ABSTRACT: Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies and, more recently, of the distribution of galaxies at late times led us to the definition of a concordance cosmological model, the so called LCDM model. Despite its phenomenological success, several …

Emanuele Castorina (UCB) "Cosmology with Neutral Hydrogen in the Post Eeionization Era" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Searches for high energy signatures from beyond the standard model physics have advanced greatly, but a lot of ground remains to be covered for soft, low energy signals. In the context of dark matter direct detection, future single-phonon detectors …

Simon Knapen (IAS) "The Soft Frontier in Dark Matter Direct Detection" Read More »

ABSTRACT: New methods and novel strategies are needed in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Motivated by signals of lepton flavor universality violation in semileptonic B decays, I'll discuss state-of-the-art theoretical developments and new model-independent theoretical tools …

Dean Robinson (UCSC/LBNL) " Model-Independent Pathways to New Physics" Read More »

Abstract: Neutrino oscillation measurements have shown that lepton flavor is not conserved, and that the standard model must be extended to include neutrino mass. Neutrino-less double beta decay measurements will help understand the nature and origin of neutrino mass, while …

Richard Bonventre (LBNL) "Investigating Lepton Flavor and Number Violation with the Mu2e and SNO+ Experiments" Read More »

Abstract: The Standard Model describes the building blocks of matter and their interactions. It has been tested extensively with experimental data and found to be incredibly successful in describing nature. Discovering the Higgs boson in 2012 at the LHC completed …

Miaoyuan Liu (Fermilab) ""Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so — Uncover new physics with bosons at the LHC and upgrades of the CMS detector to maximize the discovery potential"" Read More »

Abstract: In this talk, I will present various ways in which we can use galaxy redshift surveys to constrain fundamental physical models. This year the DESI experiment will launch, collecting a dataset of about 50 million galaxies and Quasars. Using …

Florian Beutler (U. Portsmouth) "Exploring Fundamental Physics with Galaxy Redshift Surveys" Read More »

Abstract: Many new results from a wide range of particle physics experiments and theoretical predictions were shown at the 54th Rencontres de Moriond. On the experimental side, they included updated ATLAS/CMS analyses (many using the full Run 2 dataset), probes …

Aleksandra Dimitrievska and Karol Krizka "A Very Selective Summary of the Moriond QCD and EW Sessions" Read More »

ABSTRACT:   What is common among a magnet, a halibut, a rack of laundry, your heart on the left of your body, and the Higgs boson? The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking is ubiquitous among many natural phenomena. I'll describe …

Hitoshi Murayama (UCB/LBNL) "When a Symmetry Breaks" Read More »

Abstract: There have now been several generations of wide-field mm-wave surveys, with several ongoing and upcoming very ambitious projects. We have already learned a great deal about the early universe and put strong constraints on particle physics extensions to the …

Gilbert Holder (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Particle Physics & Astrophysics with Wide Field mm-Wave Surveys" Read More »

ABSTRACT: The LHCb experiment has just discovered new narrow pentaquark states decaying to J/psi p, which shed more light into the nature of the J/psi p structures reported by LHCb in Lambda_b decays four years ago. We will describe these …

Tomasz Skwarnicki (Syracuse) "Observation of New Pentaquark States and Other Exotic Hadrons" Read More »