SPECIAL SEMINAR: Wai Ling Kimmy Wu (Stanford) "Constraining Inflation with BICEP/Keck and SPT"

Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, ca

Abstract:  Inflation generically predicts a background of stochastic gravitational waves. In the standard cosmological model LCDM, these primordial gravitational waves (PGW) are the only source to the odd-parity (curl) B-mode polarization on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at the epoch of …

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Evan Pease (Yale) "Searching for WIMPs and More: Results from 3 Years of Underground Science with the LUX Experiment"

Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, ca

ABSTRACT: The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment recently concluded underground operationat the Sanford Underground Research Facility. This talk will cover the full LUX search for dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and will describe new …

Evan Pease (Yale) "Searching for WIMPs and More: Results from 3 Years of Underground Science with the LUX Experiment" Read More »

Cristián H. Peña (Caltech) "Searches for New Physics at CMS and Precision Timing Detectors"

Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, ca

ABSTRACT: Searches for dark matter and supersymmetry are part of an ambitious and well motivated quest to discover new physics at the LHC. In the first part of this seminar I will be presenting two novel searches for new physics …

Cristián H. Peña (Caltech) "Searches for New Physics at CMS and Precision Timing Detectors" Read More »

Johanna Nagy (Case Western) "Probing Inflation with SPIDER, a Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter"

Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, ca

Abstract: The generation of a stochastic gravitational wave background is a key prediction of cosmological theories of inflation. At large angular scales, these gravitational waves imprint a "B-mode" polarization pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background, providing a new window into …

Johanna Nagy (Case Western) "Probing Inflation with SPIDER, a Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter" Read More »

Karol Krizka (U. Chicago) "Dark Matter Mediators and Dijet Resonance Searches by the ATLAS Experiment"

Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, ca

Abstract:Using 13 TeV pp collisions, the ATLAS experiment has used a collection of dijet resonance searches (high-mass dijet, trigger-level dijet and dijet+ISR) to search for new particles with masses ranging from 200 GeV to 7 TeV. This talk summarizes the …

Karol Krizka (U. Chicago) "Dark Matter Mediators and Dijet Resonance Searches by the ATLAS Experiment" Read More »

Zackay Barak (Weizmann Institute of Science) Algorithms for searching Fast radio bursts, pulsars in tight binary systems and "Planet 9"

Abstract: Fast radio bursts (FRB's) are an exciting, recently discovered, astrophysical transients which their origins are unknown. Currently, these bursts are believed to be coming from cosmological distances, potentially allowing us to probe the electron content on cosmological length scales. …

Zackay Barak (Weizmann Institute of Science) Algorithms for searching Fast radio bursts, pulsars in tight binary systems and "Planet 9" Read More »

Eleonora Di Valentino (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) "New Constraints on Extensions of the Standard Cosmological Model"

Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, ca

Abstract: The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Planck mission have significantly improved previous constraints on the neutrino masses, as well as the bounds on extended models with massive sterile neutrino states or extra particles, …

Eleonora Di Valentino (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) "New Constraints on Extensions of the Standard Cosmological Model" Read More »

Michael James Wilson (Institute of Astronomy, U. Edinburgh) "Extracting precision tests of gravity from the intricate pattern of galaxies"

50A-4133 (Director's Conference Room)

ABSTRACT: Galaxy redshift surveys deliver increasingly precise tests of gravity on cosmological scales and shed light on the uncertain nature of Dark Energy. I will present the VIPERS (http://vipers.inaf.it) census of the galaxy distribution at redshift 0.8 and describe its …

Michael James Wilson (Institute of Astronomy, U. Edinburgh) "Extracting precision tests of gravity from the intricate pattern of galaxies" Read More »