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Christoph Schwanda11/04/2023, 09:10
Flavor physics review
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Andrzej Buras11/04/2023, 09:45
I will report on the recent strategies for the determination of the genuine Standard Model predictions for several branching ratios for rare K and B decays. Subsequently constraints on Z' models following from these strategies will be discussed and a new mixing matrix for Z' interactions with quarks that is analogous to the CKM matrix will be presented.
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Dr Innes Bigaran (Fermilab and Northwestern University)11/04/2023, 10:07Flavour
Anomalies in the flavor sector have attracted significant attention in recent years. Of particular interest for this talk are those in the muon and electron magnetic dipole moments: the so-called g-2 anomalies. The present status of these could point towards the requirement for new physics that couples differently to leptons and muons. I will review the status of scalar leptoquark models as...
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Christopher SMITH (LPSC Grenoble)11/04/2023, 11:00
In this talk, recent advances in the theoretical description of axions and their interactions are presented. We start by recalling the principle of reparametrization invariance, based on the Goldstone boson nature of the axion. Using this principle as a tool, we discuss first the axion coupling to gauge bosons, and show that they are actually not driven by the anomalies. Then we describe the...
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Luca Di Luzio11/04/2023, 11:22BSM Theory
While the axion was originally introduced to “wash out” CP violation from strong interactions, new sources of CP violation beyond QCD (needed to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry) might manifest themselves via a tiny scalar axion-nucleon component. The latter can be experimentally probed in axion-mediated force experiments, as suggested long ago by J.E. Moody and F. Wilczek. In the...
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Dr Federico Mescia (Universitat de Barcelona)11/04/2023, 11:44
We study the impact of running effects on QCD axion phenomenology. Focusing on variants of DFSZ model, it is possible to suppress simultaneously both the axion couplings to nucleons and electrons, realising the so-called astrophobic axion scenarios, wherein the tight bounds from SN1987A and from stellar evolution of red giants and white dwarfs are greatly relaxed. This suppsression is not...
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Andrea Tesi (INFN Florence)11/04/2023, 12:06
I will discuss the possibility that the axion Peccei-Quinn symmetry is spontaneously broken after the beginning of inflation. This scenario interpolates between pre-inflationary and post-inflationary axion DM cosmology with significant phenomenological differences from both. In particular, large inflationary fluctuations are produced only at scales not constrained by CMB, avoiding the...
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Dr Gerardin Antoine (CPT)11/04/2023, 14:30
The 2021 measurement by the Fermilab experiment confirmed the 4 sigma discrepancy with the theory estimate based on the world average from the g-2 Theory Initiative. Since then, new lattice QCD results have been published and tend to reduce this tension.
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In this talk, I will present some recent lattice calculations of the hadronic contributions to the muon g-2 and I will discuss their impact... -
Dr Damir BECIREVIC (IJCLab, CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay)11/04/2023, 14:52
We discuss the current status of the exclusive $b \to c \ell\nu$ decay modes and review the situation with hadronic uncertainties as well as with the problems related to a reliable extraction of $|V_{cb}|$. We also discuss the lepton flavor universality both in the decays of mesons and in the decays of baryons, and emphasize the importance of studying the angular distribution of these decay...
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Ivan Nišandžić (Ruđer Bošković Institute)11/04/2023, 15:14
We present our predictions for lifetimes, lifetime ratios and
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semileptonic decay widths of single-charm (bottom) and double-charm
baryons within the Heavy Quark Expansion (HQE) framework, including all
known corrections. In contrast to earlier findings, our results
accommodate the experimentally-favoured hierarchy of the singly charmed
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Dr Olcyr Sumensari (University of Zurich)11/04/2023, 15:36
In this talk, I will revisit the Standard Model (SM) predictions for $\mathcal{B}(B \to K^{(\ast)}\nu\bar{\nu})$ and discuss the opportunities that open up when combining its partial decay with that of $\mathcal{B}(B → K^{(\ast)}\mu\mu)$. I will argue that the differential measurement of $B \to K\nu\bar{\nu}$ decays allow for an useful cross-check of the shape of the vector form-factor...
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shaikh saad (University of Basel)11/04/2023, 16:30
Motivated by the direct discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) from black holes and neutron stars, there is a growing interest in investigating GWs from other sources. Among them, GWs from cosmic strings are particularly fascinating since they naturally appear in a large class of grand unified theories (GUTs). Remarkably, a series of pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs) might have already observed GWs...
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Dr Vasja Susič (Charles University)11/04/2023, 16:52
We present the latest progress in analyzing the minimal potentially realistic non-supersymmetric $\mathrm{SO}(10)$ GUT model, whose scalar sector consists of representations $45+126+10$. Although the model is expected to give a robust proton decay prediction, any analysis is hampered by tachyonic instabilities present in the tree-level scalar potential. The one-loop corrected effective...
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Prof. Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne)11/04/2023, 17:14
I will briefly discuss two ideas in dark matter model building. They first is that axion dark matter may be connected with neutrino mass generation, baryogenesis and flavour-dependent Higgs Yukawa couplings. The second arises within a continuing search for a good theory of the dark matter mass scale in the asymmetric dark matter paradigm. In particular, I will present some recent results on...
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Prof. Josef Pradler (University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))11/04/2023, 17:36
In this talk, we consider the phenomenology of electrically neutral complex vector particles V with a mass below the GeV-scale, but with higher dimensional form factor interactions to the SM photon. The astrophysics, cosmology and direct detection phenomenology will be presented.
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Prof. Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE))12/04/2023, 09:00Neutrinos
The latest experimental results from CMS collaboration on Heavy Neutral Leptons will be presented. Various HNL production and decay modes are considered to guide the searches. The analysis of the full Run II data leads to stringent constraints on neutrino mass model parameters.
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Thomas Schwetz12/04/2023, 09:35
I discuss the interplay of terrestrial and cosmological neutrino mass determinations and highlight the exciting prospects for cosmological observations. Then I discuss a mechanism to modify neutrino evolution in the early Universe, to make "large" neutrino masses consistent with cosmology, and present a simple seesaw scenario to realise such a mechanism in a UV complete model.
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Patrick Bolton (INFN Trieste & SISSA)12/04/2023, 09:57
Direct searches at fixed target experiments and searches for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay can be used to probe the Majorana vs. pseudo-Dirac nature of a Heavy Neutral Lepton (HNL) pair. Firstly, I will outline a phenomenological parametrisation relating the active-sterile mixing strengths to the neutrino oscillation data, assuming that the HNL pair generates masses for two light...
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Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and Humboldt University (Berlin))12/04/2023, 10:19
CP violation breaking is accidentally small in the SM: flavour invariants measuring CP violation in SMEFT are constructed and consequences on various flavour assumptions on their sizes are scrutinised.
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Ulrich Nierste (KIT TTP)12/04/2023, 11:10Flavour
The LHCb combined measurements of $\Delta a_{\rm CP} = a_{\rm CP} (D\to K^+K^-)- a_{\rm CP} (D\to \pi^+\pi^-)$ and $a_{\rm CP} (D\to K^+K^-)$ are in tension with predictions employing the Standard Model and U-spin symmetry of QCD. I discuss explanations in terms of new physics and propose test of these explanations in other $D$ decay modes.
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Gudrun Hiller (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))12/04/2023, 11:32Flavour
Rare charm decays provide unique and complementary insights on flavor and BSM physics. We discuss status and progress in null test searches from theory on decays of charm mesons and baryons into invisibles, photons and leptons and where flavor experiments are currently pushing this frontier. We also discuss CP-violation together with sizable U-spin violation seen in hadronic 2-body decays.
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Prof. Andreas Crivellin (University of Zurich (CH))12/04/2023, 11:54Flavour
In this talk I review vector-like quarks in leptons in flavour physics and EW precision observables in light of the W mass and the Cabibbo angle anomaly.
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Gustavo Branco (Instituto Superior Tecnico)12/04/2023, 12:16Flavour
We emphasize the analogy between Vector-Like Quarks (VLQ) and Right Handed Neutrinos, illustrating how VLQ lead to naturally supressed FCNC and naturally small violations of 3x3 unitarity in the CKM matrix. VLQ provide a simple solution to the puzzle of eventual lack of unitarity in the first line of the CKM matrix and also provide a framework to have a realistic model with spontaneous CP...
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Giovanni Villadoro (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))12/04/2023, 14:30BSM Theory
We strengthen the cosmological bound on the axion mass, by solving the momentum-dependent Boltzmann equations for axion-pion scatterings and by using a phenomenological production rate derived from pion-pion scattering data, overcoming the breakdown of chiral perturbation theory. Using present cosmological datasets we obtain m_a < 0.24 eV. To further improve the bound and exploit the reach of...
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Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST))12/04/2023, 14:52
We discuss examples of three Higgs doublet models which can provide good dark matter candidates. The emphasis is on models with S_3 symmetry, with or without spontaneous CP violation. Some aspects of the Weinberg potential will also be discussed.
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Ilja Doršner (University of Split)12/04/2023, 15:14
I discuss the impact of triple-leptoquark interactions on matter stability for two specific proton decay topologies that arise at the tree- and one-loop level if and when they coexist. I furthermore demonstrate that the one-loop level topology is, in such an instance, much more relevant than the tree-level one despite the usual loop-suppression factor. To support that claim I present detailed...
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Aleks Smolkovic12/04/2023, 16:15
Rare b hadron decays are considered excellent probes of new semileptonic four-fermion interactions of microscopic origin. However, the same interactions also correct the high-mass Drell-Yan tails. In this work, we revisit the first statement in the context
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of this complementarity and chart the space of short-distance new physics that could show up in rare b decays. We analyze the latest b →... -
Ramona Groeber (Università di Padova and INFN, Sezione di Padova)12/04/2023, 16:37
Light quark Yukawa couplings are notoriously difficult to measure: the HL-LHC will be able to constrain the first generation couplings only by a factor of few hundred times their SM value.
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I will discuss Higgs pair production and the Higgs off-shell measurement as potential probes of light quark Yukawa couplings. For the Higgs pair production process I will discuss also how interpretable... -
Florentin Jaffredo12/04/2023, 16:59
The Drell-Yan processes $pp\to\ell\nu$ and $pp\to\ell\ell$ at high transverse momentum can provide important probes of semileptonic transitions that are complementary to low-energy flavor physics observables. We parametrize possible New Physics (NP) contributions to these processes in terms of form-factors, and derive the corresponding bounds by recasting the latest ATLAS and CMS run 2...
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Martin Sebastian Lang12/04/2023, 18:35
Leptonic decays of neutral B mesons provide an excellent probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, due to the absence of tree-level flavour-changing neutral currents in the Standard Model and the corresponding smallness of the branching ratio. We present a Two-Higgs-Doublet model in which flavour-changing neutral Higgs couplings to up-type quarks can lift part of the SM suppression. The...
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Marco Fedele (KIT)12/04/2023, 18:40Poster
Measurements of the branching ratios of $B \to D^{(*)}\tau\bar\nu/B \to D^{(*)}\ell\bar\nu$ and $B_c\to J/\psi\, \tau\bar\nu/B_c\to J/\psi\, \ell\bar\nu$ by the BaBar, Belle and LHCb collaborations consistently point towards an abundance of taus compared to channels with light leptons. However, the ratio $\Lambda_b \to\Lambda_c \tau\bar\nu/\Lambda_b \to\Lambda_c \ell\bar\nu$ shows a relative...
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Marco Matteini (Jožef Stefan Institute)12/04/2023, 18:45
We derive a closed-form false vacuum decay rate at one loop for a single real scalar field in the thin wall limit. We obtain the bounce solution, together with the Euclidean action, counter-terms and RG running, and we extract the functional determinant via the Gel’fand-Yaglom theorem. Our procedure is valid for a generic spacetime dimension D, and we provide an explicit finite renormalized...
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Mr Mitja Sadl12/04/2023, 18:50
We present two lattice studies: The $\bar bb\bar qq$ systems with various quantum numbers using static bottom quarks and $\bar cc \bar qq$ systems with $I(J^{PC})=1(1^{+\pm})$.
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Only one set of quantum numbers that couples to $Z_b$ and $\Upsilon\;\pi$ was explored on the lattice before; these studies found an attractive potential between $B$ and $\bar B^*$ resulting in a bound state below the... -
Anze Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory)13/04/2023, 09:00
I'll review the current state of affairs in Cosmology. Data from Planck and from Stage III spectroscopic and photometric experiments have firmly established the flat $\Lambda$CDM as the standard cosmological model. Many parameters are now measured with the percent level precision. Nevertheless, some tensions remain, the strongest being the Hubble parameter tension between expansion rate of the...
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Pedro Schwaller13/04/2023, 09:35
The early Universe is usually assumed to be thermalised, homogeneous and isotropic, with only small fluctuations. However many new physics scenarios violate these assumptions: Phase transitions or displaced scalar fields lead to large deviations from thermal equilibrium, while topological defects like strings and domain walls represent large anisotropies. This talk will give an overview of...
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Filippo Sala13/04/2023, 09:57
I will show how first order phase transitions (PT) in the early universe, with relativistic bubble walls, constitute particle accelerators and colliders. These `bubbletrons' offer novel opportunities of observational access to very high energy scales, in addition to the gravitational waves from the PT. As two examples, I will discuss: i) non-adiabatic production of dark matter which is so fast...
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Mathias Becker (JGU Mainz)13/04/2023, 10:19
A non-minimal dark sector could explain why WIMP dark matter has evaded detection so far. Based on the extensively studied example of a simplified t-channel dark matter model involving a colored mediator, we demonstrate that the Sommerfeld effect and bound state formation must be considered for an accurate prediction of the relic density and thus also when inferring the experimental...
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Francesco Sannino (Syddansk Universitet (DK))13/04/2023, 11:10
We critically analyse the future of composite dynamics via the impact of non standard model Higgs on the (non) observed g-2 and W-mass anomalies.
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Giacomo Cacciapaglia (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))13/04/2023, 11:32BSM Theory
The ultimate dream of unification models consists in combining both gauge and Yukawa couplings into one unified coupling. This is achieved by using a supersymmetric exceptional ${\rm E}_6$ gauge symmetry together with asymptotic unification in compact five-dimensional space-time. The ultraviolet fixed point requires exactly three fermion generations: one in the bulk, and the two light ones...
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Axel Torsten Maas13/04/2023, 11:54
Subtle, but long-known, field-theoretical aspects require a more refined treatment of gauge theories involving a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect. This refinement can be analytically done using the Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism. In the standard model, this leads to slight, but in principle detectable, quantitative changes in observables. For many theories beyond the standard model, the effects...
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Dr Diego Redigolo (CERN-INFN Florence)13/04/2023, 12:16
I will discuss how dark matter long range interactions with itself or with the baryons leave unique signatures in precision cosmological observables. I will present exquisitely sensitive probes of these interactions in galactic surveys and in 21cm cosmology and discuss the challenges of the theory predictions.
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Francesco D'Eramo (University of Padua)13/04/2023, 14:30Neutrinos
Nuclear reactions in the solar core can produce light and weakly coupled beyond the standard model particles that subsequently reach the Earth. We analyze the second step of the proton-proton chain, and we investigate the flux of monochromatic 5.49 MeV massive spin-one particles. Focusing on two benchmark scenarios, which correspond to different communication mechanisms with the visible...
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Vedran Brdar (CERN)13/04/2023, 14:52Neutrinos
Sterile neutrinos are well-motivated extension of the Standard Model. In this talk I will focus on the interaction between sterile neutrinos and light active neutrinos through the magnetic moment portal. I will show that strong constraints can be derived from SN1987A through the non-observation of active neutrinos and photons produced from sterile neutrino decays. Furthermore, sensitivity...
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Stephane Lavignac (IPhT Saclay)13/04/2023, 15:14
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Jose Ramon Espinosa Sedano (IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid)13/04/2023, 16:30Early Universe
The Tunneling Potential Formalism is an alternative to the Euclidean bounce for calculating tunneling actions, that control the decay of metastable vacua. In this talk I will discuss how this formalism can be extended to study other problems, from bubble-of-nothing decays to ungauged Q-balls and more.
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Yutaro Shoji13/04/2023, 16:52
The quantum tunneling in quantum field theory has attracted theoretical and phenomenological interests for a long time. Although it has been nearly established in the absence of gravity, there are subtleties in the presence of gravity. We re-formulated quantum tunneling with the Wheeler-deWitt equation and found that there is a possibility that a system may experience both Euclidean and...
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Tevong You (King's College London)13/04/2023, 17:14
The limitations of symmetry-based solutions to naturalness problems have led to seeking answers from the early universe. In this talk I will give an overview of cosmological solutions to naturalness problems, focusing on models of cosmological relaxation and self-organised localisation.
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Salvador ROSAURO-ALCARAZ13/04/2023, 17:36
We perform a comprehensive scan of the parameter space of a general singlet scalar
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extension of the Standard Model to identify the regions which can lead to a strong first-
order phase transition, as required by the electroweak baryogenesis mechanism. We find
that taking into account bubble nucleation is a fundamental constraint on the parameter
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21. Exploring High-Energy Physics at the LHC: Recent Results and Future Prospects from ATLAS and CMSFlavia De Almeida Dias (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))14/04/2023, 09:00
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has enabled us to explore the frontiers of particle physics and understand the fundamental nature of the universe. In this talk, I will present a comprehensive overview of high pT physics analyses conducted in Run 2 of the LHC by both the ATLAS and CMS experiments. These analyses cover a broad range of topics, including measurements of the Higgs boson,...
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Martin Gorbahn14/04/2023, 09:35
We study the direct-detection rate for axial-vectorial dark matter scattering off nuclei in an SU(2) × U(1) invariant effective theory and compare it against the LHC reach. Current constraints from direct detection experiments are already bounding the mediator mass to be well into the TeV range for WIMP-like scenarios. This motivates a consistent and systematic exploration of the parameter...
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Raffaele D'Agnolo14/04/2023, 09:57
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Prof. Yue Zhang14/04/2023, 10:48
Entropy production is a necessary ingredient for addressing the over-population of thermal relics. It is widely employed in particle physics models for explaining the origin of dark matter. A longlived particle that decays to the known particles, while dominating the universe, plays the role of the dilutor. We point out the impact of its partial decay to dark matter on the primordial matter...
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Zurab Berezhiani (Univ. L'Aquila)14/04/2023, 11:10
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Michal Malinsky14/04/2023, 11:32
We study the prospects of leptogenesis in the framework of the minimal flipped SU(5) gauge model in which the heavy Majorana neutrino mass scale is connected to the scale of unification via two-loop radiative effects. We argue that, in spite of a lower-than-usual seesaw scale, a successful thermal leptogenesis can take place in several regimes yielding a firm upper limit on the absolute light...
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Prof. Fabrizio Nesti
Left-Right symmetry faces stringent constraints from flavor and direct searches, that motivate its scale to be in the tens of TeV regime. I will thus describe and review the prospects for probing this restoration of Parity at future hadron colliders.
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Georgi Dvali
Saturons are macroscopic objects with maximal microstate entropy. Due to this property, they can be produced via quantum transitions from a homogeneous thermal bath, bypassing the standard exponential suppression characteristic of ordinary extended objects. In this sense, saturons carry an advantage with respect to other macroscopic objects such as black holes and ordinary solitons. Due to...
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Guglielmo Coloretti (University of Zurich (UZH) / Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI))
In the light of the current hints for new scalars at the LHC at 95 GeV and 151 GeV, I present an analysis of low mass resonances decaying into W bosons. Recasting and combining the SM Higgs analyses of ATLAS and CMS, our results give further support to the existance of such new Higgs bosons.
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David Chen-Yu ShihCollider Physics and Machine Learning
I will survey some recent applications of ML to the LHC and astrophysics, such as new methods for BSM searches and fast simulation at the LHC; and searching for stellar streams and measuring the local dark matter density using Gaia data.
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David Marzocca (INFN Trieste)Collider Physics and Machine Learning
Collinear radiation emitted from high-energy leptons can be resummed by solving the corresponding DGLAP equations, resulting in parton distribution functions (PDFs) for leptons. When going above the EW scale, all SM interactions should be considered and the inclusion of EW interactions bring several novel features that are not present in QCD PDFs of a proton. In this talk I will discuss our...
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