Conveners
Minisymposium: Charged lepton violation
- Robert Bernstein
Minisymposium: Neutrino Science with the DUNE Experiment
- Vaia Papadimitriou
Minisymposium: quantum instrumentation
- Silvia Zorzetti (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
Minisymposium: 10 TeV center of mass
- Sridhara Dasu (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
Minisymposium: forward physics
- Brian Thomas Batell
Minisymposium: Higgs factories
- Sarah Eno (University of Maryland (US))
Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (cLFV) stands as a compelling frontier in the realm of particle physics, offering a unique window into the mysteries of flavor physics beyond the Standard Model. I will provide a comprehensive overview of the current experimental landscape and future prospects.
A survey of ongoing experimental efforts will be presented, highlighting recent breakthroughs and...
Neutrino oscillations have shown that lepton flavor is not a conserved quantity. Charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) is suppressed by the small neutrino masses well below what is experimentally observable, while lepton number violation (LNV) is forbidden in the SM extended to include neutrino masses. New physics models predict higher rates of CLFV and allow for LNV. The CLFV $\mu^-...
Charged lepton flavor violation is an unambiguous signature of New Physics. Current experimental status and future prospects from the electron-positron colliders are discussed. Discovery potential of New Physics models with charged lepton flavor violation as its experimental signature are also presented.
Lepton flavor universality (LFU) is an assumed symmetry in the Standard Model (SM). The violation of the lepton flavor universality (LFUV) would be a clear sign of physics beyond the Standard Model and has been actively searched from both small- and large-scale experiments. One of the most stringent tests for LFU comes from the precision measurements of rare decays of light mesons. In...
We show how the experiment Mu3e can improve sensitivity to light new physics by taking advantage of the angular distribution of the decay products. We also propose a new search at Mu3e for flavor violating axions through the decay mu ->3e + a which circumvents the calibration challenges which plague the mu -> e a.
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in the US. It will have four far detector modules, each holding 17 kilotons of liquid argon. These modules sit 1500 meters underground and 1300 kilometers from the near detector complex. In this overview talk, I will give an overview of DUNE experiment, including the status of...
DUNE is the flagship of the next generation of neutrino experiments in the United States. It is designed to decisively measure neutrino CP violation and the mass hierarchy. It utilizes the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology, which provides exceptional spatial resolution and the potential to accurately identify final state particles and neutrino events. DUNE's high...
I will introduce the general concepts of DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment), as well as the current status of protoDUNE-VD, one of the two large-scale LArTPC-based DUNE Far Detector prototypes located at CERN. Later, I will focus on my neural network module, aiming at speeding up photon propagation process for optical simulation of protoDUNE-VD. This module is 50 ~ 100 times faster...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is one of two big next generation neutrino experiments aimed at measuring neutrino properties, including the mass hierarchy, CP violating phase. The DUNE Far Detector will consist of four 17-kt modules, two of which have been prototypes at the ProtoDUNE experiment at CERN. The ProtoDUNE experiment consists of two liquid argon time projection...
Quantum sensing employs a rich arsenal of techniques, such as squeezing, photon counting, and entanglement assistance, to achieve unprecedented levels of sensitivity in various tasks, with wide-reaching applications in fields of fundamental physics. For instance, squeezing has been utilized to enhance the sensitivity of gravitational wave detection and expedite the hunt for exotic dark matter...
Superconducting transmon qubits play a pivotal role in contemporary superconducting quantum computing systems. These nonlinear devices are typically composed of a Josephson junction shunted by a large capacitor and the bottom two energy eigenstates serve as qubits. When a qubit is placed in its excited state, it decays to its ground state with a relaxation timescale $T_1$. However, recent...
The QCD axion, originally motivated as a solution to the strong CP problem, is a compelling candidate for dark matter, and accordingly, the last decade has seen an explosion in new ideas to search for axions. Simultaneously, we have witnessed a revolution in quantum sensing and metrology, with the emergence of platforms enabling ever-greater measurement sensitivity. These platforms are now...
Recent advancements in quantum computing have introduced new opportunities alongside classical computing, offering unique capabilities that complement traditional methods. As quantum computers operate on fundamentally different principles from classical systems, there is a growing imperative to explore their distinct computational paradigms. In this context, our research aims to explore the...
A multi-TeV muon collider has the unique potential to provide both precision measurements and the highest energy reach in one machine that cannot be paralleled by any currently available technology. There has been a strong physics interest in Muon Colliders recently, as indicated by the number of publications, workshops, Snowmass activities, and the 2023 P5 report which referred to it as...
The advantage of muons over electrons for a lepton collider is that one can accelerate and collide them in circular machines. Unfortunately muons are difficult to produce and have a short lifetime, and these basic issues drive most design choices for a muon collider. In particular, unlike most colliders, all the muons of a given sign in each pulse are combined into a single intense bunch. To...
Muon colliders offer an exciting opportunity for high energy exploration, but the rapidly decaying beam causes challenges throughout the system. This talk will focus on detector design and machine-detector interface optimization, presenting recent developments targeting a 10 TeV collider as well as outlook for the future.
The recent detection of neutrinos at the LHC has ushered in a new era of multi-messenger collider physics. The Forward Physics Facility is an underground cavern that will allow the LHC to fully exploit this new capability in the HL-LHC era. The FPF will house several experiments, which will detect thousands of TeV-energy neutrinos each day, with far-reaching implications for neutrino physics,...
FASER represents a novel experiment for LHC Run 3. The experiment, which is located 480 meters away from the ATLAS collision point and faces forward, is intended to look for neutral, weakly-interacting, and long-lived particles that go beyond the Standard Model and investigate high energy neutrinos of all flavors. FASER's most recent physics results will be discussed, as well as the...
The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposed program to build an underground cavern with the space and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider during the High Luminosity era (HL-LHC). The Forward Liquid Argon Experiment (FLArE) is a proposed Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) based experiment designed to detect very high-energy...
SND@LHC is a compact stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < 𝜂 < 8.6, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC. The experiment is located 480 m downstream of IP1 in the unused TI18 tunnel. The detector is composed of a hybrid system based on an 800 kg target mass of tungsten plates,...
The FORMOSA detector at the proposed Forward Physics Facility is a scintillator-based experiment designed to search for signatures of "millicharged particles" produced in the forward region of the LHC. This talk will cover the challenges and impressive sensitivity of the FORMOSA detector, expected to extend current limits by over an order of magnitude. A pathfinder experiment, the FORMOSA...
The proposed next generation e+e- colliders provide an excellent opportunity for precision measurements of the electroweak and the Higgs sector that offer both direct and indirect probes of new physics beyond the Standard Model. These opportunities can be enabled by deploying low-mass, high granularity detectors, utilizing the latest state-of-the-art technological developments, that can offer...
Prospects to constrain CP-odd contributions in the Higgs-strahlung process at a future electron-positron collider for the process e+e- => ZH are presented. A realistic study is performed in the framework of the FCC-ee collider at the center-of-mass energy of 240 GeV, with reconstruction of the IDEA detector performed using the DELPHES framework. A matrix-element package, MELA, is implemented...
We show that the FCC-ee will have sensitivity to the MSSM electroweak sector that is complementary to the LHC, through the precision Z-boson measurements. Our results provide added motivation and quantitative targets for the desired systematic uncertainty on this measurement.
