SPCS 2026: 70th Anniversary of the Discovery of Parity Nonconservation and Prospects in Frontier Physics & SPCS 2026 Summer School

Session

Session IV(Day2)

23 Jun 2026, 16:30

Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S5F-S500 - Lecture Hall (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)

Conveners

Session IV(Day2)

• Shao-Feng Ge (TDLI-SJTU)

40. Precision probes of fundamental interactions at particle colliders

Prof. Andreas Hoecker (CERN)

23/06/2026, 16:30

Plenary Talk

The discovery of parity violation marked a turning point in fundamental physics: it showed that nature distinguishes left from right, revealing the chiral structure of the weak interaction and paving the way to electroweak theory. This line of inquiry has continued through the discoveries of CP violation, electroweak unification, and the Higgs boson with its associated scalar interactions....

41. Par(i)ty Tricks!

Prof. Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne)

23/06/2026, 17:10

Plenary Talk

After reviewing the familiar definition of parity transformations and why they are explicitly broken in the standard model, I will discuss three ways that parity can be upgraded to being either a spontaneously broken or an exact symmetry. The resulting theories remain as interesting, aesthetically-driven speculations for physics beyond the standard model that can be searched for experimentally...

55. TBD

Yue-Liang Wu (UCAS)

Plenary Talk