ABSTRACT: The last twenty years have seen a spectacular improvement in our understanding of neutrino oscillations and neutrino physics in general. However, several experiments have shown some puzzling results which do not fit the standard three-flavor mixing scheme of neutrinos. …
Stefano Soleti (Oxford/Harvard U.) "Searching for a Low-Energy Excess at MicroBOONE" Read More »
Abstract: A large international collaboration has been formed to carry out an ambitious project to build the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) for investigating fundamental questions in neutrino and proton decay physics. The DUNE far detector consists of four time-projection …
Abstract: Current and future galaxy surveys have the potential to transform our understanding of both galaxy formation and cosmology. The distribution of galaxies and matter on small, non-linear scales (~Mpc) holds the most statistical constraining power but is also the …
Joannes Lange (Yale) "Probing Galaxy Formation and Cosmology in the Non-Linear Regime" Read More »
Abstract: The measurement of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark and the Higgs boson, namely the two most massive fundamental particles observed so far, is a crucial piece for understanding the mechanism of fermion mass generation. The most promising …
Abstract: Galaxy surveys and the study of the Large Scale Structure (LSS) have played an important role in establishing the standard cosmological model, LCDM, and will push the envelope of observational cosmology the next decades, thanks to experiments such as …
Abstract: CHIME is a new interferometric telescope at radio frequencies 400-800 MHz. The mapping speed (or total statistical power) of CHIME is among the largest of any radio telescope in the world, and the technology powering CHIME could be used …
Abstract: Mapping the polarized thermal dust emission from our galaxy is important for many fields of astrophysics, and recent observations reveal a complex network of filamentary structures which pervade the interstellar medium and molecular clouds, and are rich with prestellar …
Abstract: In spite of a wide range of observational evidence, the mystery of dark matter is still present and dark matter remains to be directly detected. One of the most popular Dark Matter candidates is the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). In …
ABSTRACT: After the discovery of the Higgs boson, the future of high energy physics became a central question. There have been several proposals of future colliders which would continue the exploration of the high energy frontier beyond the reach of …
LianTao Wang (U. Chicago) " Physics of Future Colliders" Read More »
ABSTRACT: A precise prediction of the neutrino flux is a key ingredient for achieving the physics goals of accelerator-based neutrino experiments. In modern experiments, neutrino beams are created from the decays of secondary hadrons produced in hadron-nucleus interactions. Hadron production …