Abstract: MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector and is the first of three such detectors to be commissioned as part of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab (FNAL), and has been taking data since 2015. One …
Abstract: Large-scale structure (LSS) surveys have exploded in size over the last few decades, cataloguing the locations and shapes of hundreds of millions of galaxies. The unprecedented precision enabled by such datasets puts extraordinary demands on the control of systematic …
Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics described the interactions between the elementary particles that compose our universe. To study these interactions, protons collide at very high energies at the Large Hadron Collider, generating hundreds of particles through every bunch …
Abstract: The Higgs boson is the only fundamental spin-0 particle in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, associated with an ever-present field that is the source of mass and linked to electroweak symmetry breaking, making it a particle …
Abstract: The Belle II Experiment is a next generation SuperB factory that aims to discover new physics phenomena at the highest intensities. It started its first physics run in 2019 and will until the end of 2021 collect a data …
Florian Bernlochner (Bonn) “Fantastic Bs and where to find them! “ Read More »
Abstract: As part of a comprehensive plan to investigate the many combinations of production and decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson using the full Run 2 ATLAS dataset at the LHC, I will present a search for the SM …
Abstract: Gravitational lensing of CMB photons by the matter distribution of the Universe can be both a blessing and nuisance. It's a blessing because of the way it can be harnessed to map the structures responsible for the deflections, and from this, constrain any physics …
Abstract: The discovery of neutrino oscillations provides the first indication of a lepton flavor violating (LFV) process, one that isn't predicted by the Standard Model. Extending the Standard Model picture to account for this usually proceeds via the addition of …
Abstract: Hawking famously argued, based on semiclassical calculations, that the radiation from evaporating black holes is contains no information about the matter that fell in. This would be inconsistent with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. In this talk, I will …
David Weinberg (OSU) "Cosmology Past, Present, and Future" I will give a broad overview of the current state of observational cosmology, with historical context and an eye to the future. Developments over the past three decades have led to a …
David Weinberg (OSU) “Cosmology Past, Present, and Future” Read More »