ABSTRACT: When a new heavy particle is discovered at the LHC, it will be interesting to study its decays into Standard Model particles using an effective field-theory framework. We point out that the proper effective theory must be based on …

Matthias Neubert (U. Mainz) "Effective Field Theory after a New-Physics Discovery" Read More »

Abstracts Upcoming new instruments to measure the polarized CMB promise to provide discriminatory limits on inflation, the number of light relic particles, and the sum of the neutrino masses, ushering in a new era of using the CMB as a …

Laura Newburgh (Yale U.) " Forefronts of Cosmology: Beyond Standard Model Physics with Upcoming CMB Instruments" Read More »

ABSTRACT: The Higgs boson discovery at the LHC marked a historic milestone in the study of fundamental particles and their interactions. Over the last six years, we have begun measuring its properties, which are essential to build a deep understanding …

Caterina Vernieri (Stanford) "Higgs to Beauty Quarks: First Observation of the Big Missing Piece" Read More »

ABSTRACT: In this talk, I would like to review how the Cosmic Microwave Background (in particular its temperature and polarization anisotropies) can be used to perform both direct and indirect detection of Dark Matter.  In a first part, I will …

Vivian Poulin (JHU) "Shedding Light on Dark Matter with the CMB: Implications for EDGES 21cm Signal" Read More »

ABSTRACT: The radius of the proton, generally assumed to be a well measured and understood quantity has recently come under scrutiny due to highly precise, yet conflicting, experimental results. These new results have generated a host of interpretations, none of …

Guy Ron (Jerusalem) "The Proton Radius – Old Measurements and New Ideas" Read More »

ABSTRACT: The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) and the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detectors were designed to directly observe the interaction of dark matter (DM) with xenon target nuclei and thus probe much of the unexplored DM parameter space. I will discuss two …

Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale) "Sub-GeV dark matter searches and electric field studies for the LUX and LZ experiments " Read More »

Abstract: What is the roadmap for the discovery of new physics in the post-Higgs-observation era? The concept of naturalness can provide a useful guiding principle, considering the interplay between new, heavy physics and the electroweak scale. I will describe a …

Christian Herwig (U. Pennsylvania) " Targeting natural supersymmetry with top quarks" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Since the discovery of the Higgs boson six years ago, great progress has been made in measuring precisely its properties. These measurements have primarily been made via rare Higgs boson decays to two photons or two Z bosons due …

Stephane Brunet Cooperstein (Princeton) "Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks by the CMS Experiment" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Smoking gun signals for new physics at the LHC elude us. What gaps remain under the lamppost? Where do we focus the next generation of searches? This talk tackles these pressing problems by highlighting new frontiers opened by recent …

Jesse Liu (U. Oxford) "Opening New Frontiers for Supersymmetry and Dark Matter at the LHC" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Supersymmetry (SUSY) gives a solution to the naturalness problem of the Standard Model (SM) while providing a candidate for dark matter, solving two mysteries in modern physics. As the LHC collects more data and sets strong constraints on SUSY …

Elodie Deborah Resseguie (U. Pennsylvania) "Electroweak SUSY Searches on ATLAS" Read More »