ABSTRACT: The central puzzle that drives the field of quantum foundations is the measurement problem: what gives rise to the appearance of wave function collapse? While there is no single answer to this question that has wide acceptance, this is …

Adam Becker (UCB) "An Incomplete Survey of Proposed Solutions to the Quantum Measurement Problem" Read More »

Abstract The radiation environment at the High Luminosity LHC requires CMS to replace its silicon tracker with one that is more radiation hard and granular. The new tracker is designed twenty years after the original one, and has new unique …

Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers U.) "CMS Tracker for HL-LHC: an Exciting New Tool for Discovery" Read More »

ABSTRACT: Current cosmological measurements have left us with deep questions about our Universe: What caused the expansion of the Universe at the earliest times? How did structure form? What is Dark Energy and does it evolve with time? New experiments …

Laura Newburgh (Yale U.) "New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background" Read More »