INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS
Subnuclear physics is the branch of scientific research in which phenomena connected with the detailed structure of the ultimate constituents of matter are studied. It is through these studies that man tries to challenge nature by discovering its fundamental laws. This knowledge is the indispensable origin of all technological development and forms the basis of all modern scientific thought. The school aims, each year, to help specialists who are actively engaged in the most advanced research to become up to date on the most significant theoretical and experimental developments. Though applicants are selected as students primarily based on their scientific qualifications, geographical allowances are made to permit every country at least one participant. One of the aims of the school is to encourage and promote young physicists to achieve recognition at an international level. There will be poster sessions whereby each student has the privilege of presenting the results of current studies and interacting with other participants to their mutual benefit. Each student may also propose a contribution for open presentation. The Board of Lecturers and Invited Scientists will select the best proposals. Priority will be given to new material of either an experimental or theoretical nature, especially if the candidate has made an important contribution to the results to be presented. A review paper has lower priority and, as before, will only be selected if the candidate can point out some new features in the field reviewed. Due to the large number of students and the limited time available, it is obvious that only selected ‘New Talents’ can be given the possibility of making themselves known. The selection will be based solely on ‘scientific excellence’, without favour to geographical distribution, the laboratory, or the university of origin. A group of distinguished physicists has been invited to contribute to the lively intellectual atmosphere of the school by participating in the discussions following the Lectures. Moreover, they will take part in the selection of the ‘New Talents’, in the choice of the Best Student and in the award of the various diplomas open for competition. The reconstruction of the first six decades of subnuclear physics has a strong link with the “Ettore Majorana” School of Subnuclear Physics at Erice, a small town on the top of a mountain founded – according to the myth – by the son of Venus. Here, every year since 1963, the development of subnuclear physics has been recorded and the hottest topics of the moment were registered as faithfully as possible in the discussion sessions of the Erice School. At this School, I have attempted to have as Lecturers the most active and authoritative members of the subnuclear physics community. Their ingenuity, their wisdom, their rigorous attempts to understand the constituents and the fundamental forces of nature are reported in the volumes of the Subnuclear Physics Series. The original ideas which have flourished during the past 60 years were the focus of an intense intellectual activity, both for theorists and for experimentalists, who have contributed to the lectures and to the discussion sessions of the Erice Subnuclear Physics School.
Active courses
What accelerators, precision and cosmic messengers teach us on subnuclear physics
Directors: A. MASIERO – A. BETTINI
14 – 23 June 2025
Past courses
60th Course:
News from the four interactions
Directors: A. BETTINI – A. MASIERO
14 – 23 June 2024
Erice, Sicily
15 June 2024, 09:30
NEUTRINO MASSES AND MIXING
Maria Concepción GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA
45′
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15 June 2024, 10:15
WHAT DOES COSMOLOGY TEACH US ON NEUTRINOS?
Sergio PASTOR
45′
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15 June 2024, 11:30
NANOHERTZ GRAVITATIONAL WAVES BACKGROUND
Delphine PERRODIN
45′
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15 June 2024, 12:15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM FAIR
Paolo GIUBELLINO
45′
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16 June 2024, 09:30
NEUTRINO MASSES AND MIXING
Maria Concepción GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA
45′
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16 June 2024, 10:15
WHY IT IS NATURAL TO THINK NEUTRINOS TO BE MAJORANA PARTICLES
Bernhard SCHWINGENHEUER
45′
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16 June 2024, 11:30
NEWS FROM FLAVOR PHYSICS
Yuval GROSSMAN
45′
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16 June 2024, 12:15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM JPARC
Takashi KOBAYASHI
45′
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17 June 2024, 09:30
THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE MUON MAGNETIC MOMENT AND RELATED TOPICS
Maxim POSPELOV
45′
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17 June 2024, 10:15
PARTICLE COSMOLOGY
Keith OLIVE
45′
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17 June 2024, 11:30
NEWS FROM FLAVOR PHYSICS
Yuval GROSSMAN
45′
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17 June 2024, 12:15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LNGS
Antonio ZOCCOLI
45′
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18 June 2024, 09:30
THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE MUON MAGNETIC MOMENT AND RELATED TOPICS
Maxim POSPELOV
45′
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18 June 2024, 10:15
PARTICLE COSMOLOGY
Keith OLIVE
45′
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18 June 2024, 11:30
ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE – THEORY
Laura COVI
45′
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18 June 2024, 12:15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM ALICE
Kai SCHWEDA
45′
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19 June 2024, 09:30
FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH MUONS
Angela PAPA
45′
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19 June 2024, 10:15
SCATTERING AMPLITUDES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Zvi BERN
45′
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19 June 2024, 11:30
DIRECT SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER
Tina POLLMANN
45′
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20 June 2024, 09:30
ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE – THEORY
Laura COVI
45′
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20 June 2024, 10:15
SCATTERING AMPLITUDES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Zvi BERN
45′
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20 June 2024, 11:30
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
Jan HARMS
45′
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20 June 2024, 12:15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM ATLAS AND CMS
Evelin MEONI
45′
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21 June 2024, 09:30
SCATTERING AMPLITUDES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Zvi BERN
45′
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21 June 2024, 10:15
EXPERIMENTAL UPDATE ON COSMIC RAY PHYSICS
Zhen CAO
45′
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21 June 2024, 11:30
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
Jan HARMS
45′
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21 June 2024, 12:15
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LHCB
Vincenzo Maria VAGNONI
45′
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22 June 2024, 09:30
NEWS ON THE THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COSMIC RAY PHYSICS
Philipp MERTSCH
45′
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22 June 2024, 10:15
BSM PHYSICS: WHERE WE STAND, WHERE ARE WE HEADING TO?
Marcela CARENA
45′
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22 June 2024, 11:30
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SUPER-KAMIOKANDE AND HYPER-KAMIOKANDE
Masayuki NAKAHATA
45′
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NEW TALENTS:
15 June 2024, 16:00
DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHOTO-DIODE SUBSYSTEM FOR THE HERD CALORIMETER DOUBLE-READOUT
Pietro BETTI
10′
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15 June 2024, 16:13
SEARCHING FOR ANTIDEUTERONS IN COSMIC RAYS WITH THE ALPHA MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER
Francesco D’ANGELO
10′
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15 June 2024, 16:26
RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS TO e+e– → π+π– SCATTERING
Andrea GURGONE
10′
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15 June 2024, 16:39
FEASIBILITY STUDY ON ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRINO OSCILLATION AT JUNO
Xinhai HE
10′
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15 June 2024, 16:52
REACTOR FLUX AND SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT WITH THE DAYA BAY FULL DATA SET
Jinhao HUANG
10′
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15 June 2024, 17:05
EXPLAINING THE STRUCTURE OF QUARK AND LEPTON MASS MATRICES VIA FLAVOUR NON-UNIVERSAL GAUGE GROUPS
Andrea SAINAGHI
10′
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15 June 2024, 17:18
A NOVEL COMPACT SIPM-BASED TOF+RICH DETECTOR FOR THE FUTURE ALICE 3 PID SYSTEM AT LHC
Nicola NICASSIO
10′
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15 June 2024, 17:31
PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF W- AND Z-BOSON TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM SPECTRA AT ATLAS
Zhibo WU
10′
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16 June 2024, 16:00
ELECTRON NEUTRINO ENERGY ESTIMATION FOR THE NOvA 3 FLAVOR ANALYSIS
Anastasiia KALITKINA
10′
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16 June 2024, 16:13
THE LARGE NC LIMIT OF QCD FROM THE LATTICE
Jorge BAEZA- BALLESTREROS
10′
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16 June 2024, 16:26
THE SENSITIVITY OF LONG-BASELINE ACCELERATOR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS TO THE UNKNOWN OSCILLATION PARAMETERS
Anna STEPANOVA
10′
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16 June 2024, 16:39
NEWS FROM THE STRONG INTERACTION AND ITS MOST DIFFICULT ASPECT
Elisa SANZANI
10′
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16 June 2024, 16:52
ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS ON HOT AND DENSE MEDIA
Osvaldo FERREIRA-NETO
10′
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16 June 2024, 17:05
LEPTONIC NEUTRAL-CURRENT PROBES IN A SHORT-DISTANCE DUNE-LIKE SETUP
Salvador CENTELLES-CHULIA
10′
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16 June 2024, 17:18
THE CHIRAL LAGRANGIAN OF CP-VIOLATING AXION-LIKE PARTICLES
Gabriele LEVATI
10′
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16 June 2024, 17:31
SM MEASUREMENTS AND BSM SEARCHES WITH ELECTROWEAK GAUGE BOSON PRODUCTIONS IN ATLAS
Yi YU
10′
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17 June 2024, 16:00
ASYMMETRIC DARK MATTER IN SUPERSYMMETRY
Daniel QUEIROZ-CORREA
10′
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17 June 2024, 16:13
DUNE NEAR DETECTOR ND-LAr PROTOTYPE, 2X2 DEMONSTRATOR
Saba PARSA
10′
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17 June 2024, 16:26
WHAT NEUTRON STARS TELL US ABOUT THE STRONG INTERACTION
Janos TAKATSY
10′
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17 June 2024, 16:39
CP-VIOLATING PORTAL TO DARK SECTOR
Nicola VALORI
10′
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17 June 2024, 16:52
FREEZE-IN AT STRONGER COUPLING
Francesco COSTA
10′
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17 June 2024, 17:05
THE PARAMETER SPACE OF TWO RIGHT-HANDED NEUTRINOS
Vaisakh PLAKKOT
10′
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17 June 2024, 17:18
SEARCH FOR DARK SECTORS AND DARK PHOTONS DECAYING INTO LEPTON JETS WITH THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT
Bernardo RICCI
10′
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17 June 2024, 17:31
DISPELLING THE SQRT(L) MYTH FOR THE HIGH-LUMINOSITY LHC
Alberto BELVEDERE
10′
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18 June 2024, 16:00
MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NON-HERMITIAN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Esra SABLEVICE
10′
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18 June 2024, 16:13
MULTI PARTON SCATTERING: FROM REMARKABLE RESULTS TO AMBITIOUS PERSPECTIVES
Maria Elena ASCIOTI
10′
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18 June 2024, 16:26
LOOKING FOR X17 AT PADME
Elisa DI MECO
10′
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18 June 2024, 16:39
CHARMED BARYON MEASUREMENTS IN PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS AT √S = 13.6 TEV WITH THE ALICE EXPERIMENT IN RUN 3
Federica ZANONE
10′
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18 June 2024, 16:52
INVESTIGATION OF THE SPACE-TIME GEOMETRY OF HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
Ermese ARPASI
10′
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18 June 2024, 17:05
LIGHT-FLAVOUR PARTICLE PRODUCTION AS A FUNCTION OF TRANSVERSE SPHEROCITY WITH ALICE
Adrian Fereydon NASSIRPOUR
10′
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18 June 2024, 17:18
EXPLORING MINIMAL COMPOSITE HIGGS MODELS FROM A BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVE
Ethan CARRAGHER
10′
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18 June 2024, 17:32
HYDRODYNAMIC MANIFESTATIONS OF GRAVITATIONAL CHIRAL ANOMALY
Georgy PROKHOROV
10′
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18 June 2024, 17:45
MINIMAL SUPERGEOMETRIC QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES
Viola GATTUS
10′
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20 June 2024, 16:00
MAPPING THE UNIVERSE’S EXPANSION WITH GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND NEUTRAL HYDROGEN
Ulyana DUPLETSA
10′
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20 June 2024, 16:13
HARMONIC SUPERSPACE FORMALISM AND IT’S APPLICATIONS TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Aleksandra BUDEKHINA
10′
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20 June 2024, 16:26
LLM-BASED PHYSICS ANALYSIS AGENT AT BESIII AND EXPLORATION OF FUTURE AI SCIENTIST
Yipu LIAO
10′
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20 June 2024, 16:39
EARLY UNIVERSE HOLOGRAPHIC FIRST ORDER PHASE TRANSITION WITHIN COMPOSITE HIGGS MODEL
Andrei SHAVRIN
10′
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20 June 2024, 16:52
SILICON PIXEL DETECTORS FOR DIGITAL TRACKING CALORIMETRY
Vitalii PETROV
10′
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20 June 2024, 17:05
BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS CONSTRAINTS ON RESONANT DARK MATTER ANNIHILATIONS
Pieter BRAAT
10′
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20 June 2024, 17:18
THE HIGH-SPEED OPTO-ELECTRICAL CONVERSION SYSTEM FOR THE READOUT OF THE ATLAS ITk PIXEL UPGRADE
Silke MOBIUS
10′
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20 June 2024, 17:31
CP VIOLATION IN TAU DECAY INTO KAONS
Guglielmo PAPIRI
10′
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21 June 2024, 16:00
VACUA STABILITY IN STRING THEORY
Alonzo Rodrigo DIAZ AVALOS
10′
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21 June 2024, 16:13
MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC RAY PROTON SPECTRUM AROUND THE KNEE REGION WITH LHAASO
Zhiyong YOU
10′
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21 June 2024, 16:26
SURFACE GRAVITY FOR NON-STATIONARY SPACETIMES
Zeynep Tugce OZKARSLIGIL
10′
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21 June 2024, 16:39
MANIFESTING COLOUR-KINEMATICS DUALITY AND THE DOUBLE COPY: HOMOTOPY ALGEBRAS, PURE SPINORS AND TWISTOR SPACE
Leron BORSTEN
10′
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21 June 2024, 17:02
SEARCH FOR NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY WITH LEGEND
FRANCESCO BORRA
10′
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21 June 2024, 17:15
STUDY OF SEMITAUONIC B-MESON DECAYS AT BELLE AND BELLE II
Mateusz KALETA
10′
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21 June 2024, 17:27
MEASUREMENT OF 
MIXING AND SEARCH FOR CP VIOLATION WITH D0 → K+π– DECAYS
Tommaso PAJERO
10′
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59th Course:
Searching the unexpected: Energy, luminosity, precision, small signals
Directors: A. BETTINI – A. MASIERO
14 – 23 June 2023
58th Course:
Gravity and matter in the subnuclear world
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZOCCOLI
15 – 24 June 2022
57th Course:
In Search for the UnExpected
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
21 – 30 June 2019
56th Course:
From gravitational waves to QED, QFD and QCD
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2018
55th Course:
Highlights from LHC and the other Frontiers of Physics
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2017
54th Course:
The New Physics Frontiers in the LHC-2 Era
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
14 – 23 June 2016
53rd Course:
The Future of our Physics including New Frontiers
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2015
52nd Course:
Status of theoretical understanding and of experimental power for LHC physics and beyond
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2014
51st Course:
Reflections On The Next Step For LHC
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2013
50th Course:
What We Would Like LHC To Give Us
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
23 June – 2 July 2012
49th Course:
Searching for the Unexpected at Lhc and Status of Our Knowledge
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
24 June – 3 July 2011
48th Course:
What is Know and Uexpected at LHC
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2010
47th Course:
The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2009
46th Course:
Predicted and Totally Unexpected in the Energy Frontier Opened by LHC
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2008
45th Course:
Searching for the ‘Totally Unespected’ in the LHC Era
Directors: G. ‘T HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2007
44th Course:
The Logic of Nature, Complexity and New Physics: From Quark-Gluon Plasma to Superstrings, Quantum Gravity and Beyond
Director: A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2006
43rd Course:
Towards New Milestones in our Quest to Go Beyond the Standard Model
Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2005
42nd Course:
How and Where to Go Beyond the Standard Model
Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2004
41st Course:
From Quarks to Black Holes: Progress in Understanding the Logic of Nature
Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2003
40th Course:
From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity
Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2002
39th Course:
New Fields and Strings in Subnuclear Physics
Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 2001
38th Course:
Theory and Experiment heading for New Physics
Directors: G. ’t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
27 August – 5 September 2000
37th Course:
Basics and Highlights in Fundamental Physics
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 1999
36th Course:
From the Planck Length to the Hubble Radius
Directors: G. ‘t HOOFT – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
29 August – 7 September 1998
35th Course:
Highlights: 50 Years later
Directors: G. ALTARELLI – G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
26 August – 4 September 1997
34th Course:
Effective Theories and Fundamental Interactions
Directors: G. VENEZIANO – A. ZICHICHI
3 – 12 July 1996
33rd Course:
Vacuum and Vacua: the Physics of Nothing
2 – 10 July 1995
32nd Course:
From Superstring to Present-day Physics
3 – 11 July 1994
31st Course:
From Supersymmetry to the Origin of Space-Time
4 – 12 July 1993
30th Course:
From Superstrings to the Real Superworld
14 – 22 July 1992
29th Course:
Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: to Understand the Origin of Mass
14 – 22 July 1991
28th Course:
Physics up to 200 TeV
16 – 24 July 1990
27th Course:
The Challenging Questions
26 July – 3 August 1989
26th Course:
The Super-World-III
7 – 15 August 1988
25th Course:
The Super World – II
6 – 14 August 1987
24th Course:
The Super-World
7 – 15 August 1986
23rd Course:
Old and New Forces of Nature
4 – 14 August 1985
22nd Course:
Quarks, Leptons and their Constituents
5 – 15 August 1984
21st Course:
How far we are from the Gauge Forces
3 – 14 August 1983
20th Course:
Gauge Interactions: Theory and Experiment
3 – 14 August 1982
19th Course:
The Unity of the Fundamental Interactions
Directors: S. COLEMAN – S.D. DRELL – A. ZICHICHI
31 July – 11 August 1981
18th Course:
The High Energy Limit
31 July – 11 August 1980
17th Course:
Pointlike Structures Inside and Outside Hadrons
31 July – 11 August 1979
16th Course:
The New Aspects of Subnuclear Physics
31 July – 11 August 1978
15th Course:
The Whys of Subnuclear Physics
23 July – 10 August 1977
14th Course:
Understanding the Fundamental Constituents of Matter
23 July – 8 August 1976
13th Course:
New Phenomena in Subnuclear Physics
11 July – 1 August 1975
12th Course:
Lepton and Hadron Structure
14 – 31 July 1974
11th Course:
Laws of Hadronic Matter
6 – 25 July 1973
10th Course:
High-lights in Particle Physics
7 – 29 July 1972