Abstract: The Higgs boson mass determines its couplings to every other known particle - and it is a free parameter of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Understanding the Higgs' connections with the rest of the universe requires measuring its mass experimentally. This talk presents the …
Abstract: Despite of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle in 2012, there are still many unanswered questions. Studying events with the same-sign dilepton and multilepton (SSML) may help to gain insight into those questions. In this presentation, I will give …
Zhi Zheng (U. Michigan) “Physics with the same-sign dilepton and multilepton events” Read More »
Abstract: Long-standing anomalies in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments suggest the existence of a new particle: the sterile neutrino. Unlike other neutrinos, sterile neutrinos do not interact via the weak nuclear force. Global fits to experimental data find a significant preference …
Marjon Moulai (MIT) “Unstable Sterile Neutrinos in IceCube and Beyond Read More »
Abstract: The rich program of study opened up by the discovery of a 125 GeV boson in 2012 so far leads us to consider this particle to be the Higgs boson as predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle …
Abstract: DUNE is a planned long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment measuring μ disappearance and e appearance in an accelerator μ beam (arXiv:1601.05471). Its primary goals are measuring CP violation in the lepton sector, determining the ordering of the three neutrino masses, and …
Damian Goeldi (Carleton U) “Enhancing the Physics Reach of the DUNE far Detector” Read More »
Abstract: Many experimental results from both particle and astrophysics hint that the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics cannot be a complete theory of Nature. However, in its first years of operation, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was very …
ABSTRACT: The decay K+→π+vv ̅, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than 10exp(-10), is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at the CERN …
Michal Zamkovsky (CERN) “New result on K+→π+vv ̅ from the NA62 experiment” Read More »
Abstract: Measurements of the universe's present-day expansion rate, or the Hubble constant (H0), that use a Cepheid variable star calibration of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are in >4σ disagreement with values predicted by the standard, Lambda cold dark matter …