DISCRETE 2014: Fourth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries

Session

PLENARY 3

4 Dec 2014, 09:00

Great Hall and several lecture theatres (King's College London, Strand Campus)

86. TeV Scale Lepton number Violation and Baryogenesis

Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland, College Park)

04/12/2014, 09:00

I will discuss the possibility that physics of neutrino mass is a TeV scale phenomenon which can be probed at the LHC via the searches for right handed W-bosons and the heavy right handed neutrinos and other low energy experiments.The same TeV scale model also leads to successful leptogenesis as a way to understand the origin of matter in the universe. Thus, the Large Hadron Collider can...

171. Symmetry Improved CJT Effective Potential

Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester (GB))

04/12/2014, 09:45

Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories

The formalism introduced by Cornwall, Jackiw and Tomboulis (CJT) provides a systematic analytic approach to consistently describing non-perturbative effects in Quantum Thermal Field Theory. One major limitation of the CJT effective action is that its loopwise expansion introduces residual violations of possible global symmetries, thus giving rise to massive Goldstone ...

181. Results from the Heavy-Ion Programme at the CERN LHC

David Evans (University of Birmingham (GB))

04/12/2014, 11:00

At extreme energy densities, hadronic matter undergoes a phase transition into a deconfined system of quarks and gluons, known as a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Such a state of matter may be formed by colliding ultra-relativistic heavy-ions together, which reproduce the high temperatures and densities thought to have existed about ten microseconds after the Big Bang. Lead ions have been...

169. Testing Non-minimal Higgs sector at Colldiers

Prof. Maria Krawczyk (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University)

04/12/2014, 11:45

Higgs Physics at LHC and Beyond

Testing models with Higgs doublets at LHC will be discussed. I will focus on the Inert Doublet Model, with the exact Z2 symmetry, which offers viable Dark Matter candidates. LHC data together with Planck results on relic density provide very strong constraints on DM mass and its coupling to the Higgs boson. Some results on the potential of ILC in testing such models will be shown as well.

159. History of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Prof. Tom W.B. Kibble (Imperial College London)

04/12/2014, 12:30

Higgs Physics at LHC and Beyond

In this talk, I will recall the history of the development of the unified electroweak theory, incorporating the symmetry-breaking Higgs mechanism, as I saw it from my standpoint as a member of Abdus Salam's group at Imperial College. I will start by describing the state of physics in the years after the Second World War, explain how the goal of a unified gauge theory of weak and...