Abstract: The coming decade will bring dramatic improvement in the axion dark-matter program as new experimental designs move beyond the proof of principle stage. In this talk I will outline two signals beyond dark matter that these instruments could discover. …

Nicholas Rodd (CERN) “Looking Beyond Dark Matter in Axion Haloscopes” Read More »

Abstract: Dark sectors are well motivated extensions of the Standard Model that can address many of the most important open questions in particle physics, such as the particle nature of dark matter, origin of neutrino masses, and the Higgs hierarchy …

Gustavo Marques Tavares (UMD) “Dark Sector Signals from Extreme Astrophysical Environments” Read More »

***This Research Progress Meeting is scheduled to be a Zoom Talk. Below, please find the Zoom Meeting information to join the talk.*** Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Physics Division Special Research Progress Meeting Monday, April 11, 2022 ZOOM Talk: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/99540518328   …

Ashutosh Kotwal  (Duke University) “High Precision Measurement of the W-Boson Mass with the CDF II Detector” Read More »

Abstract:  The pioneering investigation of the fundamental laws of nature at the Large Hadron Collider builds upon the interpretation ofcomplex scattering events. Our ability to identify small signals of elusive new phenomena therefore depends on accurate theoretical simulations which describe …

Pier Monni (CERN) “Taming the Complex Dynamics of Scattering Events” Read More »

ABSTRACT: The MicroBooNE detector is a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) located on-axis in the  Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermi National Laboratory. One of the primary goals of the experiment is to investigate the excess over background expectations …

Ran Itay (SLAC) “MicroBooNE’s New Results from the Deep-Learning-Based  Search for an Electron Neutrino Excess” Read More »

Abstract: The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the first project to be undertaken at the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will be the most comprehensive optical astronomical survey ever undertaken. Starting in 2024, Rubin Observatory will obtain panoramic images covering …

Željko Ivezić (Rubin Observatory/University of Washington) “Cosmology with the Greatest Movie of All Time”  Read More »

ABSTRACT: (This is a Hybrid/ZOOM Meeting) The pursuit of particle physics requires a stable and prosperous society.  Today, our society is increasingly threatened by global climate change.  Human-influenced climate change has already impacted weather patterns, and global warming will only …

Ken Bloom (UNL) “Climate Impacts of Particle Physics: A Sustainability Agenda” Read More »

Abstract: The elemental abundance patterns of stars encode a wealth of information about the history of the Milky Way galaxy and the astrophysical processesthat create atomic nuclei.  I will describe some of what we have learned about the origin of …

HYBRID TALK | David Weinberg (Ohio State U./Visiting UCB Miller Professor) “Decoding the Origin of the Elements” Read More »

ABSTRACT: Diverse astrophysical and cosmological observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is cold, dark and non-baryonic. Traditionally the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as WIMPs and axions. However Primordial Black …

Anne Green (University of Nottingham) “Primordial Black Holes as a Dark Matter Candidate” Read More »

ABSTRACT: (This is a Hybrid/ZOOM Meeting) The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment was built to measure the smallest neutrino mixing angle, θ₁₃, using the oscillation of electron antineutrinos produced by the Daya Bay nuclear power complex in southern China. Using the …

Matt Kramer (LBNL) – “Measurement of sin²2θ₁₃ and Δm²ₑₑ from the Full Dataset of the Daya Bay Experiment” Read More »