Event | Date | Summary |
Stephane Coutu (Penn State) | Tue. December 4th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Abstract: Host: Covault |
Mark B. Wise (Caltech) | Tue. November 27th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Loop induced inflationary non-Gaussianites that give rise to an enhanced galaxy power spectrum at small wave-vectors Host: Fileviez Perez |
Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati) | Tue. November 20th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Effective field theories for dark matter direct detection Abstract: I will discuss the nonperturbative matching of the effective field theory describing dark matter interactions with quarks and gluons to the effective theory of nonrelativistic dark matter interacting with nonrelativistic nucleons. In general, a single partonic operator already matches onto several nonrelativistic operators at leading order in chiral counting. Thus, keeping only one operator at the time in the nonrelativistic effective theory does not properly describe the scattering in direct detection. Moreover, the matching of the axial–axial partonic level operator, as well as the matching of the operators coupling DM to the QCD anomaly term, |
Jonathan Ouellet (MIT) | Tue. November 13th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
First Results from the ABRACADABRA-10cm Prototype The evidence for the existence of Dark Matter is well supported by |
Francesc Ferrer (Washington University) | Tue. October 30th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Primordial black holes in the wake of LIGO The detection of gravitational waves from the merger of black holes of ~30 solar masses has reignited the interest of primordial black holes (PBHs) as the source of the dark matter in the universe. We will review the existing constraints on the abundance of PBHs and the implications for several fundamental physics scenarios. A small relic abundance of heavy PBHs may play and important role in the generation of cosmological structures, and we will discuss how such a PBH population can be generated by the collapse of axionic topological defects. |
Xiaoju Xu (University of Utah) | Tue. October 16th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Multivariate Dependent Halo and Galaxy Assembly Bias Galaxies form in dark matter halos, and their properties and |
Brad Benson (University of Chicago) | Tue. October 9th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
New Results from the South Pole Telescope I will give an overview of the South Pole Telescope (SPT), a 10-meter diameter telescope at the South Pole designed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The SPT recently completed 10 years of observations, over which time it has been equipped with three different cameras: SPT-SZ, SPTpol, and SPT-3G. I will discuss recent results from the SPT-SZ and SPTpol surveys, including: an update on the SPT Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) cluster survey, and joint analyses with the optical dark energy survey (DES); a comparison of CMB measurements between SPT-SZ and the Planck satellite; |
Tim Linden (Ohio State University) | Tue. October 2nd, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
2018 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lecture 2 The Rise of the Leptons: Emission from Pulsars will Dominate the next Decade of TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy HAWC observations have detected extended TeV emission coincident with the Geminga and Monogem pulsars. In this talk, I will show that these detections have significant implications for our understanding of pulsar emission. First, the spectrum and intensity of these “TeV Halos” indicates that a large fraction of the pulsar spindown energy is efficiently converted into electron-positron pairs. This provides observational evidence necessitating pulsar interpretations of the rising positron fraction observed by PAMELA and AMS-02. |
Mahmoud Parvizi (Vanderbilt University) | Tue. September 25th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Cosmological Observables via Non-equilibrium Quantum Dynamics in Non-stationary Spacetimes Abstract: In nearly all cases cosmological observables associated with quantum matter fields are computed in a general approximation, via the standard irreducible representations found in the operator formalism of particle physics, where intricacies related to a renormalized stress-energy tensor in a non-stationary spacetime are ignored. Models of the early universe also include a hot, dense environment of quantum fields where far-from-equilibrium interactions manifest expressions for observables with leading terms at higher orders in the coupling. A more rigorous treatment of these cosmological observables may be carried out within the alternative framework of algebraic quantum field theory in curved spacetime, |
Miguel Zumalacarregui (UC Berkeley & IPhT Saclay) | Tue. September 18th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
The Dark Universe in the Gravitational Wave Era Continue reading… Miguel Zumalacarregui (UC Berkeley & IPhT Saclay) |
Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern Univ.) | Fri. September 7th, 2018 12:45 pm-1:45 pm |
Chiral Dark Sectors, Neutrino Masses, and Dark Matter I discuss the hypothesis that there are new chiral fermions particles that transform under a new gauge group. Along the way, I present one mechanism for constructing nontrivial, chiral gauge theory and explore the phenomenology – mostly related to nonzero neutrino masses and the existence of dark matter – associated to a couple of concrete example. Host: Fileviez Perez |
Anastasia Fialkov (Harvard Univ.) | Tue. August 7th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
SHINING LIGHT INTO COSMIC DARK AGES The first billion years is the least-explored epoch in cosmic history. The first claimed detection of the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen by EDGES (announced at the end of February this year) – if confirmed – would be the first time ever that we witness star formation at cosmic dawn. Join Dr. Fialkov as she discusses theoretical modeling of the 21 cm signal, summarizes the status of the field after the EDGES detection, and shares thoughts on prospects for future detections of this line. Host: Starkman |