PASCOS 2018, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Case Western Reserve University
The 24th International Symposium on Particle, Strings, and Cosmology will take place in the physics department at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4-8, 2018.
The conference website is: http://artsci.case.edu/pascos2018/
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Registration and welcoming
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Welcome: Opening address Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
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Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.-
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Welcome 5mSpeaker: Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez (Case Western Reserve University)
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Welcome to CWRU 10mSpeaker: C. Taylor
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Origins and CERCA 5mSpeaker: Glenn David Starkman (Case Western Reserve University (US))
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: P. Fileviez Perez
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Conservative physics and new physics for the quantised black hole 30mSpeaker: Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)
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Couplings in the Dark Sector, and the Mildly Nonlinear Regime 30mSpeaker: Mark Trodden
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106. -
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: G. Starkman
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The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Exploration 30mSpeaker: Marcela Carena (Fermilab)
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The Alumni House, 11310 Juniper Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106
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Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: K. Hinterbichler
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Massive gravity from the top down and bottom’s up 30mSpeaker: Claudia de Rham
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Case Western Reserve University
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Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: M. Carena
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Cosmic-ray Antinuclei: New Inputs on Dark Matter 30mSpeaker: Kerstin Perez (MIT)
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Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion Receives a Stress Test 20mSpeaker: Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)
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Recent progress in Higgs precision calculations 20mSpeaker: Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
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Current and Future Constraints on Higgs Couplings 20m
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 solutions, we discuss the results within the context of natural-sized Wilson coefficients. The effective theory we study is closely related to the expeimental kappa-framework, which we also discuss. We further study the expected sensitivities to the different Wilson coefficients at various possible future colliders.
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Highlights from SUSY searches at CMS 20mSpeaker: Eric Chabert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Prospects for BSM searches at the HL-LHC with CMS 20mSpeaker: Zhenbin Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
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The Belle II Experiment: Status and Physics Prospects 20mSpeaker: Nisar Nellikunnummel (University of Pittsburgh)
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Initial Dark Matter Results from the SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detectors 20mSpeaker: Dr Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)
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21-cm implications for dark matter annihilation and decay 20mSpeaker: Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Higgs Fine Tuning and its Cosmological Dynamics 20mSpeaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
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Early Universe Cosmology with the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect 20mSpeakers: Matthew Johnson, Matthew Johnson (York University/Perimeter Institute)
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Polarization Predictions and the CMB Hemispherical Variance Anomaly 20mSpeaker: Márcio O'Dwyer (Case Western Reserve University)
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Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics 20mSpeaker: Federico Galli (Perimeter Institute)
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Dense holographic QCD and neutron stars 20mSpeaker: Matti Jarvinen (Utrecht University)
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Cold holographic matter and color symmetry breaking 20m
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 this mechanism, since the IR geometry is responsible for the instability towards the breaking of the color group.
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The Axidental Universe 20mSpeaker: Thomas Bachlechner (Columbia University)
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The no-boundary proposal: alive and well 20mSpeaker: Mr Oliver Janssen (New York University)
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Quantum incompleteness of Inflation 20mSpeaker: Alice Di Tucci (Max Planck Institute)
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Semiclassical Eternal Inflation 20mSpeaker: Sebastian Bramberger (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))
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When Does the Inflaton Decay? 20mSpeaker: Cristian Armendariz-Picon
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Highlights from SUSY searches at ATLAS 20mSpeaker: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))
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The Baryon Asymmetry from a Composite Higgs 20mSpeaker: Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)
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Long-Lived Particles at the LHC with Timing 20mSpeaker: Jia Liu (University of Chicago)
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Newest results of the GERDA experiment 20mSpeaker: Michael Miloradovic
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QCD Corrections to effective field theories at the Large Hadron Collider 20mSpeaker: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)
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Resummation and renormalons in a general QFT 20mSpeaker: Juan C. Vasquez Carmona
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Scaling Behavior of QCD Vertex Functions in Universal Extra Dimensions 20mSpeaker: Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)
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Consequences of Fine-Tuning for Fifth-Force Searches 20m
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, existing experimental coverage has important gaps, particularly for forces stronger than gravity.
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The Toric SO(10) Landscape and Global Matter-Tensor Transitions 20mSpeaker: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
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Unrealized Representations in Non-Abelian F-theory Models 20mSpeaker: Nikhil Raghuram (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification revisited 20mSpeaker: Michal Malinsky (Charles University (CZ))
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QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as Low as 10^8 GeV 20mSpeaker: Raymond Co (University of California, Berkeley)
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CMB Spectral Distortions from Cooling Macroscopic Dark Matter 20mSpeaker: Saurabh Kumar
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Can LambdaCDM model reproduce MOND-like behavior? 20mSpeaker: De-Chang Dai
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106. -
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: G. Gabadadze
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Probing Physics with CMB Polarization 30mSpeaker: John Ruhl
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Black holes from cosmic inflation 30mSpeaker: Alexander Vilenkin
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: B. Monreal
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Higgs Couplings at High Scales 30m
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 scales. We focus on the energy scale-dependence of the off-shell Higgs propagation, and of the top quark Yukawa coupling, exploiting the signal process gg —> h —> ZZ. We present several representative scenarios relevant to addressing the naturalness problem. We find that certain scenarios are potentially observable at the LHC upgrade for high luminosity or a higher energy.
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The precision frontier landscape 30mSpeaker: German Rodrigo (IFIC CSIC-UV)
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The Pierre Auger Observatory: The Big Picture on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays 30mSpeaker: Corbin Covault
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Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106. -
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Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: R. Brown
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Colour Unified Dynamical Axion 30mSpeaker: Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))
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Identifying new states at the LHC 30mSpeaker: Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)
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The Light-Front Vacuum, Light-Front Holography, and Supersymmetric Features of Hadron Physics 30mSpeaker: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)
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Reconstructing the Large-Scale Velocity Field using kSZ Tomography 20mSpeaker: James Mertens (York University)
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The classical double copy in maximally symmetric spacetimes 20mSpeaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
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GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead 20mSpeaker: Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Gravitational Wave Signatures of Inflationary Models producing Primordial Black Holes 20mSpeaker: Mr Caner Unal (University of Minnesota)
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Enhanced Di-Higgs Production and the Electroweak Phase Transition 20mSpeaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)
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A light Higgs and the B-physics Anomalies 20mSpeaker: Xiaoping Wang (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
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PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment 20mSpeaker: Timothy Classen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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The Status of Hyper-Kamiokande Project 20mSpeaker: Yoshihisa OBAYASHI (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
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Recent Results from MicroBooNE 20m
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 liquid argon and R&D to inform future LArTPC design. This talk will describe the MicroBooNE detector and present a number of recent results from across its physics program.
Speaker: Brandom Eberly
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Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detector 20mSpeaker: Madeline Wade
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Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays 20mSpeaker: Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant via the Distance Ladder 20mSpeaker: Rachael Beaton (Princeton University)
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MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos 20mSpeaker: Jia Liu (Princeton University)
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Speed Limits for Modified Gravity 20mSpeaker: Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)
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Warning signs for cosmological back reaction from numerical relativity 20mSpeaker: Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)
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Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions 20mSpeaker: Michael Geller (Technion)
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: H. Mathur
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Higgs Boson Couplings and New Physics 30mSpeaker: Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)
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Putting Einstein to the Test with Gravitational Wave Observations 30mSpeaker: Neil Cornish
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Case Western Reserve University
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: A. Tolley
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Quantum aspects of black hole physics 30mSpeaker: Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)
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Cosmological Signatures in Mirror Twin Higgs Models 20mSpeaker: Yuhsin Tsai (University of Maryland)
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Asymptotically Free Supersymmetric Twin Higgs 20mSpeaker: Marcin Badziak
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Implications of Higgs Discovery for the Strong CP Problem and Unification 20mSpeaker: Keisuke Harigaya (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
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A universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle 20mSpeaker: James Bonifacio
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Black Hole Horizons and Massive Gravitons 20mSpeaker: Rachel Rosen
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Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality 20mSpeaker: Austin Joyce
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Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of Massive Gravity in de Sitter 20mSpeaker: Laura Johnson
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A search for Neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te : First results from CUORE 20mSpeaker: Vivek Singh
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Implications of an Improved Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search for Baryogenesis 20mSpeaker: Zhengkang Zhang (University of Michigan)
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Lepton flavor violation induced by a neutral scalar at future lepton colliders 20mSpeaker: Dr Yongchao Zhang
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Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope 20mSpeaker: Matthew Hasselfield (Penn State University)
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Fundamental physics from the small-scale cosmic microwave background 20mSpeaker: Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton)
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Weighing neutrinos with cosmic neutral hydrogen 20m
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 neutrinos induce on the properties of matter and halos. I will show forecasts on how well upcoming instruments, like the Square Kilometer Array, can detect the minimum mass of the neutrino masses.
Speaker: Francisco Villaescusa Navarro
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Bridging the gap between year-long signals and second-long signals: GW transients 20mSpeaker: Lilli Sun
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Gravitational wave science with LISA 20mSpeaker: Joey Shapiro Key (University of Washington Bothell)
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Design of third generation ground based detectors 20mSpeaker: Dr Jax Sanders (Syracuse University)
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Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Virgo 20mSpeaker: Andrew Matas
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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument 20mSpeaker: Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))
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Cosmological simulations for precision cosmology with large galaxy surveys 20m
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 surveys, such as predicting the cosmological signal and the production of mock gala
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The Status of Constraints on Dark Energy from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale Measurements 20m
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 the completed Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and two ongoing experiments: the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and extended-BOSS (eBOSS). I will finish with a description of what to anticipate from the final DES and eBOSS data and then the data obtained from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument further in the future.
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Exploring neutrino masses with Large Scale Structure 20mSpeaker: Elena Giusarma
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Parallel 5 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)
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Aspects of Axion Dark Matter Clumps 20mSpeaker: Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)
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Intermediate Scale Non-resonant Leptogenesis 20mSpeaker: Jessica Turner (Durham University)
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Enhancement of the dark matter abundance before reheating: thermal and non-thermal production 20mSpeaker: Marcos A. Garcia Garcia (Rice University)
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Constraining Axion-like-Particles with Hard X-Ray Emission from Magnetars 20mSpeaker: Kuver Sinha
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Parallel 5 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)
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Classical Hawking radiation 20mSpeaker: George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)
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Testing Modified Gravity with Merging Neutron Stars 20mSpeaker: Laura Sagunski
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Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem 20mSpeaker: Jeremy Sakstein (University of Pennsylvania)
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Parallel 5 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)
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Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravita- tional waves 20mSpeaker: Leslie Wade
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Folding-in astrophysical priors in searches for continuous gravitational waves 20mSpeaker: Jing Ming
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Searching for scalar and tensor polarizations with the stochas- tic gravitational wave background 20mSpeaker: Tom Callister
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Parallel 5 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)
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Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University
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One loop corrections to the spin-independent blind spot 20mSpeaker: Hongkai Liu (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Electroweak DM at Future Hadron Collider 20mSpeaker: Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
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Low temperature EW phase transition in the SM with hidden scale invariance 20m
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 energy, the dilaton develops a very small mass at 2-loop order. As a result, a flat direction is present in the classical dilaton-Higgs potential at zero temperature while the quantum potential admits two (almost) degenerate local minima with unbroken and broken eletroweak symmetry. We found that the cosmological electroweak phase transition in this model can only be triggered by a QCD chiral symmetry breaking phase transition at low temperatures, T ≈ 132 MeV. Furthermore, unlike the standard case, the universe settles into the chiral symmetry breaking vacuum via a first-order phase transition which gives rise to a stochastic gravitational background with a peak frequency ~ 10-8 Hz as well as triggers the production of approximately solar mass primordial black holes. The observation of these signatures of cosmological phase transitions together with the detection of a light dilaton would provide a strong hint of the fundamental role of scale invariance in particle physics.
Speaker: Suntharan Arunasalam (University of Sydney)
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Coffee Break 30m Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106. -
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Plenary 10 Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: C. Covault
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Neutrino Aspects of Multimessenger Astronomy 30mSpeaker: Francis Halzen (IceCube/WIPAC)
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A Classical-Quantum Correspondence for All 30mSpeaker: Tanmay Vachaspati
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Unbiased constraints from biased tracers in cosmology 30mSpeaker: Ravi Sheth (ICTP/UPenn)
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Plenary 11 Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: C. de Rham
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The Mu2e Experiment 30mSpeaker: Robert Bernstein
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Evidence for inflation in an axion landscape 30mSpeaker: Pran Nath (Department of Physics)
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Coffee Break 30m Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106. -
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Plenary 12 Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Second Floor), 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 Parallel Talks take place at the Rockefeller Building, Physics Department, 2076 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106.Chairman: P. Nath
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Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification 30mSpeaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
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