Event | Date | Summary |
Amy Connolly (The Ohio State University) | Tue. May 8th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
High Energy Neutrino Astronomy through Radio Detection Multimessenger astronomy has entered an exciting new era with the recent discovery of both gravitational waves and cosmic neutrinos. I will focus on neutrinos as particles that can uniquely probe cosmic distances at the highest energies. While optical Cerenkov radiation has been used for decades in neutrino experiments, the radio Cerenkov technique has emerged in the last 15 years as the most promising for a long-term program to push the neutrino frontier by over a factor of 1000 in energy. I will give an overview of the current status and future of the radio neutrino program, |
Stuart Raby (Ohio State University) | Tue. May 1st, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
Fitting amu and B physics anomalies with a Z’ and a Vector-like 4th family in the Standard Model The Standard Model is very successful. Nevertheless, there are some, perhaps significant, discrepancies with data. A particularly interesting set of discrepancies hints at new physics related to muons. I will review the data and recent NP models trying to fit the data. Then I will discuss a very simple model which is motivated by heterotic string constructions. |
Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University) | Tue. April 24th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
First light at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory |
Camille Avestruz (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) | Tue. April 17th, 2018 11:30 am-1:30 pm |
Computationally Probing Large Structures Continue reading… Camille Avestruz (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) |
Hayden Lee (Harvard University) | Tue. April 3rd, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
Collider Physics for Inflation |
Segev BenZvi (University of Rochester) | Tue. March 27th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
The Latest Results from the HAWC Very High-Energy Gamma-ray Survey |
Cliff Cheung (Caltech) | Tue. March 20th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Unification from Scattering Amplitudes |
John Beacom (The Ohio State University) | Tue. March 6th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
A New Era for Solar Neutrinos |
Lindley Winslow (MIT) | Wed. February 28th, 2018 1:30 pm-2:00 pm |
First Results from CUORE: Majorana Neutrinos and the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay |
Richard Ruiz (IPPP-Durham, UK) | Tue. February 20th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
Left-Right Symmetry: At the Edges of Phase Space and Beyond The Left-Right Symmetric model (LRSM) remains one of the best motivated completions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Thus far, however, data from the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tell us that new particles, if they are still accessible, must be very heavy and/or very weakly coupled. Interestingly, these regions of parameter space correspond to collider signatures that are qualitatively and quantitatively different from those developed in pre-LHC times. We present several new LRSM collider signatures for these parameter spaces and show a greatly expanded discovery potential at the 13 TeV LHC and hypothetical future 100 TeV very large hadron collider. |
Andrew J. Long (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) | Tue. February 13th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
Testing baryons from bubbles with colliders and cosmology Continue reading… Andrew J. Long (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) |
Ayres Freitas (University of Pittsburgh) | Tue. February 6th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
Radiative Corrections in Universal Extra Dimensions Universal extra dimensions is an interesting extension of the Standard Model |
David McKeen (University of Pittsburgh) | Tue. January 30th, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 am |
Neutrino Portal Dark Matter Dark matter that interacts with the standard model (SM) through the “neutrino portal” is a possibility that is relatively less well studied than other scenarios. In such a setup, the dark matter communicates with the SM primarily through its interactions with neutrinos. In this talk, I will motivate neutrino portal dark matter and discuss some new tests of this possibility. |
Anders Johan Andreassen (Harvard University) | Tue. January 23rd, 2018 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
Tunneling in Quantum Field Theory and the Ultimate Fate of our Universe One of the most concrete implications of the discovery of the Higgs boson is that, in the absence of physics beyond the standard model, the long-term fate of our universe can now be established through precision calculations. Are we in a metastable minimum of the Higgs potential or the true minimum? If we are in a metastable vacuum, what is its lifetime? To answer these questions, we need to understand tunneling in quantum field theory.This talk will give an overview of the interesting history of tunneling rate calculations and all of its complications in calculating functional determinants of fluctuations around the bounce solutions. Continue reading… Anders Johan Andreassen (Harvard University) |