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| Sept. 1, 2016 | New Physics Searches at DUNE | Kevin Kelly, Northwestern U. |
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| Sept. 8, 2016 | The Minimal SUSY B-L Model: Simultaneous Wilson Lines and String Thresholds | Burt Ovrut, University of Pennsylvania | Chris H. |
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| Sept. 22, 2016 | Relaxion from particle production | Gustavo Marques-Tavares, Boston U. | Jack |
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| Sept. 29, 2016 | Little Conformal Symmetry | Rachel Houtz, UC Davis | Seyda |
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| Oct. 6, 2016 | Higgs Relaxation Leptogenesis | Lauren Pearce, Minnesota U. | Seyda |
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| Oct. 13, 2016 | Dark matter annihilation via dark bound state formation | Haipeng An, Caltech | Paddy |
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| Oct. 18, 2016 | Leaving Plato's Cave: Beyond the Simplest Models of Dark Matter and Flavor Symmetry | Alexander Natale, KIAS, Seoul | Kiel |
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| Oct. 20, 2016 | Resummation for Differential Distributions | Vincent Theeuwes, SUNY Buffalo | John |
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| Oct. 27, 2016 | New physics in Supernovae and IceCube Flavor Ratios | Vedran Brdar, MITP, Mainz U. | Paddy |
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| Nov. 3, 2016 | Towards Realistic Simulation of t-channel Single Top-Quark Production | Hua Xing Zhu, MIT | Ye |
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| Nov. 10, 2016 | Gravitational Waves as a New Probe of Dark Matter | Bhupal Dev, Washington University St. Louis | Zhen | Abstract: A dark matter (DM) halo intervening along the line of sight of a gravitational wave (GW) signal could induce a change in the speed of GW. We show that this change of speed is observable with the current LIGO sensitivity for a class of self-interacting ultralight DM models, where the DM particles could form... More » |
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| Nov. 15, 2016 | Higgs Effective Field Theories - Systematics and Applications | Claudius Krause, University of Munich; Note day and location: Tuesday, WH3NW | Marcela | |||
| Nov. 17, 2016 | Secluded Neutrinos: From the Early Universe to IceCube | Ian Shoemaker, University of South Dakota | Pilar |
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| Nov. 24, 2016 | Happy Thanksgiving! | No seminar | ||||
| Dec. 1, 2016 | The String Soundscape at Gravitational Wave Detectors | Isabel Garcia-Garcia, University of Oxford | Kiel | |||
| Dec. 15, 2016 | INT Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions | Minerba Betancourt, Fermilab; Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab | Andreas | Workshop website Note location: One West |
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| Jan. 12, 2017 | The Fate of Axion Stars | Hong Zhang, Ohio State U |
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| Jan. 19, 2017 | It's not just the Higgs | Sally Dawson, BNL | Paddy |
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| Jan. 26, 2017 | Being flat with no symmetry | Yue Zhao, University of Michigan | Paddy |
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| Feb. 2, 2017 | Exploring the Higgs-top coupling at the LHC | Dorival Gonçalves, Pittsburgh U. | Pedro |
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| Feb. 9, 2017 | Extraction of the triple Higgs coupling at e+e- colliders using EFT | Michael Peskin, SLAC | Paddy |
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| Feb. 16, 2017 | Hindered M1 Radiative Decay of Υ(2S) and ηb(2S) from Lattice NRQCD | Ciaran Hughes, Fermilab | (local) |
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| Feb. 23, 2017 | Flavor Gauge Models Below the Fermi Scale (and why neutrinos matter!) | Pedro Machado, Fermilab | (local) |
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| March 2, 2017 | Neutrino-nucleus Interactions | Noemi Rocco, IFIC Valencia | Andreas |
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| March 9, 2017 | The Trouble with the Lattice Axial Charge | Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State U. | Ciaran |
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| March 14, 2017 | Relaxed inflation | Lorenzo Ubaldi, Tel Aviv University | Roni |
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| March 16, 2017 | Few-hadron electroweak reactions from lattice QCD | Raúl Briceño, Jefferson Lab | Ciaran |
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| March 23, 2017 | Double Scalar Production at LHC and Beyond | Ian Lewis, University of Delaware | Zhen | The simplest extension of the Standard Model is to add a gauge singlet scalar: the singlet extended Standard Model. Although simple, this model is quite well-motivated and has an interesting phenomenology. Of particular interest is that this model can provide a mechanism for the strong first order phase transition necessary for electroweak baryogenesis. In this... More » |
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| March 30, 2017 | Conformal QED3 and the ε expansion | Emmanuel Stamou, University of Chicago | Pilar | The theory of Quantum Electrodynamics in three dimensions (QED3) has received considerable attention due to its applications in condensed matter physics and due to its similarities with stongly coupled QCD-like theories in four dimensions. QED3 is strongly coupled at energies close to the gauge coupling that in this case is dimensionful. Whereas for a large... More » |
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| April 6, 2017 | Effective theories for point sources | Cliff Burgess, McMaster/PI | Paddy | Nature comes to us with many hierarchies of scale, and science progresses because we do not need to understand them all at once. Effective theories exploit this fact to isolate what is important at any scale. This talk summarizes how effective theories work for applications to the ordinary and relativistic quantum mechanics of a particle... More » |
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| April 11, 2017 | CERN ν-Physics Summary | Seyda Ipek, Fermilab | Local |
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| April 13, 2017 | Hadron resonances in coupled-channel scattering from lattice QCD | Jozef Dudek, College of William and Mary | Ciaran |
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| April 20, 2017 | The Vev Flip-Flop: Dark Matter Decay between Weak Scale Phase Transitions | Michael Baker, JGU Mainz | Stefan |
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| April 27, 2017 | Lepton Universality Violation in B decays | Ben Grinstein, UC San Diego | Ciaran |
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| May 2, 2017 | A New Era of Seesaw Phenomenology for a New Era of Colliders | Richard Ruiz, IPPP, Durham; (NB: Tuesday, WH7XO) | Pilar |
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| May 4, 2017 | Transplanckian Cosmic Strings | Patrick Draper, U. Mass, Amherst | Paddy |
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| May 11, 2017 | Neutrinoless double beta decay from lattice QCD | Amy Nicholson, UC Berkeley | Ciaran |
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| May 18, 2017 | Collider Probes of Axion-Like Particles | Andrea Thamm, JGU Mainz | Stefan |
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| May 22, 2017 | D* Polarization as a probe to distinguish new physics in B → D*τν | Uma Sankar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | Marcela | BaBar, Belle and LHCb have all measured the parameters R(D) and R(D*) to be in excess of the Standard Model predictions. Freytsis et al (arXiv:1506.08896) have obtained the coupling strengths of various New Physics operators which can explain this excess. In this work (arXiv:1606.03164), we look at the angular observables which can distinguish between these different solutions. We find that... More » | ||
| May 23, 2017 | LHC constraints on mesons from Stealth Dark Matter | Bryan Ostdiek, University of Oregon | Kiel |
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| May 25, 2017 | Instability of Lightest Visible Superpartner Points to Hidden Sector Dark Matter | Sebastian Ellis, University of Michigan | Kiel |
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| June 1, 2017 | Minimal Seesaw Model: Testable Leptogenesis & CP violation | Jacobo Lopez-Pavon, CERN | Pilar |
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| June 2, 2017 | Lattice QCD predictions of π and K electromagnetic form factors at large Q2 for Jefferson Lab experiments | Christine Davies, University of Glasgow | Ciaran |
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| June 15, 2017 | Leptogenesis via Weinberg operator | Ye-Ling Zhou, Durham University | Pilar |
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| June 20, 2017 | New directions for LHC boosted object searches | Jack Collins, University of Maryland | Hadronic boosted object discrimination has been reaching experimental maturity in the last few years especially for the discrimination of boosted Standard Model W’s, Z’s, and H’s against QCD jets, and there is now a wide range of searches utilizing these techniques with great success. In this talk I will discuss a range of topologies that... More » |
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| June 22, 2017 | The B -> D(*) tau nu anomalies: facts and/or fictions | Zoltan Ligeti, LBNL |
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| July 6, 2017 | Solar neutrinos as a probe of Neutrino-Dark Matter interactions | Francesco Capozzi, Ohio State | Pilar |
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| July 11, 2017 | Axion-photon transition (radiation) caused by dielectric interfaces in a magnetic field: QFT approach | Ara Ioannisyan, Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia | Axion-photon transition/conversion at dielectric interfaces, immersed in a near-homogeneous magnetic field, is the basis for the dielectric haloscope method to search for axion dark matter. In analogy to transition radiation, this process is possible because the photon wave function is modified by the dielectric layers (“Garibian wave function”) and is no longer an eigenstate of... More » |
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| July 12, 2017 | Impact of the magnetic field in EoS, the structure and velocities of the Quark Stars | Aurora Perez Martinez, Havana, ICIMAF | Marcela | We analyze the impact of anisotropic EoS, due to the presence of a magnetic field, in the structure equations of magnetized quark stars. We assume a cylindrical metric and an anisotropic energy momentum tensor for the source. We found that there is a maximum magnetic field that a quark star can sustain, closely related to... More » |
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| July 13, 2017 | Lepton flavor universality violation in rare B decays | Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Cincinnati U. | Ciaran |
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| July 20, 2017 | New opportunities for old observables at LHC | Marc Riembau, DESY | Interpreting LHC data requires a few assumptions, even from an Effective Field Theory approach. I will put a question mark on a few on them and study their effects: considering triple Higgs coupling in single Higgs observables gives a complementarity between single and double Higgs; adding anomalous fermion-vector boson couplings in diboson data ends up... More » |
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| July 27, 2017 | Toward partial compositeness on the lattice: Lattice results from a candidate SU(4) gauge theory | William Jay, Colorado Uni. | Ciaran | In this seminar, I’ll discuss recent results from lattice simulation of a candidate model of physics beyond the Standard Model. In systems of interest, the Higgs arises as a Goldstone boson of a new strongly coupled sector in the UV, while the top quark obtains its large mass through the mechanism of partial compositeness. This... More » |
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| Aug. 10, 2017 | Re-examining Lepton Flavor Violation in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity | Roberto Vega-Morales, University of Granada | Kiel |
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| Aug. 17, 2017 | New physics searches with the TeV neutrinos | Carlos A Arguelles Delgado, MIT | Pilar |
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| Aug. 31, 2017 | Flavoured Dark Matter in Dark Minimal Flavour Violation | Simon Kast, KIT | Roni | We study simplified models of flavoured dark matter in the framework of Dark Minimal Flavour Violation. In this setup the coupling of the dark matter flavour triplet to SM quark triplets constitutes the only new source of flavour and CP violation. The parameter space of the model is restricted by LHC searches with missing energy... More » |
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| Sept. 7, 2017 | Light Composite Scalars from Lattice Gauge Theory Beyond QCD | Ethan Neil, Colorado Uni. | Ciaran |
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| Sept. 14, 2017 | Electric dipole moment using lattice QCD with the gradient flow | Andrea Shindler, Michigan State U. | Ciaran |
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| Sept. 21, 2017 | Baryogenesis from Oscillations of Charmed or Beautiful Baryons | Ann Nelson, Washington U., Seattle | Paddy |
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| Sept. 28, 2017 | Light Z' coupled to "poorly" conserved currents | Maxim Pospelov, Perimeter Institute | Ciaran |
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| Oct. 12, 2017 | Continuum Top Partners | Sal Lombardo, Cornell | The LHC has put the naturalness paradigm under pressure since one generally expects new colored resonances at the TeV scale to address the hierarchy problem. There exists another possibility, however. New dynamics responsible for furnishing a pseudo-goldstone composite Higgs may have a gapped continuum of colored excitations, in which case the top partners and vector... More » |
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| Oct. 17, 2017 | BSM physics searches in the IceCube neutrino telescope | Jordi Salvado, Barcelona | Stefan |
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| Oct. 19, 2017 | The hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD | Thomas Blum, Connecticut U. | Ciaran |
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| Oct. 20, 2017 | Special JC: Lattice quantum gravity and asymptotic safety | Jack Laiho, Syracuse U. | Ciaran |
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| Oct. 26, 2017 | Modern Machine Learning with Jet Images for High Energy Physics | Ben Nachman, Berkeley |
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| Oct. 30, 2017 | New Physics with Neutrino Physics | Pedro Machado, Fermilab |
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| Nov. 2, 2017 | Voronoi Tessellations and Machine Learning in Phase Space | Jamie Gainer, Hawaii | Kiel |
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| Nov. 9, 2017 | Singularities: Long time behavior of their Quantum Noise and holographic Complexity | Eliezer Rabinovici, Hebrew University | Various properties of some space like singularities in string theory will be discussed in the AdS/CFT holographic framework. Attempts to apply the diagnostic tools such as the study of long time correlations and complexity, to these singularities, will be described. |
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| Nov. 16, 2017 | Quantum Monte Carlo predictions for electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering | Alessandro Lovato, Argonne | Ciaran |
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| Nov. 23, 2017 | Happy Thanksgiving | |||||
| Nov. 28, 2017 | The half-life of a free neutron from Lattice QCD | Jason Chang, LBNL | Ciaran | The axial coupling of the nucleon, $g_A$, is a fundamental property of neutrons and protons. The long-range nuclear force between nucleons and the $\beta$-decay rate of a free neutron both depend on $g_A^2$. This coupling therefore underpins all of low-energy nuclear physics, controlling, for example, the primordial composition of the universe. While the value of... More » |
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| Nov. 30, 2017 | Deep Learning Seminar | |||||
| Dec. 5, 2017 | Respect the ELDER Dark Matter & Go Beyond the Direct-Detection Limit with Quilonovae and Neutron Star Mergers | Yu-Dai Tsai, Cornell | Kiel | We present a novel dark matter (DM) candidate, Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER), in which the DM current-day abundance is dominantly determined via the elastic decoupling between standard model particles and DM, rather than a usual DM freeze-out. ELDER has a distinctive thermal history and new phenomenological implications in comparison to the CDM/WIMP scenarios. It provides... More » |
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| Dec. 12, 2017 | Report on CERN’s Physics Beyond Colliders Annual Workshop | Chris Quigg, Fermilab | Stefan | |||
| Dec. 14, 2017 | Constraining extended Higgs sectors at the LHC and beyond | Tania Robens, MSU |
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| Jan. 11, 2018 | A new way to determine alpha_s using the QCD gradient flow | Tobias Neumann, Fermilab & IIT | Ciaran | |||
| Jan. 18, 2018 | Searching for beauty-fully bound tetraquarks using lattice Non-relativistic QCD | Ciaran Hughes, Fermilab | Ciaran | Slides | ||
| Jan. 25, 2018 | Loop induced inflationary non-Gaussianites that give rise to enhanced galaxy bias at small wave-vectors | Mark Wise, Caltech | Paddy/Stefan | |||
| Feb. 1, 2018 | Three ways to weigh a quark | Andrew Lytle, University of Glasgow | Ciaran | Recent years have seen order of magnitude improvement in knowledge of quark mass parameters — these advances have been due largely to theoretical and computational advances in lattice QCD simulations. Present day calculations are able to obtain percent-level uncertainties; reducing these even further will be important for precision Higgs studies and BSM searches. I will... More » | Slides | |
| Feb. 8, 2018 | Displaced Vertices from Folded Supersymmetry | Gabriela Lima Lichtenstein, Sao Paulo | Ciaran |
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| Feb. 15, 2018 | (Rel)-axions and SM hierarchies | Diego Redigolo, Weizmann | Kiel | I will discuss two scenarios which connects the strong CP problem to other hierarchies of the Standard Models. In the “axiflavon”, solving the flavor problem with a global abelian flavor symmetry naturally leads to an axion that solves the strong CP problem and constitutes a viable Dark Matter candidate. In the less tuned window for Dark Matter... More » | ||
| Feb. 22, 2018 | Effective theory approach to neutrinoless double beta decay | Vincenzo Cirigliano, Los Alamos | Pedro |
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| March 1, 2018 | Quark Masses | Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab | Ciaran | Slides | ||
| March 6, 2018 | Heavy quarks flavored scalar dark matter with a vector-like fermion portal | Peiwen Wu, KIAS | Kiel | The absence of confirmed signal in dark matter (DM) direct detection (DD) may suggest weak interaction strengths between DM and the abundant constituents inside nucleon, i.e. gluons and valence light quarks. In this work we consider a real scalar dark matter $S$ interacting only with $SU(2)_L$ singlet Up-type quarks $U_i=u_R,c_R,t_R$ via a vector-like fermion $\psi$.... More » | ||
| March 8, 2018 | Anderson localisation in theory space | Dave Sutherland, UCSB | Kiel | |||
| March 15, 2018 | Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity | Ning Bao, UC Berkeley | Kiel | |||
| March 22, 2018 | New Developments in Axion Cosmology | Josh Eby, Weizmann | Ciaran | Slides | ||
| March 29, 2018 | Astrophysical signals of axion dark matter | Ben Safdi, Michigan | Kiel | |||
| April 3, 2018 | The quest for dark sectors | Claudia Frugiuele, Weizmann | Roni | Dark sectors are ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), and may play a role in explaining many of the long-standing problems of the SM such as the existence of dark matter or the electroweak hierarchy problem. By definition, dark sectors are not charged under any of the known forces. Discovering their possible existence... More » | ||
| April 12, 2018 | The road from QCD to nuclear double-beta decays | Zohreh Davoudi, University of Maryland | Ciaran | Neutrinoless double-beta decay, as a lepton-number violating process, has been the focus of numerous experimental and theoretical investigations in recent years. While it proves that neutrinos are Majorana particles once observed, the underlying new physics responsible for this process can only be constrained if the theoretical predictions of the rate are substantially refined. This talk... More » |
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| April 19, 2018 | Electromagnetic Interactions of Neutrinos | Baha Balantekin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison | Stefan | |||
| May 1, 2018 | Soft photons, gravitons, and their quantum information content | Dan Carney, Maryland | Kiel | When a particle is accelerated, as in a scattering event, it will radiate gravitons and, if electrically charged, photons. The infrared tail of the spectrum of this radiation has a divergence: an arbitrarily small amount of total energy is divided into an arbitrarily large number of radiated bosons. Each of these in turn carries a... More » | ||
| May 10, 2018 | New insights into the quark and gluon structure of hadrons and nuclei from lattice QCD | Phiala Shanahan, William & Mary | Ciaran |
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| May 17, 2018 | Towards double differential Higgs production at N3LO | Falko Dulat, SLAC | With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the LHC has entered an era of precision Higgs physics. The precision determination of the properties of the Higgs boson provides an excellent window into potential new physics. High precision predictions for Higgs boson observables are therefore essential for the future LHC Higgs physics program. This requires highly... More » | |||
| May 31, 2018 | Neutrino trident production at near detectors | Matheus Hostert, IPPP Durham | Jessica | Neutrino trident scattering is the production of a charged lepton pair in the coulomb field of a nucleus. It is a rare but observable process expected to occur at near detectors of neutrino oscillation experiments. In this talk, I will revisit the calculation of the trident scattering rate, addressing certain inconsistencies in the literature and presenting revised... More » |
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| June 14, 2018 | EW Baryogenesis through varying Yukawas in Composite Higgs models | Sebastian Bruggisser, DESY | Stefan | Varying Yukawas open new possibilities for electroweak baryogenesis. In this talk I will start by introducing varying Yukawas as a source of CP-violation and explain how baryogenesis can be successful in this framework. I will then present a realization of this paradigm in Composite Higgs models with partial compositeness. Composite Higgs models are, apart from... More » | ||
| June 21, 2018 | Quantum information in quantum gravity: localization, transfer, and black hole evolution | Steven Giddings, UCSB | Kiel | |||
| June 28, 2018 | Characterizing nonhermiticity of calorimetric neutrino detectors | Shirley Li, SLAC | Pedro |
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| July 13, 2018 | Automated calculation of two-loop soft functions in SCET | Rudi Rahn, Bern University | Claudius | Perturbative calculations for many collider observables suffer from large logarithmic corrections associated with soft emissions or radiation collinear to beam or jet directions. Resummation using SCET techniques is based on factorisation theorems, and requires the calculation of jet, soft and beam functions to some perturbative accuracy. This task has up to now mainly been achieved... More » |
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| July 19, 2018 | Black Holes and Massive Gravitons (postponed to later date!) | Rachel Rosen, Columbia | Dan Hooper | |||
| Aug. 9, 2018 | Searching Beyond the Standard Model with Light and Gravitational Waves | Masha Baryakhtar, Perimeter Institute | Dan Hooper | |||
| Aug. 30, 2018 | The Leptonic CP Phases: Dirac and Majorana | Shaofeng Ge, Kavli IPMU | Stephen Parke | |||
| Sept. 11, 2018 | Self-Organized Higgs Criticality | Jay Hubisz, Syracuse University | Roni Harnik | |||
| Sept. 20, 2018 | Subleading Colored Parton Showers | Joshua Isaacson, Fermilab | ||||
| Sept. 27, 2018 | Detecting Dark Blobs | Dorota Grabowska, Berkeley | Kiel Howe |
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| Oct. 4, 2018 | Light Cone Physics on the Lattice | Christopher Monahan, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle | ||||
| Oct. 11, 2018 | Hiding Blazars with Decaying Alps | Edoardo Vitagliano, Max Planck Institute for Physics | ||||
| Oct. 18, 2018 | ε'/ε beyond the Standard Model | Jason Aebischer, Technical University Munich | Claudius Krause | |||
| Oct. 25, 2018 | Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter | Evan Johnson, Ohio State University | ||||
| Nov. 1, 2018 | From clockwork to colliders | Dipan Sengupta, Michigan State University | ||||
| Nov. 6, 2018 | Angular distributions in electroweak pion production off nucleons | Joanna Sobczyk, IFIC University of Valencia | Noemi Rocco | |||
| Nov. 8, 2018 | Using machine learning to unlock Gaia’s full potential to determine the dark matter halo | Bryan Ostdiek, Oregon University | ||||
| Nov. 15, 2018 | Muon-proton scattering and the proton radius puzzle | Gil Paz, Wayne State University | ||||
| Nov. 29, 2018 | Light Exotic Higgs Bosons at the LHC | Keping Xie, Southern Methodist University | Josh Isaacson | |||
| Dec. 6, 2018 | Phenomenology of Fermion Production During Inflation | Lauren Pearce, University of Illinois | ||||
| Dec. 13, 2018 | Lattice gauge theory with cold atoms? | Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa | ||||
| Jan. 22, 2019 | Neutrino Oscillation in Particle Physics | Ivan Martinez-Soler, Northwestern/Fermilab | ||||
| Jan. 24, 2019 | Composite BSM physics on the lattice | William Jay, Fermilab | ||||
| Jan. 31, 2019 | Dynamic Dark Matter Production: Finite Temperature Effects in the Early Universe | Michael Baker, University of Zurich | Jessica Turner | |||
| Feb. 5, 2019 | Multiparticle States in Lattice QCD and Prospects for Neutrino Physics | Aaron Meyer, BNL | Andreas |
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| Feb. 7, 2019 | Predicting the neutron lifetime from the Standard Model | Chia Cheng Chang, iTHEMS - LBNL | Andreas |
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| Feb. 12, 2019 | Astrophysical Imaging with Information Field Theory | Julia Stadler, Durham University | Jessica Turner | |||
| Feb. 14, 2019 | Nucleon structure and the proton radius from lattice QCD | Jeremy Green, DESY Zeuthen | Andreas |
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| Feb. 19, 2019 | Leading Hadronic Contribution to the g − 2 of the Muon: A Give-And-Take Between Theory and Experiment | Marina Marinković, Trinity College Dublin | Andreas |
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| Feb. 21, 2019 | Dark halos around neutron stars and gravitational waves | Ann Nelson, University of Washington | Josh Isaacson | |||
| Feb. 26, 2019 | QCD for the Intensity Frontier | Michael Wagman, MIT | Andreas |
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| Feb. 28, 2019 | Calculating with Entanglement: nuclear and particle physics on quantum devices | Natalie Klco, University of Washington | Josh Isaacson | |||
| March 5, 2019 | Chiral Gauge Theories for Dark Sector Construction | Kevin Kelly, Fermilab | ||||
| March 7, 2019 | Towards x-dependent hadron structure for flavor physics | Christopher Monahan, University of Washington | Andreas |
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| March 12, 2019 | LHC phenomenology of Supersymmetric “Unparticles” | Christina Gao, Fermilab | ||||
| March 14, 2019 | Toward a precise definition of branches in a many-body wavefunction | Jess Riedel, Perimeter Institute | Pedro Machado | |||
| March 19, 2019 | Observable signatures of dark photons from supernovae | Gustavo Marques Tavares, University of Maryland | Nikita Blinov | |||
| March 20, 2019 | Precision Physics for Sky Surveys | Mikhail Solon, Caltech | Richard Hill | |||
| March 21, 2019 | Quantum Memories of de Sitter and Phenomenology | Gia Dvali, LMU / NYU | ||||
| March 28, 2019 | Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of neutrino-nucleus interactions | Saori Pastore, Washington University, St. Louis | Pedro Machado | |||
| April 4, 2019 | Minimal Fundamental Partial Compositeness | Anders Thomsen, University of Southern Denmark | Jessica Turner | |||
| April 11, 2019 | Composite Higgs Models at the LHC and beyond | Da Liu, Argonne | Jessica Turner | |||
| April 18, 2019 | Lepton-Nucleus scattering within many-body approaches | Noemi Rocco, Argonne/Fermilab | ||||
| April 25, 2019 | Neutrinos at the frontier of Cosmology and Particle Physics | Yuber Perez Gozalez, Northwestern University/Fermilab | ||||
| May 2, 2019 | Cosmology with Sub-MeV Thermal Relics | Nikita Blinov, Fermilab | ||||
| May 8, 2019 | Softened Goldstone-symmetry breaking | Simone Blasi, Max Planck Institute for Physics | Pedro Machado | |||
| May 16, 2019 | Top Quark Physics at the Precision Frontier Workshop | |||||
| May 23, 2019 | Signature of supersymmetry and Lμ-Lτ gauge boson at Belle-II | Sourov Roy, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science | Bogdan Dobrescu | |||
| May 30, 2019 | Disorder at the LHC | Matt Low, Fermilab | ||||
| June 6, 2019 | Fun with Top Spin | Kaoru Hagiwara, KEK | ||||
| July 11, 2019 | Sector Showers for Hadron Collisions - Creating Unique Shower Histories | Christian Preuss, Monash University | ||||
| July 25, 2019 | Strong coupling constant and heavy quark masses from lattice QCD | Johannes Weber, Michigan State U. | Andreas |
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| Aug. 1, 2019 | Coherent Showers In Resonance Decays Using VINCIA | Helen Brooks, Monash University | Jessica Turner | |||
| Aug. 8, 2019 | New-physics interpretation of b->c tau nu data and a novel solution to the little hierarchy problem | Ulrich Nierste, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology | Josh Isaacson | |||
| Aug. 15, 2019 | Automated label flow using Prony's method for lattice spectroscopy | Kimmy Cushman, Yale | Josh Isaacson | |||
| Aug. 22, 2019 | Sterile Neutrinos with Altered Dispersion Relations as an Explanation for the MiniBooNE, LSND, Gallium and Reactor Anomalies | Heinrich Paes, TU Dortmund | Pedro Machado | slides | ||
| Aug. 29, 2019 | New detection prospects for primordial black hole dark matter | Nicholas Orlofsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Christina Gao | |||
| Sept. 5, 2019 | Neutrino Oscillation Theory | Peter Denton, BNL | Stephen Parke | |||
| Sept. 12, 2019 | The electroweak effective field theory from on-shell amplitudes | Gauthier Durieux, Technion | Roni Harnik | |||
| Sept. 19, 2019 | B-physics anomalies | Sokratis Trifinopoulos, Zurich University | Pedro Machado | |||
| Sept. 26, 2019 | Heavy Dynamical Axions | Rachel Houtz, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | Christina Gao |
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| Oct. 1, 2019 | Probing the Higgs Portal with the SBN Program | Ahmed Ismail, Oklahoma State University | Pedro Machado | |||
| Oct. 17, 2019 | Simplified U(1) lattice gauge theory on quantum computers and simulators | Randy Lewis, York University | Ciaran Hughes | |||
| Oct. 22, 2019 | On the symmetries and the spectrum of a TeV-scale composite sector | Michele Frigerio, Univ. of Montpellier | Pedro Machado | |||
| Oct. 24, 2019 | Generating QCD Corrected Multi-Jet Events at Hadron Colliders using Innovative Phase Space Sampling Methods | Terrance Figy, Wichita State University | Jessica Turner | |||
| Oct. 31, 2019 | Exploring new physics in the early Universe with gravitational waves | Jonathan Kozaczuk, Univ. of Mass. Amherst | Jessica Turner | |||
| Nov. 5, 2019 | SU(2) gauge theory on digital quantum computers | Jesse Stryker, University of Washington | Hank Lamm | |||
| Nov. 7, 2019 | Paul Mackenzie at Fermilab | Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab | in connection with Lattice QCD at Fermilab: Celebrating the Career of Paul Mackenzie |
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| Nov. 14, 2019 | Exploring the dark universe through molecules and nuclei | Harikrishnan Ramani, UC Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley | Nikita Blinov | |||
| Nov. 21, 2019 | Primordial Non-Gaussianity as a probe of (ultra high-energy) gauge theories | Soubhik Kumar, University of Maryland | Christina Gao | |||
| Dec. 5, 2019 | N3LO predictions for the decay of the Higgs boson to bottom quarks | Roberto Mondini, University at Buffalo | Josh Isaacson | |||
| Dec. 12, 2019 | Learning from Dark Monopoles | Christopher Verhaaren, University of California-Davis | Christina Gao | |||
| Dec. 19, 2019 | Quantum Computing for Neutrino-nucleus Scattering with NISQ devices | Andy Li, Fermilab | Josh Isaacson | |||
| Jan. 9, 2020 | Neutron's Dark Secret | Bartosz Fornal, University of Utah | Pedro Machado | |||
| Jan. 16, 2020 | Quantum Computers for Quantum Field Theory | Henry Lamm, Fermilab | Pedro | |||
| Jan. 30, 2020 | Optimal Control for the Quantum Simulation of Nuclear Dynamics | Kyle Wendt, LLNL | Pedro | |||
| Feb. 6, 2020 | CP violating Yukawas - interplay of baryogenesis, EDM and Higgs physics | Elina Fuchs, Fermilab/U. Chicago | Pedro | |||
| Feb. 18, 2020 | Baryogenesis from B mesons | Huangyu Xiao, University of Washington | Pedro Machado | |||
| Feb. 20, 2020 | Hiding multiple portals in plain sight: dark sectors at neutrino and kaon experiments | Matheus Hostert, University of Minnesota | Christina Gao | |||
| Feb. 25, 2020 | Loops and trees in generic EFTs | Ying-Ying Li, Fermilab | Pedro | |||
| Feb. 27, 2020 | New Approaches to Anomaly Detection at the LHC and Beyond | David Shih, Rutgers University | Pedro Machado | |||
| March 5, 2020 | Weaker than weak physics at the intensity frontier | Ryan Plestid, U. Kentucky | The advent of precision neutrino physics has resulted in detector technology (easily) capable of observing upwards of 10^5 charged current scattering events in the lifetime of an experiment. This naturally motivates a theoretical program targeting sub-G_F physics at the intensity frontier. In this talk I will discuss some examples of how large-scale neutrino detectors can... More » |
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| March 12, 2020 | Relaxion searches at future colliders | Matthias Schlaffer, U Chicago | Pedro Machado | |||
| March 19, 2020 | Gauge extensions of the SM: Neutrinos, dark matter and the LHC [zoom] | Alexis Plascencia, Case Western Reserve University | Jessica Turner | Slides |
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| March 26, 2020 | On Asymmetry Observables In b → cτν [zoom] | Pouya Asadi, MIT | Pedro Machado |
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| April 2, 2020 | ONLINE ONLY: Looking for New Physics in the low energy experiments | Jia Liu, U. Chicago | Christina Gao | Slides | ||
| April 9, 2020 | ONLINE ONLY: Toward analog quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories with trapped ions | Zohreh Davoudi, U. Maryland | Pedro Machado |
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| April 16, 2020 | ONLINE ONLY: QCD dynamics from hadrons and nuclei to the energy frontier | Tim Hobbs, Southern Methodist University |
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| April 23, 2020 | Physics beyond the standard model from Higgs Parity | Keisuke Harigaya, Institute for Advanced Study | Christina Gao | |||
| April 30, 2020 | Axion Production and Detection with Superconducting RF Cavities | Ryan Janish, Berkeley | Roni |
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| May 7, 2020 | Hadronic Vacuum Polarization in (g-2)μ from Lattice QCD | Kalman Szabo, Wuppertal | Andreas | |||
| May 14, 2020 | The Short-Baseline Neutrino Anomalies | Joachim Kopp, U. Mainz and CERN | Pedro Machado | While over the past two decades a largely consistent picture of neutrino oscillations has emerged, a few unexplained anomalies put a serious dent in this framework. After introducing the LSND, MiniBooNE, and reactor anomalies, we will first discuss attempts to explain the latter two within the Standard Model. In the second part of the talk,... More » |
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| May 21, 2020 | LIGO/Virgo Black Holes from a First Order QCD Phase Transition | Hooman Davoudiasl, BNL | Pedro Machado |
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| May 28, 2020 | Multi-loop Scattering Amplitudes for the HL-LHC, presenting the Caravel Framework | Fernando Febres Cordero, Florida State University | Pedro Machado |
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| June 4, 2020 | Spin-2 KK Mode Scattering in the Truncated RS1 | Dennis Foren, Michigan State U. | Joshua Isaacson | The Randall-Sundrum model with two branes (RS1) is a gravitational theory on five-dimensional spacetime. Because its fifth dimension is compactified, the theory manifests as a four-dimensional theory at low energies, where it describes interactions among a Kaluza-Klein spectrum that contains a 4D graviton, massless radion, and infinitely many massive spin-2 states. These massive spin-2 states pose... More » |
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| June 11, 2020 | Quantum Simulation of Gauge Theories | Scott Lawrence, U. of Maryland | Pedro |
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| June 18, 2020 | A testable hidden sector model for Dark Matter and neutrino masses | Julia Gehrlein, BNL | Christina Gao | We consider a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a hidden sector charged under a dark local U(1)’ gauge group, accounting simultaneously for light neutrino masses and the observed Dark Matter relic abundance. The model contains two copies of right-handed neutrinos which give rise to light neutrino-masses via an extended seesaw mechanism. The presence... More » |
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| July 9, 2020 | A New Probe of the Nature of the B Physics Anomalies | Stefan Schacht, Cornell | Claudius Krause | fermilab-schacht |
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| July 16, 2020 | A Swampland Tour, From Photon Masses to Axion Physics | Matthew Reece, Harvard | Matt Low |
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| July 23, 2020 | Strong First-Order Electroweak Phase Transitions, Models and Probes | Peisi Huang, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln | Ying-Ying Li |
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| July 30, 2020 | Circumventing the sign problem with complex Langevin in lattice field theory | Casey Berger, Boston University | Will Jay |
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| Aug. 13, 2020 | Higgs-confinement phase transitions with fundamental representation matter | Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota | Will Jay | |||
| Aug. 20, 2020 | Prospects for the Detection of Solar Neutrinos in DARWIN via Elastic Electron Scattering (Please note time: 10:00am) | Shayne Reichard, Zurich U. | Pedro |
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| Aug. 27, 2020 | Unravelling the richness of dark sector by FASERnu (Please note time: 10:00am) | Yasaman Farzan, IPM | Pedro Machado | FASER\nu is a newly proposed experiment which will take data in run III of the LHC during 2021-2023. It will be located in front of the FASER detector, 480~m away from the ATLAS interaction point in the forward direction. Its main goal is to detect neutrinos of all flavors produced at the interaction point with... More » |
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| Sept. 3, 2020 | Ensemble generation for lattice QFT using machine learning | Tej Kanwar, MIT | Will Jay | Monte Carlo sampling is a powerful approach to computing observables in quantum field theories regularized on a discrete spacetime lattice (LQFT), which is necessary for example to study the non-perturbative behavior of QCD in the low-energy regime. The cost of drawing independent samples is a major bottleneck in such studies. I discuss recent work demonstrating... More » |
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| Sept. 10, 2020 | Advances in nucleon-nucleon scattering | Amy Nicholson, University of North Carolina | Will Jay |
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| Sept. 17, 2020 | x-dependent hadron structure from lattice QCD | Raza Sufian, JLab | Will |
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| Sept. 24, 2020 | Sequential Discontinuities of Scattering Amplitudes | Hofie Sigridar Hannesdottir, Harvard | Nikita | Scattering amplitudes are essential ingredients in theoretical predictions for collider experiments. In some cases, symmetries and other constraints can fix amplitudes completely, and hence conventional Feynman diagram computations are circumvented. The traditional cutting rules relate discontinuities across branch cuts of amplitudes to cuts through the corresponding Feynman diagrams. Here we probe the analytic structure further... More » |
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| Oct. 1, 2020 | Neutrino oscillations as constraints on Effective Field Theory | Zahra Tabrizi, Virginia Tech | Pedro |
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| Oct. 8, 2020 | Fractional Quantum Hall effect in a relativistic field theory | Srimoyee Sen, Iowa State | Pedro |
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| Oct. 15, 2020 | Cosmological phase transition of composite Higgs confinement and the fifth dimension | Majid Ekhterachian, Maryland U. | Will |
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| Oct. 22, 2020 | Novel (Quantum) Computational Methods for Quantum Field Theories (*Please note the time: 10:30am) | Michael Spannowsky, Durham U. | Yingying | |||
| Oct. 29, 2020 | Collapse of vacuum bubbles in quantum devices | Junyu Liu, Caltech | Yingying | |||
| Nov. 5, 2020 | Precision Neutrino Oscillations: Exploring Possibilities and Important Considerations | Rebekah Pestes, Virginia Tech | Pedro Machado |
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| Nov. 12, 2020 | Progress on gluon gravitational form factors on the lattice | Daniel Hackett, MIT |
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| Nov. 19, 2020 | The Hydrogen Mixing Portal as a Novel Mechanism for Colder Baryons in 21 cm Cosmology | Seth Koren, University of Chicago | Ying-Ying Li |
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| Dec. 3, 2020 | Rethinking the origin of neutrino masses: the role of gravity | Lena Funcke, Perimeter | Pedro Machado |
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| Dec. 10, 2020 | A Holographic Realization of Partially Composite Neutrinos | Abhish Dev, University of Maryland | Pedro Machado | |||
| Dec. 17, 2020 | A Futuristic Look at Neutrino Telescopes: Sources, Decay, Non-Unitarity and Extra Dimensions | Ningqiang Song, Queen's University | Pedro Machado |
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| Jan. 14, 2021 | Towards quantum simulating non-Abelian lattice gauge theories | Indrakshi Raychowdhury, University of Maryland | Ying-Ying Li |
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| Jan. 19, 2021 | Simulating Quantum Field Theories with Quantum Circuits (PLEASE NOTE TIME & DATE: Tuesday at 10:00am) | Ananda Roy, Technical University Munich | Roni | Investigation of strongly interacting quantum field theories (QFTs) remains one of the outstanding challenges of modern physics. Quantum simulation has the potential to be a crucial technique towards solving this problem. In this talk, I will describe analog quantum simulators for strongly interacting QFTs using mesoscopic quantum electronic circuit lattices. The tunable, robust and dispersive... More » |
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| Jan. 21, 2021 | Newtonian binding from lattice quantum gravity | Judah Unmuth, FNAL | We study the propagators of a scalar field coupled to a lattice regularization of gravity in the limit there is no back-reaction from the matter. We extract the renormalized mass, and binding energy between scalar particles and attempt to recover the known, non-relativistic, tree-level calculation in the infinite-volume, continuum limit for the scaling of the... More » |
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| Jan. 28, 2021 | Pushed from the Precipice: Lattice Field Theory for Quantum Computers | Hank Lamm, FNAL | Roni Harnik | Over the past five decades, Euclidean lattice field theory has matured into a broad program capable of making precise QCD predictions. While its success is undeniable, certain problems in real time and at finite density elude it due to sign problems. Early on, Feynman pointed out that many of these problems are naturally solvable on... More » |
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| Feb. 11, 2021 | Muon g-2 Experiments as Dark Matter Detectors | Ryan Janish, FNAL | We propose extending the search for dark matter (DM) by considering muon spin targets. An ultralight DM background may apply an oscillating torque to muon spins, resulting in novel precession trajectories. A time-resolved analysis of muon precession data from the upcoming Fermilab and J-PARC g-2 experiments and future frozen spin EDM measurements are sensitive to... More » |
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| Feb. 18, 2021 | Discovering the Dark Universe | Asher Berlin, New York U. | Roni Harnik | Although it is known to provide the gravitational scaffolding of our universe, the existence of dark matter is a mystery that cannot be explained by our current understanding of fundamental particle physics. Recent years have seen a growing interest in applying developing technologies to enable qualitatively new ways to look for types of dark matter... More » |
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| Feb. 25, 2021 | Gravitational Waves as a Probe of New Physics: from LIGO to NANOGrav | Vedran Brdar, FNAL/Northwestern U. | In the first part of the talk I will discuss gravitational wave signature arising from first order phase transition in two different models featuring neutrino mass generation through type-I seesaw mechanism. The expected gravitational wave spectra from these models will be confronted with sensitivities of ground-based detectors such as LIGO as well as several future... More » |
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| March 4, 2021 | An unambiguous test of positivity at lepton colliders | Jiayin Gu, U. Mainz | Ying-Ying | The diphoton channel at lepton colliders, e+e- (mu+mu-) -> gamma gamma, has a remarkable feature that the leading new physics contribution comes only from dimension-eight operators. This contribution is subject to a set of positivity bounds, derived from fundamental principles of Quantum Field Theory, such as unitarity, locality, analyticity and Lorentz invariance. These positivity bounds are thus... More » |
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| March 11, 2021 | Searching for hidden sectors: new experiments and theory | Robert Lasenby, Stanford U. | Roni Harnik | The problems of dark matter, quantum gravity and the early universe show that physics beyond the Standard Model must be out there, but its nature remains a mystery. In this seminar, I will describe new experimental and theoretical ideas to expand our search for new physics. I’ll talk about how searches for dark matter candidates,... More » |
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| March 18, 2021 | Quantum sensing for dark relics | Harikrishnan Ramani, Stanford U. | Roni Harnik | Direct detection is notoriously hard for a plethora of dark matter models and models of dark relics due to their inability to impart enough energy to the direct detection target. Detecting these dark relics with energy deficit involves tackling the twin challenges of a target that can convert small amounts of dark matter kinetic energy... More » |
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| March 25, 2021 | Higgs boson pair production at NNLO in QCD with finite top quark mass effects | Florian Herren, FNAL | Higgs boson pair production is the most promising process for testing the scalar potential of the SM beyond the quadratic term. The next-to-leading order QCD corrections for this gluon-fusion process are large and the dependence on the renormalization scheme of the top quark mass are sizeable. In this seminar I will discuss the current... More » |
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| April 1, 2021 | Exciting Prospects for Detecting Late-Time Neutrinos from Core-Collapse Supernovae | Shirley Li, FNAL | The importance of detecting neutrinos from a Milky Way core-collapse supernova is well known. An under-studied phase is proto-neutron star cooling. With the high statistics expected for present and near-future detectors, it should be possible to obtain detailed neutrino signals from before the start of the cooling phase to very late times. We present the... More » | slides | ||
| April 8, 2021 | Higgs alignment and the top quark | Kenneth Lane, Boston U. | There is a surprising connection between the top quark and Higgs alignment in Gildener-Weinberg multi-Higgs-doublet models. Were it not for the top quark and its large mass, the coupling of the 125 GeV Higgs boson H to gauge bosons and fermions would be indistinguishable from those of the Standard Model Higgs. The top quark’s coupling... More » |
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| April 15, 2021 | Continuous Renormalization Group on the Lattice | Andrea Carosso, University of Colorado | The traditional method of performing renormalization group (RG) transformations for spin systems is by spin-blocking, where the block spins are local averages of the original spins, and they live on a lattice with fewer sites than the original lattice. As such, this transformation is inherently discrete. By contrast, over the last decade a new technique known as... More » |
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| April 22, 2021 | B-physics anomalies: a road to new physics? | Olcyr Sumensari, Orsay | Pedro | Even though the LHC searches did not unveil the new physics particles so far, observations made at LHCb and the B-factories point towards lepton flavor universality violation in both tree-level and loop-induced B-meson semileptonic decays. After a review of the status of these anomalies, I will discuss general implications that can be derived by using... More » |
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| April 29, 2021 | Nucleon Mass and Charges with Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics | Yin Lin, Fermilab/University of Chicago | Will Jay | Theoretical understandings of the neutrino-nucleus cross sections are critical for constraining neutrino parameters in future neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE and Hyper-K. For neutrino energies at around 1 GeV, uncertainties in the nucleon axial form factor, which parameterizes the weak response of a neutron or proton as a function of the four momentum transfer,... More » |
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| May 6, 2021 | Precision calculation of the $x$-dependence of PDFs from lattice QCD | Yong Zhao, ANL | Will Jay |
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| May 13, 2021 | Hint of SUSY in Flavor Anomalies? | Bhupal Dev, Washington U at St. Louis | Pedro | The recent results from the Fermilab muon g-2 experiment have caused quite a stir in the community. At the same time, there are persisting hints of lepton flavor universality violation in some rare B-meson decays. Taken at face value, if these anomalies are interpreted as of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) origin, it is conceivable... More » |
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| May 20, 2021 | Probing the Standard Model with flavor physics: an exclusive determination of $|V_{cb}|$ from the $B\to D^\ast\ell\nu$ semileptonic decay at non-zero recoil | Alex Vaquero, Utah U. | Will Jay | A very rich place to look for phenomena to challenge our current understanding of physics is the flavor sector of the Standard Model (SM). In particular, the $V_{cb}$ matrix element of the CKM matrix is the subject of a long standing tension, depending on whether it is determined using inclusive or exclusive methods. On top... More » |
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| May 27, 2021 | Graded Hilbert spaces and quantum distillation in QFT | Mithat Unsal, North Carolina State U. | I construct various generalizations of partition function in non-supersymmetric theories, including few fairly close to QCD, that do not undergo a phase transition upon circle compactification. This is similar to what happens in supersymmetric index calculations but there it is guaranteed by supersymmetry, and Bose-Fermi grading of Hilbert space. In manifestly non-supersymmetric theories in QM,... More » |
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| June 3, 2021 | Electroweak symmetry in the early universe | Yikun Wang, U. Chicago | Behavior of the electroweak symmetry and the Higgs thermal history have intriguing implications for matter antimatter asymmetry creation and early universe physics. In this talk, I will present two beyond the Standard Model scenarios resulted in two different early universe paths of the electroweak symmetry. Electroweak phase transition from an electroweak symmetric phase to the... More » |
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| June 10, 2021 | A lattice QCD calculation of the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the magnetic moment of the muon | Harvey Meyer, University of Mainz | Will Jay | I present a recent calculation of the hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon g−2 from the up, down, and strange-quark sector directly using lattice QCD. I first describe the methodology based on coordinate-space methods and a pilot calculation at the SU(3)-flavour symmetric point with a pseudoscalar mass of about 420 MeV. The final result... More » |
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| June 17, 2021 | On-shell amplitudes for Dark Matter | Camila Machado, DESY | Pedro | On-shell methods have been shown to be a powerful tool to compute higher-point and loop amplitudes. However, most of the time we hear about the applications for renormalizable theories. In this talk, I will give an introduction to spinors and to (massless/massive) amplitudes and show that we can indeed apply these methods for general effective field... More » |
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| June 24, 2021 | NLO mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to Higgs boson production at the LHC | Marco Bonetti, Aachen U. | The study of the Higgs boson properties is one of the main tasks of contemporary high-energy physics. At the LHC, gluon fusion is the main production channel of Higgs bosons, and mixed QCD-electroweak corrections represent one of the main sources of theoretical uncertainty for such process, known until few years ago only at leading order... More » |
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| July 1, 2021 | Probing New Physics with Double Beta Decays | Lukas Graf, MPIK-Heidelberg | Pedro | The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay would have far-reaching consequences for particle physics. Most prominently, it would give a hint on the origin of neutrino masses and on the scale at which they are generated. We will discuss the effective description of non-standard mechanisms triggering neutrinoless double beta decay and the implications of their... More » |
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| July 8, 2021 | NLO di-boson production by gluon fusion, in the high-energy limit | Josh Davies, Sussex U. | In this talk I will discuss computations of NLO virtual corrections to four-point gluon-fusion processes; in particular the production of HH, ZH and ZZ. Recently these processes have been computed numerically, but they are not known analytically. I will discuss how one can perform an expansion of these amplitudes in the high-energy limit, and improve the resulting series through the... More » |
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| July 15, 2021 | Maximal Entanglement in a Quantum Computer (*PLEASE NOTE TIME: 1:30PM*) | Alba Cervera Lierta, University of Toronto | Hank | Nature is such that Maximal Entangled states exist”. This conjecture is based on the fact that we not only observe maximal entanglement in several physical processes but also we are able to verify that local realism can not describe quantum mechanics. We go a step further and suggest the possibility that maximal entanglement plays a... More » |
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| July 22, 2021 | Effective Field Theory and the Geometry of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking | Nathaniel Craig, UC-Santa Barbara | There are two canonical approaches to treating the Standard Model as an effective field theory: the Standard Model EFT (SMEFT), respecting the full electroweak gauge symmetry, and the Higgs EFT (HEFT), respecting only electromagnetism. Of these, SMEFT has become the predominant framework for interpreting LHC Higgs data and exploring the systematics of effective field theory.... More » |
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| July 29, 2021 | The Conformal Frontier | David Poland, Yale | From critical phenomena to quantum gravity, conformal field theories describe the universal scale-invariant structures that lie at the heart of theoretical physics. The conformal bootstrap is the powerful idea, dating back to the 70’s, that one can use fundamental consistency conditions to constrain, solve, and map out the space of conformal field theories. In this... More » |
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| Aug. 5, 2021 | Gravitating vortices in an AdS$_3$ and Minkowski background | Ariel Edery, Bishop's University | Vortices are non-singular field configurations in $2+1$ dimensions that have finite energy. They have usually been studied in a fixed Minkowski spacetime i.e. without gravity. In this work, we embed vortices in gravity. We find numerically static vortex solutions where the scalar and gauge fields have a non-singular profile under Einstein gravity in an AdS$_3$ background.... More » |
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| Aug. 19, 2021 | Discovering the new physics of (g−2)μ at colliders | Rodolfo Capdevilla, Perimeter | The Fermilab Muon g−2 collaboration has recently released its first measurement of (g−2)μ. This result is consistent with previous Brookhaven measurements and together they yield a statistically significant 4.2σ discrepancy with the Standard Model prediction. BSM solutions to (g−2)μ feature light weakly coupled neutral particles (Singlet Scenarios) or heavy strongly coupled charged particles (Electroweak Scenarios). In recent investigations,... More » |
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| Aug. 26, 2021 | Toward first-principles calculation of the shear viscosity - classical and quantum approaches | Yukari Yamauchi, Maryland U. | Hydrodynamics successfully describes low-energy modes of a wide class of theories including QCD in the strongly-coupled regime. Some of the low energy constants in the hydrodynamic description of QCD, such as shear viscosity, are difficult to obtain from first principles on a classical computer due to the sign problem. One long-standing way to address sign... More » |
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| Sept. 2, 2021 | Entanglement in collective neutrino oscillations: quantum simulations and tensor networks | Alessandro Roggero, University of Trento | In extreme astrophysical phenomena like supernova explosions, the large neutrino density can lead to collective flavor oscillations driven by neutrino-neutrino interactions. These phenomena can greatly modify flavor transport in these environments with potentially important consequences for both the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis in the ejected material. Even simple models of neutrino-neutrino interactions lead to a... More » |
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| Sept. 9, 2021 | Gravitational Waves from Cosmological First Order Phase Transitions: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments. | Huaike Guo, Oklahoma U. |
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| Sept. 23, 2021 | Bubble-Of-Nothing Decay of the de Sitter Universe | Benjamin Lillard, UIUC | If our apparently four-dimensional spacetime is endowed with compact extra dimensions, our universe may not be entirely stable. It can decay, by the spontaneous nucleation of a “bubble of nothing”: a gravitational instanton that induces a catastrophic annihilation of spacetime. In this talk we discuss the connection between the bubble of nothing and an analogous Coleman-De... More » |
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| Sept. 30, 2021 | Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in Neutral Kaons | Zachary Polonsky, U. Cincinnati | The parameter $\epsilon_K$ is an important measure of the imbalance between matter and antimatter in the neutral kaon ($K^0$ and $\bar{K}^0$) system. In particular, $\epsilon_K$ provides a sensitive probe of new physics and plays a critical role in the global fit of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. As one of the first discovered sources of $CP$ violation,... More » |
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| Oct. 7, 2021 | Dark Photon bounds in the dark EFT | Enrico Bertuzzo, University of São Paulo | Pedro | Dark photons are among the simplest extensions of the Standard Model (SM): a renormalizable kinetic mixing with the ordinary photons generates a coupling between the dark photon and the SM electromagnetic current. Such coupling can be used to probe the parameter space of the model, resulting in severe bounds. In this talk, I will discuss... More » |
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| Oct. 14, 2021 | Neutrino interactions from the cosmos | Ivan Esteban, Ohio State U. | Do neutrinos have sizable self interactions? They might. As laboratory constraints are weak, strong effects can change our picture of astrophysical and cosmological environments. In this talk, I will explore the rich physics introduced by neutrino self-interactions throughout the Universe. I will discuss how a multidisciplinary approach, ranging from precision cosmology to neutrino telescopes, is... More » |
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| Oct. 21, 2021 | New backgrounds and new ideas for sub-GeV dark matter direct detection | Peizhi Du, Stony Brook | Probing sub-GeV dark matter requires designing low threshold detectors and understanding backgrounds. In this talk I will address these two issues. First, we point out several unexplored low-energy backgrounds in sub-GeV dark matter searches, which arise from high-energy particles of cosmic or radioactive origin that interact with detector materials. In this talk, I will focus... More » |
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| Oct. 28, 2021 | Reinterpretation of the Weak Mixing Angle Measurement from Atomic Parity Violation | Francesca Dordei, INFN Cagliari | In this talk, I will present the first measurement of the neutron skin of cesium and iodine using electroweak probes, namely coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and atomic parity violation. This measurement, differently from hadronic probes, is model-independent and suggests a preference for nuclear models which predict large neutron skin values. Moreover, it permits to perform... More » |
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| Nov. 4, 2021 | Flavor-specific Neutrino self-interaction in Cosmology | Subhajit Ghosh, University of Notre Dame | Neutrino self-interaction has been proposed as a solution to the Hubble tension, a discrepancy between the measured values of the Hubble constant from CMB and low-redshift data. However, flavor-universal neutrino self-interaction is highly constrained by BBN and laboratory experiments such as K-meson and tau decay, double-neutrino beta decay etc. In this talk, I will discuss... More » |
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| Nov. 11, 2021 | The NASDUCK collaboration: using quantum magnetometers to look for ultralight dark matter | Itay Bloch, Tel Aviv U. | When DM bosons have an ultra-light mass, they can act as a classical, coherent field. In many cases, and specifically in some ALP models, this field has magnetic properties, and it can therefore be measured by quantum magnetometers. The Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration, was formed last year... More » |
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| Nov. 18, 2021 | Axion Archaeology -- Echos from Ancient Supernova Remnants | Chen Sun, Tel Aviv U. | Stimulated decays of axion dark matter, triggered by a source in the sky, could produce a photon flux along the continuation of the line of sight, pointing backward to the source. The strength of this so-called axion “echo” signal depends on the entire history of the source and could still be strong from sources that... More » |
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| Dec. 2, 2021 | Lepton flavor violation and other indirect searches for New Physics | Alexey Petrov, Michigan U./Wayne State |
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| Dec. 9, 2021 | Coherent neutrino scattering and dark matter detection | Louis Strigari, Texas A&M | I will discuss the prospects for the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and dark matter at future large-scale direct dark matter detection experiments. Focusing on neutrino signals, I will emphasize how this detection will improve upon our understanding of solar, atmospheric, and supernova neutrinos in this regime. I will connect these measurements to on-going terrestrial experiments... More » | |||
| Dec. 16, 2021 | Finetuning, naturalness, and the next good theory | James Wells, U. Michigan | Finetuned and unnatural theories do not violate any laws of nature. However, I wouldn’t bet on them. This talk tries to explain why. |
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| Jan. 13, 2022 | Dimensional Regularization and Chiral Theories | Marija Mador-Bozinovic, University of Zagreb | Dimensional Regularization is one of the most commonly employed schemes for practical calculations in perturbative quantum field theories. High precision tests in particle accelerators require theoretical constraints which in principle need complicated multiloop calculations, accessible in the framework of Dimensional Regularization. In this scheme, however, the γ5 Dirac matrix needs to remain purely 4-dimensional in... More » |
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| Jan. 20, 2022 | Benefits of Quditization for Quantum Simulation of Gauge Theories | Erik J. Gustafson, Fermilab | Quantum Computing offers the promise of ab initio determination of some real-time observables for quantum field theories that are not typically ascessible in Lattice QCD simulations. Typical quantum computers leverage qubits, 2-state objects, for computations. However, Hilbert spaces for many physical systems do not cleanly map to a power of 2 and have unused states... More » | |||
| Jan. 27, 2022 | Gravitational Wave Probes of Axion Rotations Responsible for Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry | Raymond Co, University of Minnesota | Ryan Janish | We established a paradigm where the (QCD) axion’s novel cosmological evolution, a rotation in the field space, gives rise to dark matter and the baryon asymmetry. The axion rotations also provide a natural origin for a kination era, where the total energy density is dominated by the kinetic term of the axion field, preceded by an... More » | ||
| Feb. 3, 2022 | Electroweak radiative corrections and effective field theories | Benoit Assi, FNAL | In our current high precision era, quantum corrections due to the strong (QCD) sector are available to very high orders. However, effects from the electroweak (EW) sector are often either estimated or neglected. This talk considers how leading EW radiative corrections affect heavy particle physics in different energetic regimes. The discussion will cover various related... More » | |||
| Feb. 10, 2022 | CaloFlow: Fast and Accurate Generation of Calorimeter Showers with Normalizing Flows | Claudius Krause, Rutgers | Simulation of particle interactions with detector material, especially in the calorimeters are very time-consuming and resource intensive. In the upcoming LHC runs, these could provide a bottleneck that severely limits our analysis capabilities. In recent years, approaches based on deep generative models have provided a fresh alternative to “classical” fast simulation. In this talk, I... More » |
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| Feb. 17, 2022 | Accelerator phenomenology of strongly interacting dark sectors | Elias Bernreuther, FNAL | Searches for missing energy at accelerators are a central pillar of the experimental program devoted to solving the dark matter puzzle. However, extended dark sectors may manifest themselves in the form of exotic signatures that are missed by standard searches. In my talk, I will discuss a particularly striking class of such signatures: dark showers... More » |
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| Feb. 24, 2022 | The Principles of Deep Learning Theory | Dan Roberts, MIT | Ryan Janish | Deep learning is an exciting approach to modern artificial intelligence based on artificial neural networks. The goal of this talk is to provide a blueprint — using tools from physics — for theoretically analyzing deep neural networks of practical relevance. This task will encompass both understanding the statistics of initialized deep networks and determining the... More » | ||
| March 3, 2022 | *Postponed* Determining the Neutrino Lifetime From Cosmology | Abhish Dev, FNAL | Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the standard model. Many of their fundamental properties such as their masses, lifetimes, and nature (Dirac or Majorana) are yet to be pinned down by experiments. Currently, the strongest bound on neutrino masses comes from cosmology. This bound is obtained by scrutinizing the gravitational effect of the cosmic... More » | |||
| March 10, 2022 | Cosmological History of Conformal Dark Sectors | Sungwoo Hong, University of Chicago | Ryan Janish | In this talk, I will discuss a scenario in which today’s dark matter (DM) sector was a sector of conformal field theory (CFT) in the early universe. Since the conformal invariance prevents the existence of mass scale necessary for the dark “matter”, it needs to be broken and I show that it can be achieved... More » | ||
| March 17, 2022 | Neutrino-induced charged-current single pion production off nucleons and nuclei | Alexis Nikolakopolous, FNAL | Noemi Rocco | The model for neutrino-induced pion production of [R. Gonzalez-Jimenez et al. Phys. Rev. D 95, 113007 (2017)] is used to describe data for charged-current interactions off carbon in the T2K and MINERvA experiments. This work extends the approach of [Hernandez Nieves and Valverde, Phys. Rev. D 76, 033005 (2007)] to higher hadronic invariant mass by... More » | ||
| March 24, 2022 | Three Effective Field Theory Vignettes | Timothy Cohen, University of Oregon | I will describe some recent work on applying Effective Field Theory (EFT) methodology to three different physically interesting systems. First I will explain the philosophy and general methodology of EFT. I will then present three short vignettes. The first has to do with techniques for systematically computing the EFT parameters from a given more fundamental... More » | |||
| March 31, 2022 | Intergalactic medium as a probe of fundamental physics | Anastasia Sokolenko, Fermilab, University of Chicago | Most of the volume of the Universe consists of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM), space between collapsed structures like galaxies and galaxy clusters. Extragalactic photons and charged particles that propagate through the Universe spend most of their time in the IGM and can be influenced by its properties. In this talk, I will present a few... More » | |||
| April 7, 2022 | Predictions for the LHC at N3LO in QCD | Bernhard Mistlberger, SLAC | Florian Herren | Predictions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order – N3LO – in QCD perturbation theory represent the current cutting edge of precision QFT predictions for LHC phenomenology. In my talk, I discuss the current state of the art and showcase at the hands of some key examples of what we learned from predictions at this order so far. Furthermore,... More » | ||
| April 14, 2022 | *POSTPONED* A Last Chance for Kinetic Mixing? Explaining g-2 with semi-visible dark photons | Asli Abdullahi, Fermilab | The recent measurement of the anomalous muon magnetic moment by the E989 experiment at Fermilab appears to confirm the existing tension with the Standard Model (SM), previously reported by the Brookhaven experiment. In light of this result, we revisit the contribution of a kinetically mixed dark photon to g-2, which has been excluded in minimal... More » | |||
| April 21, 2022 | Quasi-sterile neutrinos from dark sectors | Daniele Alves, Los Alamos | Quasi-sterile neutrinos are a natural consequence of dark sectors interacting with the Standard Model (SM) sector via neutrino- and vector-portals. Essentially, quasi-sterile neutrinos are light dark sector fermions with two generic properties: (i) they mix with the active neutrinos of the SM, and (ii) they are charged under a vector mediator that couples feebly to... More » | |||
| April 28, 2022 | A new path for dark matter searches: cross-correlation between γ rays and neutral hydrogen | Elena Pinetti, Fermilab | Dark matter in cosmic structures is expected to produce signals originated from its particle physics nature, among which the electromagnetic emission represents a relevant opportunity, whose intensity is directly linked to the amount of dark matter in galaxies and clusters. On the other hand, this emission is very faint, thus contributing only at the unresolved... More » | |||
| May 5, 2022 | Bound state effects on dark matter coannihilation - pushing the boundaries beyond the WIMP paradigm | Jan Heisig, Louvain University | Bound-state formation effects can have a large impact on the dynamics of dark matter freeze-out in the early Universe, in particular, for colored coannihilators. We present a general formalism to include an arbitrary number of excitations of bound states in terms of an effective annihilation cross section. For a coannihilator in the fundamental representation of... More » | |||
| May 12, 2022 | Axion Like Particles at the ILC | Noah Steinberg, Fermilab | Axion Like Particles (ALPs) naturally appear in many BSM theories as pseudo-goldstones bosons of spontaneously broken symmetries. They may couple to both the fermionic and bosonic sectors of the Standard Model, and exist over a wide range of masses spanning from the sub eV to TeV scale. I will review the motivation for Axion-Like Particles... More » | |||
| May 19, 2022 | A Last Chance for Kinetic Mixing? Explaining g-2 with semi-visible dark photons | Asli Abdullahi, FNAL | The recent measurement of the anomalous muon magnetic moment by the E989 experiment at Fermilab appears to confirm the existing tension with the Standard Model (SM), previously reported by the Brookhaven experiment. In light of this result, we revisit the contribution of a kinetically mixed dark photon to g-2, which has been excluded in minimal... More » | |||
| May 26, 2022 | Probing the Early Universe Desert with Gravitational Waves | Toby Opferkuch, UC Berkeley | Ryan Janish | Motivated by the prospect of discovering stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds, this talk will focus on the role(s) that non-minimally coupled scalar fields can play in the evolution of the early Universe. In the first part I will present a model for gravitational reheating involving a scalar field directly coupled to the Ricci curvature scalar. Crucial... More » | ||
| May 31, 2022 | *Rescheduled - Tuesday, 2:00pm * - Atom Interferometer Tests of Dark Matter | Yikun Wang, Caltech | Direct detection experiments for dark matter are increasingly ruling out large parameter space. However, light dark matter models with particle masses < GeV are still largely unconstrained. In this talk, I will present the examination of a proposal to use atom interferometers to detect a light dark matter subcomponent at sub-GeV masses. Dark matter scattering off one “arm” of... More » | |||
| June 2, 2022 | Determining the Neutrino Lifetime From Cosmology | Abhish Dev, FNAL | Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the standard model. Many of their fundamental properties such as their masses, lifetimes, and nature (Dirac or Majorana) are yet to be pinned down by experiments. Currently, the strongest bound on neutrino masses comes from cosmology. This bound is obtained by scrutinizing the gravitational effect of the cosmic... More » | |||
| June 9, 2022 | Quantum Computing for Nuclear Dynamics | Alessandro Baroni, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Noemi Rocco | Quantum Computing holds the promise of enabling calculations of the real-time evolution of quantum systems, with a wide range of applications in nuclear and particle physics. In particular, a fault-tolerant Quantum Computer would allow calculations of nuclear dynamics beyond the reach of classical computing. In this talk, I will discuss the problem of calculating real-time... More » | ||
| June 15, 2022 | *Note date and time Wednesday at 4pm* Searches for Nonperturbative Physics Beyond the Standard Model | George Fleming, Yale University | Andreas Kronfeld | |||
| June 16, 2022 | Conformal Colliders Meet the LHC | Ian Moult, Yale | Florian Herren | Jets of hadrons produced at high-energy colliders provide experimental access to the dynamics of asymptotically free quarks and gluons and their confinement into hadrons. Motivated by recent developments in conformal field theory, we propose a reformulation of jet substructure as the study of correlation functions of a specific class of light-ray operators and their associated... More » | ||
| June 23, 2022 | Searching for new physics with X-rays from compact stars | Andrew Long, Rice University | Ryan Janish | Since axions couple extremely weakly to regular matter, it makes them challenging to probe in the laboratory. However, axions should be produced in the dense environments of compact stars. Stellar axion emission provides an additional cooling channel that leads to well-known constraints on the axion’s couplings to matter. These constraints are indirect, and although compact... More » | ||
| June 30, 2022 | Anatomy of an LHC Collision - and Challenges for the Future | Peter Skands, Monash | Florian Herren | I will give an overview of our current picture of the physical mechanisms that are at play in high-energy collisions, spanning both perturbative and non-perturbative phenomena. I will review the current state of the art of detailed numerical models of these processes, embodied by Monte Carlo event generators, and explain why I believe we are... More » | ||
| July 19, 2022 | Accurate QCD predictions for the LHC - *PLEASE NOTE DATE: Tuesday* | Massimiliano Grazzini, University of Zurich | Stefan Hoeche | The precision of LHC data has reached a level that NNLO QCD predictions are required for most of the relevant processes. Despite the enormous progress in higher-order computations, that now reaches even N3LO QCD for some benchmark processes, only a few of the NNLO calculations are really available to the community. We review the recent... More » | ||
| Aug. 11, 2022 | Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electron Scattering from 12C in the Short-Time Approximation | Lorenzo Andreoli, Washington Universtiy | Noemi Rocco | The Short-time approximation has been developed in the context of quantum Monte Carlo calculations to calculate nuclear responses in nuclei with A≥12. This algorithm exploits a factorization scheme to consistently retain two-body physics, both in two-body currents and correlations. In this talk, I will present developments in the calculations of response densities in 12C, as... More » | ||
| Aug. 18, 2022 | TBD | Anne Galda, U. Mainz | Florian Herren | TBD | ||
| Aug. 25, 2022 | Axion Solar Halos | Joshua Eby, IPMU | Ryan Janish | TBD | ||
| Sept. 8, 2022 | TBD | Konstantin Asteriadis, Brookhaven | Florian Herren | TBD |