ABSTRACT: The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) and the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detectors were designed to directly observe the interaction of dark matter (DM) with xenon target nuclei and thus probe much of the unexplored DM parameter space. I will discuss two …
Abstract: What is the roadmap for the discovery of new physics in the post-Higgs-observation era? The concept of naturalness can provide a useful guiding principle, considering the interplay between new, heavy physics and the electroweak scale. I will describe a …
Christian Herwig (U. Pennsylvania) " Targeting natural supersymmetry with top quarks" Read More »
ABSTRACT: Since the discovery of the Higgs boson six years ago, great progress has been made in measuring precisely its properties. These measurements have primarily been made via rare Higgs boson decays to two photons or two Z bosons due …
ABSTRACT: Smoking gun signals for new physics at the LHC elude us. What gaps remain under the lamppost? Where do we focus the next generation of searches? This talk tackles these pressing problems by highlighting new frontiers opened by recent …
ABSTRACT: Supersymmetry (SUSY) gives a solution to the naturalness problem of the Standard Model (SM) while providing a candidate for dark matter, solving two mysteries in modern physics. As the LHC collects more data and sets strong constraints on SUSY …
Elodie Deborah Resseguie (U. Pennsylvania) "Electroweak SUSY Searches on ATLAS" Read More »
ABSTRACT: Most searches for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider assume that a new particle produced in pp-collisions decays almost immediately, or is non-interacting and escapes the detector. However, a variety of new physics models predict particles which decay inside the detector at …
ABSTRACT: Experiments at nuclear reactors have played a key role in determining the properties of the weakly-interacting neutrinos. PROSPECT is a next-generation experiment studying reactor neutrinos at very short baselines (< 10m) in an environment with limited shielding from cosmogenic …
Danielle Norcini (Yale) "PROSPECTing for reactor neutrinos at short baselines" Read More »
ABSTRACT: The LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) experiment is a second generation direct dark matter detector under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. LZ will use a 7 tonne central liquid xenon target, arranged in a …
ABSTRACT: MicroBooNE is a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) short-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment located at Fermilab on the Booster neutrino beamline. MicroBooNE’s foremost scientific objective is to address the low energy excess of single shower electromagnetic events seen …
ABSTRACT: A robust detection of neutrino masses is avowedly among the key goals of several upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) surveys. In this talk, I will describe recent progress in neutrino cosmology on three fronts. Firstly, …
Sunny Vagnozzi (Stockholm University) "Recent Developments in Neutrino Cosmology" Read More »