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 …
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 …
Sinead Farrington (U. Warwick) "Physics with Taus" Read More »
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 …
Martin White (UCB) "The cosmological legacy of Planck " Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
Qian Xin (BNL) "Development of LArTPC for Neutrino Physics" Read More »
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 …
Ning Bao (UCB/LBNL) "Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity" Read More »
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 …
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 …