Speaker: Petar Maksimovic (JHU) Title: Machine Learning in Collider Physics -- challenges and opportunities Abstract: High Energy Physics -- and Collider Physics in particular -- have been at the forefront of adopting Machine Learning (ML) in data analysis. The high complexity of collider events, the lack of computational predictability of QCD, and the high rate of collisions […]
TITLE: A first search for massive non-resonant leptoquarks coupling to first and second generation fermions using the CMS detector ABSTRACT: I present an overview of the first search for nonresonant leptoquarks (LQs) that couple up and down quarks to electrons and muons using the CMS detector. The nonresonant exchange of LQs presents the opportunity to […]
TITLES: Utilizing off-shell Higgs Boson production at the LHC in H* ->ZZ->4l: (i) measuring its properties and (ii) novel extensions. ABSTRACT: The Higgs boson is the last observed addition to the Standard Model, and due to its couplings to other fundamental particles, provides a promising portal through which we can potentially probe new physics. The […]
TITLE: The search for light dark matter with DAMIC-M ABSTRACT: The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment will use skipper CCDs to search for low mass (sub-GeV) dark matter underground at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM). With about 1kg of silicon target mass and sub-electron energy resolution, the detector will surpass the […]
TITLE: Particle Accelerators: Pushing the Frontiers of Physics ABSTRACT: Over the past three decades, the science of beams has evolved into a distinct discipline with its own subjects and methods. Some 30,000 accelerators are in operation worldwide today, including over 100 of major facilities for fundamental science research. Around 5,000 accelerator scientists and engineers work […]
TITLE: Investigating the Nature of Neutrinos and Dark Matter at the KeV Scale in CUORE ABSTRACT: The extremely low backgrounds, excellent energy resolution, and high exposure achieved by CUORE, the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, enables multiple rare-events searches that investigate unanswered questions in physics. First, through studying neutrinoless double beta decay (OuBB) and […]
Title: (i) Search for Higgs+photon production at LHC and constraints on light quark Yukawa couplings; (ii) Sensitivity to CP violation in the Higgs-strahlung process at a Future Circular Collider. Abstract: (i) A search for Higgs+photon production is performed with the LHC data for the first time. The analysis focuses on the topology of a boosted Higgs […]
Title: Around the forces in 80 microseconds Abstract: With large amounts of data, a Higgs boson discovery, and world-leading constraints on an enormous amount of parameters and interactions, the Large Hadron Collider has been a phenomenal tool. However, it is going through a mid-life crisis. More data, more Higgs bosons, and more constraints are not bringing the same […]
Title: Dark QCD: the Next Frontier in Dark Matter Abstract: There has been a surge of interest in hidden valley models with new, strong forces, sometimes called "dark QCD". These models propose asymmetric, composite dark matter in the form of "dark hadrons" that would evade direct and indirect bounds as well as typical collider DM searches for […]
TITLE: Photonic Band Gap R&D for Next Generation Axion Haloscopes ABSTRACT: Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate particle, which have the potential to simultaneously solve multiple problems in particle physics. As a dark matter candidate, large scale haloscopes, such as ADMX and HAYSTAC, aim to detect axions in the galactic halo by measuring the […]