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 »

ABSTRACT: A robust detection of neutrino masses is avowedly among the key goals of several upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) surveys. In this talk, I will describe recent progress in neutrino cosmology on three fronts. Firstly, …

Sunny Vagnozzi (Stockholm University) "Recent Developments in Neutrino Cosmology" Read More »