Questioning Fundamental Physical Principles

6 May 2014, 09:00 → 9 May 2014, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Nikos Mavromatos (University of London (GB))

The discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC marks the apotheosis of quantum field theory, but there is no sign of standard BSM physics, leaving many physicists wondering whether the Higgs is all there is. The standard theoretical framework is beset by paradoxes, such as black-hole physics, the problems of measurement and decoherence in quantum theory. These lead some theorists to question the fundamental principles of Lorentz-invariance, the equivalence principle and locality, with possible consequences for CPT Violation and other matter-antimatter differences. The latter could be probed in experiments at CERN and elsewhere, as well as having implications for Early-Universe Cosmology. This workshop will bring together theorists exploring these issues as well as experimentalists confronting their ideas. The workshop is funded partially by the CERN Theory Division, the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant of John Ellis (267352) and by the COST Action MP1006 "Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics".

Poster Conference Poster

Tuesday, 6 May

Opening: N.E. Mavromatos

Convener: Nikos Mavromatos (University of London (GB))

slides Mavromatos_QFPP2014.pdf

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Nikos Mavromatos (University of London (GB))

Slides Mavromatos_QFPP2014.pdf

Session I: Chair: N.E. Mavromatos

2 Latest on Supersymmetry, Higgs and LHC Physics

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

Slides JE-QFPP.pdf JE-QFPP.pptx

3 Discrete Symmetries T, CP and CPT

Speaker: Jose Bernabeu (Universidad de Valencia)

Slides Bernabeu_QFPP_CERN_May_14.pdf Bernabeu_QFPP_CERN_May_14.pptx

4 CPT and neutrinos

Speaker: Gabriela Barenboim

Slides CERN-barenboim2.pdf

10:35 coffee break

Session II: Chair: J. Bernabeu

5 Experimental prospects for T and CPT symmetries tests in the B meson system

Speaker: Adrian Bevan (University of London (GB))

Slides CERN-May2014.pdf CERN-May2014.ppt

6 Testing fundamental physical principles with entangled neutral K mesons

Speaker: Antonio Di Domenico (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

Slides didomenico_CERN_QFPP2014_15_web.pdf

7 Fundamental Physics results at LHCb and future perspectives

Speaker: Giovanni Passaleva (INFN Florence (IT))

Slides 0apassaleva-v6.pdf

8 Time-dependent CP violation and stability of the entangled B Bbar state at Belle

Speaker: Christoph Schwanda (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Slides schwanda.pdf schwanda.pptx

13:00 Lunch

Session III: Chair: Sarben Sarkar

9 On Lorentz violation and the origin of Gravity

Speaker: Elias Kiritsis (Unknown)

Slides Kiritsis_QFFP.pdf

10 Test of CPT and Lorentz symmetry with entangled K0's

Speaker: Dr Antonio De Santis (U. di Roma "La Sapienza")

Slides qfpp14_adesantis_slim.pdf

11 Prospects for studies of discrete symmetries with positronium

Speaker: Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

Slides 2014_Moskal_QFPP2014_CERN.pdf

16:00 coffee break

Session IV: Chair: B. Hiesmayr

12 Physics with entangled neutral D mesons at BES-III and future perspectives

Speaker: Dr Xiaorui Lu

Slides Xiaorui_QFPP2014_v2.pdf

13 Some general results on CP and CPT violating parameters determined from C=-1 and C=+1 entangled states

Speaker: Prof. Yu Shi

Slides general_cern.pdf

14 The possible existence of a Time Operator and its possible refutal in meson experiments

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Durt

Slides CERNMay2014SLIDES-TOM-DURT.pdf

Wednesday, 7 May

Session V: Chair: John Ellis

15 Inflation & Supersymmetry

Speaker: Keith Alison Olive (University of Minnesota (US))

Slides Cernwd_14.pdf

16 Higgs inflation at the critical point

Speaker: Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)

Slides critical.pdf

17 Testing Baryogenesis at the LHC

Speaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)

Slides Mohapatra_CERN_2014_final.pdf

10:30 coffee break

Session VI: Chair: G. Barenboim

18 Neutrinos and Leptogenesis in Early Universe

Speaker: Silvia Pascoli (University of Durham (GB))

Slides QFPPPascoli.pdf

19 Flavour and Thermal Effects on Leptogenesis

Speaker: Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester)

Slides pilaftsis_cern.pdf

20 Vacuum Energy and \Lambda: a new perspective

Speaker: Naresh Dadhich

Slides Dadhich_spacetime(2).pdf

21 Strings, and CPT Violating Baryon Asymmetry in the Universe

Speaker: Sarben Sarkar (King's College London)

Slides Sarkar_String_and_CPT_Violating_Baryon_Asymmetry_in_the_Universe_.pdf

13:00 Lunch

TH Colloquium: V A Rubakov (The Null energy Condition, its Violation and Creation of a Universe in the Laboratory)

Session VII: Chair: C. Curceanu

22 CPTV leptogenesis

Speaker: Banibrata Mukhopadhyaya

Slides Mukho_cern14.pdf

23 flavor neutrino states and quantum entanglement

Speaker: M. Blasone

Slides Blasone_CERN14.pdf

24 Recent developments in Collapse Models

Speaker: Angelo Bassi

Slides CollapseModels.pdf

16:40 Coffee break

Session VIII: Chair: E. Milotti

25 CP violation and quantum entanglement and possible spontaneous collapses of the wave function

Speaker: Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

26 X-ray experiments to test collapse models

Speaker: Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN)

Slides catalina-CERN2014.pdf

27 VIP-2 at Gran Sasso - an experiment to test the Pauli Principle for electrons

Speaker: Johann Marton (Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Slides JMarton-VIP-2.pdf JMarton-VIP-2.ppt

Thursday, 8 May

Session IX: Chair: A. Di Domenico

28 Boson Sampling via integrated quatum photonics

Speaker: Fabio Sciarrino

Slides 2014-Sciarrino-CERN-1.pdf

29 Probing the space-time structure: the holometer experiment at Fermilab

Speaker: Craig Hogan

Slides HoganCERNMay2014.pdf

30 Improving interferometers by quantum light: is possible testing quantum gravity on an Optical bench?

Speaker: Marco Genovese (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

Slides Genovese_cern.ppt

10:45 coffee break

Session X: Chair: J. Marton

31 Hyperfine structure of antihydrogen in ASCUSA

Speaker: Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

Slides Widmann-HbarHFS_QFPP2014.pdf

32 Physics of ASACUSA: the spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium

Speaker: Prof. Ryugo Hayano (University of Tokyo (JP))

Slides hayano_QFPP2014.pdf

33 Antihydrogen physics with ALPHA

Speaker: Michael Charlton (Swansea University)

Slides CERN_May14_CHARLTON.pdf CERN_May14_CHARLTON.pptx

34 The ELENA project at CERN

Speaker: Walter Oelert (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Slides QFPP-2014-Oelert.ppt

13:15 Lunch

Session XI: Chair: E. Widmann

35 The most preicise tests of the standard model and its symmetries

Speaker: Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University (US))

Slides GabrielseCern.pdf

36 Overview of Physics results at CMS

Speaker: Barbara Clerbaux (Inter-University Institute for High Energies (BE))

Slides QFPP2014_Clerbaux.pdf QFPP2014_Clerbaux.pptx

37 Overview of Physics results at ATLAS

Speaker: Prof. Henry Lubatti (University of Washington (US))

Slides Questioning_Fudnamental_principles-CURRENT_3.pdf Questioning_Fudnamental_principles-CURRENT_3.pptx

16:30 coffee break

Session XII: Chair: N. E. Mavromatos

38 on dark photon searches

Speaker: Andrzej Kupsc

Slides KUPSC_darkAK.pdf

39 Photon-photon scattering and the nature of QED vacuum: experimental approaches

Speaker: Prof. Edoardo Milotti

Slides Presentation_Milotti.pdf Presentation_Milotti.pptx

Friday, 9 May

Session XIII: Chair: A. Pilaftsis

40 Questioning causality, unitarity and CPT in curved spacetime QFT

Speaker: Graham Martin Shore (Swansea University (GB))

Slides ShoreQFPPCernMay2014.pdf

41 The Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole

Speaker: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

42 Lorentz breaking effective field theories: phenomenology and constraints

Speaker: Stefano Liberati

Slides LIV-CERN2014.pdf

10:40 coffee break

Session XIV: Chair: A. Di Domenico

43 Tests of fundamental principles

Speaker: C. Laemmerzahl

Slides Laemmerzahl_Foundations.pdf

44 The AEGIS experiment at the CERN antiproton decelerator

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)

Slides QFPP_CERN_May_2014.pdf

45 Experimental status of Supersymmetry

Speaker: Dr Vasiliki Mitsou (IFIC Valencia (ES))

Slides Mitsou-SUSY.pdf

Closing: 50 years of CP Violation: Chair: John Ellis, Speaker: Jack Steinberger

Jack Steinberger

46 50 years of CP violation

Speaker: Jack Steinberger (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

Slides JackSteinberger.pdf JackSteinberger.pptx