ABSTRACT: The 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen gas has many useful properties for mapping large volumes of the cosmos. These maps will give us a view of the Universe when the first luminous objects formed through gravity - the …
Peter Timbie (UW-Madison) “21cm Intensity Mapping: A New Cosmological Tool?” Read More »
Abstract: Direct detection experiments create the most radioactively quiet spots on earth, to reveal collisions between dark and ordinary matter. XENON1T, the most sensitive such experiment currently, will soon be succeeded by LZ and XENONnT. This talk highlights XENON1T's recent …
Jelle Aalbers (Stockholm U) “XENON1T: When All Other Lights Go Out” Read More »
Abstract: Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. In this talk, I will present the latest results from EXO-200, which searched for neutrinoless double beta decay (0υββ) in Xe-136 between …
Abstract: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) aims to characterize the primordial gravitational waves at the level of tensor-to-scalar ratio of 0.01, and make a cosmic-variance-limited measurement of the optical depth to reionization. CLASS is an array of four …
Abstract: The Higgs boson mass determines its couplings to every other known particle - and it is a free parameter of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Understanding the Higgs' connections with the rest of the universe requires measuring its mass experimentally. This talk presents the …