Research Progress Meeting Date: December 17, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Sparshita Dey (Oxford) Title: Chasing Shadows: Illuminating the Path from LZ to the Next Generation Dual-Phase Xe TPC Observatory for Dark Matter Abstract: The nature of dark matter remains …
Research Progress Meeting Date: December 19, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Ryan Gibbons (UC Berkeley) Title: Searching for Dark Matter with LZ and Future LZ Upgrades Abstract: Direct detection of particle dark matter remains an outstanding opportunity in understanding the …
Research Progress Meeting Date: January 16, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis) Title: A Polarized Look at the Hubble Constant Problem Abstract: The standard cosmological model has met with enormous empirical success over the past two decades. …
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Research Progress Meeting Date: January 23, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern (NIST + QuICS + University of Maryland) Title: Quantum thermodynamics for lattice gauge theories Abstract: A key objective in nuclear and high-energy physics is to …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 13, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) Title: Novel Probes of the Primordial Liquid Abstract: Heavy ion collisions reproduce droplets of the trillions-of-degrees-hot liquid that filled the microseconds-old universe, conventionally called quark-gluon …
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Abstract: Quantum interference between signal and background Feynman diagrams produce non-linear effects that challenge core assumptions going into the statistical analysis methodology in particle physics. I show that for such cases, no single observable can capture all the relevant information …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 25, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Atsushi J. Nishizawa (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University) Title: Subaru HSC medium band filter survey and photometric redshift of galaxies Abstract: Photometric redshift (photo-z) is a well-known technique for …
Research Progress Meeting Date: February 27, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Ryan Bouabid (Duke) Title: COHERENT: Using Small Recoils to Look for Big Discoveries Abstract: The COHERENT collaboration is pioneering the study of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS), a …
Research Progress Meeting Date: March 13, 2025 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo (Princeton) Title: Real-time Anomaly Detection at the CMS Experiment Abstract: During Run-3 at the LHC, the search for new physics has significantly expanded. Development of advanced …
Research Progress Meeting Date: March 19, 2025 Time: 3:00- 4:00 pm Location: B50 Auditorium Speaker: Andrei Cuceu (LBNL) Title: DESI DR2 results: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints Abstract: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is conducting a 5-year redshift survey …