The inverse square law of gravity has been empirically tested to various degrees for distances between <0.1mm to 1AU.   Outside this range very little is known and, yet, physics beyond the standard model may actually introduce new long-range forces that …

Giorgio Gratta (Stanford) "Probing Gravity – and Other Forces – at Extreme Scales" Read More »

Experiments and observations over the last two decades have persuaded cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy is by far the main component of the energy budget of the universe. I review a few simple dark energy models and compare …

Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.) "Dark Energy: Constant or Time Variable? (…and other open questions)"" Read More »

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Abstract: The Indian effort to build an underground laboratory for rare processes is outlined. The flagship experiment, based on the 50 kiloton Iron Calorimeter, will measure atmospheric muon neutrinos and antineutrinos, separately, and will target the open problem of the …

Prof. V.M. Datar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) "The India based Neutrino Observatory project" Read More »

Abstract: The LHC energy increase from 8 TeV to 13 TeV in 2015 provided a significant increase in sensitivity for new, high mass particles. This had a large impact on the sensitivity of searches for supersymmetric squarks and gluinos even …

David Stuart (UCSB) "Recent CMS SUSY Results" Read More »