Abstract: Cosmological inflation is the leading hypothesis to resolve the problems in the Big Bang theory. It predicts that primordial gravitational waves were created during the inflationary era, which then imprinted large-scale curl patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) …
April 2018 marks the 2nd data release (DR2) of the ESA Gaia space mission. A new era in astrometry begun. Accurate positions, proper motions and parallaxes for over a billion stars are now available on the sub-mas level. The properties …
Norbert Zacharias (USNO) "Impact of Gaia on Astrometry and Beyond" Read More »
ABSTRACT: This talk will present the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has been used to isolate and study 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest. The …
ABSTRACT: The central puzzle that drives the field of quantum foundations is the measurement problem: what gives rise to the appearance of wave function collapse? While there is no single answer to this question that has wide acceptance, this is …
Abstract The radiation environment at the High Luminosity LHC requires CMS to replace its silicon tracker with one that is more radiation hard and granular. The new tracker is designed twenty years after the original one, and has new unique …
Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers U.) "CMS Tracker for HL-LHC: an Exciting New Tool for Discovery" Read More »
ABSTRACT: Current cosmological measurements have left us with deep questions about our Universe: What caused the expansion of the Universe at the earliest times? How did structure form? What is Dark Energy and does it evolve with time? New experiments …
Abstract: The identification of hadronically decaying tau leptons at the LHC is challenging. I will review the methods for tau reconstruction at ATLAS and how the identification of tau leptons has enabled several interesting and novel measurements in exotics and …
Sinead Farrington (U. Warwick) "Physics with Taus" Read More »
ABSTRACT: The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation have become our most important cosmological fossil. The study of these "echoes of gravity" has revolutionized cosmology, stringently tested our models and allowed precise measurement of a host of important cosmological …
Martin White (UCB) "The cosmological legacy of Planck " Read More »
Abstract: In this talk, we present the new world leading results from the first search of the SuperCDMS collaboration for inelastic electronic recoils from low mass dark matter dark matter (500keV - 100MeV) using our new single ionization sensitive cryogenic …
Abstract: The detailed characterization of the intensity and polarization Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation provides a powerful tool to constrain the properties of early Universe. The polarization induced by a stochastic gravitational wave background in this epoch induces a distinctive …