Abstract: The discovery of the Higgs boson has revealed that the quartic Higgs self-coupling becomes small at very high energy scales. Guided by this observation, I introduce Higgs Parity, which is a spontaneously broken symmetry exchanging the standard model Higgs …

Keisuke Harigaya (IAS) “ Physics beyond the standard model from Higgs Parity” Read More »

Abstract: Ever since the discovery, neutrinos have proven to be one of the most intriguing subatomic particles. In the past two decades, we have made tremendous progress in the establishment of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon. We are now able to …

Ka Vang Tsang (SLAC) “Imaging Neutrinos: Machine Learning in LArTPC” Read More »

ABSTRACT: Neutrino oscillation experiments such as NOvA and T2K search for the disappearance and appearance of muon and electron flavor neutrinos in a predominately muon-type beam. These experiments are currently measuring the oscillation parameters to greater precision but will not …

Daniel Ruterbories (Rochester U) “Electroweak Probes of the Nucleus and the Era of Precision Neutrino Physics” Read More »

ABSTRACT: Theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics often predict new, light, feebly interacting particles whose discovery requires novel search strategies. A light particle, the QCD axion, elegantly solves the outstanding strong-CP problem of the Standard Model; cousins of …

Masha Baryakhtar (NYU) ” New Physics Across the Spectra” Read More »

ABSTRACT: Neutrino oscillation is a well-established phenomenon. Over the past two decades, nearly all of the parameters governing these oscillations have been measured experimentally, using neutrinos from the atmosphere, the sun, nuclear reactors, and particle accelerators. The remaining unknowns have …

Christopher Marshall (LBNL) “The Dawn of DUNE: Neutrino Oscillations in the Precision Era” Read More »

Abstract: The Mu2e experiment will search for the charged lepton flavor violating (CLFV) neutrino-less conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of a nucleus, reaching a 90% C.L. limit of 8x10^-17 on the conversion rate. This …

Richard Bonventre (LBNL) “Searching for Muon to Electron Conversion: The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab” Read More »

Abstract: The ability of current and next generation accelerator based neutrino oscillation measurements to reach their desired sensitivity requires a high-level of understanding of the neutrino-nucleus interactions. These include precise estimation of the relevant cross sections and the reconstruction of …

Adi Ashkenazi (Fermilab) “Probing V Interactions for V Physics” Read More »

ABSTRACT: The Gaia mission has provided distance and velocity measurements of over a billion stars in the Milky Way, making it the largest stellar catalog at hand. Simultaneously, recent developments in cosmological simulations have made it possible to track stars …

Lina Necib (Caltech) “Dark Matter in the Era of Gaia” Read More »

Abstract: The three Nambu-Goldstone bosons in the longitudinal modes of the W and Z  together with the Higgs boson span a 4-dimensional manifold. The geometry of this manifold, invariant under field re-parametrization, encodes the scalar dynamics which are vastly unexplored …

Rodrigo Alonso (Durham U) “Geometry for Higgs Dynamics and Effective Field Theory” 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 …

Taylor Hoyt (University of Chicago) “Using Astrophysical Distance Indicators to Test Standard Cosmology” Read More »