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PASCOS 2018, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Jun 4 – 8, 2018
Case Western Reserve University
US/Eastern timezone

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144. Welcome
Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez (Case Western Reserve University)
6/4/18, 4:00 PM
3. Welcome to CWRU
C. Taylor
6/4/18, 4:05 PM
4. Physics at CWRU
K. Kash
6/4/18, 4:15 PM
5. Origins and CERCA
Glenn David Starkman (Case Western Reserve University (US))
6/4/18, 4:25 PM
6. Conservative physics and new physics for the quantised black hole
Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)
6/4/18, 4:30 PM
7. Couplings in the Dark Sector, and the Mildly Nonlinear Regime
Mark Trodden
6/4/18, 5:00 PM
8. The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Exploration
Marcela Carena (Fermilab)
6/4/18, 6:00 PM
9. New Hints of Dark Matter
Marc Kamionkowski
6/4/18, 6:30 PM
10. Warped massive gravity
Gregory Gabadadze (N)
6/5/18, 8:30 AM
12. Positivity Bounds for all Spins
Andrew Tolley
6/5/18, 9:00 AM
11. Massive gravity from the top down and bottom’s up
Claudia de Rham
6/5/18, 9:30 AM
13. Dark Matter Direct Detection with Liquid Nobles
Daniel Akerib
6/5/18, 10:30 AM
14. Cosmic-ray Antinuclei: New Inputs on Dark Matter
Kerstin Perez (MIT)
6/5/18, 11:00 AM
15. Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter
Rouven Essig
6/5/18, 11:30 AM
48. Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion Receives a Stress Test
Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)
6/5/18, 2:00 PM
56. Higgs Fine Tuning and its Cosmological Dynamics
Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
6/5/18, 2:00 PM
52. Highlights from SUSY searches at CMS
Eric Chabert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
6/5/18, 2:00 PM
44. Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics
Federico Galli (Perimeter Institute)
6/5/18, 2:00 PM
40. The Status of Indirect Searches for Weak-Scale Dark Matter
Tim Linden
6/5/18, 2:00 PM
45. Dense holographic QCD and neutron stars
Matti Jarvinen (Utrecht University)
6/5/18, 2:20 PM
41. Initial Dark Matter Results from the SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detectors
Dr Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)
6/5/18, 2:20 PM
57. Many-field Inflation in Random Potentials
Sonia Paban
6/5/18, 2:20 PM
53. Prospects for BSM searches at the HL-LHC with CMS
Zhenbin Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
6/5/18, 2:20 PM
49. Recent progress in Higgs precision calculations
Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
6/5/18, 2:20 PM
42. 21-cm implications for dark matter annihilation and decay
Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6/5/18, 2:40 PM
46. Cold holographic matter and color symmetry breaking
Javier Tarrío
6/5/18, 2:40 PM

I will discuss a mechanism that describes the spontaneous breaking of the gauge (color) group in strongly coupled N=4SYM coupled to charged fundamental matter. The system is holographically described by an intersection of D3 and D7 branes, with a global (baryonic) U(1) charge on the worldvolume of the latter. Backreaction of the D7 branes and the baryonic charge on the geometry is crucial in...
50. Current and Future Constraints on Higgs Couplings
Claudius Krause (Fermilab)
6/5/18, 2:40 PM

We perform a Bayesian statistical analysis of the constraints on the Higgs couplings given by the Higgs electroweak chiral Lagrangian. We obtain bounds on the effective coefficients entering in Higgs observables at the leading order, using all available Higgs-boson signal strengths from the LHC runs 1 and 2 including data reported at Moriond 2018. Using a prior dependence study of the...
58. Early Universe Cosmology with the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect
Matthew Johnson, Matthew Johnson (York University/Perimeter Institute)
6/5/18, 2:40 PM
54. LHCb as a charm factory
Adam Davis (Tsinghua University (CN))
6/5/18, 2:40 PM
43. Dark Matter search with XENON1T
Ethan Brown
6/5/18, 3:00 PM
59. Polarization Predictions and the CMB Hemispherical Variance Anomaly
Márcio O'Dwyer (Case Western Reserve University)
6/5/18, 3:00 PM
51. Precison Higgs physics
Falko Dulat (SLAC)
6/5/18, 3:00 PM
47. The Axidental Universe
Thomas Bachlechner (Columbia University)
6/5/18, 3:00 PM
55. The Belle II Experiment: Status and Physics Prospects
Nisar Nellikunnummel (University of Pittsburgh)
6/5/18, 3:00 PM
64. Consequences of Fine-Tuning for Fifth-Force Searches
Sebastian Ellis
6/5/18, 3:40 PM

A light bosonic field mediates a long-range "fifth" force between objects. If the field has self-interactions, experimental constraints on such forces are weakened due to a screening effect. We study how technically natural values for self-interaction terms in the field's potential lead to modification of existing constraints. We show that under this assumption of natural self-interactions,...
60. Dark Matter and the Seesaw Scale
Clara Murgui Galvez
6/5/18, 3:40 PM
72. Highlights from SUSY searches at ATLAS
David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
6/5/18, 3:40 PM
68. Newest results of the GERDA experiment
Michael Miloradovic
6/5/18, 3:40 PM
76. The no-boundary proposal: alive and well
Mr Oliver Janssen (New York University)
6/5/18, 3:40 PM
73. Precision measurement with Diboson at the LHC
Da Liu
6/5/18, 4:00 PM
61. QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as Low as 10^8 GeV
Raymond Co (University of California, Berkeley)
6/5/18, 4:00 PM
69. QCD Corrections to effective field theories at the Large Hadron Collider
Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)
6/5/18, 4:00 PM
77. Quantum incompleteness of Inflation
Alice Di Tucci (Max Planck Institute)
6/5/18, 4:00 PM
65. The Toric SO(10) Landscape and Global Matter-Tensor Transitions
Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
6/5/18, 4:00 PM
62. CMB Spectral Distortions from Cooling Macroscopic Dark Matter
Saurabh Kumar
6/5/18, 4:20 PM
70. Resummation and renormalons in a general QFT
Juan C. Vasquez Carmona
6/5/18, 4:20 PM
78. Semiclassical Eternal Inflation
Sebastian Bramberger (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))
6/5/18, 4:20 PM
74. The Baryon Asymmetry from a Composite Higgs
Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)
6/5/18, 4:20 PM
66. Unrealized Representations in Non-Abelian F-theory Models
Nikhil Raghuram (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6/5/18, 4:20 PM
63. Can LambdaCDM model reproduce MOND-like behavior?
De-Chang Dai
6/5/18, 4:40 PM
75. Long-Lived Particles at the LHC with Timing
Jia Liu (University of Chicago)
6/5/18, 4:40 PM
71. Scaling Behavior of QCD Vertex Functions in Universal Extra Dimensions
Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)
6/5/18, 4:40 PM
79. When Does the Inflaton Decay?
Cristian Armendariz-Picon
6/5/18, 4:40 PM
67. Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification revisited
Michal Malinsky (Charles University (CZ))
6/5/18, 4:40 PM
18. Probing Physics with CMB Polarization
John Ruhl
6/5/18, 6:00 PM
16. Dark Matter and its Interactions with Baryons
Justin Khoury
6/5/18, 6:30 PM
17. Black holes from cosmic inflation
Alexander Vilenkin
6/5/18, 7:00 PM
19. Higgs Couplings at High Scales
Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)
6/6/18, 8:30 AM

The experiments at the LHC have been improving the measurements of the Higgs boson properties, and searches for new physics are being actively conducted. In the absence of deviations from the Standard Model thus far, it would be prudent to seek for other complementary strategies in the experiments at the energy frontier. For this purpose, we propose to study the Higgs couplings at high energy...
20. The precision frontier landscape
German Rodrigo (IFIC CSIC-UV)
6/6/18, 9:00 AM
21. The Pierre Auger Observatory: The Big Picture on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Corbin Covault
6/6/18, 9:30 AM
22. Colour Unified Dynamical Axion
Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))
6/6/18, 10:30 AM
23. Identifying new states at the LHC
Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)
6/6/18, 11:00 AM
24. The Light-Front Vacuum, Light-Front Holography, and Supersymmetric Features of Hadron Physics
Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)
6/6/18, 11:30 AM
82. A Lattice-Friendly Composite Higgs
Ashley Perko (Dartmouth College)
6/6/18, 2:00 PM
86. Enhanced Di-Higgs Production and the Electroweak Phase Transition
Zhen Liu (Fermilab)
6/6/18, 2:00 PM
80. GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead
Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
6/6/18, 2:00 PM
88. Gravitational Wave Signatures of Inflationary Models producing Primordial Black Holes
Mr Caner Unal (University of Minnesota)
6/6/18, 2:00 PM
84. Reconstructing the Large-Scale Velocity Field using kSZ Tomography
James Mertens (York University)
6/6/18, 2:00 PM
87. A light Higgs and the B-physics Anomalies
Xiaoping Wang (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
6/6/18, 2:20 PM
83. Collinear Superspace
Gilly Elor
6/6/18, 2:20 PM
81. Dark Sector Physics with Belle II
Igal Jaegle
6/6/18, 2:20 PM
89. Probes of primordial black hole dark matter
Ely Kovetz
6/6/18, 2:20 PM
85. The classical double copy in maximally symmetric spacetimes
Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
6/6/18, 2:20 PM
94. Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detector
Madeline Wade
6/6/18, 2:40 PM
98. Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant via the Distance Ladder
Rachael Beaton (Princeton University)
6/6/18, 2:40 PM
96. Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions
Michael Geller (Technion)
6/6/18, 2:40 PM
90. PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment
Timothy Classen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
6/6/18, 2:40 PM
92. Speed Limits for Modified Gravity
Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)
6/6/18, 2:40 PM
95. Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
6/6/18, 3:00 PM
99. MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos
Jia Liu (Princeton University)
6/6/18, 3:00 PM
97. Supersymmetric dark sectors
Jeff Dror (Cornell University)
6/6/18, 3:00 PM
91. The Status of Hyper-Kamiokande Project
Yoshihisa OBAYASHI (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
6/6/18, 3:00 PM
93. Warning signs for cosmological back reaction from numerical relativity
Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)
6/6/18, 3:00 PM
143. Recent Results from MicroBooNE
Brandom Eberly
6/6/18, 3:20 PM

The MicroBooNE detector is a 170 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) operating in the Booster and NuMI neutrino beams at Fermilab since October 2015. The MicroBooNE physics program includes neutrino oscillation searches that aim to resolve the anomalous excess of low-energy electromagnetic shower events observed by MiniBooNE, as well as neutrino cross-section measurements on...
27. Higgs Boson Couplings and New Physics
Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)
6/7/18, 8:30 AM
26. Status of Weak Scale Supersymmetry
Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
6/7/18, 9:00 AM
25. Putting Einstein to the Test with Gravitational Wave Observations
Neil Cornish
6/7/18, 9:30 AM
28. Recent advances in superconformal field theories
Philip Argyres
6/7/18, 10:30 AM
29. An Overview of Moonshine
John Duncan
6/7/18, 11:00 AM
30. Quantum aspects of black hole physics
Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)
6/7/18, 11:30 AM
108. A universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle
James Bonifacio
6/7/18, 2:00 PM
116. Bridging the gap between year-long signals and second-long signals: GW transients
Lilli Sun
6/7/18, 2:00 PM
126. Cosmological Signatures in Mirror Twin Higgs Models
Yuhsin Tsai (University of Maryland)
6/7/18, 2:00 PM
132. Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
Matthew Hasselfield (Penn State University)
6/7/18, 2:00 PM
100. Status of the KATRIN experiment
Luke Kippenbrock
6/7/18, 2:00 PM
141. A search for Neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te : First results from CUORE
Vivek Singh
6/7/18, 2:20 PM
124. Asymptotically Free Supersymmetric Twin Higgs
Marcin Badziak
6/7/18, 2:20 PM
109. Black Hole Horizons and Massive Gravitons
Rachel Rosen
6/7/18, 2:20 PM
133. Fundamental physics from the small-scale cosmic microwave background
Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton)
6/7/18, 2:20 PM
117. Gravitational wave science with LISA
Joey Shapiro Key (University of Washington Bothell)
6/7/18, 2:20 PM
134. 21cm Cosmology in the Detection Era
Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley)
6/7/18, 2:40 PM
118. Design of third generation ground based detectors
Dr Jax Sanders (Syracuse University)
6/7/18, 2:40 PM
101. Implications of an Improved Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search for Baryogenesis
Zhengkang Zhang (University of Michigan)
6/7/18, 2:40 PM
125. Implications of Higgs Discovery for the Strong CP Problem and Unification
Keisuke Harigaya (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
6/7/18, 2:40 PM
110. Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality
Austin Joyce
6/7/18, 2:40 PM
127. Disorder at the LHC
Matthew Low (Institute for Advanced Study)
6/7/18, 3:00 PM
102. Lepton flavor violation induced by a neutral scalar at future lepton colliders
Dr Yongchao Zhang
6/7/18, 3:00 PM
111. Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of Massive Gravity in de Sitter
Laura Johnson
6/7/18, 3:00 PM
142. Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Virgo
Andrew Matas
6/7/18, 3:00 PM
135. Weighing neutrinos with cosmic neutral hydrogen
Francisco Villaescusa Navarro
6/7/18, 3:00 PM

The 21cm radiation from cosmic neutral hydrogen can be used to survey large cosmological volumes of the Universe through intensity mapping. I will discuss the impact of neutrino masses on the abundance and clustering of neutral hydrogen, that we have investigated through hydrodynamic simulations with massive neutrinos. I will show that it can be understood by accounting for the effects...
104. Aspects of Axion Dark Matter Clumps
Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)
6/7/18, 3:40 PM
128. Astrophysical implications of GW observations
Reed Essik
6/7/18, 3:40 PM
112. Classical Hawking radiation
George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)
6/7/18, 3:40 PM
136. LHC searches for dark sector showers
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
6/7/18, 3:40 PM
120. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))
6/7/18, 3:40 PM
121. Cosmological simulations for precision cosmology with large galaxy surveys
Linda Blot (Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC), IEEC)
6/7/18, 4:00 PM

Large scale structure simulations are a fundamental tool to interpret data from large volume galaxy surveys. In fact, modelling the observables and their covariance is affected by the non-linear regime of gravitational collapse, a phenomenon that is best captured through simulations. In this talk I will present some applications of simulations that are relevant to present and upcoming galaxy...
105. Intermediate Scale Non-resonant Leptogenesis
Jessica Turner (Durham University)
6/7/18, 4:00 PM
129. Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravita- tional waves
Leslie Wade
6/7/18, 4:00 PM
137. One loop corrections to the spin-independent blind spot
Hongkai Liu (University of Pittsburgh (US))
6/7/18, 4:00 PM
113. Testing Modified Gravity with Merging Neutron Stars
Laura Sagunski
6/7/18, 4:00 PM
138. Electroweak DM at Future Hadron Collider
Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
6/7/18, 4:20 PM
106. Enhancement of the dark matter abundance before reheating: thermal and non-thermal production
Marcos A. Garcia Garcia (Rice University)
6/7/18, 4:20 PM
130. Folding-in astrophysical priors in searches for continuous gravitational waves
Jing Ming
6/7/18, 4:20 PM
122. The Status of Constraints on Dark Energy from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale Measurements
Ashley Ross (Ohio State University)
6/7/18, 4:20 PM

I will describe how the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale observed in the distribution of galaxies can be treated as a standard ruler that enables distance measurements as a function of redshift. These measurement allow precise tests on the nature of Dark Energy. I will describe the current status of BAO measurements and the constraints they afford, focusing on recent measurements from...
114. Transverse phonons in holographic massive gravity
Lasma Alberte
6/7/18, 4:20 PM
107. Constraining Axion-like-Particles with Hard X-Ray Emission from Magnetars
Kuver Sinha
6/7/18, 4:40 PM
123. Exploring neutrino masses with Large Scale Structure
Elena Giusarma
6/7/18, 4:40 PM
139. Low temperature EW phase transition in the SM with hidden scale invariance
Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)
6/7/18, 4:40 PM

We discuss a cosmological phase transition within the Standard Model which incorporates spontaneously broken scale invariance as a low-energy theory. In addition to the Standard Model fields, the minimal model involves a light dilaton, which acquires a large vacuum expectation value (VEV) through the mechanism of dimensional transmutation. Under the assumption of the cancellation of the vacuum...
131. Searching for scalar and tensor polarizations with the stochas- tic gravitational wave background
Tom Callister
6/7/18, 4:40 PM
115. Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem
Jeremy Sakstein (University of Pennsylvania)
6/7/18, 4:40 PM
31. Neutrino Aspects of Multimessenger Astronomy
Francis Halzen (IceCube/WIPAC)
6/7/18, 6:00 PM
32. A Classical-Quantum Correspondence for All
Tanmay Vachaspati
6/7/18, 6:30 PM
33. Unbiased constraints from biased tracers in cosmology
Ravi Sheth (ICTP/UPenn)
6/7/18, 7:00 PM
34. Searches for new physics at the LHC
Albert de Roeck
6/8/18, 9:00 AM
35. The Mu2e Experiment
Robert Bernstein
6/8/18, 9:30 AM
36. Evidence for inflation in an axion landscape
Pran Nath (Department of Physics)
6/8/18, 10:00 AM
37. Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification
Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
6/8/18, 11:00 AM
38. Origin and Nature of Neutrino Mass
Goran Senjanovic
6/8/18, 11:30 AM
39. Traversable Wormholes
Juan Maldacena (Unknown)
6/8/18, 12:00 PM
119. Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detector
Madeline Wade
103. Precision measurement with Diboson at the LHC
Da Liu
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