Workshops

It is now a great time for the community to share the recent progress in this emerging field and establish a coherent vision of the outstanding questions to be addressed in the near future in order to fully capitalize on the rapid growth in quantum computing platforms.

Decays of light mesons offer a vast multitude of opportunities to investigate fundamental physics under the broad theme of symmetries and symmetry breaking, both within the Standard Model and beyond.

The central questions we plan to explore concern the possibility of exploiting condensed matter analog models as experimental tools to understand quantum mechanical aspects of gravitation, such as the behaviour of quantum fields in the vicinity of exotic astrophysical objects such as black holes, particle creation phenomena at the end of cosmological inflation, quantum information aspects related to the information paradox and the entanglement entropy of black holes.

The workshop will focus on the application of machine learning (ML) techniques to problems in lattice quantum field theory (LQFT) with applications in nuclear and particle physics. The research to be highlighted spans a broad range of topics within this subfield, covering exploratory applications across all aspects of LQFT calculations.

The COLMO (Quantum Collapse Models investigated with Particle, Nuclear, Atomic and Macro systems) workshop has the goal to bring together, in a unique dedicated framework in the ideal environment of the ECT*, world-leading experts and young scientists working in the foundations of quantum mechanics (many for the first time at ECT*), towards a better understanding of the collapse models proposed to solve the major open question in quantum physics: the collapse mechanism, also known as the “measurement problem”.

In the spin-1 system, the inclusive structure functions are supplemented by four additional tensor structure functions: b1, b2, b3, and b4. A rich new field of tensor structure measurements awaits exploration. A deeper understanding of tensor structure will help clarify how the gross properties of the nucleus arise from the underlying partons. This provides novel information about gluon contributions, quark angular momentum, and the polarization of the quark sea that is not accessible in spin-1/2 targets. Excellent progress has been made in developing the solid tensor polarized targets necessary for this program, and a wide range of exciting experiments awaits.

The scope of the workshop "Short-distance nuclear structure and PDFs" is to advance our understanding of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlation studies, medium modifications of quark distributions (EMC effect) and the re-examination of the relationship between the two. This includes examining the impact of new data and theory advances. In particular, we plan to emphasize discussion around the following topics: (1) Short-range correlations (SRCs): A-dependence, isospin dependence, momentum dependence, nuclear structure calculations, reaction mechanisms, isolating 3N-SRCs. (2) EMC effect - new data, viable explanations, new observables including spin-dependent, momentum-dependent, and flavor-dependent modification, as well as modification of anti-quarks. (3) EMC-SRC correlation - what can we learn about EMC effect from SRCs and vice-versa? Data on many new nuclei will help significantly flesh out this landscape.

The workshop will cover the following topics: levitated optomechanics, levitated magnetomechanics, levitated micro and nanosensors, hybrid quantum systems, spin-mechanics, search for dark matter or modified gravity or new physics beyond the standard model, fundamental science in space.

The goal of the workshop is to assess the prospects for exploring resonance structure with transition GPDs and formulate a strategy for future theoretical and experimental efforts in this field. (i) Review theoretical methods/approaches to transition GPDs and resonance structure and plan further studies; (ii) Present and discuss first data on DVCS/DVMP experiments with resonance transitions from JLab12 experiments and formulate strategy for their analysis. (iii) Assess prospects for future transition GPD measurements at EIC using far-forward detectors and plan physics and detector simulations; (iv) Discuss opportunities for future transition GPD measurements with hadron beams (PANDA, J-PARC). As the final outcome of the workshop a White Paper will be produced, summarizing the experimental and theoretical status of the field and presenting a roadmap for future studies.

The ultimate goal of MIMOSA is to provide an alternative to tomography at the nanoscale with a high chemical resolution for biological and medical systems, based on Tomographic Atom Probe (TAP). MIMOSA aims to prototype a new TAP triggered by intense terahertz (THz) pulses that are stable at high repetition rates and exhibit versatile and tailored properties.