PASCOS 2018, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

US/Eastern
Thwing Center, Thwing Excelsior Ballroom (Case Western Reserve University)

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

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/

Please register in the conference website:

http://artsci.case.edu/pascos2018/registration/

and in this Indico page using the email of your Indico account.

Please create your Indico account HERE

For more information visit the conference website.

Registration
Registration PASCOS 2018
Participants
  • Adam Davis
  • Adrian Liu
  • Alice Di Tucci
  • Andrew Long
  • Ashley Perko
  • Ashley Perko
  • Ashley Ross
  • Bart Horn
  • Caner Unal
  • Carmelita Carbone
  • Chang Sub Shin
  • Chen Zhang
  • Clara Murgui Galvez
  • Claudius Krause
  • Corbin Covault
  • Dejan Stojkovic
  • Eric Chabert
  • Ethan Brown
  • Fa Peng Huang
  • Falko Dulat
  • Federico Galli
  • Francisco Ponce
  • Fuminobu Takahashi
  • Fuminobu Takahashi
  • George Zahariade
  • George Zahariade
  • German Rodrigo
  • Gilly Elor
  • Hongkai Liu
  • Hongwan Liu
  • Howard Baer
  • Hugo Prager
  • Ian Lewis
  • James Mertens
  • Jason Evans
  • Javier Tarrío
  • Jax Sanders
  • Jeff Dror
  • Jessica Turner
  • Jia Liu
  • Jia Liu
  • Jia Liu
  • Jing Ren
  • Joey Shapiro Key
  • Johnathan Hung
  • Juan Carlos Vasquez
  • Keisuke Harigaya
  • Keisuke Harigaya
  • kiyoharu kawana
  • Kohei Kamada
  • Kunihito Uzawa
  • Kuver Sinha
  • Linda Blot
  • Luke Kippenbrock
  • Mahmoud Parvizi
  • Marcin Badziak
  • Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
  • Masaki Yamada
  • Matheus Hostert
  • Matthew Hasselfield
  • Matthew Johnson
  • Matthew Low
  • Matti Jarvinen
  • Michael Geller
  • Michael Miloradovic
  • Michał Wieczorek
  • Michał Wieczorek
  • Nikhil Raghuram
  • Nisar Nellikunnummel
  • Oliver Janssen
  • Ozenc Gungor
  • Pavel Fileviez Perez
  • Rachael Beaton
  • Raymond Co
  • Rebecca Leane
  • Rehan Deen
  • Robert Kehoe
  • Sarah Vigeland
  • Saurabh Kumar
  • Scott Melville
  • Sebastian Bramberger
  • Sebastian Bramberger
  • Sebastian Ellis
  • Simone Aiola
  • Stanley J. Brodsky
  • Suntharan Arunasalam
  • Terrance Figy
  • Thomas Bachlechner
  • Thomas Callister
  • Timothy Classen
  • Xiaoping Wang
  • Xing Wang
  • Yongchao Zhang
  • Yoshihisa Obayashi
  • Zhen Liu
  • Zhenbin Wu
  • Zhengkang Zhang
    • Registration 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.

      Registration and welcoming

    • Welcome: Opening address 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.
    • Plenary 1 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. Fileviez Perez

      • 5
        Conservative physics and new physics for the quantised black hole
        Speaker: Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University)
      • 6
        Couplings in the Dark Sector, and the Mildly Nonlinear Regime
        Speaker: Mark Trodden
    • 17:30
      Coffee Break 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.
    • Plenary 2 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: G. Starkman

    • 19:00
      Reception in the Linsalata Alumni Center Linsalata Alumni Center

      Linsalata Alumni Center

      The Alumni House, 11310 Juniper Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106
    • Plenary 3 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: K. Hinterbichler

    • 10:00
      Coffee Break 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.
    • Plenary 4 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: M. Carena

    • 12:00
      Lunch
    • Parallel 1 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      304

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 15
        Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion Receives a Stress Test
        Speaker: Terrance Figy (Wichita State University)
      • 16
        Recent progress in Higgs precision calculations
        Speaker: Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
      • 17
        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)
      • 18
        Precison Higgs physics
        Speaker: Falko Dulat (SLAC)
    • Parallel 1 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      306

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 20
        Prospects for BSM searches at the HL-LHC with CMS
        Speaker: Zhenbin Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))
      • 21
        LHCb as a charm factory
        Speaker: Adam Davis (Tsinghua University (CN))
      • 22
        The Belle II Experiment: Status and Physics Prospects
        Speaker: Nisar Nellikunnummel (University of Pittsburgh)
    • Parallel 1 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      301

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 1 309 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      309

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 27
        Higgs Fine Tuning and its Cosmological Dynamics
        Speaker: Mustafa Amin (Rice University)
      • 28
        Many-field Inflation in Random Potentials
        Speaker: Sonia Paban
      • 29
        Early Universe Cosmology with the Sunyaev Zel’dovich Effect
        Speakers: Matthew Johnson, Matthew Johnson (York University/Perimeter Institute)
      • 30
        Polarization Predictions and the CMB Hemispherical Variance Anomaly
        Speaker: Márcio O'Dwyer (Case Western Reserve University)
    • Parallel 1 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      303

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 31
        Holographic second laws of black hole thermodynamics
        Speaker: Federico Galli (Perimeter Institute)
      • 32
        Dense holographic QCD and neutron stars
        Speaker: Matti Jarvinen (Utrecht University)
      • 33
        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
      • 34
        The Axidental Universe
        Speaker: Thomas Bachlechner (Columbia University)
    • 15:20
      Coffee Break Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 2 309 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      309

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 2 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      306

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 2 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      304

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 2 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      303

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 47
        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
      • 48
        The Toric SO(10) Landscape and Global Matter-Tensor Transitions
        Speaker: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
      • 49
        Unrealized Representations in Non-Abelian F-theory Models
        Speaker: Nikhil Raghuram (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
      • 50
        Witten's loop in the flipped SU(5) unification revisited
        Speaker: Michal Malinsky (Charles University (CZ))
    • Parallel 2 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      301

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 51
        Dark Matter and the Seesaw Scale
        Speaker: Clara Murgui Galvez
      • 52
        QCD Axion Dark Matter with f_a as Low as 10^8 GeV
        Speaker: Raymond Co (University of California, Berkeley)
      • 53
        CMB Spectral Distortions from Cooling Macroscopic Dark Matter
        Speaker: Saurabh Kumar
      • 54
        Can LambdaCDM model reproduce MOND-like behavior?
        Speaker: De-Chang Dai
    • 17:00
      Coffee Break 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.
    • Plenary 5 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: G. Gabadadze

    • Plenary 6 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: B. Monreal

      • 58
        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)
      • 59
        The precision frontier landscape
        Speaker: German Rodrigo (IFIC CSIC-UV)
      • 60
        The Pierre Auger Observatory: The Big Picture on the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
        Speaker: Corbin Covault
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break 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.
    • Plenary 7 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: R. Brown

      • 61
        Colour Unified Dynamical Axion
        Speaker: Belen Gavela Legazpi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))
      • 62
        Identifying new states at the LHC
        Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons (University of California, San Diego)
      • 63
        The Light-Front Vacuum, Light-Front Holography, and Supersymmetric Features of Hadron Physics
        Speaker: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)
    • 12:00
      Lunch
    • Parallel 3-1 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      303

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 3-1 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      304

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 66
        Reconstructing the Large-Scale Velocity Field using kSZ Tomography
        Speaker: James Mertens (York University)
      • 67
        The classical double copy in maximally symmetric spacetimes
        Speaker: Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez
    • Parallel 3-1 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      301

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 68
        GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead
        Speaker: Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
      • 69
        Dark Sector Physics with Belle II
        Speaker: Igal Jaegle
    • Parallel 3-1 309 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      309

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 70
        Gravitational Wave Signatures of Inflationary Models producing Primordial Black Holes
        Speaker: Mr Caner Unal (University of Minnesota)
      • 71
        Probes of primordial black hole dark matter
        Speaker: Ely Kovetz
    • Parallel 3-1 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      306

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 3-2 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      301

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 74
        PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment
        Speaker: Timothy Classen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
      • 75
        The Status of Hyper-Kamiokande Project
        Speaker: Yoshihisa OBAYASHI (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo)
      • 76
        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
    • Parallel 3-2 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      304

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 77
        Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detector
        Speaker: Madeline Wade
      • 78
        Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays
        Speaker: Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
    • Parallel 3-2 309 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      309

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 79
        Engineering the Measurement of the Hubble Constant via the Distance Ladder
        Speaker: Rachael Beaton (Princeton University)
      • 80
        MassiveNuS: Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos
        Speaker: Jia Liu (Princeton University)
    • Parallel 3-2 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      303

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 81
        Speed Limits for Modified Gravity
        Speaker: Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)
      • 82
        Warning signs for cosmological back reaction from numerical relativity
        Speaker: Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)
    • Parallel 3-2 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      306

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 83
        Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions
        Speaker: Michael Geller (Technion)
      • 84
        Supersymmetric dark sectors
        Speaker: Jeff Dror (Cornell University)
    • 15:20
      Coffee Break Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • 16:00
      Excursion and Banquet
    • Plenary 8 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: H. Mathur

      • 85
        Higgs Boson Couplings and New Physics
        Speaker: Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)
      • 86
        Status of Weak Scale Supersymmetry
        Speaker: Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
      • 87
        Putting Einstein to the Test with Gravitational Wave Observations
        Speaker: Neil Cornish
    • 10:00
      Coffee Break 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.
    • Plenary 9 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: A. Tolley

    • 12:00
      Lunch
    • Parallel 4 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      306

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 91
        Cosmological Signatures in Mirror Twin Higgs Models
        Speaker: Yuhsin Tsai (University of Maryland)
      • 92
        Asymptotically Free Supersymmetric Twin Higgs
        Speaker: Marcin Badziak
      • 93
        Implications of Higgs Discovery for the Strong CP Problem and Unification
        Speaker: Keisuke Harigaya (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
      • 94
        Disorder at the LHC
        Speaker: Matthew Low (Institute for Advanced Study)
    • Parallel 4 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      303

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 95
        A universal bound on the strong coupling scale of a gravitationally coupled massive spin-2 particle
        Speaker: James Bonifacio
      • 96
        Black Hole Horizons and Massive Gravitons
        Speaker: Rachel Rosen
      • 97
        Spin-2 scattering amplitudes and asymptotic superluminality
        Speaker: Austin Joyce
      • 98
        Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of Massive Gravity in de Sitter
        Speaker: Laura Johnson
    • Parallel 4 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      301

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 99
        Status of the KATRIN experiment
        Speaker: Luke Kippenbrock
      • 100
        A search for Neutrinoless double beta decay in 130Te : First results from CUORE
        Speaker: Vivek Singh
      • 101
        Implications of an Improved Neutron-Antineutron Oscillation Search for Baryogenesis
        Speaker: Zhengkang Zhang (University of Michigan)
      • 102
        Lepton flavor violation induced by a neutral scalar at future lepton colliders
        Speaker: Dr Yongchao Zhang
    • Parallel 4 309 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      309

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 103
        Galaxy Cluster Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
        Speaker: Matthew Hasselfield (Penn State University)
      • 104
        Fundamental physics from the small-scale cosmic microwave background
        Speaker: Mathew Madhavacheril (Princeton)
      • 105
        21cm Cosmology in the Detection Era
        Speaker: Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley)
      • 106
        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
    • Parallel 4 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      304

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 107
        Bridging the gap between year-long signals and second-long signals: GW transients
        Speaker: Lilli Sun
      • 108
        Gravitational wave science with LISA
        Speaker: Joey Shapiro Key (University of Washington Bothell)
      • 109
        Design of third generation ground based detectors
        Speaker: Dr Jax Sanders (Syracuse University)
      • 110
        Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Virgo
        Speaker: Andrew Matas
    • 15:20
      Coffee Break Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

    • Parallel 5 309 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      309

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 111
        The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
        Speaker: Robert Kehoe (Southern Methodist University (US))
      • 112
        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)
      • 113
        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)
      • 114
        Exploring neutrino masses with Large Scale Structure
        Speaker: Elena Giusarma
    • Parallel 5 301 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      301

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 115
        Aspects of Axion Dark Matter Clumps
        Speaker: Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)
      • 116
        Intermediate Scale Non-resonant Leptogenesis
        Speaker: Jessica Turner (Durham University)
      • 117
        Enhancement of the dark matter abundance before reheating: thermal and non-thermal production
        Speaker: Marcos A. Garcia Garcia (Rice University)
      • 118
        Constraining Axion-like-Particles with Hard X-Ray Emission from Magnetars
        Speaker: Kuver Sinha
    • Parallel 5 303 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      303

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 119
        Classical Hawking radiation
        Speaker: George Zahariade (Laboratoire APC)
      • 120
        Testing Modified Gravity with Merging Neutron Stars
        Speaker: Laura Sagunski
      • 121
        Transverse phonons in holographic massive gravity
        Speaker: Lasma Alberte
      • 122
        Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem
        Speaker: Jeremy Sakstein (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Parallel 5 304 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      304

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 123
        Astrophysical implications of GW observations
        Speaker: Reed Essik
      • 124
        Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravita- tional waves
        Speaker: Leslie Wade
      • 125
        Folding-in astrophysical priors in searches for continuous gravitational waves
        Speaker: Jing Ming
      • 126
        Searching for scalar and tensor polarizations with the stochas- tic gravitational wave background
        Speaker: Tom Callister
    • Parallel 5 306 (Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University)

      306

      Physics Department, Rockefeller Building, Case Western Reserve University

      • 127
        LHC searches for dark sector showers
        Speaker: Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
      • 128
        One loop corrections to the spin-independent blind spot
        Speaker: Hongkai Liu (University of Pittsburgh (US))
      • 129
        Electroweak DM at Future Hadron Collider
        Speaker: Xing Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
      • 130
        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)
    • 17:00
      Coffee Break 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.
    • Plenary 10 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: C. Covault

    • Plenary 11 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: C. de Rham

    • 10:30
      Coffee Break 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.
    • 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

      • 137
        Neutrino Mass and Grand Unification
        Speaker: Rabindra Mohapatra (University of Maryland)
      • 138
        Origin and Nature of Neutrino Mass
        Speaker: Goran Senjanovic
      • 139
        Traversable Wormholes
        Speaker: Juan Maldacena (Unknown)