Abstract: What is the nature of dark matter? What leads to the fundamental forces having such disparate strengths? Can we explain the small mass of the Higgs boson without excessive fine tuning? These outstanding questions are part of a broad …

Etienne Dreyer (Simon Fraser University) Searching for new physics using high-energy lepton pairs and some other hot topics in ATLAS Read More »

- Abstract:  In order to infer cosmological parameters from data of upcoming surveys like DESI, we will use summary statistics such as the power spectrum. An accurate estimate of their covariance matrix is crucial for the inference analysis. The traditional process …

Digvijay Wadekar (New York University) “Accelerating analysis of cosmological surveys with novel analytic methods and machine learning” Read More »

Abstract:  The most sensitive searches for dark matter (DM) with mass above ~10 GeV/c2 use the dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber (LXe-TPC) technology. In the U.S., development of this technology is spearheaded by the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, with first science data coming …

Dylan Temples (Northwestern University) New Directions in Liquid Noble Dark Matter Searches: Probing the Sub-GeV Regime Read More »