9th PIKIMO meeting (University of Kentucky)

Saturday 24 Oct 2020, 09:00 → 19:00 US/Eastern

301 (Braunstein Hall)

09:30 Coffee

1 New Directions in Axions and Dark Photons

I will describe some recently proposed theoretical mechanisms which dramatically extend the viable parameter space for QCD axion dark matter. One of these mechanisms can be used to populate ultralight dark photons as dark matter. These explorations provide an extended target-space for experiments to hunt for axions and dark photons.

Speaker: Prateek Agrawal

2 Inverse Compton Emission from Millisecond Pulsars on the Galactic Bulge

Speaker: Deheng Song

3 Leak-in Dark Matter

Speaker: Cristian Gaidau

11:25 Coffee

4 Dark Matter Mass Bounds

Speaker: Juri Smirnov

5 Dark Matter Direct Detection with Liquid Scintillators

Speaker: Ben Lillard

6 New CTEQ Global Analysis with High Precision Data from the LHC

Speaker: Keping Xie

13:00 Lunch

7 Lattice insights for composite BSM physics

A number of interesting models of new physics, including composite Higgs and composite dark matter scenarios, imagine new strongly-coupled gauge interactions that give rise to compositeness. The phenomenology of these models is typically studied using low-energy effective theories, but calculations in the underlying strongly-coupled theory can predict low-energy constants from a handful of fundamental parameters, as well as giving new insights beyond the effective description. I will review recent efforts using lattice gauge theory to study theories beyond QCD, with an eye towards BSM physics.

Speaker: Ethan Neil

8 Elastic Neutrino-Electron Scattering in EFT

Speaker: Oleksandr Tomalak

9 Strong New Limits on Light Dark Matter from Neutrino Experiments

Speaker: Christopher Capiello

10 Non-standard Neutrino Interactions at COHERENT, DUNE, T2HK, and LHC

Speaker: Hongkai Liu

16:15 Coffee

11 Branching Fractions of the X(3872)

Speaker: Liping He

12 Lorentz-violationg EFT and its Coupling with Gravity

Speaker: Zonghao Li

13 A low-scale Flavon Model with a ZN Flavor Symmetry

Speaker: Junichiro Kawamura

17:45 Closing