PIKIMO Spring 2024

Session

Invited Talk

4 May 2024, 13:00

Room 151 (Loomis Laboratory of Physics)

Conveners

Invited Talk: Katelin Schutz

• Yonatan Kahn

Invited Talk: Hank Lamm

• Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

12. CHIME is Secretly an Axion Experiment

Prof. Katelin Schutz

04/05/2024, 13:00

In the presence of radiation from bright astrophysical sources at radio frequencies, axion dark matter can undergo stimulated decay to two nearly back-to-back photons, meaning that bright sources could have faint counterimages in other parts of the sky. The counterimages will be spectrally distinct from backgrounds, taking the form of a narrow radio line centered at half the axion mass with a...

13. Tortured Phenomenology Department, or why we need quantum computers

Hank Lamm

04/05/2024, 15:15

Many problems across high energy physics may ultimately prove impossible to solve without the assistance of quantum computers. While much progress has been made in the last decade to understand and formulate these problems, much work remains to be done. In this talk, we will highlight some of the outstanding issues to making predictions in HEP on these devices, and how HEP-insights might...