The First African Conference on High Energy Physics: Proceedings of ACHEP, Rabat & Kenitra, Morocco, October 23-27, 2023

by Yahya Tayalati (Editor), Mohamed Gouighri (Editor)

Overview

This open access book compiles the proceedings of the inaugural African Conference on High Energy Physics (ACHEP), which took place in Rabat and Kenitra, Morocco, from October 23 to 27, 2023. The conference brought together specialized scientists in the field of High Energy Physics (HEP) from universities and research institutes worldwide to discuss current developments, new trends, results, and perspectives. The primary goal of ACHEP meetings is to encourage young African researchers and HEP experts to express and discuss new ideas.

The conference proceedings are organized into nine areas with the following titles:

• Electroweak and Higgs Physics
• Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
• Neutrino Physics and Dark Matter Searches
• Strong Interaction and Hadron Physics
• Education and Outreach in Africa
• Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Detectors and Future Experimental Facilities
• Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics
• Heavy Ions

This book is designed to cater to a diverse audience, ranging from PhD students and early-career researchers to seasoned academics. It is tailored for individuals with a background or interest in the field of HEP, encompassing both theoretical and experimental physicists, as well as researchers from related disciplines such as particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031889325
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	09/28/2025
Series:	Springer Proceedings in Physics , #425
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yahya Tayalati is a Full Professor at the University Mohammed V in Rabat and an affiliate professor at the UM6P School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Morocco. Over the past twenty years, he has been involved in various projects within the ATLAS collaboration. Professor Tayalati has contributed to the construction and operation of the liquid argon presampler, and he has played a role in the observation of light-by-light scattering. In the field of neutrino physics, he has been part of the ANTARES telescope project, contributing to limits on exotic particles. Additionally, he has collaborated on the establishment of production lines for digital optical modules and electro-optics routers in Morocco with the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope KM3NeT. Beyond research, Professor Tayalati initiated a project to involve Morocco in the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector upgrade, providing training opportunities for the youth and facilitating technology transfer. Recognized for his contributions, Professor Tayalati is a member of the World Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences and holds an honorary membership in the Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He has received awards, including the Mustafa Prize and the TWAS Arab Regional Award for Science Diplomacy in 2022.

Mohamed Gouighri is a Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences, University Ibn-Tofail in Kenitra, Morocco. His research expertise spans elementary particle physics, accelerator physics, and computational physics. Commencing his research journey with a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Sciences at Ain-Chock, Casablanca University in 2012, Professor Gouighri has since worked in the ATLAS collaboration at CERN. Joining in 2007, he went through the intricate commissioning phase, ensuring the readiness of the ATLAS detector for proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Notably, his contributions led to his involvement in the inaugural ATLAS ECAL team, and his thesis focused on analyzing two B-Physics channels: Bd→J/psi(mu,mu)Ks(pi,pi) and Lambda_b→/psi(mu,mu)Lambda(p,pi). In 2018, the University of Kenitra officially became a part of the ATLAS collaboration. Since then, Professor Gouighri has spearheaded the Kenitra group's involvement in diverse analyses, probing physics beyond the Standard Model. The group actively contributes to the ATLAS upgrade for the HL-LHC phase, with a specific responsibility for the Detector Control System for the High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD). Expanding his international collaborations, Professor Gouighri serves as the Moroccan team leader for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment in Japan. This groundbreaking experiment, an evolution of the successful Super-Kamiokande, aims to determine CP violation, observe proton decay, and study atmospheric neutrinos and neutrinos from astronomical sources. Beyond his scientific endeavors, Professor Gouighri has been an esteemed member of the "Global Young Academy" since 2013, advocating for the voices of young researchers worldwide.

Table of Contents

Neutrino spin states in moving matter and the effect of neutrino spin light.- Wave packet treatment of neutrino flavour and spin oscillations in galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields.- LIGO Virgo KAGRA results and status of the current fourth observing run.- Multi-Detector Analyses for CCSN Neutrino Detection.- Towards a finite AdS3 topological gravity Landscape.- Maximinext Surfaces: Enhancements in Island Entropy.- A new Vertex Locator for the next generation LHCb experiment.- The Compact Linear Collider: physics potential.- The upgrade of the T2K near detector.- Hyper Kamiokande Physics Potential Calibration and Detector Systematics.- Highlights of recent Standard Model measurements with ATLAS.- Jets Physics Simulations and Analysis with the ATLAS Experiment.- Reconstructing long lived particles with the ILD detector.- The cross section of inverse beta decay.- The KM3NeT underwater neutrino telescope.- SATURNE The Sarov Tritium Neutrino Experiment for Probing Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Atom Scattering and Neutrino Electromagnetic Interactions.- An overview of the DUNE far detectors.- Exploring Entanglement and Quantum Fisher Information in a System of Two Superconducting Qubits Subjected to Thermal Noise.- Status and perspective of ICARUS at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Program.- Revisiting Inert Doublet Model Parameters.- Conformity of New CDF II MW with 123 Model.- Conformity of New CDF II MW with 123-Model.- Enhanced Photon Higgs Associated Production in two Higgs doublet type II Seesaw model at e e colliders.- Collider constraints on massive gravitons.- Results from the NA62 experiment at CERN.- Probing a vector like top quark T H b and H t b at HL LHC.- Interpreting the Indications of a 95 GeV Higgs Boson through a 2 Higgs Doublet Model.- Recent results from belle and Belle II experiments.