Speaker: Tyler Horoho (U. of Virginia) – Title: Searching for sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector and Measuring the Performance of the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto

Research Progress Meeting Date: December 10, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Tyler Horoho (U. of Virginia) Title: Searching for sub-GeV Dark Matter with the NOvA Near Detector and Measuring the Performance of the Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto Abstract: The constituents …

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Speaker: Shion Kubota (Harvard) – Title: Studying neutrinos in high definition with LAr

Research Progress Meeting Date: December 12, 2024 Time: 4:00- 5:00 pm Location: Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132   Speaker: Shion Kubota (Harvard) Title: Studying neutrinos in high definition with LAr Abstract: This talk explores recent advancements in neutrino physics, with a focus on innovative detector technologies developed for …

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Speaker: Sparshita Dey (Oxford) – Title: Chasing Shadows: Illuminating the Path from LZ to the Next Generation Dual-Phase Xe TPC Observatory for Dark Matter

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 …

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Speaker: Ryan Gibbons (UC Berkeley) – Title: Searching for Dark Matter with LZ and Future LZ Upgrades

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 …

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Speaker: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis) – Title: A Polarized Look at the Hubble Constant Problem

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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Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern (NIST + QuICS + University of Maryland) – Title: Quantum thermodynamics for lattice gauge theories

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 …

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Speaker: Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) – Title: Novel Probes of the Primordial Liquid

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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Speaker: Aishik Ghosh (UCI), Title: Overcoming challenges of quantum interference in Higgs physics with high-dimensional statistics

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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 …

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Speaker: Atsushi J. Nishizawa (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University) – Title: Subaru HSC medium band filter survey and photometric redshift of galaxies

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 …

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Speaker: Ryan Bouabid (Duke) – Title: COHERENT: Using Small Recoils to Look for Big Discoveries

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 …

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