High energy physics experimental seminar: Jorge Torres (Yale) 

Bloomberg 475

Title:Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with CUORE and CUPID Abstract: We do not know whether neutrinos are their own antiparticle. Neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay is a theorized radioactive decay process that would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticle, and it would also be the first observation of lepton number violation. The discovery of this […]

High energy particle physics theory & cosmology seminar: Olivier Simon (Princeton University)

Bloomberg 462

Title: Scalar Relics from a Hot Big Bang in Theories of Fifth Forces, Abstract: Fifth force and equivalence principle tests search for new interactions by precisely measuring forces between macroscopic collections of atoms and molecules and their properties under free fall. In contrast, the early Universe plasma probes these interactions at a more fundamental level. […]

JHU/UMD joint particle physics seminar: Michael E. Peskin (SLAC) 

Bloomberg 462

"Thinking about 10 TeV pCM Colliders," Abstract: Today, we have a "Standard Model" of particle physics that is in excellent agreement with experiment. In particular, a central feature of this model -- a phase transition in the early universe to a state of spontaneously broken symmetry --- was confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs […]

Department-wide colloquium: Michael Peskin (SLAC)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

Mysteries of the Higgs Boson, ABSTRACT: Thirty-five years after it was postulated as a key component of the theory of weak interactions, the Higgs boson was discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2012.  Since that time, the major couplings of the Higgs boson have been measured at the LHC, with results in good […]