Experimental Particle Physics Seminar: (i) Lucas Kang (JHU), (ii) Mohit Srivastav (JHU)

Bloomberg 475

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 […]

Department-wide colloquium, Bearden Lecture: Greg Boebinger (FSU/NHMFL)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

TITLE:  The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research, ABSTRACT:  The National MagLab in the United States exists to provide magnetic fields that are more than a million times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field to thousands of visiting researchers every year.  Why would anyone want to do such a thing?   It turns out that magnetic […]

Special Astrophysics Seminar: Mudit Garg (Zurich University)

Bloomberg 447

TITLE: Decoding Astrophysics from inspiraling LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries ABSTRACT: Our current understanding is that an environment – mainly consisting of gas, stars, or a third massive black hole (MBH) – is required to bring MBH binaries (MBHBs) with total mass ∼ MSun to near-merger from parsec separation. The final inspiral is driven by […]

High energy physics theory seminar: Wenzer Qin (NYU)

Bloomberg 447

TITLE: CMB limits on decaying dark matter: going beyond the ionization threshold ABSTRACT: The temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have been used to set constraints on decaying dark matter models down to keV masses. In this talk, I will discuss recent work to extend these limits down into the sub-keV […]

Department-wide colloquium, Bearden Lecture: Boris Ivanov (Institute of Magnetism)

Bloomberg 272 - Schafler Auditorium

TITLE: Mechanics of Domain Walls ABSTRACT: Domain walls, narrow regions separating domains of uniform magnetization, have a long history in the field of magnetism. As topological solitons, they present interest from the perspective of basic science and technological applications such as magnetic memory. Domain walls can be driven at speeds up to several kilometers per […]

High energy physics theory seminar: Scott Hughes

Bloomberg 447

Title: Binary black hole waveforms in the small mass ratio limit Abstract: Current gravitational-wave detectors are being upgraded, and plans are developing for future detectors with greater sensitivity over broader frequency bands.  As instruments improve and develop, more cycles of sources’ gravitational waveforms will be measured with greater signal to noise ratio.  Such higher fidelity […]