Abstract: Over the next few years, cutting-edge cosmological experiments such as DESI, Rubin and CMB-S4 will provide an exquisite probe of the accelerated expansion of the Universe, structure formation, and general relativity, and thus bring us closer to revealing the nature …

Boryana Hadzhiyska (Harvard) “Uncovering physics from Stage-IV cosmological experiments with accurate galaxy models” Read More »

Abstract: With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, high energy physics has entered an era in which all fundamental particles predicted by the Standard Model have been observed. With no conclusive observations of physics beyond the Standard Model, precision tests …

Brendon Aurele Bullard (Harvard) “Toward Precision Measurements of the Higgs Yukawa Couplings”  Read More »

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 The observation of a Higgs boson with a mass of about 125 GeV confirmed the nature of the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) predicted by the standard model of particle physics, establishing that the W and Z gauge bosons acquire …

Miao HU (MIT) “Vector Boson Scattering in the Post-Higgs-Boson-Discovery Era” Read More »

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 The coupling of the Higgsboson to charm quarks has eluded experimental observation since the Higgs boson discovery in 2012. At present, this is the largest contribution to possibleHiggs boson decays that is not experimentally verified. However, this measurement is …

Maria Mironova (Oxford) “First Direct Constraint on the Higgs-Charm Coupling and its Expected Evolution with the ATLAS Detector Upgrade” Read More »

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  Dark matter is one of the primary unsolved problems in modern particle physics. Since the late 1980s, physicists have been trying to directly detect dark matter particles passing through the Earth, typically by searching for nuclear recoils. This search …

Vetri Velan (UC Berkeley) “The Present and Future of Dark Matter Direct Detection” Read More »

Abstract:  Despite overwhelming evidence of abundant dark matter in the Universe, the nature of this material remains a mystery. The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an upcoming NASA Antarctic balloon mission to search for signatures of dark matter annihilation or …

Field Rose Rogers (MIT) “The GAPS Antarctic Balloon Experiment: Low-energy Antinuclei for Dark Matter Detection” Read More »

Abstract: Neutrinos exist in one of three types or “flavors” (νe ,νµ or ντ ), which oscillate from one to another when propagating through space. This phenomenon is one of the few that cannot be described using the Standard Model …

Afroditi Papadopolou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lepton-Nucleus Scattering Constraints For Neutrino Interactions And Oscillations Read More »