcoming Seminars

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2025
15
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2025
15
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2025
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High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
HECAP Seminar - Geometric Determinations of Characteristic Redshifts from DESI-DR2 BAO and DES-SN5YR Observations: Hints For New Expansion Rate Anomalies
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News

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Simon Olsson
First winner of the ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Early Career Scientists
Computer scientist Simon Olsson to be honoured at 10 July ceremony
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Other
ICTP Prize
ICTP Prize 2025: Call for Nominations
Deadline is 30 September 2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
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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
Group of ICTP visitors
Call Open for New ICTP Visiting Opportunities  
New grants to support sabbatical stays
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
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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
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New AI Initiative in Trieste
ICTP participates in new centre for applied and basic research on Data Science and advanced…
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Publications

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Journal article
2025
Differential cross-section measurements of D$^{±}$ and $ {D}_s^{\pm } $ meson production in 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 cascade decays of charged sleptons and sneutrinos in final states with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s=13  TeV 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
Search for Higgs boson decays into a Z boson and a light hadronically decaying resonance in pp collisions at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Phys.Lett.B (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
Cross-section measurements for the production of a $W$-boson in association with high-transverse-momentum jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV 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 | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Precision measurement of the $B^{0}$ meson lifetime using $B^{0}\rightarrow J/\psi K^{{* 0}}$ decays 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
Measurement of $W^{\pm }$-boson differential cross-sections in proton–proton collisions with low pile-up data at $\sqrt{s} = 5.02$ TeV and $13\,\hbox {TeV}$ 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 | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Open string axiverse
Journal of High Energy Physics (2025)
Rudin Petrossian-Byrne | Giovanni Villadoro
Journal article
2025
Composite operators in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 Super Yang-Mills
Journal of High Energy Physics (2025)
Agnese Bissi | Giulia Fardelli | Andrea Manenti
Preprint
2025
Gauging Non-Invertible Symmetries in (2+1)d Topological Orders
Mahesh K. N. Balasubramanian | Matthew Buican | Clement Delcamp | Rajath Radhakrishnan
Journal article
2025
Improved reconstruction of highly boosted $\tau $-lepton pairs in the $\tau \tau \rightarrow (\mu \nu _{\mu }\nu _{\tau })(\text {hadrons}+\nu _{\tau })$ decay channels 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 | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Charged-hadron and identified-hadron (KS0, Λ, Ξ−) yield measurements in photonuclear Pb+Pb and p+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV with ATLAS
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 | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...
Journal article
2025
Charged-hadron and identified-hadron ($K^\mathrm{0}_\mathrm{S}$, $Λ$, $Ξ^\mathrm{-}$) yield measurements in photo-nuclear Pb+Pb and $p$+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with ATLAS
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 | Yiming Abulaiti | Bobby Acharya ...

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