Abstract: Despite the tremendous success of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, it becomes more and more clear that the SM is far from complete. For example, the non-zero neutrino mass was the first solid evidence beyond the SM, …
ABSTRACT: Cosmology in the next decade will be driven by data. Exploiting the information one can extract from the ongoing and upcoming large surveys will give us the power to stress-test the LCDM model with unprecedented precision and open up windows …
ABSTRACT: I will discuss motivations for searching for di-Higgs production at the LHC. Recent results and projected sensitivities will be presented with emphasis on the dominant hh->4b channel.
ABSTRACT: The existence of dark matter is strong evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model. While laboratory and collider searches for dark matter have advanced rapidly over the past several decades, astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, positive, …
ABSTRACT: Music is nearly universal in human culture and yet it remains mysterious. In order to help answer some of music's fundamental questions, we will briefly turn to archeology and early history before examining some of music's salient features from …
Jason Bono (FNAL) Physics and Mathematics in Music Read More »
Abstract: The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012 relied predominantly on studies of the bosonic decay modes. However, there is a rich structure in the Yukawa sector of the Higgs boson. Studies of the direct coupling …
ABSTRACT: The next decade will be the golden age of cosmology with transients. In this talk, I will present new analyses of Type Ia Supernovae that mark the most precise measurement of dark energy to date. I will go over …
Daniel Scolnic (U. Chicago) "Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae and Kilonovae" Read More »
Abstract: The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN are at the energy frontier of particle physics, searching for answers to fundamental questions of nature. In particular, dark matter (DM) presents strong evidence for physics beyond the standard …
Zeynep Demiragli (CMS / MIT) "Search for Dark Matter: CMS Strikes Back!" Read More »
Abstract: The top quark plays an important role in the collider phenomenology of the Higgs boson, and the study of the interplay between the top quark and the Higgs boson may provide key insights to some critical questions in particle …
Haichen Wang (LBNL) Title: The Higgs boson and the top quark share the stage Read More »
Abstract: In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiments discovered the Higgs Boson, firmly establishing the Standard Model as the dominant paradigm for subatomic particle interactions. Many expected the Higgs discovery to be one of several discoveries at the energy frontier, …