March 2024 |
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26 Anirban Roy, Multi-line Intensity Mapping: A Bridge Between Astrophysics and Cosmology (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Matthew Buican, Some Applications of Free Supersymmetric Fields (2:30 PM - 3:45 PM) + Abstract: | 27 Foteini Oikonomou, News from the search for the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays: Insights from the maximum rigidity distribution and a possible new source class (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 28 Mariangela Lisanti, How to Destroy a Galaxy with Dark Matter (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 29 Jun Kono, Quantum Vacuum Dressed Materials (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 1 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
4 Gabriel Cuomo, Semiclassical physics at large quantum numbers: old and new applications (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Thomas Steingasser, Higgs criticality in and beyond the Standard Model (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) -- Abstract: Both parameters in the Higgs field's potential, its mass and quartic coupling, appear fine-tuned to near-critical values, which gives rise to the hierarchy problem and the metastability of the electroweak vacuum. Whereas such behavior appears puzzling in the context of particle physics, it is a common feature of dynamical systems, which has led to the suggestion that the parameters of the Higgs potential could be set through some dynamical process. In my talk, I will discuss how this notion could be extended to physics beyond the Standard Model. I will first explain what it means for the parameters of the Higgs potential to be “critical”, with a particular focus on the fact that there exist, a priori, multiple realizations of this notion. I will then discuss some results which indicate that some of the tunings necessary to achieve criticality are, in fact, not independent. (See, e.g., [2108.09315].) Furthermore, I will explain a simple technique that allows to efficiently identify critical sets of parameters, in many cases allowing for analytical results. In the second half of my talk, I will present a recent conjecture suggesting that, whatever mechanism is ultimately responsible for the criticality of the Higgs, also affects related BSM physics. Most importantly, I will argue that this allows for concrete, measurable predictions, which are, in the best case, independent of the concrete mechanism causing criticality. I will first illustrate this for the case that the scale of new physics lies beyond the so-called instability scale, which allows for an efficient EFT treatment. (See, e.g., [2307.10361].) This scenario can potentially be checked through cosmological observations, for which I will provide some first, tentative results. Lastly, I will talk about ongoing work to extend our approach to scenarios with new physics below the instability scale. Fiona Seibold, Scattering on effective strings and compactified membranes (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM) + Abstract: | 5 Ben Farr, Hearing the forest for the trees: understanding LIGO/Virgo's plurality of singularities (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 6 HEP/Pheno Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) Luca Delacrétaz, Bound on thermalization from hydrodynamic fluctuations (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 7 | 8 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Federico Ambrosino, Exploring mesons in Generalized QCD_2 with integrability (12:00 PM - 1:15 PM) + Abstract: Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) |
11 Cameron Norton, Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 12 Adrian Bayer, Towards an Optimal Cosmological Detection of Neutrino Mass with Field-Level Inference (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 13 Claudio Andrea Manzari, Solving the Strong CP Problem without an axion (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: | 14 Tova Holmes, Muon Colliders: the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM) Xingyang Yu, Stringy Approach to SymTFTs and Categorical Symmetries (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: Abhay Narayan Pasupathy, Teaching an Old Dog Some New Tricks (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 15 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) |
18 | 19 , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 20 HEP/Pheno Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) | 21 | 22 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Alon Farragi, String Derived Z′ Model at an Upgraded Superconducting Super Collider (12:30 PM - 1:45 PM) + Abstract: Chris Hull, The action for self-dual p-form gauge fields and the geometry of gravitons (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: |
25 Neal Weiner, Exciting nu physics below an MeV (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM) + Abstract: Bingrong Yu, Axion dark matter from inflation-driven quantum phase transition (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 26 Ken Van Tillburg, Extended-Path Intensity Correlation (EPIC) (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM) + Abstract: , Grad Pheno Journal Club (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM) | 27 Tony Gherghetta, A Holographic View of the QCD Axion (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) + Abstract: | 28 Arjun Yodh, Imaging and Spectroscopy of (Mostly) Brain with Diffusing Light (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) + Abstract: | 29 Popov (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) Reza Javadi Nezhad, Soft Symmetries in Gauge Theories (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Zare (3:45 PM - 5:30 PM) |