ABSTRACT: The radius of the proton, generally assumed to be a well measured and understood quantity has recently come under scrutiny due to highly precise, yet conflicting, experimental results. These new results have generated a host of interpretations, none of …

Guy Ron (Jerusalem) "The Proton Radius – Old Measurements and New Ideas" Read More »

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 …

Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale) "Sub-GeV dark matter searches and electric field studies for the LUX and LZ experiments " Read More »

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 …

Stephane Brunet Cooperstein (Princeton) "Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks by the CMS Experiment" Read More »

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 …

Jesse Liu (U. Oxford) "Opening New Frontiers for Supersymmetry and Dark Matter at the LHC" Read More »

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 …

Karri DiPetrillo (Harvard U.) "Searching for long-lived particles with displaced vertices in ATLAS " Read More »

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 …

Scott Haselschwardt (UCSB) " Expected Performance of the LZ Outer Detector and a Radioassay of its Gadolinium-Loaded Liquid Scintillator" Read More »

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 …

Brooke Russell (Yale) "Leveraging LArTPC Technology to Definitively Resolve the MiniBooNE Anomaly – An Elctron Neutrino Appearance Search at MicroBooNE" Read More »