PASCOS 2018, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

4 Jun 2018, 13:55 → 8 Jun 2018, 12:30 US/Eastern

Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Case Western Reserve University)

Glenn David Starkman (Case Western Reserve University (US)), Pavel Fileviez Perez (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.

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Monday, 4 June

14:00 → 16:00 Registration

Registration and welcoming

16:00 → 16:30 Welcome: Opening address

16:00 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez (Case Western Reserve University)

Welcome-PASCOS2018.pdf

16:05 Welcome to CWRU

Speaker: C. Taylor

16:15 Physics at CWRU

Speaker: K. Kash

03-Kash-Mon.pptx

16:25 Origins and CERCA

Speaker: Glenn David Starkman (Case Western Reserve University (US))

04-Starkman-Mon.pdf

04-Starkman-Mon.pptx

16:30 → 17:30 Plenary 1

Chairman: P. Fileviez Perez

16:30 Conservative physics and new physics for the quantised black hole

Speaker: Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)

old-05-tHooft-Mon.pdf

17:00 Couplings in the Dark Sector, and the Mildly Nonlinear Regime

Speaker: Mark Trodden

06-Trodden-Mon.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Coffee Break

18:00 → 19:00 Plenary 2

Chairman: G. Starkman

18:00 The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Exploration

Speaker: Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

pdf-07-Carena-Mon.pdf

18:30 New Hints of Dark Matter

Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski

08-Kamionkowski.pdf

19:00 → 22:00 Reception in the Linsalata Alumni Center

Tuesday, 5 June

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary 3

Chairman: K. Hinterbichler

08:30 Warped massive gravity

Speaker: Gregory Gabadadze (N)

01-Gabadadze-Tues.pdf

09:00 Positivity Bounds for all Spins

Speaker: Andrew Tolley

02-Tolley-Tues.pdf

09:30 Massive gravity from the top down and bottom’s up

Speaker: Claudia de Rham

03-deRham-Tues.pdf

03-deRham-Tues.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary 4

Chairman: M. Carena

10:30 Dark Matter Direct Detection with Liquid Nobles

Speaker: Daniel Akerib

04-Akerib-Tues.pdf

11:00 Cosmic-ray Antinuclei: New Inputs on Dark Matter

Speaker: Kerstin Perez (MIT)

05-Perez-Tues.pdf

05-Perez-Tues.pptx

11:30 Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter

Speaker: Rouven Essig

06-Essig.key

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 1

14:00 Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion Receives a Stress Test

Speaker: Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)

Pascos2018_TMFigy.pdf

14:20 Recent progress in Higgs precision calculations

Speaker: Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

pascos18_4k.pdf

pascos18.pdf

14:40 Current and Future Constraints on Higgs Couplings

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.

Speaker: Claudius Krause (Fermilab)

C.Krause.PASCOS.pdf

15:00 Precison Higgs physics

Speaker: Falko Dulat (SLAC)

pascos_dulat.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 1

14:00 Highlights from SUSY searches at CMS

Speaker: Eric Chabert (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Chabert_PASCOS_SUSY.pdf

14:20 Prospects for BSM searches at the HL-LHC with CMS

Speaker: Zhenbin Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

Zhenbin_PASCOSv2.pdf

14:40 LHCb as a charm factory

Speaker: Adam Davis (Tsinghua University (CN))

PASCOS2018_AdamDavis.pdf

15:00 The Belle II Experiment: Status and Physics Prospects

Speaker: Nisar Nellikunnummel (University of Pittsburgh)

PASCOS2018_nisar_final.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 1

14:00 The Status of Indirect Searches for Weak-Scale Dark Matter

Speaker: Tim Linden

pascos2018.pdf

14:20 Initial Dark Matter Results from the SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detectors

Speaker: Dr Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)

PASCOS_2018.pdf

14:40 21-cm implications for dark matter annihilation and decay

Speaker: Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

20180605 PASCOS 2018 - 21-cm Cosmology and Dark Matter.pdf

15:00 Dark Matter search with XENON1T

Speaker: Ethan Brown

PASCOS_2018_EthanBrown_XENON1T.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 1

14:00 Higgs Fine Tuning and its Cosmological Dynamics

Speaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)

Amin_PASCOS18.pdf

14:20 Many-field Inflation in Random Potentials

Speaker: Sonia Paban

PASCOS2018.pdf

14:40 Early Universe Cosmology with the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect

Speakers: Matthew Johnson, Matthew Johnson (York University/Perimeter Institute)

pascos18.pdf

15:00 Polarization Predictions and the CMB Hemispherical Variance Anomaly

Speaker: Márcio O'Dwyer (Case Western Reserve University)

4_Marcio_Odwyer.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 1

14:00 Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics

Speaker: Federico Galli (Perimeter Institute)

Holographic2ndLaws05Jun.pdf

14:20 Dense holographic QCD and neutron stars

Speaker: Matti Jarvinen (Utrecht University)

180605_jarvinen.pdf

14:40 Cold holographic matter and color symmetry breaking

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.

Speaker: Javier Tarrío

talkpascos.pdf

15:00 The Axidental Universe

Speaker: Thomas Bachlechner (Columbia University)

The Axidental Universe_pascos copy.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 2

15:40 The no-boundary proposal: alive and well

Speaker: Mr Oliver Janssen (New York University)

abstract_Oliver_Janssen_PASCOS2018.pdf

presentation_Oliver_Janssen_PASCOS2018.pdf

16:00 Quantum incompleteness of Inflation

Speaker: Alice Di Tucci (Max Planck Institute)

Alice Di Tucci pascos.pdf

16:20 Semiclassical Eternal Inflation

Speaker: Sebastian Bramberger (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

PASCOS '18 - Semiclassical Eternal Inflation.pdf

16:40 When Does the Inflaton Decay?

Speaker: Cristian Armendariz-Picon

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 2

15:40 Highlights from SUSY searches at ATLAS

Speaker: David Miller (University of Chicago (US))

Miller_ATLASSUSYHighlights_PASCOS2018_5Jun2018.pdf

16:00 Precision measurement with Diboson at the LHC

Speaker: Da Liu

Talk_Da_new.pdf

16:20 The Baryon Asymmetry from a Composite Higgs

Speaker: Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)

16:40 Long-Lived Particles at the LHC with Timing

Speaker: Jia Liu (University of Chicago)

Timing-June-5-2018-Cleveland-JL.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 2

15:40 Newest results of the GERDA experiment

Speaker: Michael Miloradovic

PASCOS2018MichaelMiloradovic.pdf

16:00 QCD Corrections to effective field theories at the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

IL_PASCOS2018.pdf

16:20 Resummation and renormalons in a general QFT

Speaker: Juan C. Vasquez Carmona

07-JuanCarlosVasquez.pdf

16:40 Scaling Behavior of QCD Vertex Functions in Universal Extra Dimensions

Speaker: Daniel Wiegand (University of Pittsburgh)

PascosSlides_DanielWiegand.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 2

15:40 Consequences of Fine-Tuning for Fifth-Force Searches

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.

Speaker: Sebastian Ellis

16:00 The Toric SO(10) Landscape and Global Matter-Tensor Transitions

Speaker: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann

OehlmannPascos2018.pdf

16:20 Unrealized Representations in Non-Abelian F-theory Models

Speaker: Nikhil Raghuram (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

RaghuramPASCOSJun5a.pdf

16:40 Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification revisited

Speaker: Michal Malinsky (Charles University (CZ))

PASCOS18-Malinsky.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 2

15:40 Dark Matter and the Seesaw Scale

Speaker: Clara Murgui Galvez

CM_DMSeesawScale.pdf

16:00 QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as Low as 10^8 GeV

Speaker: Raymond Co (University of California, Berkeley)

QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as Low as 10^8 GeV.pdf

16:20 CMB Spectral Distortions from Cooling Macroscopic Dark Matter

Speaker: Saurabh Kumar

macro_sd.pdf

16:40 Can LambdaCDM model reproduce MOND-like behavior?

Speaker: De-Chang Dai

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 → 19:30 Plenary 5

Chairman: G. Gabadadze

18:00 Probing Physics with CMB Polarization

Speaker: John Ruhl

Ruhl_ProbingPhysicswithCMBpolarization.pdf

18:30 Dark Matter and its Interactions with Baryons

Speaker: Justin Khoury

08-Khoury-Tues.key

19:00 Black holes from cosmic inflation

Speaker: Alexander Vilenkin

09-Vilenkin-Tues.pdf

09-Vilenkin-Tues.pptx

Wednesday, 6 June

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary 6

Chairman: B. Monreal

08:30 Higgs Couplings at High Scales

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.

Speaker: Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh)

Han-Pascos18.pdf

09:00 The precision frontier landscape

Speaker: German Rodrigo (IFIC CSIC-UV)

2018_06_rodrigo_PASCOS.pdf

09:30 The Pierre Auger Observatory: The Big Picture on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Corbin Covault

03-Covault-Wed.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary 7

Chairman: R. Brown

10:30 Colour Unified Dynamical Axion

Speaker: Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))

Gavela-PASCOS-Cleveland-2018-final.pdf

11:00 Identifying new states at the LHC

Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)

05-Simmons-Wed.pdf

11:30 The Light-Front Vacuum, Light-Front Holography, and Supersymmetric Features of Hadron Physics

Speaker: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)

06-Brodsky-Wed.key

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Parallel 3-1

14:00 A Lattice-Friendly Composite Higgs

Speaker: Ashley Perko (Dartmouth College)

PASCOS_perko.pdf

14:20 Collinear Superspace

Speaker: Gilly Elor

02-Gilly_Elor.pdf

14:00 → 14:40 Parallel 3-1

14:00 Reconstructing the Large-Scale Velocity Field using kSZ Tomography

Speaker: James Mertens (York University)

PASCOS_2018.pdf

14:20 The classical double copy in maximally symmetric spacetimes

Speaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez

02-Mariana_Carillo_Gonzalez.pdf

14:00 → 14:40 Parallel 3-1

14:00 GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead

Speaker: Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

RKLeane_PASCOS18.pdf

14:20 Dark Sector Physics with Belle II

Speaker: Igal Jaegle

02-Igal_Jeagle.pdf

14:00 → 14:40 Parallel 3-1

14:00 Gravitational Wave Signatures of Inflationary Models producing Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Mr Caner Unal (University of Minnesota)

canerunal_PASCOS18.pdf

14:20 Probes of primordial black hole dark matter

Speaker: Ely Kovetz

02-Ely_Kovetz.pdf

14:00 → 14:40 Parallel 3-1

14:00 Enhanced Di-Higgs Production and the Electroweak Phase Transition

Speaker: Zhen Liu (Fermilab)

StrongPhase_ZhenLiu_PASCOS18.pdf

14:20 A light Higgs and the B-physics Anomalies

Speaker: Xiaoping Wang (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

xiaopingwang-pascos.pdf

14:40 → 15:40 Parallel 3-2

14:40 PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment

Speaker: Timothy Classen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

060618_Classen_PROSPECT_PASCOS.pdf

15:00 The Status of Hyper-Kamiokande Project

Speaker: Yoshihisa OBAYASHI (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)

Obayashi-HyperK.pdf

15:20 Recent Results from MicroBooNE

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

14:40 → 15:20 Parallel 3-2

14:40 Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detector

Speaker: Madeline Wade

Maddie_PASCOS_2018_calibration.pdf

15:00 Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Speaker: Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

vigeland.pdf

14:40 → 15:20 Parallel 3-2

14:40 Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant via the Distance Ladder

Speaker: Rachael Beaton (Princeton University)

beaton.pdf

15:00 MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos

Speaker: Jia Liu (Princeton University)

pascos2018_liu.pdf

14:40 → 15:20 Parallel 3-2

14:40 Speed Limits for Modified Gravity

Speaker: Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)

Melville_PASCOS_06Jun2018.pdf

15:00 Warning signs for cosmological back reaction from numerical relativity

Speaker: Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)

04-Tom_Giblin.pdf

14:40 → 15:20 Parallel 3-2

14:40 Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions

Speaker: Michael Geller (Technion)

01-MichaelGeller.pdf

15:00 Supersymmetric dark sectors

Speaker: Jeff Dror (Cornell University)

WorkshopTalk_v2.pdf

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee Break

16:00 → 20:00 Excursion and Banquet

Thursday, 7 June

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary 8

Chairman: H. Mathur

08:30 Higgs Boson Couplings and New Physics

Speaker: Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)

01-Wagner.pdf

09:00 Status of Weak Scale Supersymmetry

Speaker: Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

Pascos2.pdf

09:30 Putting Einstein to the Test with Gravitational Wave Observations

Speaker: Neil Cornish

03-Cornish-Thur.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Plenary 9

Chairman: A. Tolley

10:30 Recent advances in superconformal field theories

Speaker: Philip Argyres

04-Argyres.pdf

11:00 An Overview of Moonshine

Speaker: John Duncan

alt-05-Duncan-Thur.pdf

11:30 Quantum aspects of black hole physics

Speaker: Dejan Stojkovic (SUNY at Buffalo)

06-Stojkovic-Thur.pdf

06-Stojkovic-Thur.pptx

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 4

14:00 Cosmological Signatures in Mirror Twin Higgs Models

Speaker: Yuhsin Tsai (University of Maryland)

MTH cosmo PASCO.pdf

14:20 Asymptotically Free Supersymmetric Twin Higgs

Speaker: Marcin Badziak

Badziak_TwinHiggs_PASCOS2018.pdf

14:40 Implications of Higgs Discovery for the Strong CP Problem and Unification

Speaker: Keisuke Harigaya (UC Berkeley, LBNL)

KHarigaya.pdf

15:00 Disorder at the LHC

Speaker: Matthew Low (Institute for Advanced Study)

MathewLow_disorder.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 4

14:00 A universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle

Speaker: James Bonifacio

PASCOS-JJB.pdf

14:20 Black Hole Horizons and Massive Gravitons

Speaker: Rachel Rosen

14:40 Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality

Speaker: Austin Joyce

Austin Joyce - PASCOS.pdf

15:00 Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of Massive Gravity in de Sitter

Speaker: Laura Johnson

04-Laura_Johnson.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 4

14:00 Status of the KATRIN experiment

Speaker: Luke Kippenbrock

Kippenbrock_PASCOS2018.pdf

14:20 A search for Neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te : First results from CUORE

Speaker: Vivek Singh

VSingh_PASCOS_2018.pdf

14:40 Implications of an Improved Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search for Baryogenesis

Speaker: Zhengkang Zhang (University of Michigan)

nnbarZZ_pascos18.pdf

15:00 Lepton flavor violation induced by a neutral scalar at future lepton colliders

Speaker: Dr Yongchao Zhang

LFV_PASCOS2018.pdf

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 4

14:00 Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Speaker: Matthew Hasselfield (Penn State University)

hasselfield_pascos2018.pdf

14:20 Fundamental physics from the small-scale cosmic microwave background

Speaker: Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton)

Madhavacheril_PASCOS.pdf

14:40 21cm Cosmology in the Detection Era

Speaker: Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley)

Liu_PASCOS.pdf

15:00 Weighing neutrinos with cosmic neutral hydrogen

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

PASCOS_Cleveland_2018.pdf

PASCOS_Cleveland_2018.pptx

14:00 → 15:20 Parallel 4

14:00 Bridging the gap between year-long signals and second-long signals: GW transients

Speaker: Lilli Sun

01-Lili_Sun.pdf

01-Lili_Sun.pptx

14:20 Gravitational wave science with LISA

Speaker: Joey Shapiro Key (University of Washington Bothell)

LISAscience.pdf

14:40 Design of third generation ground based detectors

Speaker: Dr Jax Sanders (Syracuse University)

JaxSandersPASCOS.pdf

15:00 Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Virgo

Speaker: Andrew Matas

04-Andrew_Matas.pdf

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee Break

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 5

15:40 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Speaker: Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))

PASCOS180607.pdf

16:00 Cosmological simulations for precision cosmology with large galaxy surveys

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

Speaker: Linda Blot (Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC), IEEC)

LindaBlotpascos2018.pdf

16:20 The Status of Constraints on Dark Energy from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale Measurements

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.

Speaker: Ashley Ross (Ohio State University)

PASCOS2018AJR.pdf

16:40 Exploring neutrino masses with Large Scale Structure

Speaker: Elena Giusarma

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 5

15:40 Aspects of Axion Dark Matter Clumps

Speaker: Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)

AspectsofAxionsPASCOS.pdf

16:00 Intermediate Scale Non-resonant Leptogenesis

Speaker: Jessica Turner (Durham University)

Turner_PASCOS_2018.pdf

16:20 Enhancement of the dark matter abundance before reheating: thermal and non-thermal production

Speaker: Marcos A. Garcia Garcia (Rice University)

MarcosPASCOS18.pdf

16:40 Constraining Axion-like-Particles with Hard X-Ray Emission from Magnetars

Speaker: Kuver Sinha

Kuver_Sinha_PASCOS.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 5

15:40 Classical Hawking radiation

Speaker: George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)

PASCOS 2018 Zahariade.pdf

16:00 Testing Modified Gravity with Merging Neutron Stars

Speaker: Laura Sagunski

06-Laura_Sagunski.pdf

16:20 Transverse phonons in holographic massive gravity

Speaker: Lasma Alberte

alberte.pdf

16:40 Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem

Speaker: Jeremy Sakstein (University of Pennsylvania)

sakstein_PASCOS_2018.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 5

15:40 Astrophysical implications of GW observations

Speaker: Reed Essik

05-Essik.pdf

16:00 Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravita- tional waves

Speaker: Leslie Wade

MeasureEOS.pdf

16:20 Folding-in astrophysical priors in searches for continuous gravitational waves

Speaker: Jing Ming

07-Jing_Ming.pdf

16:40 Searching for scalar and tensor polarizations with the stochas- tic gravitational wave background

Speaker: Tom Callister

Callister_slides.pdf

15:40 → 17:00 Parallel 5

15:40 LHC searches for dark sector showers

Speaker: Siddharth Mishra-Sharma

MishraSharma_PASCOS.pdf

16:00 One loop corrections to the spin-independent blind spot

Speaker: Hongkai Liu (University of Pittsburgh (US))

06-Hongkai_Lai.pdf

16:20 Electroweak DM at Future Hadron Collider

Speaker: Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

DM_HELHC_Xing_Wang.pdf

16:40 Low temperature EW phase transition in the SM with hidden scale invariance

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)

talk.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 → 19:30 Plenary 10

Chairman: C. Covault

18:00 Neutrino Aspects of Multimessenger Astronomy

Speaker: Francis Halzen (IceCube/WIPAC)

pdf-07-Halzen-Thur.pdf

18:30 A Classical-Quantum Correspondence for All

Speaker: Tanmay Vachaspati

08-Vachaspati-Thur-new.pdf

19:00 Unbiased constraints from biased tracers in cosmology

Speaker: Ravi Sheth (ICTP/UPenn)

09-Sheth.pdf

09-Sheth.ppt

Friday, 8 June

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary 11

Chairman: C. de Rham

09:00 Searches for new physics at the LHC

Speaker: Albert de Roeck

01-deRoeck.pdf

01-deRoeck.pptx

09:30 The Mu2e Experiment

Speaker: Robert Bernstein

pascos_CLFV_bernstein.key

pascos_CLFV_bernstein.pdf

10:00 Evidence for inflation in an axion landscape

Speaker: Pran Nath (Department of Physics)

03-Nath-Fri.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Plenary 12

Chairman: P. Nath

11:00 Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification

Speaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)

04-Mohapatra.pdf

11:30 Origin and Nature of Neutrino Mass

Speaker: Goran Senjanovic

05-Senjanovic.key

12:00 Traversable Wormholes

Speaker: Juan Maldacena (Unknown)

pdf-06-Maldacena.pdf