Joshua Spitz (U. Michigan) " First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

ABSTRACT: This talk will present the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has been used to isolate and study 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from charged kaon decay at rest. The …

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Adam Becker (UCB) "An Incomplete Survey of Proposed Solutions to the Quantum Measurement Problem"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

ABSTRACT: The central puzzle that drives the field of quantum foundations is the measurement problem: what gives rise to the appearance of wave function collapse? While there is no single answer to this question that has wide acceptance, this is …

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Laura Newburgh (Yale U.) "New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

ABSTRACT: Current cosmological measurements have left us with deep questions about our Universe: What caused the expansion of the Universe at the earliest times? How did structure form? What is Dark Energy and does it evolve with time? New experiments …

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Sinead Farrington (U. Warwick) "Physics with Taus"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

Abstract: The identification of hadronically decaying tau leptons at the LHC is challenging. I will review the methods for tau reconstruction at ATLAS and how the identification of tau leptons has enabled several interesting and novel measurements in exotics and …

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Martin White (UCB) "The cosmological legacy of Planck "

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

ABSTRACT: The anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation have become our most important cosmological fossil. The study of these "echoes of gravity" has revolutionized cosmology, stringently tested our models and allowed precise measurement of a host of important cosmological …

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Matt Pyle (UCB) "Athermal Phonon Detectors: World Leading Light Mass Dark Matter Sensitivity From Athermal Phonon Detectors + Preliminary Performance from Large Area Photon Detector for Next Generation Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

Abstract: In this talk, we present the new world leading results from the first search of the SuperCDMS collaboration for inelastic electronic recoils from low mass dark matter dark matter (500keV - 100MeV) using our new single ionization sensitive cryogenic …

Matt Pyle (UCB) "Athermal Phonon Detectors: World Leading Light Mass Dark Matter Sensitivity From Athermal Phonon Detectors + Preliminary Performance from Large Area Photon Detector for Next Generation Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments" Read More »

Kyle Helson (NASA Goddard) "The Status and Outlook of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Measurements"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

Abstract: The detailed characterization of the intensity and polarization Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation provides a powerful tool to constrain the properties of early Universe. The polarization induced by a stochastic gravitational wave background in this epoch induces a distinctive …

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Qian Xin (BNL) "Development of LArTPC for Neutrino Physics"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

Abstract: Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), with its mm-scale position resolution and the full-active-volume imaging-aided calorimetry, is an excellent device to detect accelerator neutrinos at GeV energy range. This technology may hold the key to search for new CP …

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Ning Bao (UCB/LBNL) "Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity"

HYBRID 50A-5132 (Sessler Conference Room), https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91782268585 50A-5132

ABSTRACT: There has been much recent interest at the intersection of the fields of Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity. In this talk, I will go over some of the motivating principles/important work that has been done in this area, and …

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