Experiments and observations over the last two decades have persuaded cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy is by far the main component of the energy budget of the universe. I review a few simple dark energy models and compare …
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Abstract: The Indian effort to build an underground laboratory for rare processes is outlined. The flagship experiment, based on the 50 kiloton Iron Calorimeter, will measure atmospheric muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, separately, and will target the open problem of the …
Abstract: The LHC energy increase from 8 TeV to 13 TeV in 2015 provided a significant increase in sensitivity for new, high mass particles. This had a large impact on the sensitivity of searches for supersymmetric squarks and gluinos even …
Abstract: When a massive star collapses at the end of its life, nearly all of the gravitational binding energy of the resulting remnant is released in the form of neutrinos. I will discuss the nature of the core-collapse neutrino burst …
Kate Scholberg (Duke U.) "What Stubs and Sparkles Will Tell Us About Exploding Stars" Read More »
Abstract: Neutrino oscillation experiments have demonstrated conclusively that neutrinos have mass. In many Standard Model extensions neutrinos are favored to be Majorana fermions. A worldwide experimental program to search for this Majorana nature of neutrinos is underway. In this talk, …
Alan Poon (LBL) "Searches for Majorana Neutrinos" Read More »
Abstract: The U.S. could move boldly toward accelerating transformational accelerator research for high-energy physics. Profound questions remain to be answered in particle physics; recent discoveries reconfirm the value of continued investments. However, going beyond the present generation of high energy …
Abstract: Sketched out in 1992, selected by ESA in 1996, and launched in 2009, the Planck satellite was shut off in 2013, after a measuring mission that exceeded all expectations. The Planck collaboration delivered a first set of cosmological data …
Francois Bouchett (IAP) "Latest Cosmological News from the Planck Satellite Project" Read More »
Abstract: Earlier this year the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment completed its final dark matter search from 4850 feet below ground in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Between September 2014 and May 2016 the LUX detector …
ABSTRACT: The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle whose existence would explain the baffling absence of CP violation in the strong interactions. Axions also happen to be a compelling dark-matter candidate. Axions could comprise the overwhelming majority of mass in …
Leslie Rosenberg (Univ. of Washington) "The Axion Dark-Matter Experiment (ADMX)" Read More »