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

09:00 → 09:05 Opening: N.E. Mavromatos

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

slides Mavromatos_QFPP2014.pdf

09:00 Welcome

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

Slides Mavromatos_QFPP2014.pdf

09:05 → 10:35 Session I: Chair: N.E. Mavromatos

09:05 Latest on Supersymmetry, Higgs and LHC Physics

Speaker: Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

Slides JE-QFPP.pdf JE-QFPP.pptx

09:35 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

10:05 CPT and neutrinos

Speaker: Gabriela Barenboim

Slides CERN-barenboim2.pdf

10:35 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Session II: Chair: J. Bernabeu

11:00 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

11:30 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

12:00 Fundamental Physics results at LHCb and future perspectives

Speaker: Giovanni Passaleva (INFN Florence (IT))

Slides 0apassaleva-v6.pdf

12:30 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 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Session III: Chair: Sarben Sarkar

14:30 On Lorentz violation and the origin of Gravity

Speaker: Elias Kiritsis (Unknown)

Slides Kiritsis_QFFP.pdf

15:00 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

15:30 Prospects for studies of discrete symmetries with positronium

Speaker: Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

Slides 2014_Moskal_QFPP2014_CERN.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Session IV: Chair: B. Hiesmayr

16:30 Physics with entangled neutral D mesons at BES-III and future perspectives

Speaker: Dr Xiaorui Lu

Slides Xiaorui_QFPP2014_v2.pdf

17:00 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

17:30 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

09:00 → 10:30 Session V: Chair: John Ellis

09:00 Inflation & Supersymmetry

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

Slides Cernwd_14.pdf

09:30 Higgs inflation at the critical point

Speaker: Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)

Slides critical.pdf

10:00 Testing Baryogenesis at the LHC

Speaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)

Slides Mohapatra_CERN_2014_final.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Session VI: Chair: G. Barenboim

11:00 Neutrinos and Leptogenesis in Early Universe

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

Slides QFPPPascoli.pdf

11:30 Flavour and Thermal Effects on Leptogenesis

Speaker: Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester)

Slides pilaftsis_cern.pdf

12:00 Vacuum Energy and \Lambda: a new perspective

Speaker: Naresh Dadhich

Slides Dadhich_spacetime(2).pdf

12:30 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 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 TH Colloquium: V A Rubakov (The Null energy Condition, its Violation and Creation of a Universe in the Laboratory)

15:10 → 16:40 Session VII: Chair: C. Curceanu

15:10 CPTV leptogenesis

Speaker: Banibrata Mukhopadhyaya

Slides Mukho_cern14.pdf

15:40 flavor neutrino states and quantum entanglement

Speaker: M. Blasone

Slides Blasone_CERN14.pdf

16:10 Recent developments in Collapse Models

Speaker: Angelo Bassi

Slides CollapseModels.pdf

16:40 → 17:05 Coffee break

17:05 → 18:35 Session VIII: Chair: E. Milotti

17:05 CP violation and quantum entanglement and possible spontaneous collapses of the wave function

Speaker: Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

17:35 X-ray experiments to test collapse models

Speaker: Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN)

Slides catalina-CERN2014.pdf

18:05 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

09:00 → 10:45 Session IX: Chair: A. Di Domenico

09:00 Boson Sampling via integrated quatum photonics

Speaker: Fabio Sciarrino

Slides 2014-Sciarrino-CERN-1.pdf

09:30 Probing the space-time structure: the holometer experiment at Fermilab

Speaker: Craig Hogan

Slides HoganCERNMay2014.pdf

10:15 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 → 11:15 coffee break

11:15 → 13:15 Session X: Chair: J. Marton

11:15 Hyperfine structure of antihydrogen in ASCUSA

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

Slides Widmann-HbarHFS_QFPP2014.pdf

11:45 Physics of ASACUSA: the spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium

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

Slides hayano_QFPP2014.pdf

12:15 Antihydrogen physics with ALPHA

Speaker: Michael Charlton (Swansea University)

Slides CERN_May14_CHARLTON.pdf CERN_May14_CHARLTON.pptx

12:45 The ELENA project at CERN

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

Slides QFPP-2014-Oelert.ppt

13:15 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 16:30 Session XI: Chair: E. Widmann

14:45 The most preicise tests of the standard model and its symmetries

Speaker: Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University (US))

Slides GabrielseCern.pdf

15:30 Overview of Physics results at CMS

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

Slides QFPP2014_Clerbaux.pdf QFPP2014_Clerbaux.pptx

16:00 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 → 17:00 coffee break

17:00 → 18:00 Session XII: Chair: N. E. Mavromatos

17:00 on dark photon searches

Speaker: Andrzej Kupsc

Slides KUPSC_darkAK.pdf

17:30 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

09:00 → 10:40 Session XIII: Chair: A. Pilaftsis

09:00 Questioning causality, unitarity and CPT in curved spacetime QFT

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

Slides ShoreQFPPCernMay2014.pdf

09:30 The Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole

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

10:00 Lorentz breaking effective field theories: phenomenology and constraints

Speaker: Stefano Liberati

Slides LIV-CERN2014.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 coffee break

11:10 → 12:40 Session XIV: Chair: A. Di Domenico

11:10 Tests of fundamental principles

Speaker: C. Laemmerzahl

Slides Laemmerzahl_Foundations.pdf

11:40 The AEGIS experiment at the CERN antiproton decelerator

Speaker: Michael Doser (CERN)

Slides QFPP_CERN_May_2014.pdf

12:10 Experimental status of Supersymmetry

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

Slides Mitsou-SUSY.pdf

12:40 → 13:00 Closing: 50 years of CP Violation: Chair: John Ellis, Speaker: Jack Steinberger

Jack Steinberger

12:40 50 years of CP violation

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

Slides JackSteinberger.pdf JackSteinberger.pptx