From August 21st to 25th, the Multi-Boson Interactions 2022 (MBI2022) was held in Shanghai. As an annual international conference organized under the guidance of its International Advisory Board, the MBI focuses on the latest experimental results and theoretical calculations of high energy of the final states of multi-bosons (W, Z, photons, Higgs, etc.) and looks forward to the research prospects and theoretical vision of multi-boson physics in collider experiments, aimed at promoting the exchanges between experimental and theoretical scholars, and discussions over the physics research in multi-boson interactions under the standard model and the new physical framework beyond the standard model. The current members of the MBI International Advisory Board include Professor Han Tao of the University of Pittsburgh, who is the Vice Chair of the Executive Committee for the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields, Professor Juergen Reuter, Director of the DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Theory Group, John Campbell, a researcher at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Marc-Andre Pleier, a researcher at the US Brookhaven National Laboratory, and other internationally-renowned senior scholars. Since 2013, the international conference has been alternately held in Europe and the United States each year. This is the first time it has been held outside Europe and the United States.
This year's conference was jointly organized by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and the School of Physics and Astronomy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), and co-organized by the University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University, and Shandong University. It was held both in-person and remotely, a new academic conferencing mode in the era of COVID-19. With Zoom, many international academic experts from various time zones were brought together to have in-depth academic presentations and discussions, and KouShare live-streamed it. Li Shu, a scholar at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, convened and coordinated the conference, and the members of its organising committee included Yang Haijun, He Xiaogang, He Hongjian, Michael Ramsey Musolf, Li Liang, Guo Jun, Li Shu, Liu Kun and Xu Jinxiang from SJTU, Liu Yanwen, Wu Yusheng and Xu Lailin from the University of Science and Technology of China, Li Qiang from Peking University, and Li Bing from Shandong University.
The conference featured presentations on the latest progress and subjects of discussion in the high-energy frontier of particle physics, such as the joint measurement results of the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the important discovery and measurement of the vector-boson scattering and the rare phenomenon of three massive bosons appearing in the same event, the abnormal coupling of neutral gauge and other new physical models, accurate measurement of electric weak point of the standard model and higher-order theoretical calculation research, sparking extensive attention and in-depth exchanges and discussions among both physical and virtual participants.
The conference received funding from the SJTU Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, the Ministry of Education and some of the key laboratories in Shanghai, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as support from both domestic and foreign partners.