ABSTRACT: Most searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider assume that a new particle produced in pp-collisions decays almost immediately, or is non-interacting and escapes the detector. However, a variety of new physics models predict particles which decay inside the detector at …
ABSTRACT: Experiments at nuclear reactors have played a key role in determining the properties of the weakly-interacting neutrinos. PROSPECT is a next-generation experiment studying reactor neutrinos at very short baselines (< 10m) in an environment with limited shielding from cosmogenic …
Danielle Norcini (Yale) "PROSPECTing for reactor neutrinos at short baselines" Read More »
ABSTRACT: The LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) experiment is a second generation direct dark matter detector under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. LZ will use a 7 tonne central liquid xenon target, arranged in a …
ABSTRACT: MicroBooNE is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) short-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment located at Fermilab on the Booster neutrino beamline. MicroBooNE’s foremost scientific objective is to address the low energy excess of single shower electromagnetic events seen …
ABSTRACT: A robust detection of neutrino masses is avowedly among the key goals of several upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) surveys. In this talk, I will describe recent progress in neutrino cosmology on three fronts. Firstly, …
Sunny Vagnozzi (Stockholm University) "Recent Developments in Neutrino Cosmology" Read More »
ABSTRACT: The last twenty years have seen a spectacular improvement in our understanding of neutrino oscillations and neutrino physics in general. However, several experiments have shown some puzzling results which do not fit the standard three-flavor mixing scheme of neutrinos. …
Stefano Soleti (Oxford/Harvard U.) "Searching for a Low-Energy Excess at MicroBOONE" Read More »
Abstract: A large international collaboration has been formed to carry out an ambitious project to build the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) for investigating fundamental questions in neutrino and proton decay physics. The DUNE far detector consists of four time-projection …
Abstract: Current and future galaxy surveys have the potential to transform our understanding of both galaxy formation and cosmology. The distribution of galaxies and matter on small, non-linear scales (~Mpc) holds the most statistical constraining power but is also the …
Joannes Lange (Yale) "Probing Galaxy Formation and Cosmology in the Non-Linear Regime" Read More »
Abstract: The measurement of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark and the Higgs boson, namely the two most massive fundamental particles observed so far, is a crucial piece for understanding the mechanism of fermion mass generation. The most promising …