Precision measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies over the last two decades have been a spectacular success, constraining all six parameters of the LambdaCDM cosmological model to the percent level. However, while CMB temperature is well explored, current …

Aritoki Suzuki (UCB) "Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimetry Experiment – Enabling Technologies for an Order of Magnitude Increase in Detector Count" Read More »

ABSTRACT: At the end of the XIX century, Lord Kelvin summarized a widespread feeling among physicists by saying that "physics is essentially complete, save for two little clouds". The "clouds" he was referring to were the puzzling results from two measurements, the Michelson-Morley …

Manuel Franco Sevilla (UCSB) "Strategies for Searches of Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the XXI Century" Read More »

Abstract: I will discuss the new (old) idea that dark matter may reside in a hidden sector whose interactions with the standard model are mediated by a dark photon. Possibilities for direct detection of such particles will be discussed. This …

Peter Sorensen (LBNL) "How to See Dark Photons: A Status Report on a New Avenue in Direct Detection" Read More »