RPP 2025

Feb 5, 2025, 1:00 PM → Feb 7, 2025, 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

Auditorium Vivargent (Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique Théorique (LAPTh))

The RPP brings together theoretical physicists from various French institutes specializing in particle physics to exchange insights, explore emerging trends, and foster collaboration.

The 2025 meeting will be hosted by LAPTh and will feature review lectures, short presentations, and a round table on the current state and future directions of theoretical particle physics in France.

 

Registration and abstract submission are now closed. The conference's schedule is available here.

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Quentin Bonnefoy (IPHC Strasbourg)

• Francesca Calore (LAPTh Annecy)

• Adam Falkowski (IJCLab Orsay)

• Jacopo Ghiglieri (SUBATECH Nantes)

• Laurent Lellouch (CPT Marseille)

• Yann Mambrini (IJCLab Orsay)

• Méril Reboud (IJCLab Orsay)

• Grégory Soyez (IPhT Saclay)

• Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo (IPhT Saclay)

 

Organising Committee:  

Geneviève Bélanger
Cédric Delaunay
Diego Guadagnoli
Jérémie Quevillon

Véronique Jonnery (admin)
Virginie Malaval (admin)
Dominique Turc (admin head)

 

Funding sources: LAPTh, CPTGA, Enigmass+

 

   

Wed, February 5

1:00 PM → 1:30 PM Check-in

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM QCD

Convener: Fawzi Boudjema (LAPTh)

1:30 PM Towards accuracy in parton showers

review talk

Speaker: Gregory SOYEZ (IPhT/CEA Saclay)

panscales.pdf

2:10 PM Thermal field theory in heavy-ion collisions and cosmology

review talk

Speaker: Dr Jacopo Ghiglieri (SUBATECH, Nantes)

ghiglieri_rpp.pdf

2:50 PM Recent progress in precision physics of gluon saturation

Speaker: Michael Fucilla (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405, Orsay, France)

Talk_RPP_Saturation.pdf

3:10 PM Inclusive photoproduction via ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Kate LYNCH (UC Dublin and Paris-Saclay University IJClab)

KateLynch-RPP-050225.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 7:00 PM Flavour physics

Convener: Ludovico Vittorio (LAPTh, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc and CNRS, Annecy, France)

4:00 PM Flavourful B mesons: a (quick) overview

review talk

Speaker: Méril REBOUD (CNRS, IJCLab)

Reboud_050225.pdf

4:40 PM Charm loop effect in semi-leptonic B decays

Speaker: Dayanand Kishan Kumar Mishra (IP2I Lyon)

RPP_2025.pdf

5:00 PM B->K LCSR Form Factors determination

Speaker: Yann Monceaux (IP2I (Lyon))

RPP.pdf

5:20 PM Rare Kaon Decays as Probes of Short-Distance Physics

Speaker: Siavash NESHATPOUR (IP2I, Lyon University)

Siavash_RPP2025.pdf

5:40 PM Hyperiso: A general BSM calculator for flavour observables

Speakers: Niels FARDEAU, Théo REYMERMIER (IP2I Lyon + LPSC)

RPP_05-02-25.pdf

6:00 PM OpenLat: physics applications enabled by open-source lattice gauge configurations

Speaker: Andrea Shindler (RWTH - Aachen University)

shindler_rpp.pdf

6:20 PM Probing the Standard Model to 0.37 ppm with the muon anomalous magnetic moment

review talk

Speaker: Laurent Lellouch (CPT Marseille)

talk_annecy_2025.pdf

Thu, February 6

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Astroparticles

Convener: Nazila Mahmoudi (Lyon University)

9:00 AM Astroparticle dark matter probes: a quick appraisal

review talk

Speaker: Francesca CALORE

RPP2025_02_FCalore.pdf

9:40 AM Early clustering of dark matter particles around primordial black holes: density profiles and signatures

Speaker: Pierre SALATI (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique LAPTH)

RPP_Salati_250206.pdf

10:00 AM Prospects of constraining WIMP dark matter using celestial bodies

Speaker: Arpan Kar (LPTHE, Sorbonne University)

AKar_RPP25.pdf

10:20 AM Cosmological Perturbations Theory of First-order Phase Transitions

Speaker: Yann Gouttenoire (MITP)

Gouttenoire_Annecy_RPP_25.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Astroparticles

Convener: Yann MAMBRINI (LPT Orsay)

11:00 AM Constraints on an interacting dark sector

Speaker: Elsa Teixeira (LUPM Montpellier)

Teixeira_RPP_2025.pdf

11:20 AM Decaying Dark Matter Profile likelihood Analysis

Speaker: Thomas Montandon (Laboratoire Univers et Particule de Montpellier (LUPM))

DDM_RPP_Annecy_Montandon.pdf

11:40 AM Higgs portal dark matter freeze-in at stronger coupling

Speaker: Andreas Goudelis (LPC - Clermont Ferrand)

AndreasRPP2025.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:50 PM BSM

Convener: Dr Piotr TOURKINE (LAPTh, CNRS, Annecy)

1:30 PM On-shell amplitude approach to gravitational radiation in general relativity and beyond

review talk

Speaker: Adam FALKOWSKI (IJCLab)

250206-Annecy.pdf

2:10 PM Geometry and Energy in EFT

Speaker: Ben Assi (University of Cincinnati)

rpp_2025.pdf

2:30 PM On-shell recursion relations for massive amplitudes

Speaker: Wenqi KE (LPTHE)

alttalk - RPP.pdf

2:50 PM Model-independent results on parity violation in the trace anomaly

Speaker: RÉMY LARUE (LPSC)

RPP2025_Larue.pdf

3:10 PM Resummations (or how pairs are created in quantum field theory)

Speaker: Sebastian Franchino-Vinas

franchino_annecy_web.pdf

3:30 PM Amplitudes for Hawking Radiation

Speaker: Rafael Aoude (University of Edinburgh)

Aoude_Annecy.pdf

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM → 6:20 PM Cosmology

Convener: Genevieve Belanger (LAPTH)

4:20 PM Gravitational production in the Early Universe

review talk

Speaker: Yann MAMBRINI (LPT Orsay)

RPP Annecy Finalpdf.pdf

5:00 PM Non-Gaussianities in ultra slow-roll inflation

Speaker: Mathias Pierre (DESY)

AnnecyRPP2025.pdf

5:20 PM Baryogenesis and Preheating in Starobinsky-Higgs Inflation

Speaker: Yann Cado (LPTHE)

RPP2025-YannCADO.pdf

5:40 PM Gravitational Wave Production During Reheating: From the Inflaton to Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Mathieu GROSS (IJCLab)

Gravitational Wave in Non-Standard Cosmologies.pdf

6:00 PM Asymptotically flat universe symmetries and their influence on the consistency of standard elementary particle models

Speaker: baulieu laurent (LPTHE, Sorbonne Universite)

Annecy_5-7+2.pdf

7:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social dinner

La Brasserie de l'Impérial

Fri, February 7

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM BSM

Convener: Dr Jérémie Quevillon (LAPTh Annecy)

9:00 AM SMEFT : review and latest developments

review talk

Speaker: Quentin Bonnefoy (Uni. de Strasbourg & IPHC)

Bonnefoy_RPP2025.pdf

9:40 AM Thermal effects in neutrino-DM production

Speaker: Salvador ROSAURO-ALCARAZ

Rosauro_nuDM_RPP.pdf

10:00 AM Type II lepton number violation at the LHC

Speaker: Jonathan Kriewald (Jožef Stefan Institute)

kriewald_RPP2025.pdf

10:20 AM Detection prospects of gravitational waves from the breaking of a new SU(2) flavour symmetry

Speaker: Anna CHRYSOSTOMOU (LPTHE)

Chrysostomou_RPP2025.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Round table

Convener: Jean Orloff (LPC Clermont, Univ. Blaise Pascal)

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:10 PM BSM phenomenology

Convener: Claudio Toni (LAPTh)

1:30 PM Highlights from Axion Physics

review talk

Speaker: Raffaele DAgnolo

dagnolo_RPP_Axion.pdf

2:10 PM Optimising bb searches for low mass resonances at the LHC

Speaker: Amit Adhikary (CPT Marseille)

ALP_AmitAdhikary.pdf

2:30 PM Axion emission from strange matter in core-collapse SNe

Speaker: Mael Cavan (Lapth - USMB)

Cavan_2025_02_07_RPP.pdf

2:50 PM Probing QCD Axions or Axion-like Particles in three-body K Decays

Speaker: Axel Iohner (LAPTh)

Iohner_RPP25.pdf

3:10 PM → 3:40 PM Farewell coffee