Cosmological Probes of New Physics @ UMD

15 Sept 2022, 09:00 → 17 Sept 2022, 13:15 US/Eastern

PSC 3150 (University of Maryland)

Kaustubh Agashe (University of Maryland), Zackaria Chacko (University of Maryland), Anson Hook (University of Maryland), Rabi Mohapatra (University of Maryland), Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland), Gustavo Marques Tavares (University of Maryland), Yuhsin Tsai (University of Maryland), Manuel Alejandro Buen Abad Najar

Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP), at University of Maryland,  is proud to host a three-day workshop on Cosmological Probes of New Physics. The workshop will bring together particle physicists and cosmologists to share new ideas of using cosmological data, in particular CMB, LSS, BAO, gravitational waves and future 21 cm measurements, to search for new physics. Topics include, but are not limited to, the cosmological signals of dark sectors, neutrino cosmology, the inflationary/reheating mechanism, cosmological collider physics, and the H0 problem.

Due to space constraints, participation at the conference is by invitation only.

Thursday, 15 September

09:00 → 09:30 Light Breakfast/Welcome & Workshop Intro

09:30 → 10:30 Morning Talks 1

09:30 "Toward Cosmological Concordance with New Physics in the Dark Sector"

Speaker: Colin Hill

10:00 “Dark Radiation Isocurvature: Constraints and Application to the Hubble Tension”

Speaker: Dr Subhajit Ghosh (University of Notre Dame)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 Morning Discussion 1: H0 Tension

11:00 H0 Tension: Introduction

Speakers: Marc Kamionkowski, Martin Schmaltz

UMD_H0_discussion.pdf

11:30 H0 Tension: Discussion

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Afternoon Talks 1

14:00 “A Step in Understanding the S8 Tension”

Speaker: Melissa Joseph

14:30 “Cosmological Matchmaking: Seven Proposals for Two Candidate Tensions, H0 and σ8”

Speaker: Prof. Kevork N. Abazajian

15:00 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:00 Afternoon Discussion 1: Dark Sectors

15:45 Dark Sectors: Introduction

Speakers: Prof. Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (University of New Mexico), Manuel Buen Abad Najar

16:15 Dark Sectors: Discussion

19:00 → 21:00 Shagga Restaurant: Welcome Dinner

Dinner at ethiopian restaurant Shagga

Friday, 16 September

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee break: Breakfast

09:30 → 10:30 Morning Talks 2

09:30 “Cosmological Constraints on the Neutrino Mass and Lifetime”

Speaker: Peizhi Du (Stony Brook University)

10:00 “New Roads to the Small-Scale Universe: Measurements of the Clustering of Matter with the High-Redshift UV Galaxy Luminosity Function”

Speaker: Nashwan Sabti

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 Morning Discussion 2: Neutrinos

11:00 Neutrinos: Introduction

Speakers: Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University), Marilena Loverde (University of Washington)

UMDNeutrino.pdf

UMDNeutrino.pptx

11:30 Neutrinos: Discussion

12:15 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Afternoon Talks 1

14:00 “Revealing Dark Matter and Light Relics with CMB-HD”

Speaker: Neelima Sehgal

14:30 “Observational signatures of dark matter interactions”

Speaker: Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

15:00 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:00 Afternoon Discussion 2: 21 cm

15:45 21 cm: Introduction

Speakers: Julian Munoz (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Simon Foreman

16:15 21 cm: Discussion

19:00 → 21:00 Workshop dinner

Saturday, 17 September

09:00 → 09:15 Coffee break: Breakfast

09:15 → 10:45 Morning Talks 3

09:15 “Signals of Inflation Triggered Dynamics”

Speaker: Liantao Wang

09:45 "Quantum Cosmology and Very General Relativity"

Speaker: David Kaplan

10:15 “Heavy axions as dark matter and baryogenesis candidates”

Speaker: Soubhik Kumar (UC Berkeley)

10:45 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:45 Morning Discussion 3: Non-Gaussian & Feature Signals

11:30 Non-Gaussian & Feature Signals: Introduction

Speakers: Mikhail Ivanov, Xingang Chen

12:00 Non-Gaussian & Feature Signals: Discussion