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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Oct
2025
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Oct
2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Workshop on Approaches to Quantum Gravity in de Sitter space | (smr 4086)
Physical
14
Sep
2025
workshop
23
Mar
2026
31
Mar
2026
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 4209)
Physical
05
Feb
2026
school
29
Jun
2026
10
Jul
2026
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Summer School on Cosmology | (smr 4223)
Physical
school
05
Jul
2026
19
Jul
2026
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
The African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications - Edition 2026 | (smr 4194)
Physical
10
Jan
2026
school

Upcoming Seminars

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High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
16:00
16
Oct
2025
16
Oct
2025
16
Oct
2025
17:00
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
HECAP Seminar - A Geometric Approach to the Higgs Branch of 5d SCFTs
Physical
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
11:00
29
Oct
2025
29
Oct
2025
29
Oct
2025
12:30
High Energy Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Workshop on "Competing for ERC Grants: Funding Schemes, Evaluation Process, Recent and Upcoming Changes and Key Statistics"
Physical

News

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ICTP-IBM Quantum Computing Prize
Call for nominations; deadline 15 November 2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
ICTP Prize
ICTP Prize 2025: Call for Nominations
Deadline extended to 31 October 2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
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Scientific Philanthropy
How Scientists Are Advancing ICTP’s Mission
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
EulerLagrange Room ICTP
A Blueprint for the Future
ICTP announces a new, five-year strategic plan
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
ICTP exhibit at TriesteNext
ICTP at TriesteNext Science Festival
Exhibits and talks will highlight ICTP's global science mission
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Diploma graduates 2025
Diploma 2025 Graduation Ceremony
43 students celebrate academic achievement
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences

Publications

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Journal article
2025
Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces
npj Biodiversity (2025)
Giacomo Puglielli | Carlos P. Carmona | Agnese Bissi | Enrico Tordoni
Journal article
2025
A search for dark matter produced in association with a dark Higgs boson decaying into a Higgs boson pair in 3$b$ or 4$b$ final states using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abulaiti, Yiming | Acharya, Bobby Samir ...
Journal article
2025
A search for dark matter produced in association with a dark Higgs boson decaying into a Higgs boson pair in 3b or 4b final states using pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Aad, G. | Aakvaag, E. | Abbott, B. | Abdelhameed, S. | Abeling, K. | Abicht, N.J. | Abidi, S.H. | Aboelela, M. | Aboulhorma, A. | Abramowicz, H. | Abulaiti, Y. | Acharya, B.S. | Ackermann, A. | Adam Bourdarios, C. | Adamczyk, L. ...
Journal article
2025
Evidence for Longitudinally Polarized W Bosons in the Electroweak Production of Same-Sign W Boson Pairs in Association with Two Jets in pp Collisions at s=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector
Phys.Rev.Lett. (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abulaiti, Yiming | Acharya, Bobby Samir ...
Journal article
2025
Search for emerging jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Rept.Prog.Phys. (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abulaiti, Yiming | Acharya, Bobby Samir ...
Journal article
2025
A precise measurement of the jet energy scale derived from single-particle measurements and in situ techniques in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Eur.Phys.J.C (2025)
Aad, G. | Aakvaag, E. | Abbott, B. | Abdelhameed, S. | Abeling, K. | Abicht, N.J. | Abidi, S.H. | Aboelela, M. | Aboulhorma, A. | Abramowicz, H. | Abreu, H. | Abulaiti, Y. | Acharya, B.S. | Ackermann, A. | Bourdarios, C.Adam ...
Journal article
2025
Measurements of W$^{+}$W$^{−}$ production cross-sections in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Aad, Georges | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abreu, Henso | Abulaiti, Yiming | Abusleme Hoffman, A.C. | Acharya, Bobby Samir | Adam Bourdarios, Claire .. ...
Journal article
2025
Azimuthal anisotropies of charged particles with high transverse momentum in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Phys.Rev.C (2025)
Aad, G. | Aakvaag, E. | Abbott, B. | Abdelhameed, S. | Abeling, K. | Abicht, N.J. | Abidi, S.H. | Aboelela, M. | Aboulhorma, A. | Abramowicz, H. | Abulaiti, Y. | Acharya, B.S. | Ackermann, A. | Adam Bourdarios, C. | Adamczyk, L. ...
Journal article
2025
Search for a new pseudoscalar decaying into a pair of bottom and antibottom quarks in top-associated production in $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV proton–proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
Eur.Phys.J.C (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abulaiti, Yiming | Acharya, Bobby Samir ...
Journal article
2025
Measurements of WH and ZH production with Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks and direct constraints on the charm Yukawa coupling in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abreu, Henso | Abulaiti, Yiming ...
Journal article
2025
Searches for direct slepton production in the compressed-mass corridor in $ \sqrt{\textrm{s}} $ = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
JHEP (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abulaiti, Yiming | Acharya, Bobby Samir ...
Journal article
2025
Measurements of the production cross-sections of a Higgs boson in association with a vector boson and decaying into WW$^{*}$ with the ATLAS detector at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV
JHEP (2025)
Aad, Georges | Aakvaag, Erlend | Abbott, Braden Keim | Abdelhameed, Sara | Abeling, Kira | Abicht, Nils Julius | Abidi, Haider | Aboelela, Mohammed | Aboulhorma, Asmaa | Abramowicz, Halina | Abreu, Henso | Abulaiti, Yiming ...

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