833. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: New windows on the Universe - exploring the interface of particle physics and gravitational waves

Europe/Zurich
Kitzbühel

Kitzbühel

Hotel Kaiserhof A6370 Kitzbühel Austria
Steven Bass (Jagiellonian University (PL))
Description

This Heraeus Seminar explores the joint role that particle physics and gravitational waves can play in telling us about the physics of the early Universe and the deep structure of matter. Physics topics include phase transitions in the early Universe, black holes (also in connection with dark matter candidates), dark energy, CMB polarisation as a probe of inflation, what the Higgs boson might be telling us as a clue to deeper physics and tiny neutrino masses and possible axion-like particles as probes of new physics at very high scales. The high luminosity upgrade of the LHC, the LISA gravitational waves mission and other key experiments will provide exciting data in the next decade.

The Seminar will promote new synergies between the particle physics and gravitational waves communities in our quest to access this unexplored new physics, including how new quantum sensing technologies can play an important role on the experimental side.

Invited speakers will cover a broad range of key issues in this frontline science with a view to promoting new cross-disciplinary discussion and collaboration. Young researchers (Ph D students and postdocs up to 4 years from Ph D) from the particle physics, gravitational waves and cosmology communities are especially encouraged to apply. 

Participation is by invitation. The Seminar is limited to 70 participants.

    • 1
      Welcome reception
    • 2
      Opening
    • 3
      Interferometric gravitational wave detection - a (quantum-)metrological challenge
      Speaker: Michele Heurs
    • 4
      tba
      Speaker: Samaya Nissanke
    • 5
      Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter
      Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone
    • 10:40
      Coffee break
    • 6
      Experimental Studies of Black Holes: Status and Prospects
      Speaker: Reinhard Genzel
    • 7
      Probing dark matter with liquid xenon detectors
      Speaker: Laura Baudis
    • 8
      Heraeus Presentation
      Speaker: Stefan Jorda
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • 9
      Testing particle physics with the CMB
      Speaker: Jo Dunkley
    • 10
      Decoding the cosmos
      Speaker: Hiranya Peiris
    • 11
      Poster Introductions
    • 16:15
      Coffee and Posters
    • 12
      Poster Introductions
    • 13
      The profile of the Higgs boson
      Speaker: Karl Jakobs
    • 14
      Prospects of the HL-LHC and future e+/e- collider
      Speaker: Markus Klute
    • 15
      Probing cosmology with clusters of galaxies
      Speaker: Jochen Weller
    • 10:30
      Coffee and Posters
    • 16
      The LISA Gravitational Wave Observatory
      Speaker: Stefano Vitale
    • 17
      Exploring the Higgs potential and its impact on the electroweak phase transition
      Speaker: Georg Weiglein
    • 18
      How to get published in Nature: Behind the scenes with May Chiao
      Speaker: May Chaio
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • 19
      Emergent gauge symmetries in particle physics and cosmology
      Speaker: Steven Bass
    • 20
      Neutron star mergers as a laboratory for fundamental physics
      Speaker: Albino Perego
    • 21
      Cold Atom Quantum Technology to Explore Fundamental Physics
      Speaker: Oliver Buchmueller
    • 16:15
      Coffee and Posters
    • 19:00
      Conference Dinner
    • 22
      GravNet - A Global Network for High Frequency Gravitational Wave Searches
      Speaker: Matthias Schott
    • 23
      The search for primordial black holes
      Speaker: Anne Green
    • 24
      Detection of faint signals and searches for light relics of the big bang with Icecube
      Speaker: Klaus Helbing
    • 10:30
      Coffee and Posters
    • 25
      Axions and other weakly interacting particles from μeV to MeV
      Speaker: Babette Döbrich
    • 26
      Population and cosmological properties of compact binary coalesences detected by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaborations
      Speaker: Simone Mastrogiovanni
    • 27
      Poster Prizes
    • 12:15
      Lunch
    • 28
      Exploring the quantum frontier: HEP with quantum computing
      Speaker: Enrique Rico Ortega
    • 29
      Higgs physics at the LHC in the context of theory precision
      Speaker: Marius Wiesemann
    • 30
      Future Perspectives Discussion and Closing