The XIX LNF Spring School “Bruno Touschek” in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics will take place at the INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy from Monday, May 7th to Friday, May 11th, 2018.

The School is intended for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in theoretical and experimental high-energy physics. The 2018 edition of the School includes lectures on selected theoretical and experimental topics, discussion sessions, and the 6th Young Researchers Workshop on `Physics Challenges in the LHC Era’, which will take place on Monday, May 7th and on Thursday, May 10th. Students planning to participate in the School are strongly encouraged to apply to give a presentation of their research in the Workshop. The contributions will be published in Frascati Physics Series. A few fellowships covering the registration fee and/or accommodation are available for selected participants giving talks.

The XIX LNF Spring School program will also feature the Spring School
Colloquium `The Origin of Life The Incredible Experiments of the Evolution in the Primordial Seas’, given by Marco Signore, Senior Researcher at Stazione Zoologica ‘Anton Dohrn’, Naples.

The 2018 edition of the School consists of six sets of lectures, divided equally between theoretical and experimental topics, two discussion sessions, and the Spring School Colloquium on Science and Technology.

Lecture topics:

Dark Sectors: Theory
Experimental Searches for Axions and Axion-Like Particles
Experimental Searches for Dark Photons
Top-quark and Higgs Physics at the LHC: Theory and Experiments
Gravitational Waves: Theory, Detectors and Data Analysis

Invited Lecturers:

Maxim Pospelov (Victoria U. & Perimeter Inst. & CERN)
Igor Irastorza (Zaragoza U.)
Venelin Kozhuharov (Sofia U. & INFN LNF)
Fabio Maltoni (CP3, Louvain Catholic U.)
Marumi Kado (La Sapienza U. & INFN Rome & LAL, IN2P3 & CNRS & Paris Saclay U.)
Chris Van Den Broeck (NIKHEF Amsterdam & Groningen U.)
Giancarlo Cella (INFN Pisa)