Conveners
R2-2 Frontiers in Theoretical Physics II (DTP) | Frontières en physique théorique II (DPT)
- Mohammad Ahmady
The identity of dark matter remains a mystery, despite decades of theorizing and detection efforts. This includes the mechanism for its primordial production, its interactions with itself or with visible matter, and the very nature of dark matter, which could range from a Bose-Einstein Condensate to Black Holes. In this talk I will focus on dark matter in the extreme low mass range, which...
Generalized quasi-topological gravities are higher-curvature extensions of general relativity with the defining property that the field equations of the theory remain second-order when restricted to certain metrics of interest. In this talk, I will discuss recent work classifying the structural aspects of these theories, proving their existence at arbitrary orders and dimensions, and counting...
The notions of observation differ substantially between quantum mechanics and special / general relativity (SR and GR) and represents a barrier to a consistent understanding of quantum spacetime. I will firstly review these differing approaches to observation (or measurement), and secondly, outline an approach to address this.
Quantum Measurement
Quantum measurement has a...
With the WIMP dark matter getting more and more constrained by the direct detection experiments, alternate mechanisms like FIMP have been explored in the recent literature. We shall consider simple models with fermionic FIMP as dark matter candidates, which naturally couple with heavy right-handed neutrinos. In addition to providing observed dark matter abundance, such scenarios are capable of...
The Lambert W and Polylogarithm Functions have created a renaissance in solving problems in many diverse fields. They have found interesting and novel applications in areas such as solar cells, graphene, and double-gate metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET).
The multi-branched Lambert W function is relevant to the problem of arrays of solar cells experiencing varying...
The identity of dark matter remains a mystery, despite decades of theorizing and detection efforts. This includes the mechanism for its primordial production, its interactions with itself or with visible matter, and the very nature of dark matter, which could range from a Bose-Einstein Condensate, to Black Holes, to a traditional particle. In this talk I will discuss new ideas for dark matter,...
