Talk #1: Ruoxi Wang Title: Simulation study of CUPID sensitivity to low-energy solar neutrinos Abstract: Detecting low-energy solar neutrinos through charge current (CC) interactions is a unique channel to examine various models in particle physics and solar physics, such as non-standard neutrino-matter interactions and the Standard Solar Model (SSM). While efforts to measure the solar neutrino interactions […]
TITLE: Microgels: Heroes or Villains in Soft Matter Science? ABSTRACT: to be announced Host: Bob Leheny
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 […]
TITLE: Cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ABSTRACT: A quarter-century after the discovery of the accelerated expansion of theuniverse, the constraints on dark energy that powers this acceleration havebecome very good, but physical nature of dark energy remains elusive. I willpresent and discuss cosmological results from the measurement of baryonacoustic oscillations (BAO) in […]
Title: Dynamic Jahn-Teller effect and a multi-polar order in 5d double-perovskites, The properties of strongly correlated systems have been at the forefront of scientific research for many decades. Typically focused on 3d transition metal compounds, it was often enough to consider only two relevant energy scales, the hopping integral and on-site Coulomb repulsion. In recent […]
Title: Where is tree-level string theory? Abstract: Tree-level string theory extends Einstein gravity by an infinite set of massive higher spin particles. From a purely spacetime perspective (if we didn’t know about the worldsheet picture) the consistency of string amplitudes would appear truly miraculous. This prompts the question: is string theory the unique framework for a higher […]
Title: The Story of the Higgs Boson and the Development of New Technologies for Future Discoveries at CERN Abstract: More than 12 years ago, the discovery of a new elementary particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN echoed around the world. Today, we know that the discovered particle was the Higgs boson, and […]
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: 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: (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: 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: Studying the Extreme Universe with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, ABSTRACT: The night sky is filled with flashes of blue "Cherenkov" light, which last for just a few billionths of a second. Invisible to our eyes, these flashes result from particle cascades in the Earth's atmosphere triggered by the arrival of a high energy cosmic […]