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Prof. Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley and LBNL)29/05/2018, 08:00I will welcome the participants of CIPANP 2018 and briefly review the history of this meeting that strives to strengthen the connections between nuclear, particle, and astro physicists.Go to contribution page
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Eric Baxter (University of Pennsylvania)29/05/2018, 08:05Astronomical surveys that map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the distribution of large scale structure of the Universe have demonstrated an impressive ability to constrain cosmology and to probe fundamental physics. In this talk, I will present an overview of recent results from the South Pole Telescope, which maps the CMB at small angular scales, and the Dark Energy Survey, which...Go to contribution page
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Dr Austin Joyce (Columbia University)29/05/2018, 08:40I will survey our understanding of cosmic acceleration, both in the late and early universe. The focus will be on recent theoretical developments in the study of dark energy and in the physics of inflation. We will also discuss constraints both from current and future observations.Go to contribution page
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Helene Fleurbaey (NIST)29/05/2018, 09:15The CODATA-recommended value of the proton rms charge radius $r_p$ is based on hydrogen/deuterium spectroscopy and electron–proton/deuteron scattering experiments. Since 2010, a discrepancy between the $r_p$ value determined from muonic hydrogen spectroscopy and the CODATA-recommended value has led to intense research activity both in theory and experiment. The situation has recently become...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sally Dawson (BNL)29/05/2018, 10:10The Higgs discovery changed our understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking, and the current theoretical focus is on illuminating the properties of the Higgs boson. I will discuss the Standard Model Higgs sector as the low energy limit of unknown high scale physics and present the status of theoretical calculations in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector and prospects for future discoveries.Go to contribution page
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Petar Maksimovic (Johns Hopkins University)29/05/2018, 10:45This talk highlights recent results from the LHC experiments, and briefly describes the prospects for the future measurements.Go to contribution page
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Jozef Dudek (William & Mary / Jefferson Lab)29/05/2018, 11:20Lattice QCD has matured to a degree where it is now possible to study excited hadrons as they truly appear in nature, as short-lived resonant enhancements decaying into multiple possible final states. Through variational analysis of matrices of correlation functions computed with large bases of interpolating fields it has proven possible to extract many excited state energy levels, and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Justin Stevens (William & Mary)29/05/2018, 11:55The GlueX experiment is located in the recently constructed experimental Hall D at Jefferson Lab (JLab), and provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons in high-energy photoproduction, utilizing a 9 GeV linearly polarized photon beam. Commissioning of the Hall D beamline and GlueX detector was recently completed and the data collected in the spring of 2017 officially began the...Go to contribution page
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Spencer Klein29/05/2018, 14:00In this talk, I will present the latest results on astrophysical neutrinos from IceCube, including our non-detection of GW170817. I will also briefly present two IceCube results on the cross-section and inelasticity distributions for high-energy ($E> 1$ TeV) neutrino interactions.Go to contribution page
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Dr Bartosz Fornal (University of California, San Diego)29/05/2018, 14:00There is a long-standing discrepancy between the neutron lifetime measured in beam and bottle experiments. We propose to explain this anomaly by a dark decay channel for the neutron, involving one or more dark sector particles in the final state. If any of these particles are stable, they can be the dark matter. We construct representative particle physics models consistent with all...Go to contribution page
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Dr Betty Tsang (Michigan State University)29/05/2018, 14:00The nuclear Equation of State (EoS) is central to the understanding of the matter found in neutron stars and in explosive stellar environments. This includes the dynamics in neutron star mergers or core collapse supernovae in which many of the heavy elements are formed. Such environments are often neutron-rich and their description requires extrapolating the properties of neutron-rich matter...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gerco Onderwater (University of Groningen)29/05/2018, 14:00The existence of three generations of fundamental fermions gives rise to a wealth of phenomena, such as CP violation and flavour oscillations. Because of various conservation laws, including baryon number, lepton number and charged lepton flavour conservation, many otherwise possible reactions, asymmetries, and decays are prohibited or strongly suppressed. The search for rare decays helps to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Margherita Spalla (Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich)29/05/2018, 14:00The large integrated luminosities that are available at the LHC, allow to test the gauge structure of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model to highest precision. In this talk, we review the latest results of the ATLAS collaboration involving di-boson and multiboson final states, the electroweak production of vector bosons as well as their constraints of effective field theory...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)29/05/2018, 14:00The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment will provide a measurement of the effective electron-neutrino mass, $m(\nu_e)$, based on a precision measurement of the tritium beta decay spectrum near its endpoint. The effective mass is an average of the neutrino mass eigenstates $m_i$ weighted by the flavor-mass mixing parameters $U_{ei}$ according to the relation $m^2(\nu_e)=\sum_{i=1}^3...Go to contribution page
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Dr Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 14:20The equation of state for asymmetric nuclear systems is a critical input for modeling a broad range of systems spanning from asymmetric nuclei to extremes such as neutron stars. Now, with the advent of gravitational wave astronomy there are new and exciting opportunities to test how these nuclei, measured on earth, connect to their astrophysical counterparts. Within nuclei, several...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ali Ashtari Esfahani (University of Washington)29/05/2018, 14:20Project 8 has demonstrated Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) as a novel technique for performing electron spectroscopy. Applying this method to highest energy electrons from tritium beta decay will lead to a direct neutrino mass measurement. A proof of this concept was performed with a waveguide detector utilizing conversion electrons from $^{83m}$Kr monoenergetic lines. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago / KICP)29/05/2018, 14:20The ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) long-duration balloon payload searches for Askaryan radio emission from ultra-high-energy ($>10^{18}$ eV) neutrinos interacting in Antarctic ice. ANITA is also sensitive to geomagnetic radio emission from extensive air showers. After a brief overview of the experiment, this talk will detail recently released results from the third flight of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christopher Swank (Caltech)29/05/2018, 14:20The neutron lifetime is currently measured by two different types of experiments: "beam" and "bottle". These two measurement techniques have a $4 \sigma$ discrepancy in measured lifetime. It has been proposed recently that a previously unobserved neutron decay branch to a dark matter particle ($\chi$) could account for the discrepancy in the neutron lifetime observed in experiments that use...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yuzhi Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)29/05/2018, 14:30A review of recent lattice QCD calculations of the exclusive rare $B$ decay form factors is presented. Special focus is given to $B\to \pi\ell\ell$ and $B\to K\ell\ell$ decays. These flavor-changing-neutral-current processes provide theoretically clean windows into physics beyond the Standard Model.Go to contribution page
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Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermilab)29/05/2018, 14:30During recent years calculations including fixed order approximations and resummation have decreased theoretical uncertainties on Higgs cross sections tremendously. Most exciting results have been published just this year. I present an overview of recent and most recent developments in Higgs precision physics calculations that allow theory predictions to compete with experimental precision...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)29/05/2018, 14:40New decay channels for the neutron into dark matter and other particles have been suggested for explaining a long-standing discrepancy between the neutron lifetime measured from trapped neutrons versus those decaying in flight. Many such scenarios are already ruled out by their effects on neutron stars, and the decays into dark matter plus photon or electron-positron pair have been...Go to contribution page
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Dr Farrooh Fattoyev (Indiana University)29/05/2018, 14:40The neutron skin thickness of medium to heavy nuclei provides a fundamental link between nuclear structure and neutron star properties via the equation of state of neutron-rich matter. In particular, it is strongly correlated with the pressure of a pure neutron matter which pushes against the surface tension thus allowing a finite nucleus to form a neutron skin. It is precisely this same...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 14:40Astronomical observations of high precision $(N_\mathrm{eff}, Y_P, \omega_b, D/H_P, \Sigma m_\nu)$ may soon over determine the cosmological standard model. An effort to constrain physics beyond the standard model with these observations is faced with the challenge of the interrelated problems of neutrino transport (via the quantum kinetic equations) and a stiff nuclear reaction network. We...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)29/05/2018, 14:40Borexino is a 300-ton liquid scintillator detector located in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy. This detector has been taking solar neutrino data for the past ten years, and recently completed new measurements of the pp, p$e$p, $^7$Be, and $^8$B solar neutrinos. The data comprise the most complete direct experimental confirmation of Bethe’s 1939 theory of the pp-chains of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Seyda Ipek (UC Irvine)29/05/2018, 14:55We know neutrinos have mass, but we don't know how they get their masses. Many models augment the Standard Model with right-handed neutrinos, either Dirac or Majorana, to generate the neutrino masses. I will show that in R-symmetric supersymmetric models, the bino and its Dirac partner the singlino can play the role of right-handed neutrinos. In this mechanism the neutrino masses are generated...Go to contribution page
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Dr Enrico Rinaldi (RIKEN-BNL)29/05/2018, 15:00Models of composite dark matter, originating from a new strongly coupled dark sector, have a very interesting phenomenology for particles with mass around the hundreds of GeVs. To make robust predictions in these models one often needs to investigate non-perturbative effects due to the strong self interactions. Lattice field theory methods and numerical simulations are well suited for this...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kelly Patton (University of Washington/Institute for Nuclear Theory)29/05/2018, 15:00We present calculations of the neutrino emissivities and energy spectra from massive stars in the lead up to their explosion as supernovae (presupernovae). Results from the stellar evolution code MESA are used to calculate the neutrino emissivity due to thermal and beta processes. In particular, the beta processes are modeled in detail using a network of 204 isotopes. We show that the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christian Drischler (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 15:00Nuclear matter is an ideal testbed for nuclear interactions with important consequences for nuclear astrophysics as well as finite nuclei. In particular, recent $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations of medium-mass to heavy nuclei have demonstrated the importance of realistic saturation properties of infinite matter for nuclear forces. We present an efficient Monte-Carlo framework for...Go to contribution page
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Dr Cristina Biino (INFN Torino)29/05/2018, 15:00In 2003–2004 the NA48/2 experiment at CERN collected a large sample of charged kaon decays to final states with multiple charged particles. A new upper limit on the rate of the lepton number violating decay $K^\pm \to \pi^\mp\mu^\pm\mu^\pm$ is reported: $B(K^\pm \to \pi^\mp\mu^\pm\mu^\pm) < 8.6\times10^{−11}$ at 90% CL. Searches for two-body resonances $X$ in $K^\pm \to \pi\mu\mu$ decays...Go to contribution page
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Ms Erin Conley (Duke University)29/05/2018, 15:00The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an upcoming experiment dedicated to the study of neutrino oscillation physics, nucleon decay, and supernova neutrinos. Understanding the physics of how massive stars die will lead to a better understanding of the creation of elements, properties of neutrinos, and constraints on beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Neutrinos carry a majority of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)29/05/2018, 15:20Our Universe has a wide variety of visible matter. An important fundamental question is how nature combines the building blocks, protons and neutrons, to form the large variety of complex many-body nuclei. Addressing this question requires synthesizing observed properties of nuclei and predictions from theoretical models built with knowledge of the nuclear force. A complete understanding of...Go to contribution page
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Aniket Joglekar (UC Riverside)29/05/2018, 15:20The Higgs pair production in gluon fusion is a sensitive probe of Beyond-Standard Model (BSM) phenomena and its detection is a major goal for the LHC and higher energy hadron collider experiments. We reanalyze the possible modifications of the Higgs pair production cross section within low energy supersymmetry models allowed by the current LHC search bounds, where we analyze the combined...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alexey Vlasenko (North Carolina State University)29/05/2018, 15:20Neutrino flavor transformation in compact object mergers can be dominated by matter-neutrino resonances (MNRs). By efficiently converting electron neutrinos to other species, MNRs can affect nucleosynthesis and the dynamics of the merger. Prior to our work, calulations of MNR have used the single-angle approximation, only following flavor evolution along a single neutrino trajectory. ...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)29/05/2018, 15:20The decay $K^+\to \pi^+ \nu\nu$, with a very precisely predicted branching ratio of less than $10^{-10}$, is one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics at the highest mass scales. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is designed to measure the branching ratio of the $K^+\to \pi^+ \nu\nu$ with a decay-in-flight technique, novel for this channel. NA62 took data in 2016,...Go to contribution page
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Glennys Farrar (NYU)29/05/2018, 15:20A stable sexaquark ($S$) composed of $uuddss$ is a compelling Dark Matter candidate and would not have been discovered in accelerator experiments to date. I will briefly review its particle properties, why the $S$ would have eluded searches for an H-dibaryon, and analyses of Upsilon decay and LHC data suitable to discovering it (as are now underway by BABAR, Belle, CMS and LHCb). The main...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU/UC Irvine)29/05/2018, 15:20The benefits and difficulties of enriching water Cherenkov detectors with water-soluble gadolinium compounds — thereby enabling the detection of thermal neutrons and dramatically improving these devices' performance as detectors of supernova and reactor antineutrinos — will be discussed.Go to contribution page
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Emanuele Mereghetti (LANL)29/05/2018, 16:10Electric dipole moments (EDMs) are extremely sensitive probes of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). A vibrant experimental program is in place, with the goal of improving existing bounds on the electron and neutron EDMs by one/two orders of magnitude, while testing new ideas for the measurement of EDMs of light ions, such as the proton and the deuteron, at a comparable level. The success...Go to contribution page
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Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)29/05/2018, 16:10Observational limits on the mass of dark matter are weak — they allow the mass of dark matter to be anywhere from $10^{-22}$ eV – $10^{48}$ GeV. In this talk, I will focus on ultra-light dark matter in the mass range $10^{-22}$ eV – $10^{-5}$ eV. A number of well motivated dark matter candidates such as axions inhabit this vast parameter space. Even though these candidates emerge from a number...Go to contribution page
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Bradford Welliver (LBNL)29/05/2018, 16:10The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a large neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay search experiment currently taking data at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). Such searches can address fundamental questions that remain about the nature of the neutrino such as the mass hierarchy, whether they are Majorana fermions, and may present new...Go to contribution page
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Mr Tatsuya MASUBUCHI (The University of Tokyo, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics)29/05/2018, 16:10Measurements and searches of Higgs boson decays to two third- or two second-generation quarks or leptons are presented using 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected at 13 TeV.Go to contribution page
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Dr Henry Lamm (University of Maryland)29/05/2018, 16:10LHCb has recently presented a measurement of $R(J/\psi)=\mathcal{BR}(B_c^+\rightarrow J/\Psi \tau^+\bar\nu_\tau)/\mathcal{BR}(B_c^+\rightarrow J/\Psi \mu^+\bar\nu_\mu)$. The value, $R(J/\psi)=0.71\pm 0.17\pm 0.18$ is in mild tension with the range of model predictions 0.25-0.28. The model transition form factors dominate the systematic uncertainty of the measurement and limit the predictions...Go to contribution page
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Dr Terence Libeiro (UCI)29/05/2018, 16:10The MEG experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut searches for charged lepton flavor violation in the rare muon decay $\mu^+ \to e^+ + \gamma$. The first run during the 2009–13 period excludes the decay process at the sensitivity limit of $4.2\times 10^{-13}$ at 90% confidence level. An upgrade of the experiment, MEGII, is underway with the aim to improve the sensitivity by an order of...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jannik Geisen (II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen)29/05/2018, 16:30The search for the production of the Higgs Boson with a pair of $t\bar{t}$ quarks is both very important and very challenging. This talk presents the analyses using Higgs boson decays to $b\bar{b}$ pairs, to two $Z$ bosons, to other multi-lepton final states, and to a pair of photons, using 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected at 13 TeV, as well as their combined results.Go to contribution page
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Dr Meng-Lin DU (Helmholtz-Institut f\"ur Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universit\"at Bonn)29/05/2018, 16:30For a long time, the quark model has served as an ordering scheme and brought systematics into the hadron zoo. However, many new hadrons that were observed since 2003, including the lowest-lying positive-parity charm-strange mesons $D_{s0}^\star$(2317) and $D_{s1}$(2460), do not conform with quark model expectations. Various modifications to the quark model and alternative approaches have been...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab)29/05/2018, 16:30The nature of dark matter is one of the great mysteries of modern physics today and is likely new particles beyond the Standard Model. The Axion, originally conceived as a solution to the strong-CP problem in nuclear physics, is one well-motivated candidate. The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) was started at LLNL in the mid-1990s and ran until 2010 before it was moved to the U. of...Go to contribution page
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brad filippone (caltech)29/05/2018, 16:30Existing limits on the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the free neutron have provided critical constraints on new sources of CP violation for more than 60 years. A new round of searches are actively underway with the goal of improving the sensitivity to CP violation by up to two orders of magnitude. The status of these new searches will be discussed, including recent progress on the nEDM...Go to contribution page
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Dr Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)29/05/2018, 16:40Located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), the Majorana Demonstrator (MJD) experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{76}$Ge with high-purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. The initial goals of the Demonstrator are to establish the required background and scalability of a ton-scale Ge-based experiment. The...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)29/05/2018, 16:40The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab aims to measure the neutrinoless conversion of a negative muon into an electron, a reaction violating charged lepton flavor conservation. This process is extremely suppressed in the Standard Model, and an observation would constitute an unambiguous sign of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The conversion signal is characterized by a monochromatic electron...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)29/05/2018, 16:50HAYSTAC (Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion CDM) is a microwave cavity experiment designed both as a data pathfinder and innovation test-bed, in the 3–12 GHz (12–50 $\mu$eV) mass range. The Phase I run program (2016–17) covered a small region of mass around 24 $\mu$eV, achieving a sensitivity in axion-photon coupling well into the range of realistic axion models for a standard halo density....Go to contribution page
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Dr Wolfgang Schreyer (TRIUMF)29/05/2018, 16:50TUCAN (TRIUMF ultracold advanced neutron source) is a transpacific collaboration with the objective to measure the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) with unprecedented precision. We aim at a precision of $10^{-27}$ e.cm, an improvement by a factor of 30 over the current upper limit for this elusive quantity. A non-zero nEDM violates parity and time-reversal symmetry, and is thus...Go to contribution page
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Lucrezia Stella Bruni (NIKHEF)29/05/2018, 16:55Measurements of Higgs boson properties and cross sections measured in Higgs boson decays to two photons, two $Z$ bosons, and two $W$ bosons based on $pp$ collision data collected at 13 TeV are presented. In addition, results from the combination of different decay channels are shown.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)29/05/2018, 17:00We measure the mass difference, $\Delta m_+$, between the $D^\star (2010)^+$ and the $D^+$, using the decay chain $D^\star (2010)^+\to D^+ \pi^0$ with $D^+\to K^- \pi^+ \pi^+$. The data were recorded with the BaBar detector at center-of-mass energies at and near the $\Upsilon$(4S) resonance, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of approximately 468 fb$^{-1}$. We measure $\Delta m_+ =...Go to contribution page
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Mr Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Stanford University)29/05/2018, 17:10We discuss DM Radio, a lumped-LC resonant search for axion and hidden-photon dark matter between 100 Hz and 300 MHz. We illustrate the detection concept and discuss design and fabrication of the Pilot detector, which will operate in liquid helium at 4 K over the next three years and probe hidden photons in a portion of this frequency range. We show results from a fixed-frequency resonator and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jordan Myslik (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 17:10The lepton number violating process of neutrinoless double-beta decay could result from the physics beyond the Standard Model needed to generate the neutrino masses. Taking different approaches, the current generation of $^{76}$Ge experiments, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR and GERDA, lead the field in both the ultra-low background and energy resolution achieved. The next generation of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Dinko Pocanic (University of Virginia)29/05/2018, 17:10$V$–$A$ helicity suppression of the $\pi^+\to e^+ \nu (\gamma)$ decay (known as "$\pi_{e2}$") amplifies the sensitivity to pseudoscalar terms by a factor of $\sim$8000, enabling indirect searches for non-SM pseudoscalar terms, as well as scalar and tensor terms, through loop effects, with good sensitivity to interesting regions of the beyond-SM parameter space (e.g., supersymmetric...Go to contribution page
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Selcuk Haciomeroglu (Institute for Basic Science, Korea)29/05/2018, 17:10Charged particle EDM experiments can be done with high sensitivity using storage rings. Radial electric fields bend a longitudinally polarized beam for storage while at the same time couple with the particle EDM. Having the so-called magic momentum, the spin precession in the horizontal plane can be frozen. Still, the spin can make a precession in the vertical plane with a rate proportional to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Shinya Gongyo (RIKEN Nishina Center, RIKEN)29/05/2018, 17:20In recent years, there is a renewed interest in the dibaryons due to exclusive measurements in hadron reactions as well as the direct measurement in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this talk, we will present the result of the dibaryon searches from lattice QCD. Particularly we focus on the study of "Most strange dibaryon", which is composed of two $\Omega$ baryons. First, we will show...Go to contribution page
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Mr Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham)29/05/2018, 17:20Theories beyond the Standard Model predict Higgs boson decays at a much enhanced rate compared to the Standard Model, e.g. for decays to $Z$+photon, or a meson and a photon, or decays that do not exist in the Standard Model, such as decays into two light bosons (a). This talk presents recent results based on 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected at 13 TeV.Go to contribution page
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Jonathan Ouellet29/05/2018, 17:30The evidence for the existence of dark matter is well supported by many cosmological observations. Separately, long standing problems within the Standard Model point to new weakly interacting particles to help explain away unnatural fine-tunings. The axion was originally proposed to explain the strong CP problem, but was subsequently shown to be a strong candidate for explaining the Dark...Go to contribution page
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Dr Manuel Weber (Stanford University)29/05/2018, 17:30The EXO-200 experiment is dedicated to the search of neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in liquid xenon enriched in the isotope 136. A single-phase time projection chamber (TPC), containing 110 kg of active mass, is realized in an ultra-low background environment where both ionization charge and scintillation light is detected. Both channels are combined for improved energy...Go to contribution page
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Richard Mischke (TRIUMF)29/05/2018, 17:30Data from the PIENU experiment at TRIUMF have been examined for evidence of a heavy neutrino coupled to the positron in the decay $\pi \to e \nu$. Limits on the mixing of neutrinos in the mass range 60–135 MeV/$c^2$ with the electron neutrino, which are up to an order of magnitude improvement over previous results, will be presented. The PIENU experiment was also designed to make a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Matthew Dietrich (Argonne National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 17:30Due to its large nuclear octupole deformation and high atomic mass, the radioactive isotope $^{225}$Ra is a favorable case to search for an electric dipole moment (EDM); it is particularly sensitive to CP-violating interactions in the nucleus. However, its scarcity and low vapor pressure present significant challenges. To measure this rare isotope, we have developed an approach to measuring...Go to contribution page
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Dr Da Liu (Argonne National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 17:45Precision measurements at the LHC can provide probes of new physics, and they are complementary to direct searches. The high energy distribution of di-boson processes ($WW,WZ,Vh$) is a promising place, with the possibility of significant improvement in sensitivity as the data accumulates. We focus on the semi-leptonic final states, and make projections of the reach for future runs of the LHC...Go to contribution page
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Daniel McKinsey29/05/2018, 17:50We propose a new dark matter detector that will be sensitive to nuclear recoils of sub-GeV dark matter, using superfluid helium as a target. Superfluid helium has many merits as a detector target: these include good kinematic matching to low mass dark matter, excellent intrinsic radiopurity, and its unique ability to be cooled down as a liquid to milli-Kelvin temperatures. We propose to read...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)29/05/2018, 17:50EDM of the nucleon, whether observed or further constrained, can be traced back to various CP-violating quark and gluon effective interactions. In order to constrain these effective interactions and, subsequently, the extensions of the Standard Model, nonperturbative calculations of nucleon structure are necessary. Low-energy theories and nucleon models provide ballpark estimates for the nEDM...Go to contribution page
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Ryotaro Watanabe (University of Montreal)29/05/2018, 17:50I will present an overview of theoretical developments on RD and RD*, in which discrepancies between experimental data and the Standard Model predictions have been reported, referred to as the B anomaly. Then I will summarize New Physics explanations for the B anomaly.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)29/05/2018, 17:50I present high-order calculations for single-top production in the Standard Model and in models with anomalous top-quark couplings. Theoretical results are presented for total cross sections and top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions for the $t$ and $s$ single-top channels as well as for the associated production of a top quark with a $W$-boson in the Standard Model....Go to contribution page
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Dr Sereres Johnston (Argonne National Laboratory)29/05/2018, 17:50Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) searches are key components of the physics program dedicated to understanding the nature and mass of the neutrino. The Neutrino Experiment with a high-pressure Xenon Time Projection Chamber (NEXT) collaboration uses high pressure gas xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) to demonstrate the performance and scalability of this technology as...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alakabha datta (University of Mississippi)29/05/2018, 18:10Recent measurements in $B$ decays may indicate lepton universality violation. I will discuss how such lepton universality new physics might arise and how in many cases this new physics also leads to lepton flavor violation. I will consider some interesting processes where lepton universality and lepton flavor violations may be observed.Go to contribution page
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Dr Seodong Shin (University of Chicago / Yonsei University)29/05/2018, 18:10I will discuss models with extended Higgs doublets and extra heavy fermions. In this scenario, a promising way of searching both the neutral heavy Higgs and vectorlike fermion signals at the LHC is observing the heavy Higgs cascade decay into a vectorlike fermion which subsequently decays into $W$, $Z$ gauge bosons or the SM Higgs boson. In this talk, I will also show the signal sensitivities...Go to contribution page
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Shankar Adhikari (Florida International University)29/05/2018, 18:10Spin observables are important to understand the production mechanisms of hyperons, as well as the contribution of intermediate baryon resonances. $\Lambda$ polarization observables have been studied extensively in the recent decades using the reaction $\gamma + p \to K^+ + \Lambda$. This talk presents the measurement of transferred polarization coefficients $C_x$ and $C_z$, and the induced...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vincent Fischer (UC Davis)29/05/2018, 18:10The SNO+ experiment, located in SNOLAB, 2 kilometers underground in the Creighton mine, near Sudbury, Canada, is a large scale neutrino detector whose main purpose is to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay and thus probe the Majorana nature of the neutrino. With 780 tons of liquid scintillator loaded with tellurium, SNO+ aims at exploring the Majorana neutrino mass parameter space down...Go to contribution page
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Dr Libertad Barrón-Palos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)29/05/2018, 18:10One of the main puzzles in contemporary physics is the asymmetry between matter and antimatter observed in the Universe. In our current understanding, one of the necessary ingredients to explain such asymmetry is the violation of CP (or equivalently the TRIV), however it has only been observed in the weak interaction and with a very small amplitude. Searches of new mechanisms of CP violation...Go to contribution page
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Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)29/05/2018, 18:10The Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) proposes a high-statistics search for low-mass dark matter in fixed-target electron-nucleus collisions. Ultimately, LDMX will explore thermal relic dark matter over most of the viable sub-GeV mass range to a decisive level of sensitivity. To achieve this goal, LDMX employs the missing momentum technique, where electrons scattering in a thin target can...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gerco Onderwater (University of Groningen)30/05/2018, 08:00There is a wealth of experimental results questioning the deep-rooted assumption of lepton universality in flavour-changing interactions. Recently, several anomalies were reported by the LHCb collaboration and there is the long standing discrepancy of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. At the same time the large LHC experiments do not see clear signals of New Physics, and there are...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)30/05/2018, 08:35Precision measurements of CKM parameters are important for defining the Standard Model and for searching for inconsistencies from new-physics contributions. I will review the status of current measurements and discuss the precision expected in future runs of LHCb and Belle II.Go to contribution page
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Mr Kent Paschke (University of Virginia)30/05/2018, 09:10The measurement of the violation of parity symmetry in electron scattering is a powerful technique in the search for new fundamental forces. The Qweak collaboration has recently completed a highly precise measurement of parity violation in the elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from unpolarized protons. From this result, the weak charge of the proton is determined and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniel Maxwell (Swansea University)30/05/2018, 10:10The apparent dominance of matter over antimatter in the universe remains one of the greatest puzzles in science. The antiproton decelerator facility at CERN is home to several experiments dedicated to performing precise measurements of the properties of antimatter and hoping to provide insight into the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. Recently the ALPHA and BASE experiments have reported...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Amy Nicholson (UNC Chapel Hill)30/05/2018, 10:45QCD has been long accepted as the underlying theory behind nuclear forces. However, calculations of nuclear properties directly from QCD have only very recently become mature. The theory's non-perturbative nature at low energies requires the use of lattice regularization (lattice QCD) combined with numerical methods for its solution. With these tools in hand, we are now starting to be able to...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Nadia Fomin (University of Tennessee)30/05/2018, 11:20Neutrons have been a useful probe in many fields of science as well as an important physical system for study in themselves. Modern neutron sources provide extraordinary opportunities to study a wide variety of physics topics. Among them is a detailed study of the weak interaction. These measurements, done in few-nucleon systems, are finally letting us gain knowledge of the hadronic weak...Go to contribution page
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Martin Gonzalez-Alonso (CERN)30/05/2018, 11:55The status of tests of the Standard Model and of searches for new physics in nuclear and neutron beta decay will be reviewed. Using a model-independent description, I will discuss the interplay between the different experiments and which ones are the most sensitive and promising. Finally I will analyse the synergy with searches at high-energy colliders, such as the LHC, and with other...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Young-Kee Kim (Chicago University)30/05/2018, 14:00Dark matter could be produced at the LHC if it interacts weakly with the Standard Model. The search for dark matter can be performed directly, by looking for a signature of large missing transverse momentum coming from the dark matter candidates escaping the detector, measured against an accompanying visible object (jet, photon, boson). A broad and systematic search program covering these...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mustafa Amin (Rice University)30/05/2018, 14:00What happens in the aftermath of inflation? In this talk I will focus on the non-perturbative dynamics of fields (such as soliton formation) after inflation ends and its observational consequences including: (1) a change in the expansion history after inflation; (2) generation of high frequency gravitational waves; (3) possibility of primordial black-hole formation. Time permitting, I will...Go to contribution page
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Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)30/05/2018, 14:00The Standard Model CKM matrix describes the observed flavor and CP violating phenomena in particle physics remarkably well. I will review the results of the global Unitarity Triangle fits performed by the UTfit and CKMfitter collaborations that use the latest inputs from experiments, lattice QCD, and phenomenological calculations. Furthermore, I will discuss how the Unitarity Triangle analysis...Go to contribution page
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Matthew Kramer30/05/2018, 14:00The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment continues to provide leading measurements of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ as well as important constraints on the atmospheric mass splitting, reactor flux models, and light sterile neutrinos. This talk begins with a review of Daya Bay's existing oscillation analysis based on 1,230 days of data. We then discuss the enhancements in our forthcoming...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Greg Christian (Texas A&M University)30/05/2018, 14:00Stellar explosions such as novae, supernovae, X-ray bursts, and neutron star mergers are responsible for the synthesis of a large fraction of the terrestrial elements. Nucleosynthesis in explosive environments is driven by rapid successions of nuclear reactions and decays. In order to understand the dynamics and isotopic yields of stellar explosions, it is essential that the rates of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ran Hong (Argonne National Laboratory)30/05/2018, 14:00The Muon g-2 Experiment (E989) at Fermilab is measuring the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_{\mu}$, aiming at improving the precision to 140 parts-per-billion (ppb) and resolving the standard deviation between the previous measurement of $a_{\mu}$ and the Standard Model calculation of $a_{\mu}$. In E989, the muon beam is stored in a ring magnet. The spin precession frequency...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vladimir Pascalutsa (University of Mainz)30/05/2018, 14:20I will discuss the relation, viz. Schwinger's sum rule, between the g-2 and the spin structure functions. It allows one to assess the hadronic (as well as other) contributions to muon g-2 by measuring the structure function. The latter can be accessed experimentally in inelastic muon-electron scattering. I will outline the prospects of such measurements at the muon-beam facilities. This...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Frank Strieder (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)30/05/2018, 14:20Even 60 years after the groundbreaking publication by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle, Nuclear Astrophysics is still a thriving research field at the interface of nuclear physics, astrophysics, and particle physics. An important topic is associated with the evolution of stars and its impact on the production of heavy elements. The study of the key reactions has been a major goal by the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)30/05/2018, 14:20As remnants of the earliest stages of structure formation, the smallest dark matter halos provide a unique probe of the primordial density fluctuations generated during inflation and the evolution of the early Universe. Any enhancement to the small-scale matter power spectrum will trigger the formation of dark matter halos far earlier than otherwise expected. Consequently, observational...Go to contribution page
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Dr Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)30/05/2018, 14:30We present a recent joint measurement of the CP violating angle $\beta$ using 1.1 inverse attobarns of data collected by the BaBar and Belle experiments. This analysis is based on a time-dependent Dalitz plot analysis of $B\to D^\star h^0$ with $D\to K^0_S\pi^+\pi^−$ decays. These decays provide experimental access to cos(2$\beta$) as well as sin(2$\beta$), and can therefore resolve an...Go to contribution page
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Mr Philipp Soldin (RWTH Aachen University Germany)30/05/2018, 14:30Double Chooz is a reactor neutrino disappearance experiment with the purpose of a precise measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$. The experimental set-up consists of two identical liquid scintillator detectors, one at a longer baseline of about 1 km since 2011 and a closer one with a distance of about 400 m since 2014. This double-detector set-up with an essential iso-flux...Go to contribution page
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Mr Siddharth Narayanan (MIT)30/05/2018, 14:30Searches using large missing momentum are a powerful tool for probing dark matter hypotheses using the Compact Muon Solenoid at the LHC. Collectively, they are dubbed "mono-X" searches, where X refers to one of many Standard Model signatures. In this talk, I will give an overview of the broad range of CMS mono-X analyses, describe new techniques developed during Run 2, and showcase the latest...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mohamed Anber (Lewis & Clark College)30/05/2018, 14:40Whether the parity of the Universe is broken on the large scale is an ongoing question. If this is the case, then one may trace the origin of parity violation back to the inflationary era. In this talk, I will review a few mechanisms that lead to the generation of helical fields, a source of breaking the parity on the large scale. The presence of helical U(1) fields in the early Universe can...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Marc Vanderhaeghen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)30/05/2018, 14:40In my talk, I will present our recent dispersive analysis of the $\gamma \gamma^\star \to \pi\pi, \pi\eta$ processes from the threshold up to 1.4 GeV in the two photon invariant mass. These amplitudes serve as important input to constrain the hadronic piece of light-by-light scattering contribution to (g-2) and support the current experimental program at BESIII. As well, I will present an...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kenneth Nollett (San Diego State University)30/05/2018, 14:40Nuclear and particle astrophysics has long relied on relatively crude models of nuclear reaction rates, because computational methods are lacking for systems of more than two particles and because empirical constraints on simplified models are scarce. $\textit{Ab initio}$ methods, which model nuclei using a quantitatively accurate nucleon-nucleon interaction and reasonably complete model...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vera Gluscevic (Institute for Advanced Study)30/05/2018, 15:00Abundance of cosmological data will enable sensitive probes of dark matter physics in the coming decade. I will focus on scattering of sub-GeV dark matter with baryons in the pre-recombination Universe, summarize the status of cosmological searches, present forecasts for the next-stage CMB experiments, and discuss distinguishability of various signatures of new physics sought by CMB surveys.Go to contribution page
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Mr Matic Lubej (Jozef Stefan Institute)30/05/2018, 15:00Semileptonic decays of $B$ mesons involving low-mass charged leptons $e$ or $\mu$ are expected to be free of non-Standard Model contributions and therefore play a critical role in determinations of $\vert V_{cb} \vert$ and $\vert V_{ub} \vert$ ($\vert V_{qb} \vert$). Decays of the form $b \to c \ell \bar \nu_\ell$ and $b \to u \ell \bar \nu_\ell$ allow us to determine these matrix elements and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Aaron Meyer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)30/05/2018, 15:00The muon anomalous magnetic moment is a subject of intense focus for theoretical and experimental particle physics at this time. This quantity is especially sensitive to new physics, so the current tension with Standard Model predictions makes the anomalous magnetic moment especially exciting. The muon $g-2$ can be measured with high precision, and predictions from theory must be similarly...Go to contribution page
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Dan Bardayan (University of Notre Dame)30/05/2018, 15:00The nucleosynthesis occurring in astrophysical explosions can be very different than that which occurs in main sequence stars such as our sun. In fact, many of the properties of explosive astrophysical events are determined by the nuclear physics of the radioactive nuclei that power the explosion. At the University of Notre Dame TwinSol radioactive beam separator, exotic nuclei of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)30/05/2018, 15:00PROSPECT (Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum) is a short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiment. PROSPECT consists of a segmented 4-ton $^6$Li liquid scintillator antineutrino detector that will precisely measure the $^{235}$U fission antineutrino spectrum from the High-Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). PROSPECT’s high statistics and high resolution...Go to contribution page
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Mr Peter McNamara (The University of Melbourne)30/05/2018, 15:00The search for dark matter can be performed indirectly at the LHC by looking for the intermediate mediators which would couple the dark matter particles to the Standard Model. The mediator could indeed decay to jets or leptons, leading to a resonant signature which can be probed. The talk will present the results of these searches with the ATLAS detector and show their complementarity with the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)30/05/2018, 15:20Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering (CE$\nu$NS) experiments can be used to constrain new physics in the form of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). First, we consider the current data from the recent observation by the Coherent experiment within a Bayesian framework. Second, we demonstrate the complementarity of future reactor and accelerator experiments, by employing at...Go to contribution page
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Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)30/05/2018, 15:20The Belle II experiment at the asymmetric energy $e^+e^-$ collider SuperKEKB is a next generation B-factory, taking advantage of an upgrade of the collider complex to deliver about 40$\times$ the luminosity that was available to Belle. Together with a state-of-the-art detector upgrade, a rich physics program will be accessible by Belle II. Highlights are beyond-the-standard-model physics...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christoph Florian Redmer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)30/05/2018, 15:20The uncertainties of the Standard Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are currently completely dominated by hadronic contributions. The largest contribution is due to the hadronic vacuum polarization. Hadronic cross sections measured at $e^+e^-$ colliders can be exploited as experimental input to improve the calculations, making use of the optical theorem. At the...Go to contribution page
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Javier Duarte (Fermilab)30/05/2018, 15:20We present several complementary searches for dark matter mediators using a 35.9 inverse femtobarn data set of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. One technique uses the CMS scouting data stream concept to record larger data rates than otherwise possible. Other searches use initial state radiation to overcome trigger thresholds and study...Go to contribution page
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Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Riverside)30/05/2018, 15:20Astrophysical observations, spanning dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters, indicate that the dark matter halo properties are much more diverse than predicted in the prevailing cold dark matter theory. In this talk, I will show that self-interacting dark matter can provide a unified solution to a number of observed puzzles on galactic scales, including the diverse galactic rotation curves, the...Go to contribution page
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Roy Holt (California Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory)30/05/2018, 15:20The $^{12}$C($\alpha,\gamma$)$^{16}$O reaction has a key role in nuclear astrophysics. A multilevel R-matrix analysis was used to make extrapolations of the astrophysical S factor for this reaction to the stellar energy of 300 keV. The statistical precision of the S-factor extrapolation was determined by performing multiple fits to randomized (according to the experimental errors) existing E1...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati)30/05/2018, 16:10Dark Matter (DM) provides strong evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Arguably, rather than suggesting a specific mass scale for New Physics, it may point to a dark sector, weakly-coupled to the SM, as hinted at by the comparable abundances of dark matter and visible baryons. In the past few years, a program of new experiments has expanded DM searches far beyond the WIMP...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nathan Callahan (Indiana Univeristy)30/05/2018, 16:10Precision measurements of the free neutron lifetime $\tau_n$, when combined with measurements of the axial vector coupling, can be used to test unitarity of the CKM matrix. Nonunitarity is a signal for physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Sensitivity to BSM physics requires measurements of $\tau_n$ to a precision of 0.1 s. However, the two dominant techniques to measure $\tau_n$...Go to contribution page
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Kirk Bays (California Institute of Technology)30/05/2018, 16:10Neutrinos are elusive fundamental particles only directly detectable through weak interactions, and they may be the key to understanding supernovae, the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, and more. Neutrinos oscillate, where they change flavor as they travel due to being in a quantum superposition of states with different masses, which has already forced us to amend the Standard...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maria Zurita (Brookhaven National Laboratory)30/05/2018, 16:10Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (nPDFs) are the non-perturbative objects that describe the behavior of partons in a nuclear medium, a natural extension of the free proton PDFs. Despite more than three decades of thorough study, the picture of nPDFs is far from being complete. In this talk I will present the current status of our knowledge and briefly discuss how current and future...Go to contribution page
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Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University)30/05/2018, 16:10Di-Higgs final states can arise through non-resonant production of two Higgs bosons and through potential heavy states decaying to two Higgs bosons. This talk presents searches in several Higgs boson decay channels using 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data recorded at 13 TeV.Go to contribution page
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Dr Julian Munoz (Harvard University)30/05/2018, 16:10The nature of the dark matter is still a mystery, although current and upcoming 21-cm measurements during the cosmic dawn can provide a new arena on the search for the cosmological dark matter. This era saw the formation of the first stars, which coupled the spin temperature of hydrogen to its kinetic temperature---producing 21-cm absorption in the CMB. The strength of this absorption...Go to contribution page
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Whitney Armstrong (Argonne National Lab)30/05/2018, 16:10Spectator tagged hard processes can provide insight into the origins of the EMC Effect by identifying the struck nucleon. A comprehensive program of experiments on light nuclei (deuterium and $^4$He) at JLab using the CLAS12 spectrometer and a Low Energy Recoil Tracker (ALERT) will detect the low energy nuclear spectator system (p, $^3$H and $^3$He) in a variety of hard scattering processes....Go to contribution page
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Dr Samuel McDermott (FNAL)30/05/2018, 16:30In a recent pair of Nature papers, Bowman $\textit{et al.}$ claimed a detection of an anomalously low 21 cm brightness temperature at a redshift of 17, and Barkana interpreted this as evidence of cold dark matter that was scattering with baryons at that cosmic epoch. In this talk, I will discuss constraints available in the particle physics literature, and future directions for particle,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Fred Wietfeldt (Tulane University)30/05/2018, 16:30The aCORN experiment uses a novel “wishbone asymmetry” method to measure the electron-antineutrino correlation ($a$-coefficient) in free neutron decay that does not require precision proton spectroscopy. aCORN completed two physics runs at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. The first run on the NG-6 beam line in 2013–2014 obtained the result $a =0.1090 \pm 0.0030 \mathrm{(stat)} \pm 0.0028...Go to contribution page
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Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)30/05/2018, 16:30Many models of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) predict new, hidden-sector particles with masses below the electroweak scale. These models are motivated by solutions to the dark matter problem, the hierarchy problem, neutrino masses, and other physics that is not accounted for in the SM. Low-energy electron-positron colliders such as BABAR are ideally suited to discover these...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Ana Elena Dumitriu (IFIN,CPPM)30/05/2018, 16:30Several theories beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of high mass neutral or charged Higgs particles. In this presentation the latest ATLAS results on searches for these particles based on 36 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data collected at 13 TeV will be discussed.Go to contribution page
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Cristovao Vilela (Stony Brook University)30/05/2018, 16:40T2K is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment making use of Super-Kamiokande as its off-axis far detector that has been taking data since 2010. The results of the oscillation analysis with five far detector samples, including data taken up to May 2017 with a total of $14.7\times10^{20}$ POT accumulated in neutrino-mode and $7.6\times10^{20}$ POT in anti-neutrino mode, will be...Go to contribution page
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Dr Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Lab)30/05/2018, 16:40The proton gluon distribution function increases rapidly with decreasing momentum fraction $x$ at fixed $Q^2$, but cannot increase indefinitely as $x$ decreases. Gluon saturation is expected at a low $x$ value when gluon recombination balances gluon splitting. The nuclear (with atomic mass number A) gluon distribution is approximately $A^{1/3}$ larger than the nucleon gluon distribution...Go to contribution page
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Dr Axel Schmidt (MIT)30/05/2018, 16:40A large body of evidence suggests isospin symmetry plays a key role in the EMC effect, the modification of quark distribution functions in the nuclear medium, as well as short-range correlated pairing between nucleons. Electron scattering experiments that probe the momentum distributions of quarks or of nucleons are limited to nuclei near the valley of stability, in a narrow band of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sho Uemura (LANL)30/05/2018, 16:50The SeaQuest experiment has been in operation since 2011 and is designed to study nuclear dependent Drell-Yan productions in the dimuon channel using the high intensity 120 GeV proton beam from the Main Injector on various thin nuclear targets (about $\sim0.1$ nuclear interaction lengths each). It provides an ideal setting for dark photon and dark Higgs search in a parameter space of great...Go to contribution page
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Dr James Hirschauer (FNAL)30/05/2018, 16:50With the collection of approximately 90 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at center-of-mass collision energy of 13 TeV since 2015, CMS is probing high mass supersymmetry (SUSY) parameter space with large datasets for the first time. The talk will first review results of the standard searches for strongly produced natural SUSY, and highlight corners of phase space where SUSY could still...Go to contribution page
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Mr Eric Dees (NCSU)30/05/2018, 16:50The primary goal of the UCNA experiment is to provide, using polarized ultracold neutrons (or UCN), a high precision measurement of the axial coupling constant in neutron decay, $g_A$. High precision predictions for neutron decay in the Standard Model can be achieved with just two measurements: one to fix the absolute vector coupling strength, and one to determine $g_A$. These parameters play...Go to contribution page
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Dr Josh Dillon (UC Berkeley)30/05/2018, 16:5021 cm cosmology promises to provide an exquisite and perhaps revolutionary new 3D probe of our early universe. With it, we can uncover the astrophysics of the first luminous objects in the universe, improve CMB constraints on cosmological parameters, and cross-check the recent EDGES detection of an anomalously large absorption feature that points tantalizingly at new physics. However,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Laura Newburgh (Yale University)30/05/2018, 17:10The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a new radio transit interferometer now taking data at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) in Penticton, BC, Canada. We will use the 21 cm emission line of neutral hydrogen to map baryon acoustic oscillations between 400–800 MHz across 3/4 of the sky. These measurements will yield sensitive constraints on the dark...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Dan Melconian (Texas A&M University)30/05/2018, 17:10Nuclear $\beta$ decay's long history of shaping and testing the Standard Model of particle physics continues to this day with elegant, ultra-precise low-energy nuclear measurements. Experiments observing the angular correlations between the electron, neutrino and recoil momenta following beta decay can be used to search for exotic currents contributing to the dominant (V-A) structure of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr James Drachenberg (Lamar University)30/05/2018, 17:10For almost twenty years, the STAR experiment at RHIC has played a leading role in expanding the frontier of nucleus-nucleus collisions and the interaction of spin-polarized beams of protons. In coming years, the STAR forward upgrade will enable new insight into cold nuclear matter, probing this physics at high and low regions of $x$. The proposed detector upgrades consist of electromagnetic...Go to contribution page
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Dr Eric Pooser (Jefferson Lab)30/05/2018, 17:10The $x$ dependence of the EMC effect has been measured for a variety of nuclei in a multitude of experiments conducted over the past 35 years. Previous EMC ratio measurements for light nuclei $(A \leq 12)$ have shown a dependence on the local nuclear structure of nucleons and the associated modification to nuclear structure functions. The newly commissioned Super High Momentum Spectrometer...Go to contribution page
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Dr Siyuan Sun (University of Michigan)30/05/2018, 17:10This talk will explore the results of current searches that utilize top and bottom quarks at ATLAS, including searches for 3rd Generation SUSY particles, searches for BSM Higgs, and searches for other exotic particles.Go to contribution page
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Dr Mariangela Bondi' (INFN - Sez. Catania)30/05/2018, 17:10The Beam Dump eXperiment is an electron-beam thick-target experiment aimed to investigate the existence of Light Dark Matter particles in the MeV-GeV mass range. The experiment has been conditionally approved and is expected to run in a dedicated underground facility located about 20 m downstream of the JLab-Hall A beam-dump. The detector consists of two main components: a CsI(Tl)...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jyoti Joshi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)30/05/2018, 17:10Neutrino Oscillation, i.e., discovery that neutrinos have mass, is perhaps the most striking recent experimental evidence of physics which found a crack in the Standard Model to give us a glimpse of the fundamental underlying theories. The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program makes use of a trio of LArTPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber) detectors — named the Short-Baseline Near...Go to contribution page
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Ines Ochoa (Columbia University)30/05/2018, 17:30Many extensions to the Standard Model predicts new particles decaying into two bosons ($W$, $Z$, $\gamma$, $H$) making these important signatures in the search for new physics. Searches for such diboson resonances have been performed in final states with different numbers of leptons, photons and jets and $b$-jets where new jet substructure techniques to disentangle the hadronic decay products...Go to contribution page
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Mr Christopher Barnes (University of Michigan)30/05/2018, 17:30With many current and future neutrino experiments relying on Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology, characterizing the performance of these detectors is critical. The MicroBooNE LArTPC experiment is capable of performing numerous measurements to better understand the technology. These include identification and filtering of excess TPC noise, signal calibration and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Chris Pankow (Northwestern University)30/05/2018, 17:30The past three years have encompassed a meteoric rise of gravitational-wave astronomy with the activation of the first advanced gravitational-wave interferometers and the subsequent direct detection of GW150914 --- a gravitational-wave transient from a merging binary black hole. Since then, two observing runs, spanning about a year of total observation time, have been completed and recently...Go to contribution page
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Prof. John C. Hardy (Texas A&M University)30/05/2018, 17:30Results from superallowed $\beta$ decays between $0^+$, $T=1$ analog states yield the best value for $V_{ud}$, with a precision of $\pm$0.02%. World data now comprise 14 separate superallowed transitions having $\mathcal{F}t$ values known to 0.1% precision or better. These results, which cover a wide range of parent nuclei from $^{10}$C to $^{74}$Rb, constitute a very robust data set. Each...Go to contribution page
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Dr Luca Doria (University of Mainz)30/05/2018, 17:30At the Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, the construction of the MESA facility has started. At its core there is a new superconducting energy-recovery linac which will provide intense electron beams for precision experiments in subnuclear physics. An important part of the MESA physics program consists of the search for a "dark sector" which is a...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Dipangkar Dutta (Mississippi State University)30/05/2018, 17:35We will give an overview of a unique prediction of Quantum Chromodynamics, called color transparency (CT), where the final (and/or initial) state interactions of hadrons with the nuclear medium must vanish for exclusive processes at high momentum transfers. We will trace the progress of our understanding of this phenomenon, beginning with its confirmation in high energy phenomena, followed by...Go to contribution page
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Dr Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Lab)30/05/2018, 17:40Over past years DIS $e$+$p$ data have provided crucial inputs to the phenomenology of $p$+$p$/A & A+A collisions. Largest uncertainties in such modeling arise from the spatial and momentum distribution of partons inside nuclei at small-$x$. In this talk, I will discuss such issues and highlight a few recent measurements of the charge inclusive and charge dependent angular correlations from...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Simeon Bird (UCR)30/05/2018, 17:50I will discuss the possibility that the black-hole binary detected by LIGO may be a signature of primordial black hole dark matter. If two BHs in a galactic halo pass sufficiently close, they radiate enough energy in gravitational waves to become gravitationally bound. Curiously, the expected merger rate from these objects overlaps with that predicted by LIGO. Although a PBH dark matter...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jingbo Wang (UC Davis)30/05/2018, 17:50The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE), deployed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, is planning to use a 26-ton Gd-doped water Cherenkov detector to study the multiplicity of final state neutrons from neutrino-nucleus interactions in water, which provides a unique opportunity to study this physics in an energy range relevant to both atmospheric and long...Go to contribution page
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Angelo Monteux (UC Irvine)30/05/2018, 17:50We describe a novel, model-independent technique of "rectangular aggregations" for mining the LHC data for hints of new physics. A typical (CMS) search now has hundreds of signal regions, which can hide the presence of potentially interesting anomalies. Applying our technique to the two CMS jets+MET SUSY searches, we identify a set of previously overlooked $\sim3\sigma$ excesses, characterized...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)30/05/2018, 17:50Tests of the Standard Model through precision measurements of nuclear decay properties have proven to be a valuable tool in experimental subatomic physics. Of these investigations, $0^+ \to 0^+$ $\beta$-decay decay data are among the most important, as they currently provide the most precise determinations of both the vector coupling strength in the weak interaction, $G_V$, and the up-down...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ross Corliss (MIT)30/05/2018, 17:50Cosmic motivations and anomalies in precision measurements have encouraged standard model extensions in the form of Dark Photons or, more generically, a new force-carrier. Existing experimental searches for such particles have probed the majority of the parameter space of simple models, but so far no culprit has been found and the standard-model anomalies remain unexplained. The recent...Go to contribution page
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Holly Szumila-Vance (Jefferson Lab)30/05/2018, 18:00Color transparency (CT) is a fundamental phenomenon of QCD postulating that at high momentum transfer hadrons fluctuate to a small color neutral transverse size in the nucleus, and final state interactions within the nuclear medium are suppressed. CT is observed experimentally as a rise in the measured nuclear transparency as a function of the momentum transferred. While CT has been observed...Go to contribution page
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Felix Ringer30/05/2018, 18:10Collimated jets of hadrons and their substructure play a central role at present day and future collider experiments. In particular in the past years, it has been realized that the measurement of hadron distributions inside jets can provide valuable information about QCD. On the one hand, identified hadrons can be used to precisely map out the energy distribution inside jets both in the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mikhail Gorshteyn (Mainz University)30/05/2018, 18:10Current most precise knowledge of the value of $V_{ud}$ is obtained from the analysis of a number of superallowed nuclear $\beta$-decays. At present, the main limitation in precision of this determination is due to radiative corrections, more specifically the "inner" $\gamma W$-box correction that is independent of the electron spectrum but depends on hadronic structure. A novel dispersion...Go to contribution page
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Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)30/05/2018, 18:10The Heavy Photon Search (HPS) experiment at Jefferson Lab is searching for a hypothetical new $U(1)$ vector boson ("heavy photon", "dark photon" or $A^{^/}$) in the mass range of 20–500 MeV/$c^2$. An $A^{^/}$ in this mass region is natural in hidden sector models of light, thermal dark matter. The $A^{^/}$ couples to the ordinary photon through kinetic mixing, which induces its coupling to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniel Siegel (Columbia University)30/05/2018, 18:10The recent detection of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 by LIGO and Virgo was followed by a firework of electromagnetic counterparts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. In particular, the ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared emission is consistent with a kilonova that provided strong evidence for the formation of heavy elements in the merger ejecta by the rapid neutron...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vincent Fischer (UC Davis)30/05/2018, 18:10Recent developments in the field of liquid scintillator chemistry and fast-timing photosensors paved the way for a new generation of large-scale detectors capable of tackling a broad range of physics issues. Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) is a novel detection medium that combines the advantages of pure water, including low attenuation, accurate direction reconstruction, and low cost,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)30/05/2018, 18:10I discuss charged-Higgs production via two different processes: in association with a top quark, and in association with a $W$ boson. I present total cross sections and differential distributions that include higher-order corrections from soft and collinear gluon emission. I show that these radiative corrections are significant.Go to contribution page
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Dr Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)30/05/2018, 18:30The A' Experiment, or APEX, aims to search for a new vector boson that kinetically mixes with the photon, a "dark photon" or a "heavy photon", with a mass of $\mathcal O$(100 MeV) by studying the invariant mass spectrum of $e^+e^-$ pairs produced from an electron beam on a high-Z target. Dark photons appear in many well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model and may mediate interactions...Go to contribution page
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Xin Dong31/05/2018, 08:00The goal of the ultra-relativistic heavy ion program is to study Quantum Chromodynamics under finite temperature and density conditions. After a couple of decades of experiment, the focus at the top RHIC and the LHC energy has evolved to quantitative understanding of properties of the hot and dense medium, namely the strongly-coupled Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP) created in these heavy-ion...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wei Li (Rice University)31/05/2018, 08:35The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. In relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, local chirality imbalance of left- and right-handed quarks may be generated, which is related to the topology of gluon gauge fields. With the presence of an extremely strong magnetic field, the...Go to contribution page
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Ernst Sichtermann31/05/2018, 09:10An Electron-Ion Collider, proposed in the U.S. as facility upgrades to Jefferson Lab or the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, would offer unique capabilities to study quarks and gluons in nucleons and nuclei using flexible collision energies, high luminosity, and high polarization. It would make it possible to image quarks and gluons in nucleons and nuclei, to characterize their QCD dynamics,...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)31/05/2018, 10:10The worldwide effort of direct dark matter detection has made tremendous progress towards the understanding of dark matter. New results were reported recently from several experiments using techniques across from noble liquids, bubble chambers, cryogenic bolometers, scintillating crystals and low-threshold detectors, covering a large dark matter mass range and constraining new parameter space...Go to contribution page
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Tongyan Lin (UCSD)31/05/2018, 10:45Dark matter candidates span the entire mass range from $\sim10^{-22}$ eV up to the weak scale and beyond. Recently, the scope of dark matter searches has significantly expanded to include a variety of motivated candidates over much of this mass range. I will discuss new ideas and prospects to directly detect "light" (sub-GeV) and "ultralight'' (sub-eV) dark matter, generalizing searches for...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kate Scholberg (Duke University)31/05/2018, 11:20Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a neutral-current process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus, depositing a tiny recoil energy. The process is important in core-collapse supernovae and also presents an opportunity for detection of a burst of core-collapse supernova neutrinos in low-threshold detectors designed for dark matter detection. This talk...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Francis Halzen (WIPAC, UW-Madison)31/05/2018, 11:55The IceCube project has transformed a cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. The instrument detects more than 100,000 neutrinos per year in the GeV to PeV energy range. Among those, we have isolated a flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. I will discuss the instrument, the analysis of the data, the significance of the discovery of cosmic neutrinos, and the recent...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Keh-Fei Liu (University of Kentucky)31/05/2018, 14:00The formulation of the glue spin operator and large momentum effective theory will be reviewed and a direct calculation of the glue spin from the lattice calculation with chiral fermion action will be presented. The lattice calculation is carried out with overlap fermion on 2+1 flavor domain wall fermion configurations. Both the overlap and domain wall fermions are chiral fermions. A global...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (Rutgers University)31/05/2018, 14:00A long standing question in the field of heavy-ion collisions is whether charm quarks are thermalized within the Quark Gluon Plasma. In recent years, progress in lattice QCD simulations has led to reliable results for the equation of state of a system of 2+1 flavors (up, down, and strange) and 2+1+1 flavors (up, down, strange, and charm). We find that the equation of state strongly affects...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Or Hen (MIT)31/05/2018, 14:00I will present results from new studies of short-ranged correlations in nuclei and the EMC effect, with emphasis on measurements of neutron-rich nuclei. I will also discuss the development of new effective theories for describing short-ranged correlations, the way in which they relate to experimental observables, and the emerging universality of short-distance and high-momentum physics in...Go to contribution page
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Mr Sebastien Rettie (The University of British Columbia)31/05/2018, 14:00Many theories beyond the Standard Model predict new phenomena which decay to well isolated, high-$p_t$ leptons. Searches for new physics models with these signatures are performed using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The results reported here use the $pp$ collision data sample collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.Go to contribution page
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Shuoxing Wu (Stanford University)31/05/2018, 14:00The planned next generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) experiment is aiming to search for the neutrino-less double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay from $^{136}$Xe. nEXO has a sensitivity in the order of $10^{28}$ years on the half-life (T$_{1/2}$) of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay from $^{136}$Xe after 10 years’ running, entirely covering the inverted mass hierarchy region. The nEXO detector is a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Samuel McDermott (FNAL)31/05/2018, 14:00Supernova 1987A created an environment of extremely high temperatures and nucleon densities. The rough agreement between predictions of core collapse models and observations of a "neutrino burst" provide an opportunity to set bounds on a wide range of theories of new physics. I will present new bounds on dark sector models, incorporating finite-temperature effects on the production and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Marc Vanderhaeghen (University Mainz)31/05/2018, 14:00In view of the proton radius puzzle and the precision currently achieved in extracting the proton radius from muonic Hydrogen spectroscopy, the two-photon exchange (TPE) corrections between the lepton and hadron are at present the largest source of hadronic uncertainty. I present an overview on recent work within a dispersion relation framework to estimate such TPE corrections both in elastic...Go to contribution page
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Zhenyu Chen (Rice University)31/05/2018, 14:20In recent years, a wealth of experimental evidence has suggested the presence of novel collectivity in small collision systems such as $p$–$p$ and $p$–Pb with high-multiplicity final states. The origin of the observed collectivity is under intense debate, i.e., whether a strongly coupled quark-gluon medium is formed, similar to that in large heavy ion collisions. Latest results at CMS in small...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Nygren (University of Texas at Arlington), Dr David Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)31/05/2018, 14:20A new method to tag the barium daughter in the double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe is described, based on adaptation of the single molecule fluorescent imaging (SMFI) technique. Individual barium dications chelated on a transparent plate are detected at a significance of 12.9 $\sigma$, with a spatial resolution of 2 nm rms. Observation of a single-step photo-bleach transition confirms the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)31/05/2018, 14:20Astronomical evidence over the past several decades points to a Universe composed primarily of Dark Matter. There are several competing hypotheses about the composition and the interaction mechanisms of Dark Matter. Several groups have assembled instruments to test these ideas by searching for the hypothesized interaction, but despite their best efforts no direct detection has been confirmed...Go to contribution page
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Barak Schmookler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)31/05/2018, 14:25The number of Short-Range Correlated (SRC) pairs in nuclei is known to linearly correlate with the strength of the European Muon Collaboration (EMC) effect. This linear correlation has lead to theoretical models of the EMC effect where primarily nucleons which are members of SRC pairs are modified. As recent work has shown, the overwhelming majority of these SRC pairs are neutron-proton (np)...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)31/05/2018, 14:30The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collier (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory has been in operation since 2001 and delivered the world’s highest energy polarized proton-proton collisions with the center of mass energy up to 510 GeV. This has provided a unique opportunity to study the polarized quark and gluon spin structures inside the proton and novel QCD dynamics in longitudinally and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Sunil Somalwar (Rutgers University/Dept of Physics)31/05/2018, 14:30Discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider completed the Standard Model puzzle. However, we still do not know why the Higgs boson is light, what is the makeup of the dark matter, how matter survived in the evolution of the universe, etc. LHC's treasure-trove of proton-proton collision data could allow us to better understand the mysteries of the nascent universe and the Higgs...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Andrew Puckett (University of Connecticut)31/05/2018, 14:40The electromagnetic form factors (EMFFs) of the nucleon, measured in elastic electron-nucleon scattering, are among the simplest and most well-defined measurable dynamical properties of the nucleon, and serve as important benchmarks for the testing of theoretical models and $\textit{ab initio}$ lattice QCD calculations of nucleon structure. They also provide stringent, model-independent...Go to contribution page
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Dr Daniel Winklehner (MIT)31/05/2018, 14:40Recently, the idea of Decay-At-Rest (DAR) neutrino sources has gained in popularity due to their well understood energy spectrum and flavor composition. Currently, there are experiments being proposed which use decay-at-rest from kaons, pions, muons, and isotopes. I will present an overview of the decay-at-rest process, and the experiments being developed. After looking at the bigger picture,...Go to contribution page
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Sylvia Morrow (Vanderbilt University)31/05/2018, 14:40To answer the question of how small a system can be while still exhibiting collective behavior, the PHENIX experiment has used RHIC's extraordinary versatility to design a set of experiments controlling the initial geometry of the collisions by selecting different colliding species, $p/d/^3$He+Au. In addition, a beam energy scan with $d$+Au collisions was done to vary the lifetime of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr qian Yue (Tsinghua University)31/05/2018, 14:40There is compelling evidence that about one-quarter of the energy density of the Universe is made up of Dark Matter, the identification and study of which are among the most important goals in basic research. The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) pursues direct searches of light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), which is the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Zhihong Ye (Argonne National Lab)31/05/2018, 14:50Due to the highly localized feature of the short-range correlations (SRCs), the high momentum tails from light to heavy nuclei reveals very similar distributions when their momenta are above the Fermi momentum. The exclusive measurements of proton and electron scattering off the NN pairs in 2N-SRC showed the dominance of $np$ pairs. It indicates the isospin nature of the NN interaction at...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ivan Tolstukhin (Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA)31/05/2018, 15:00The process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) predicted more than 40 years ago eluded detection for a long time despite having the largest cross-section for low-energy neutrino interactions. This is largely because CEvNS detection requires sensitivity to low-energy nuclear recoils in a potentially high-background environment. The COHERENT collaboration is deploying a...Go to contribution page
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Chris Murphy (Brookhaven)31/05/2018, 15:00The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have recently released significant new data on Higgs and diboson production in LHC Run 2. Measurements of Higgs properties have improved in many channels, while kinematic information for $h\to\gamma\gamma$ and $h\to ZZ$ can now be more accurately incorporated in fits using the STXS method, and $W^+W^−$ diboson production at high $p_{_\mathrm{T}}$ gives new...Go to contribution page
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Alexandre Deur (Jefferson Lab)31/05/2018, 15:00We will summarize the longitudinal and transverse spin measurements at JLAB. First, we will present the published and preliminary experimental results. They belong to a first phase of research using JLab's 6 GeV beam that covered the interface between the perturbative and nonperturbative domains of QCD. Furthermore, we have results pertaining to these two domains, e.g. high-$x$ DIS on one side...Go to contribution page
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Dr Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)31/05/2018, 15:00We present the status and prospects of the Sub-Electron Noise Skipper Experimental Instrument (SENSEI) that uses a non-destructive readout technique to achieve stable readout for thick fully depleted silicon CCD in the far sub-electron regime ($\sim 0.05\ e^-$ rms/pix). This is the first instrument to achieve discrete sub-electron counting that is stable over millions of pixels on a large-area...Go to contribution page
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Giuliano Giacalone (IPhT Saclay)31/05/2018, 15:00A well-established hydrodynamic framework has been developed over the last couple of decades to describe the dynamics of the fluidlike system (potentially, a quark-gluon plasma) created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This framework predicts in particular the nontrivial patterns of long-range azimuthal correlations which are observed in the final states of nucleus-nucleus collisions, and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vladimir Pascalutsa (University of Mainz)31/05/2018, 15:10Talk 169: I would like to present a first partial wave-analysis (PWA) of the experimental cross sections of Compton scattering on the proton [1]. The resulting solutions reveal an appreciable sensitivity to small refinements of the experimental database, which could explain the discrepancies among the various extractions of proton polarizabilities (see e.g. [3] for review). The database...Go to contribution page
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Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)31/05/2018, 15:15Three nucleon short range correlations are one of the most elusive structures in nuclei, whose observation and the evaluation of their properties may have a significant impact on our understanding of the dynamics of super-dense nuclear matter that may exist in the cores of Neutron Stars. We discuss kinematic conditions and the observables that are most optimal for probing 3N SRCs in inclusive...Go to contribution page
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Ryan Weller (MIT)31/05/2018, 15:20In recent years, suggestive signatures of collective flow-like behavior have been observed in $p$+$p$ collisions at the LHC and also in light+heavy-ion collisions. We review hydrodynamic model calculations that reasonably describe the experimentally measured $dN_\mathrm{ch}/d\eta$ and $v_2,v_3,v_4$ at $\eta=0$ in collisions from Pb+Pb down to $p$+$p$. Nevertheless, it is still uncertain...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nicolas PIERRE (CEA Saclay)31/05/2018, 15:20COMPASS final results on multiplicities of charged hadrons and of identified pions and kaons produced in the deep inelastic muon scattering off an isoscalar target are presented and compared to HERMES results. Measurements are done in bins of $x$, $y$ and $z$ in a wide kinematic range. The hadron and pion data show a good agreement with (N)LO QCD expectations. The most interesting is the kaon...Go to contribution page
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Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)31/05/2018, 15:20I will give an overview of the status of keV sterile neutrinos as dark matter, including the production mechanisms in the early universe and detectability today. I will give the status of indirect searches, including the candidate X-ray line at 3.55 keV and prospects for future searches. I will also discuss laboratory detection methods, including searches in beta decay and K-capture nuclei.Go to contribution page
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Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)31/05/2018, 15:20I discuss examples of how the LHC can be sensitive to low-mass hidden sectors. In particular, I show how rare $Z$-boson decays provide a window into the mass-generation mechanism of dark-photon models, motivating searches for displaced vertices and high multiplicities of soft leptons.Go to contribution page
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Rory Fitzpatrick (University of Michigan)31/05/2018, 15:20This talk will present recent results from MiniBooNE, with a focus on the first measurement of monoenergetic muon neutrino charged current interactions. MiniBooNE's sensitive search for vector portal dark matter in the mass range 0.01–0.3 GeV will also be discussed. The NuMI beam absorber provides an intense source of 236 MeV muon neutrino events originating from kaon decay at rest that are...Go to contribution page
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Dr francesca giovacchini (ciemat)31/05/2018, 16:10The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a multi-purpose high-energy particle physics detector in space. It was installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2011 to conduct a unique long-duration mission of fundamental physics research in space. In seven years AMS has collected more than 115 billion charged cosmic rays with energies up to TeV region performing the most precise...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jianming Bian (UC Irvine)31/05/2018, 16:10The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline experiment. DUNE will utilize a high-intensity neutrino beam produced at Fermilab and will measure electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance with its 40 kiloton Liquid Argon far detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, 1300 km from Fermilab. The goals...Go to contribution page
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Brian Cole (Columbia University)31/05/2018, 16:10The heavy-ion program in the ATLAS experiment at the LHC originated as an extensive program to probe and characterize the hot, dense matter created in relativistic lead-lead collisions. In recent years, the program has also broadened to a detailed study of collective behaviour in smaller systems. In particular, the techniques used to study larger systems are also applied to proton-proton and...Go to contribution page
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Holger Mueller31/05/2018, 16:10We will give an overview of atomic precision measurements as tests of physics beyond the Standard Model, such as searches for "fifth forces", tests of fundamental symmetries with clocks, and searches for an electric dipole moment of the electron. In particular, measurements of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ use methods from across sub-fields and are thus powerful tests of the consistency...Go to contribution page
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Eric Baxter (University of Pennsylvania)31/05/2018, 16:10The Dark Energy Survey has recently demonstrated powerful cosmological constraints obtained using first year observations of galaxy positions and gravitational lensing of galaxy images. In the near future, these analyses will be extended to include cross-correlations with gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background, and constraints from other cosmological probes. I will...Go to contribution page
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Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)31/05/2018, 16:10Observational bounds on the mass of dark matter could allow the dark matter to be as heavy as $10^{48}$ GeV. Such ultra-heavy dark matter candidates emerge as composite objects produced as a result of significant self-interactions in the dark sector. Detection of this kind of dark matter raises new challenges — the low number density of these particles requires detectors with a large target...Go to contribution page
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Dr Chia Cheng Chang (LBL)31/05/2018, 16:10The $\textit{axial coupling of the nucleon}$, $g_A$, is the strength of its coupling to the $\textit{weak}$ axial current of the Standard Model, much as the electric charge is the strength of the coupling to the electromagnetic current. This axial coupling dictates, for example, the rate of $\beta$-decay of neutrons to protons and the strength of the attractive long-range force between...Go to contribution page
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Mr Luca Pagani (UC Davis)31/05/2018, 16:30DarkSide uses dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers to search for WIMP dark matter. The talk will present the latest result from the current experiment, DarkSide-50, running since mid 2015 using a 50-kg-active-mass TPC, filled with argon from an underground source. The next stage of the DarkSide program will be a new generation experiment involving a global collaboration from all...Go to contribution page
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Christopher Marshall31/05/2018, 16:40Neutrino interactions and nuclear modeling are among the largest systematic uncertainties in neutrino oscillation experiments, which must infer the true neutrino energy from scattering products on heavy targets such as carbon, oxygen, or argon. Recent data from MiniBooNE, T2K, and MINERvA indicate shortcomings in current theoretical models of neutrino cross sections on nuclei. I will present...Go to contribution page
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Dr Joseph Price (University of Liverpool)31/05/2018, 16:40The measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon made at Brookhaven National Laboratory differs from the Standard Model expectation by over 3 standard deviations. A new experiment at Fermilab, using the same storage ring as the Brookhaven experiment, aims to improve the accuracy of this measurement by a factor of 4, and an additional experiment, using a new technique, at J-PARC is...Go to contribution page
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Glennys Farrar (NYU)31/05/2018, 16:40This talk will have two components. The main part will survey the state-of-knowledge about UHECRs, emphasizing recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory on anisotropies and possible source correlations. A short second part will report on multi-messenger constraints combining Auger, Fermi-LAT and IceCube data, on pure-proton and mixed-composition source models.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez (UC Davis)31/05/2018, 16:40We present a summary of recent heavy ion results with CMS, including several topics of interest to the study of quark matter. Our interest involves characterizing the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, such as its temperature and transport coefficients, and the dynamical properties leading to collective behavior. We have explored the onset of collectivity in small systems via azimuthal...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anand Raichoor (EPFL)31/05/2018, 16:40I will present recent results and prospects for the SDSS/eBOSS survey (2014-2019), the last program completing the SDSS cosmological observations, which started some twenty years ago. The primary goal of those observations is to constrain dark energy through the measure of the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter. eBOSS will use one...Go to contribution page
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Dr Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)31/05/2018, 16:40The nucleon axial form factor is needed to calculate the cross-section of neutrino interactions with nuclei. Due to lack of data on neutrino scattering off protons, one has to model the effect of nuclear interactions to extract it from neutrino scattering data off heavier nuclei. It is also being calculated from first principles analysis of QCD using large scale simulations of lattice QCD. By...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Anthony Noble (Queens University)31/05/2018, 16:50This talk will present the current status of the PICO dark matter experimental program. The PICO detectors are based on the bubble chamber technology and record potential interactions of WIMPs in the target fluid through phase transitions induced by the energy depositions of recoiling nuclei. The technique is complementary to other dark matter search methods and has lead to recent...Go to contribution page
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Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla)31/05/2018, 17:10The upcoming upgrade of the CERN LHC is a challenge and opportunity for ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment). By sustaining a Pb–Pb readout rate of 50 kHz, ALICE will gain two orders of magnitude in statistics and conduct high-precision measurements of rare probes at low $p_\mathrm{T}$ values. ALICE is refitting the Time Projection Chamber with new, GEM-based readout chambers with...Go to contribution page
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Dr Simone Aiola (Princeton University)31/05/2018, 17:10Full-sky Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature data from the Planck satellite tightly constrains the six $\Lambda$CDM parameters, reinforcing the success of the current model in describing the CMB sky. However, more precise cosmological measurements show tensions between the high-redshift and low-redshift probes, with a discrepancy in the value of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, at a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)31/05/2018, 17:10Within the framework of chiral effective field theory I will discuss the leading contributions to the neutrinoless double-beta decay transition operator induced by light Majorana neutrinos. Based on renormalization arguments, I will argue that one needs to introduce a leading-order short-range operator, missing in all current calculations. I will then discuss strategies to determine the finite...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Bill GARY (University of California, Riverside)31/05/2018, 17:10The BABAR Collaboration has an extensive program studying hadronic cross sections in low-energy $e^+e^-$ collisions, accessible through the selection of events with initial-state photon radiation. The measurements allow significant improvements in the precision of the standard model prediction for the muon anomalous magnetic moment. Recent results on the $\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0\pi^0$ final state and...Go to contribution page
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Andrea Albert (SLAC)31/05/2018, 17:10The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has been surveying the TeV sky for over 3 years. HAWC surveys 2/3rd of the sky each day with a wide field-of-view, high duty-cycle, and wide energy range. HAWC is a powerful instrument to study key aspects of particle astrophysics, including the production, propagation, and interaction of cosmic rays, searches for dark matter, and locating...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Christopher Mauger (University of Pennsylvania)31/05/2018, 17:10The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos (CAPTAIN) program makes measurements that are crucial for the future DUNE experiment. DUNE aims to study neutrino oscillation phenomena with high precision with long-baseline and atmospheric neutrinos, and the electron-neutrino spectrum from galactic core-collapse supernovae. CAPTAIN addresses challenges with both...Go to contribution page
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Matthew Szydagis (U Albany)31/05/2018, 17:10More recent results will be shared from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) detector, which was a 100-kg-scale, 2-phase xenon direct dark matter search experiment, operated between 2013–16 at SURF. Dark matter, the missing 25% of the mass-energy content of the universe, is sought in more ways, using effective field theory operators to extend the search to higher-mass Weakly Interacting Massive...Go to contribution page
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Dr Seyda Ipek (University of California Irvine)31/05/2018, 17:30Our Universe has more matter than antimatter and we cannot explain this asymmetry within the Standard Model. CP violation is crucial to explain the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We observe CP violation in the SM in neutral meson oscillations. Can similar (but beyond the SM) particle–antiparticle oscillations in the early Universe generate the baryon asymmetry? I will show "Yes, they can!"...Go to contribution page
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Javier Menendez (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)31/05/2018, 17:30Observing neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is the most promising way to detect lepton number violation in the laboratory, and it would imply that neutrinos are their own antiparticles. The decay half-life naturally depends on a nuclear matrix element that needs to be calculated theoretically. A good knowledge of this matrix element is key for the planning of $0\nu\beta\beta$...Go to contribution page
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Ms Feifei Huang (The Pennsylvania State University)31/05/2018, 17:30The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole can measure atmospheric neutrinos at energies up to the TeV scale. DeepCore is the low-energy subarray that provides sensitivity in the neutrino energy range from roughly 10 GeV to 100 GeV, where Earth-crossing neutrinos are subject to flavor-oscillation phenomena. These neutrinos are muon and electron neutrinos produced in Earth's atmosphere...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicole Larsen (University of Chicago / Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)31/05/2018, 17:30The past two decades have seen a tremendous increase in the sensitivity of direct detection experiments. In the absence of a definitive dark matter detection, the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) campaign (which ran underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility from 2013 to 2016) has worked to constrain a far broader set of dark matter interactions than the spin-independent and...Go to contribution page
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Vassili Papavassiliou (New Mexico State University)31/05/2018, 17:30A good understanding of the cross sections for neutrino interactions with nucleons and nuclei is crucial for neutrino oscillation studies, in addition to providing a tool for the exploration of nucleon and nuclear structures. The MicroBooNE liquid-argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC) experiment has been taking neutrino data with the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab since 2015. The LArTPC...Go to contribution page
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Mr Davide Caffarri (NIKHEF - Amsterdam)31/05/2018, 17:30The heavy-ion physics program at the LHC aims at characterizing the high energy density, high temperature, deconfined partonic state of matter called Quark-Gluon Plasma. Hard probes are very useful tools to study the QGP properties since they are abundantly produced at the LHC energy regime, via hard scattering processes, and they experience the full evolution of the system, losing energy...Go to contribution page
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Dr Lorenzo Moncelsi (California Institute of Technology)31/05/2018, 17:40The inflationary scenario generically predicts the existence of primordial gravitational waves (GW), though over a wide range of amplitudes from slow-roll to multi-field models. Currently the most promising method for constraining, and potentially detecting, an inflationary GW background is to search for the imprint that these tensor perturbations would leave on the cosmic microwave background...Go to contribution page
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Ms Barbara Trzeciak (Utrecht Univeristy)31/05/2018, 17:50The ALICE experiment is dedicated to investigate properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in high-energy Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC. Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are a unique tool to study and characterise the QGP properties. They are produced in the early stage of the heavy-ion collisions and traverse the hot and dense medium losing energy due to collisional and radiative...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yoshikazu Nagai (University of Colorado Boulder)31/05/2018, 17:50A precise prediction of the neutrino flux is a key ingredient for achieving the physics goals of long-baseline neutrino experiments. In modern accelerator-based neutrino experiments, neutrino beams are created from the decays of secondary hadrons produced in hadron-nucleus interactions. Hadron production is the leading systematic uncertainty source on the neutrino flux prediction; therefore,...Go to contribution page
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Alejandro Garcia (University of Washington)31/05/2018, 17:50We will present an overview on the present status and outlook of experiments using nuclear beta decays to search for new physics. At the low-momentum transfers associated with nuclear beta decays, phenomena associated with new physics at high-energy scales can show up as right-handed or chirality-flipping (tensor or scalar) currents, all absent in the Standard Model. We will describe...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yu Chen (University of Alberta)31/05/2018, 17:50DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon (LAr) dark matter detector being operated 2 km underground at SNOLAB. The ultra-pure LAr target is contained in a spherical acrylic vessel of 3600 kg capacity, viewed by an array of 255 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The expected sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section is $10^{-46}$ cm$^2$ at 100 GeV WIMP mass. Natural radioactive...Go to contribution page
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Dr Qian Yue (Tsinghua University)31/05/2018, 17:50China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is the deepest laboratory and an ideal site for rare-event experiments such as dark matter, neutrinoless double beta decay, solar neutrino experiment, and so on. It is located in the Jinping Mountain, Sichuan Province, southwest China, with an overburden of about 2,400 m. The laboratory is operated by Tsinghua University and Yalong River Hydropower...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marc Bergevin (LLNL)31/05/2018, 17:50Tests on $|B-L|$ symmetry breaking models are important probes to search for new physics. One proposed model with $|\Delta (B-L)=2|$ involves the oscillation of a neutron to an antineutron. In this talk, the recently published results for a search of this process in the deuteron from the data acquired from all three operational phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory experiment will be...Go to contribution page
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Reina Maruyama (Yale University)31/05/2018, 18:10Astrophysical observations give overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark matter. While the DAMA collaboration has asserted for years that they observe a dark matter-induced annual modulation signal in their NaI(Tl)-based detectors, their observations are inconsistent with those from other direct detection dark matter experiments under most assumptions of dark matter. I will describe the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Aaron Meyer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)31/05/2018, 18:10Studies of neutrino oscillation physics lay at the intersection point of nucleon physics, nuclear physics, and experimental physics. Computations of the neutrino scattering cross sections that are necessary to understand oscillation physics require nuclear models with weak matrix elements of the nucleon. These matrix elements are difficult to probe experimentally or can be subject to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dagmara Rozpedzik (Jagiellonian University)31/05/2018, 18:10Searches of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) performed at low energy frontiers are complementary to experiments carried out at high energy colliders. Often used methods for testing the SM and beyond at low energies are precision spectrum shape and correlation coefficient measurements in nuclear and neutron beta decay. In order to study tiny effects in beta spectrum shape, a special...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)31/05/2018, 18:10Neutron-antineutron ($n$–$\bar{n}$) conversion describes the change of a neutron into an antineutron as mediated by an external source. As a result its ability to occur is not limited by the presence of magnetic fields or matter, as would be the case if a neutron were to transform spontaneously, or to oscillate, into an antineutron. We explore the limits on the appearance of baryon number...Go to contribution page
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Dr Murray Brightman (Caltech)31/05/2018, 18:10The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the first focusing X-ray telescope at hard energies in space. Since its launch in 2012, NuSTAR has opened up a sensitive new view on many energetic astrophysical phenomena, such as supernova explosions, black hole spin measurements and cosmic supermassive black hole accretion history. One of NuSTAR's main discoveries is that some bright...Go to contribution page
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Dr LongGang Pang (UC Berkeley and LBNL)31/05/2018, 18:10The state-of-the-art pattern recognition method in machine learning (deep convolution neural network) has been used to classify two different phase transitions between normal nuclear matter and hot-dense quark gluon plasma. Large amounts of training data have been prepared by simulating heavy ion collisions with event-by-event relativistic hydrodynamics. High level correlations of particle...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicholas Galitzki (University of California, San Diego)31/05/2018, 18:10The Simons Observatory (SO) will make precision temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) over angular scales between 1 arcminute and tens of degrees using over 40,000 detectors and sampling frequencies between 27 and 270 GHz. SO will consist of a six-meter-aperture telescope coupled to over 20,000 detectors and an array of half-meter aperture...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ryan Keeley (University of California Irvine)01/06/2018, 14:00The Milky Way's Galactic Center harbors a gamma-ray excess that is a candidate signal of annihilating dark matter. Dwarf galaxies remain predominantly dark in their expected commensurate emission. In this talk I will discuss the degree of consistency between these two observations, quantified through a joint likelihood analysis. Doing so will incorporate Milky Way dark matter halo profile...Go to contribution page
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Paul Souder (Syracuse University)01/06/2018, 14:00The SoLID spectrometer is being designed at JLab in order to provide a high luminosity and high-acceptance device for studies of parity-violation in deep inelastic scattering (PVDIS). The PVDIS studies will measure the vector-electron and axial-quark coupling, which is small in the Standard Model and thus provides a good test of BSM physics. In addition, the method provides a unique way to...Go to contribution page
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Fabrice Balli (CEA Saclay)01/06/2018, 14:00A precise measurement of the $W$ boson mass represents an important milestone to test the overall consistency of the Standard Model. Since the discovery of a Higgs Boson, the $W$ boson mass is predicted to 7 MeV precision, while the world average of all measurements is 15 MeV, making the improved measurement an important goal. Large samples of leptonic decays of $W$ and $Z$ bosons were...Go to contribution page
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Dr Chia Cheng Chang (LBL)01/06/2018, 14:00We calculate in three-flavor lattice QCD the short-distance hadronic matrix elements of all five $\Delta C=2$ four-fermion operators that contribute to neutral $D$-meson mixing both in and beyond the Standard Model. We use the MILC Collaboration's $N_f = 2+1$ lattice gauge-field configurations generated with asqtad-improved staggered sea quarks. We also employ the asqtad action for the valence...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Silas Beane (University of Washington)01/06/2018, 14:00I will review recent progress in obtaining baryon-baryon phase shifts and several paradigmatic reaction rates from lattice QCD simulations.Go to contribution page
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Dr Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)01/06/2018, 14:00I review recent progress in the determination of the unpolarised parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton. I focus on how the needs for accuracy and precision in current and future programs at high-energy accelerators are addressed in contemporary PDF sets. I discuss the impact on PDFs of the uncertainties coming from the data, the theory and the methodology, and I outline some...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nils Feege (Stony Brook University)01/06/2018, 14:20The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be the first facility to collide spin-polarized electrons with polarized protons, polarized light ions, and unpolarized heavy ions at high luminosity. Using the Standard Model electroweak interactions, the EIC will provide unprecedented insights into the structure of nucleons and nuclei and the partonic dynamics inside them. In addition, it will allow for...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mikhail Gorshteyn (University of Mainz)01/06/2018, 14:20I review the status of theoretical calculations that empower the precise determination of the weak mixing angle across the whole range of currently accessible energies. The key ingredients include the EW running of $\sin^2\theta_W$, and applications of the dispersion relations to radiative corrections that involve effects of the strong interaction. The upcoming low-energy experiments with...Go to contribution page
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Carleton DeTar (University of Utah)01/06/2018, 14:30We describe a recent lattice-QCD calculation of the leptonic decay constants of heavy-light pseudoscalar mesons containing charm and bottom quarks and of the masses of the up, down, strange, charm, and bottom quarks. Results for these quantities are of the highest precision to date. Calculations use over twenty isospin-symmetric ensembles of gauge-field configurations with six different...Go to contribution page
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Sean Quinn (University of California, Los Angeles)01/06/2018, 14:30The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to detect cosmic-ray antimatter using the novel exotic atom technique, obviating strong magnetic fields required by experiments like AMS, PAMELA, or BESS. It will be sensitive to primary antideuterons with kinetic energies of $\approx0.05-0.2$ GeV/nucleon, providing some overlap with the previously mentioned...Go to contribution page
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Kenneth McElvain01/06/2018, 14:30The configuration interaction shell model operates in a subset of the complete Hilbert space defined by projection operator P. Unless P is very large, an effective theory treatment is required. Historically, the renormalization into P has been done informally, by adding a few physically motivated operators with associated parameters to the matrix elements of a realistic or chiral...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw State University)01/06/2018, 14:30We investigate the possibility of a (sizable) nonperturbative contribution to the charm parton distribution function (PDF) in a nucleon, theoretical issues arising in its interpretation, and its potential impact on LHC scattering processes. We discuss separation of the universal component of the nonperturbative charm from the rest of the radiative contributions and estimate its magnitude in...Go to contribution page
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Andrew Edmonds01/06/2018, 14:40The AlCap experiment is a joint venture between the COMET and Mu2e collaborations to measure the rate and spectrum of particles emitted after nuclear muon capture on aluminium. Both collaborations will search for the charged lepton flavour violating process of neutrinoless muon-to-electron conversion by stopping muons in an aluminium target and so knowledge of other particles emitted during...Go to contribution page
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Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)01/06/2018, 14:40Low-energy precision tests of electro-weak physics keep playing an essential role in the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Atomic parity violation (APV) experiments measure the strength of highly forbidden atomic transitions induced by the exchange of $Z$ bosons between electrons and quarks in heavy atoms. APV is sensitive to additional interactions such as leptoquarks, and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)01/06/2018, 14:50To investigate the sea-quark asymmetry of the proton, the SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab uses a proton beam of 120 GeV/c interacting with liquid Hydrogen or Deuterium. Alongside of that the SeaQuest also probes the quark energy loss and EMC effect using targets of Iron, Carbon and Tungsten. Data taking ended in July of 2017, having recorded dimuon events from $1.4 \times 10^{18}$ protons...Go to contribution page
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Lindsay Forestell (TRIUMF, UBC)01/06/2018, 15:00Non-Abelian dark gauge forces that do not couple directly to ordinary matter may be realized in nature. If the dark sector is reheated in the early universe, it will be realized as a set of dark gluons at high temperatures and as a collection of dark glueballs at lower temperatures, with a cosmological phase transition from one form to the other. These glueballs can be, if left alone, the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Johannes Kirscher (The City College of New York)01/06/2018, 15:00I will present work which utilizes few-nucleon observables, predicted with the lattice technique from quantum chromodynamics, to calibrate an effective interaction theory for nucleons (the pionless effective field theory) in order to assess the sensitivity of larger nuclei, their ground-state and scattering properties and electromagnetic responses, with respect to the unphysical changes in the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Peter Kammel (CENPA, UW Seattle)01/06/2018, 15:00Muon capture provides a powerful tool to study the properties and structure of the nucleon and few nucleon systems predicted by chiral effective theories founded on Quantum Chromodynamics. Our program focuses on capture from the simplest of all muonic atoms, muonic hydrogen (MuCap experiment) as well as muonic deuterium (MuSun experiment), by using a novel active target method based on the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Frank Maas (Helmholtz Institute Mainz)01/06/2018, 15:00Parity violating electron scattering off unpolarised electrons or unpolarised protons at low momentums transfer (well below Z-pole) is an ideal tool to test the Standard Model and search for BSM-physics up to a mass scale of about 50 TeV, complementary to the new physics searches at high energies at the LHC. The future MOLLER experiment at JLab and the future P2 experiment at the upcoming...Go to contribution page
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Oliver Witzel (University of Colorado Boulder)01/06/2018, 15:00Semileptonic $B_s \to K \ell \nu$ and $B_s \to D_s \ell \nu$ decays provide an alternative $b$-decay channel to determine the CKM matrix elements $|V_{ub}|$ and $|V_{cb}|$ or obtain $R$-ratios to investigate lepton flavor universality violations. In addition, these decays may shed further light on the discrepancies seen in the analysis of inclusive vs. exclusive decays. Using the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Soumya Mohapatra (Columbia University)01/06/2018, 15:10Measurements of isolated prompt photon, massive electroweak boson, and jet production in small collision systems are of great interest to understanding the partonic structure of heavy nuclei, and serve as a constraint on the initial state in larger collision systems. These channels are sensitive to a variety of effects such as the modification of the parton densities in nuclei, including the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)01/06/2018, 15:20The gravitational acceleration of antimatter, $\bar g$, has yet to be directly measured; an unexpected outcome of its measurement could change our understanding of gravity, the universe, and the possibility of a fifth force. Three avenues are apparent for such a measurement: antihydrogen, positronium, and muonium, the last requiring a precision atom interferometer and novel muonium beam under...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Arie Bodek (University of Rochester)01/06/2018, 15:20We report on the extraction of the electroweak mixing angle from precision measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry ($A_{FB}$) in dilepton events produced at the large hadron collider.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Dean Lee (Michigan State University)01/06/2018, 15:20I discuss new progress in performing first principles lattice simulations of nuclear systems using the framework of effective field theory. Some of the topics to be covered are the connections between bare nuclear forces and nuclear structure and a new algorithm for studying the thermodynamics and spectra of nuclei.Go to contribution page
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Srimoyee Sen (University of Washington)01/06/2018, 15:20Superradiant axions around black holes can produce electromagnetic signatures via lasing or via conversion to photons in a strong magnetic field. The latter can also produce gravitational wave signatures besides electromagnetic ones in binary merger events involving a strongly magnetized neutron star and a black hole (BHNS). Due to the smallness of the axion mass, medium effects of the black...Go to contribution page
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Prof. XIAO-GANG HE (NTU/SJTU)01/06/2018, 15:20Flavor SU(3) analysis of B meson charmless hadronic two light pseudoscalar decays can be formulated in two different ways. One is to construct the SU(3) irreducible representation amplitude (IRA) according to effective Hamiltonian transformation properties, and the other is to draw the topological diagrams (TDA). We first point out that previous analyses of TDA and IRA approaches do not match...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alexander Austregesilo (Jefferson Lab)01/06/2018, 16:10The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab aims to study the light-quark meson spectrum with an emphasis on the search for hybrid mesons. The $\eta\pi^0$ and $\eta^{^{_/}}\pi^0$ final states are promising channels for this search. Several experiments have observed a contribution with exotic quantum numbers in these channels in the past, but the resonance interpretation is not well established....Go to contribution page
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Prof. Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr-University Bochum)01/06/2018, 16:10Nuclear forces derived in chiral EFT are nowadays extensively used to study low-energy reactions and to describe various properties of nuclei and nuclear matter. I review the current status of the theory and describe our recent efforts towards developing this theoretical approach into a precision tool. Topics addressed include the two- and three-nucleon forces, applications to light systems...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)01/06/2018, 16:10The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in high energy heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This medium is transparent to electromagnetic probes but nearly opaque to colored probes. Hard partons produced early in the collision fragment and hadronize into a collimated spray of particles called a jet. The partons lose energy...Go to contribution page
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Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)01/06/2018, 16:10Many of the heavy elements in the universe are produced through the rapid capture of neutrons onto iron peak elements, the so-called r-process. Sites for this crucial heavy element production are necessarily extreme and leading proposals invoke conditions at the heart of the engines behind supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. These models include neutrino-driven winds, magnetically-contained...Go to contribution page
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Prof. George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)01/06/2018, 16:10I will give an overview of sterile neutrino physics in the early universe and in cosmology, especially as regards dark matter. This will include a discussion of production mechanisms, relic densities, the relationship of these to lepton and baryon numbers, and associated high energy scale physics issues. I will also discuss the status of X-ray observational constraints on sterile neutrino and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrea Signori (Jefferson Lab)01/06/2018, 16:10Uncertainties generated by our ignorance of hadronic structure hamper precision calculations for high-energy scattering processes. Transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) distributions give a quantitative representation of hadronic structure in a three-dimensional momentum space and encode all the possible spin and momentum correlations between a hadron and its constituents. Extractions of TMDs...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)01/06/2018, 16:35I discuss the status of non-standard neutrino interactions, especially their impact on next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments.Go to contribution page
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Scott Bogner (Michigan State University)01/06/2018, 16:40As experimental efforts have shifted towards the study of rare isotopes, the predictive power of the wildly successful (but heretofore phenomenological) nuclear shell model is challenged by the scarcity of nearby data to constrain its parameters. Therefore, the ability to reliably calculate these parameters directly from the underlying nuclear forces, and relying less on experimental data,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Benjamin Lackey (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)01/06/2018, 16:40Observations of binary neutron star mergers such as GW170817 by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors provide unique ways of constraining the equation of state through tidal interactions and potential observations of a post-merger signal. In this work we improve initial estimates of the parameters of GW170817 using the known source location, improved waveform modeling, additional...Go to contribution page
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Dr Abhijit Majumder (Wayne State University)01/06/2018, 16:40The quenching of hard jets in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has become the leading probe of the properties of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) formed in these collisions. Formed in rare hard interactions, jets traverse the entire space-time profile of the exploding plasma and are modified by it. The detailed study of these modifications reveals clues about the internal structure of the QGP. In...Go to contribution page
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Prof. John Bulava (CP3-Origins, U. of Southern Denmark)01/06/2018, 16:40Given recent progress in the determination of scattering amplitudes from lattice QCD calculations, systematic errors due to the finite lattice spacing and simulation volume must now be controlled in order to provide quantitative QCD predictions for the properties of excited hadrons. To this end, I will present a calculation of the pion-pion scattering amplitude near the $\rho$(770) resonance,...Go to contribution page
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Oleg Eyser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)01/06/2018, 16:40The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is the world's only polarized proton collider with center-of-mass energies up to 500 GeV and beam polarizations of about 60% at the highest energies. It provides unique opportunities to study the spin structure in hadronic systems and opens new kinematic regions compared to deep inelastic scattering experiments....Go to contribution page
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Jeffrey Hyde (Goucher College)01/06/2018, 17:00New physics beyond the Standard Model could appear at long baseline oscillation experiments as non-standard interactions (NSI) between neutrinos and matter. If so, determination of the CP-violating phase $\delta_{13}$ is ambiguous due to interference with additional complex phases. I'll present my work using both numerical solutions and a perturbative approach to study oscillation...Go to contribution page
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Dr Luka Leskovec (University of Arizona)01/06/2018, 17:10We present a lattice QCD study of the $\rho$ resonance with $N_f=2+1$ clover fermions at a pion mass of approximately 320 MeV and lattice size 3.6 fm. We study two processes involving the $\rho$. The first process is scattering of two pions in P-wave with isospin 1 where by using the Luescher method we determine the strong scattering phase shift, from which we determine the $\rho$ resonance...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut)01/06/2018, 17:10Ab Initio or first-principle methods have been very successful in calculating many properties of light nuclei. These methods use the most modern formulations of two- and three-nucleon interactions and have provided very accurate reproductions of the binding energies and level spectra for light nuclei over the past several years. These approaches have also been used to predict other...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Francois Foucart (University of New Hampshire)01/06/2018, 17:10The observation of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals powered by the merger of two neutron stars has already provided us with a wealth of information about compact objects, high-energy astrophysics, and nuclear astrophysics. To extract as much information as possible from such observations, however, a deeper understanding of the highly non-linear merger events is necessary....Go to contribution page
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Dr Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)01/06/2018, 17:10Transverse momentum dependent distribution functions offer deep insights into the quark and gluon structure of the nucleon. Measuring asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) of charged leptons off longitudinally and transversely polarised nucleons offers access to a variety of transverse momentum dependent distribution functions (TMD). The HERMES and COMPASS experiments...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Saskia Mioduszewski (Texas A&M University)01/06/2018, 17:10RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory has been providing high energy heavy-ion collisions since the year 2000. Hard probes are often analyzed to study the properties of the matter created in heavy-ion collisions, by comparing the measurements to those in $p+p$ collisions. Direct photons, those produced during the collision rather than from decays of hadrons, are particularly interesting...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Akif Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)01/06/2018, 17:25A good fraction of the heavier nuclei were formed in the rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis scenario. Although an astrophysical site of the r-process is not yet identified, one expects such sites to be associated with explosive phenomena since a large number of interactions are required to take place during a rather short time interval. Candidate sites include core-collapse...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christian Drischler (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)01/06/2018, 17:30The equation of state of (isospin-)asymmetric nuclear matter is a key quantity for nuclear astrophysics. In this talk, we discuss recent progress of microscopic calculations based on nuclear forces derived within chiral effective field theory and many-body perturbation theory. We focus in particular on applications of our improved normal-ordering method which enables the treatment of general...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)01/06/2018, 17:30Today there are a plethora of many-body techniques for calculating nuclear wave functions and matrix elements. I will review the status of that reliable workhorse, the interacting shell model, a.k.a. configuration-interaction methods, a.k.a. Hamiltonian diagonalization, and survey its advantages and disadvantages. With modern supercomputers one can tackle dimensions up to about 20 billion! I...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Marco Radici (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)01/06/2018, 17:30We present the first extraction of the transversity distribution in the framework of collinear factorization based on the global analysis of pion-pair production in deep-inelastic scattering off transversely polarized targets and in proton-proton collisions with one transversely polarized proton. The extraction relies on the knowledge of dihadron fragmentation functions, which are taken from...Go to contribution page
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Kyle Lee (Stony Brook University)01/06/2018, 17:30In this talk, I will develop the theoretical framework of jet substructure measurements in the semi-inclusive jet production. The talk will mainly be focused on the recent work on jet mass measurements, with and without grooming, as a particular substructure of interest. I will discuss factorization, nonperturbative effects, and joint resummations of several classes of logarithmic corrections...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christoph Florian Redmer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)01/06/2018, 17:35The two-photon physics program of the BESIII Collaboration is mainly motivated by the large uncertainty of the contribution of hadronic light-by-light scattering (hLBL) to the Standard Model calculations of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $a_\mu$. Here, electromagnetic transition form factors (TFF) can serve as experimental input to improve the calculations. Data acquired with the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Shashank Shalgar (Los Alamos National Laboratory)01/06/2018, 17:50In dense astrophysical environments, the evolution of neutrino flavor is non-linear which can lead to many interesting phenomena. However, this non-linear evolution of neutrino flavor also called the "collective neutrino oscillations" is only beginning to be understood, especially in conjunction with collisions. I will discuss the effect of neutrino back-scattering in the interior of a...Go to contribution page
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Shanshan Cao (Wayne State University)01/06/2018, 17:50Heavy quarks serve as valuable probes of the QGP properties as well as the mass hierarchy of parton energy loss. In this talk, different model calculations of heavy quark energy loss inside the QGP are compared to each other within the same framework, from which we narrow down the systematical uncertainty of the extracted heavy quark transport coefficients from model to data comparison. In...Go to contribution page
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Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)01/06/2018, 17:50The first generation B-factories Belle and Babar, located at KEK and SLAC, respectively, took $e^+e^-$ annihilation data mostly near the $\Upsilon$(4S) resonance. Due to the size of the datasets, Belle sampled a record breaking 1 ab$^{-1}$, BaBar about half that, as well as the precision instrumentation and PID capabilities, these facilities have been an indispensable tool for the precision...Go to contribution page
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Dr Eugene Dumitrescu (ORNL)01/06/2018, 17:50In this talk, we report on the first nuclear physics computations performed on quantum computers. Addressing superconducting qubits provided by IBM and Rigetti via cloud servers, we calculate the binding energy of the deuteron to within a few percents. This is achieved by implementing the hybrid classical-quantum variational eigensolver algorithm with a low-depth version of the unitary...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nicole Vassh (University of Notre Dame)01/06/2018, 17:50The recent observations of the GW170817 electromagnetic counterpart suggest lanthanides were produced in this neutron star merger event. Lanthanide production in heavy element nucleosynthesis is subject to large uncertainties from nuclear physics and astrophysics unknowns. Specifically, the rare-earth abundance peak, a feature of enhanced lanthanide production at $A\sim164$ seen in the solar...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alessandro Pilloni (Jefferson Lab)01/06/2018, 18:00Last decade witnessed a proliferation of new exotic states, in particular in the heavy quark sector. A comprehensive picture of all these states remains an unsettled topic. We discuss our recent developments in amplitude analysis, in particular related to the identification of exotic states.Go to contribution page
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Dr Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)01/06/2018, 18:10I review recent progress in the determination of the collinear fragmentation functions (FFs). I focus on the role of new data, improved theory and increased methodological sophistication in recent global QCD fits of light charged hadron FFs. I outline issues that are still open, and I discuss possible ways to assess the interplay between FFs and parton distribution functions (PDFs) in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Lab)01/06/2018, 18:10Heavy flavor and quarkonium production are important hard probes to test Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and measure the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in high energy heavy ion collisions. Unlike LHC experiments, heavy flavor production at RHIC has its unique kinematic region and different production mechanisms. The PHENIX experiment has collected large data sets of 200/510...Go to contribution page
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Luke Johns (UC San Diego)01/06/2018, 18:10Observational constraints permit a cosmic lepton asymmetry that is orders of magnitude larger than its baryonic counterpart, a possibility of great relevance for leptogenesis, sterile neutrino dark matter, and the flavor evolution of Standard Model neutrinos. It is this last connection that we focus on here: the flavor states of neutrinos in the early universe are coupled to each other,...Go to contribution page
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Alfredo Estrade (Central Michigan University)01/06/2018, 18:10The measurement of elemental abundances in ultra-metal poor stars over the last decade, and the recent observation of a neutron-star merger event, are crucial steps towards solving one of the outstanding questions in nuclear astrophysics: the synthesis of the heaviest elements during the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). However, and in spite of steady progress in the experimental and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Ushasi Datta (Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics)01/06/2018, 18:10Understanding the limits of existence of nuclei is an open problem in fundamental science. Lack of understanding of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in nuclei with unusual neutron to proton ratio is one of the main reasons. Thus it is an urgent problem to find out the missing link of unified theory by studying single particle and bulk properties of the nuclei with large neutron proton...Go to contribution page
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Mr Dmytro Ptashynskyi (Odessa National Polytechnic University)01/06/2018, 18:30Problems of the Standard Model, associated with the introduction of non-gauge interactions and with the introduction of an electromagnetic field as a linear combination of fields on which various gauge groups are implemented, are analyzed. It is noticed that the existing model contains U(1) – phase uncertainty of the matrix elements of the raising and lowering generators of the SU(2) group....Go to contribution page
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Oliver Witzel (University of Colorado Boulder)01/06/2018, 18:30Beyond Standard Model theories describing the electro-weak sector must exhibit a large separation of scales (or "walking") to account for a light, 125 GeV Higgs boson and the fact that so far no other resonances have been observed. Large separation of scales arises naturally and in a tunable manner in mass-split models that are built on a conformal fixed point in the ultraviolet. Splitting the...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Dwyer01/06/2018, 18:30We report the demonstration of a micro-power sensor designed for three-dimensional ionization charge detection and digital readout of liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs). 3D readout is achieved using a custom-designed 32-channel system-on-a-chip ASIC (LArPix-v1), manufactured in 180 nm bulk CMOS, to uniquely instrument each pad in a charge-sensitive pad sensor array. Using a...Go to contribution page
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Mr Ryan Dunlop (University of Guelph)01/06/2018, 18:30Half-lives of $N=82$ nuclei below doubly-magic $^{132}$Sn are key input parameters for calculations of any astrophysical $r$-process scenario and play an important role in the formation and shape of the second $r$-process abundance peak. In the past, shell-model calculations of neutron-rich nuclei near the $N=82$ neutron shell closure that are not yet experimentally accessible have been...Go to contribution page
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Dr Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago / KICP)01/06/2018, 18:30Experiments such as the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) use in-ice antennas to detect the Askaryan radio emission produced by interactions of ultra-high-energy neutrinos in glacial ice. A prototype phased array trigger was recently deployed with an ARA station this austral summer (December 2017–January 2018). The phased array trigger forms beams from multiple antennas in real time to reduce the...Go to contribution page
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Matthew Szydagis (U Albany)01/06/2018, 18:30We have all heard of the cloud and bubble chambers of course, and the latter in the context of direct WIMP dark matter detection even. However, no one has explored a third phase transition, into solid, until now that is. This poster will introduce the snowball chamber, which utilizes a supercooled liquid, just purified water in the prototype. An incoming particle triggers nucleation in the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Nicholas Omahen (University of California, Santa Cruz)01/06/2018, 18:30Recent TeV observations of nearby pulsars with the HAWC telescope have been interpreted as evidence that diffusion of high-energy electrons and positrons within pulsar wind nebulae is highly inefficient compared to the rest of the interstellar medium. If the diffusion coefficient well outside the nebula is close to the value inferred for the region inside the nebula, high-energy electrons and...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jung-Tsung Li (UC San Diego)01/06/2018, 18:30We estimate the gravitational radiation signature of the $e^+e^-$ annihilation-driven neutrino burst accompanying the asymmetric collapse of an initially hydrostatic, radiation-dominated supermassive object suffering the Feynman-Chandrasekhar instability. An object with a mass $5\times10^4 \ \mathrm{M_{sun}} < M < 5\times10^5 \ \mathrm{M_{sun}}$, with primordial metallicity, is an optimal case...Go to contribution page
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Andrew Ludwig (University of Chicago)01/06/2018, 18:30The ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a NASA balloon-borne radio (180–1200 MHz) telescope sensitive both to impulsive Askaryan radio emission from ultra-high energy ($> 10^{18}$ eV) neutrino-initiated showers in the Antarctic ice sheet, as well as geomagnetically-induced radio emission from extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic rays or upward-going tau leptons that are...Go to contribution page
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Lindsay Forestell (TRIUMF, UBC)01/06/2018, 18:30WIMPs have not yet been seen via direct detection, indirect detection, or in collider searches. Perhaps now is a good time to consider alternate mechanisms for DM production. We investigate a new production mechanism for dark matter that consists of both a non-thermal freeze-in component as well as a hidden sector freeze-out.Go to contribution page
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Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla)01/06/2018, 18:30The underground mining in the Pyhäsalmi mine, Finland, is coming to an end in approximately 18 months after nearly 60 years of operation. The infrastructure of the mine is in excellent condition, including 1400-metre long vertical elevator shaft and 11-km long truck-size decline for transportation, large underground storage and service halls, offices, restaurant and modern communication...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sidney Cahn (Yale University)01/06/2018, 18:30Nuclear spin dependent parity violation (NSD-PV) effects in atoms and molecules arise from $Z^0$ boson exchange between electrons and the nucleus, and from the magnetic interaction between electrons and the parity-violating nuclear anapole moment. It has been proposed to study NSD- PV effects using an enhancement of the observable effect in diatomic molecules. Here, we demonstrate...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)01/06/2018, 18:30The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a feasibility demonstration of a crucial emittance-reduction technique for future muon colliders and neutrino factories. MICE has studied the effect of ionization energy loss in low-Z absorber materials on a muon beam. Muons were focussed on lithium hydride and liquid hydrogen absorbers using a large-aperture solenoid. Particle tracking and...Go to contribution page
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Nick Hutzler (Caltech)01/06/2018, 18:30The fact that the universe is made entirely out of matter, and contains no free anti-matter, has no physical explanation. While we cannot currently say what process created the matter in the universe, we know that it must violate a number of fundamental symmetries, including those that forbid the existence of certain electromagnetic moments of fundamental particles. We can search for...Go to contribution page
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Mr Xuan Sun (California Institute of Technology)01/06/2018, 18:30The neutron lifetime is currently measured by two different types of experiments: 'beam' and 'bottle'. These two measurement techniques have a $4\sigma$ discrepancy in measured lifetime. A recent paper proposes to resolve this issue by introducing a dark sector particle, $\chi$, that could offer an alternative decay channel for the neutron. This decay channel could resolve the discrepancy...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Edward Jimenez (Chemistry Engineering Faculty)01/06/2018, 18:30The X-ray femtoscope predictions: 1) Dark matter has resonances for the chemical elements Cr, Xe and Tm, which corresponds to the forces that gave the name to the WIMPs with adjustment of $R^2=0.996$. 2) Navier Stokes equations and solutions for the atomic nucleus are robust, since they naturally deliver the values of the following constants: neutron radius $r_n=0.843$ fm, measured for the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ran Huo (UC Riverside)01/06/2018, 18:30We study the cosmological signatures of Invisibly Annihilating Dark Matter (IAnDM) where DM annihilates into dark radiation particles that are decoupled from the Standard Model (SM). In a large class of dark sector models such invisible annihilation determines the relic abundance of DM via dark thermal freezeout. We demonstrate that IAnDM may reveal itself through observable, novel signatures...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Karl Tasso Knoepfle (MPI Kernphysik)02/06/2018, 08:00The definitive observation of neutrinoless double beta decay, (A, Z) $\to$ (A, Z+2) + 2$e^-$, would have two profound implications: it would establish that neutrinos are Majorana fermions and reveal that lepton number is not conserved. This relevance has caused a worldwide search for this process, using various isotopes and detector technologies. I will present in my talk a review of the...Go to contribution page
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Pedro Machado (Fermilab)02/06/2018, 08:35In this talk I will review the current status of neutrino oscillations. Emphasis will be given to the determination of neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violating phase. I will also quickly summarize the progress towards LBNE and the status of short baseline anomalies.Go to contribution page
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Dr Raul Monsalve (Colorado / McGill)02/06/2018, 09:10The period of the Universe known as Cosmic Dawn is marked by the formation of the first stars, before 100 million years after the Big Bang. These stars formed due to the gravitational collapse of primordial neutral hydrogen gas left over after the release of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The ultraviolet radiation that these stars emitted penetrated the atoms of the surrounding neutral...Go to contribution page
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David Gaskell (Jefferson Lab)02/06/2018, 10:10More than 30 years ago, the European Muon Collaboration provided evidence that quark distributions are modified in nuclei as compared to the free nucleon. The EMC Effect has been a subject of investigation, both experimentally and theoretically, ever since. To date, there is no universally accepted explanation of the EMC Effect, but recent results have given some exciting clues as to its...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Alexandra Gade (NSCL/MSU)02/06/2018, 10:45The nuclear shell model pictures deeply bound nucleons as being in fully occupied states. At and above the Fermi surface, configuration mixing then leads to occupancies that gradually decrease to zero. This picture is modified in an important way by several correlation effects that are absent from, or are described only approximately by, effective-interaction theories, such as the shell model....Go to contribution page
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Dr Yong Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)02/06/2018, 11:20In high-energy scattering, the physics of hadrons can be described by various light-cone correlation functions, which include parton distributions, generalized parton distributions, distribution amplitudes, as well as the so-called light-cone wave functions. Because of their explicit time-dependence, these quantities cannot be calculated directly from QCD using Monte Carlo simulations. For...Go to contribution page
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Dr Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC, Department of Physics)02/06/2018, 11:55The nucleon is a complex composite object. Its structure, the dynamics of its constituents and its mass presently cannot be calculated from Quantum Chromo Dynamics without simplifying model assumptions. Momentum- and spin-dependent distributions of quarks and gluons have been determined with increasing precision through 50 years of deep inelastic lepton-proton scattering experiments and the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jocelyn Read (CSU Fullerton)02/06/2018, 14:00Neutron stars host the densest stable matter in the universe. Accurately modeling their multi-messenger astrophysics relies on a detailed description of the equation of state above nuclear density. Astronomical observations, including binary pulsar dynamics, x-ray bursts and timing, and gravitational-wave observations, can in turn be used to constrain the properties of this dense matter. On...Go to contribution page
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Dr Kenta Hotokezaka (Princeton University)02/06/2018, 14:35A neutron star merger, GW170817, was discovered by Advanced LIGO. The gravitational wave signal is followed by electromagnetic counterparts in multi-wavelength including GRB 170817A, kilonova, and non-thermal synchrotron afterglow. These emissions are produced by outflows launched in the merger. I will talk about the properties of different components of merger outflows and implications of...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Kasen (UC Berkeley/LBNL)02/06/2018, 15:10The recent detection of gravitational waves and associated electromagnetic emission from a binary neutron star merger has illuminated the physics of strong gravity and dense matter, and addressed long standing questions as to the origin of the heaviest elements in the universe. I will review our physical understanding of compact object mergers — grounded in theoretical calculations and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Maxime DEFURNE (CEA-Saclay)02/06/2018, 16:10The generalized parton distributions (GPDs) describe the correlations between the transverse position and the longitudinal momentum of a parton inside the nucleon. They represent the next step toward a complete description of the nucleon in terms of quarks and gluons. They are accessible through deep exclusive processes among which we find the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) and the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Olmo Cerri (Caltech)02/06/2018, 16:10As part of the Phase II upgrade program, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector will incorporate a new timing layer designed to measure minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) with a time resolution of $\sim$30 ps. Precision timing will mitigate the impact of the challenging levels of pileup expected at the High Luminosity LHC. The time information assigned to each track will enable the use of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Matthias Schindler (University of South Carolina)02/06/2018, 16:10Parity-violating quark-quark interactions are well understood within the Standard Model, but their manifestation at the hadronic level is complicated by nonperturbative QCD effects. While different parameterizations of parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions exist, very little is known about the corresponding couplings. The application of the large-$N_c$ expansion to parity-violating...Go to contribution page
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Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)02/06/2018, 16:10The crucial properties of the QCD vacuum — confinement and chiral symmetry breaking — undergo qualitative changes at sufficiently high temperatures and/or baryon densities. Determining where on the phase diagram and how the transitions between QCD phases are accomplished is the major goal of heavy-ion collision experiments, as well as of theoretical efforts including first-principle lattice...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Gerald Miller (University of Washington)02/06/2018, 16:10A new scalar boson which couples to the muon and proton can simultaneously solve the proton radius puzzle and the muon anomalous magnetic moment discrepancy. Using a variety of measurements, we constrain the mass of this scalar and its couplings to the electron, muon, neutron, and proton. Making no assumptions about the underlying model, these constraints and the requirement that it solve both...Go to contribution page
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Peilian Liu (UC Berkeley)02/06/2018, 16:35The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been successfully delivering proton-proton collision data at the unprecedented center of mass energy of 13 TeV. An upgrade is planned to increase the instantaneous luminosity delivered by the LHC in what is called the HL-LHC, aiming to deliver a total of up to 3,000 fb$^{-1}$ to 4,000 fb$^{-1}$ of data per experiment. To cope with the expected data-taking...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC)02/06/2018, 16:40The proton is a complex composite object. Its structure, the dynamics of its constituents and its mass presently cannot be calculated from Quantum Chromo Dynamics without simplifying model assumptions. Momentum- and spin-dependent distributions of the constituent partons, quarks and gluons, have been determined from the QCD analysis of data sets taken in deep inelastic lepton-proton scattering...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)02/06/2018, 16:40Parity violation (PV), first observed in semileptonic decays, has been determined precisely for quarks and leptons as part of the Standard Model. At the hadronic level, it offers a unique probe of nucleon structure and the underlying low-energy behavior of non-perturbative QCD. The hadronic weak interaction is characterized in terms of five spin and isospin dependent S-P transition...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alexei Bazavov (Michigan State University)02/06/2018, 16:40The physics of the transition from the hadronic to quark-gluon plasma phase is non-perturbative and lattice QCD provides a framework for $\textit{ab initio}$ calculations in this regime of QCD. It is expected that the QCD phase diagram in the temperature-baryon chemical potential plane contains a line of first-order phase transitions that ends at a critical point. $\textit{Ab initio}$...Go to contribution page
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Mr Lothar Maisenbacher (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)02/06/2018, 16:40Precision measurements of atomic hydrogen (H) have long been successfully used to extract fundamental constants and to test bound-state quantum electrodynamics. Both the Rydberg constant $R_\infty$ and the proton root mean square charge radius $r_\mathrm{p}$ can be determined by H spectroscopy, requiring the measurement of at least two transition frequencies. With the very precisely measured...Go to contribution page
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Irene Dutta (Caltech)02/06/2018, 17:00The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). A new timing layer is designed to measure minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) with a time resolution of $\sim$30 ps and hermetic coverage up to a pseudo-rapidity of $|\eta|=3$. This MIP...Go to contribution page
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Weizhi Xiong (Duke University)02/06/2018, 17:10In order to investigate the proton radius puzzle, the PRad experiment (E12-11-106) [1] was performed in 2016 in Hall B at Jefferson Lab, with both 1.1 and 2.2 GeV unpolarized electron beams. The experiment aims to measure the $e$-$p$ elastic scattering cross section at unprecedented low values of the momentum transfer squared region ($Q^2 = 2\times10^{-4} - 0.06$ (GeV/c)$^2$), with a...Go to contribution page
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Dr Adam Freese (Argonne National Laboratory)02/06/2018, 17:10Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the deuteron have been calculated. The results of these calculations and the formalism used will be presented. General properties of spin-1 GPDs, including polynomiality sum rules, will be discussed. It will be shown that these expected properties are observed in a convolution formalism if nuclear structure is calculated in a Lorentz-covariant manner....Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)02/06/2018, 17:10It has long been appreciated that low-energy weak parity non-conserving interactions between nucleons are governed by five S-P amplitudes, as originally described by Danilov. The formalism can also be recast in pionless effective field theory, where the low-energy constants (LECs) are the coefficients of the Danilov amplitudes. Lacking five high-quality independent constraints on these LECs,...Go to contribution page
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Roli Esha (UCLA)02/06/2018, 17:10Fluctuations and correlations of conserved quantities (baryon number, strangeness, and charge) can be used to probe phases of strongly interacting QCD matter and the possible existence of a critical point in the phase diagram. The cumulants of the multiplicity distributions related to these conserved quantities are expected to be sensitive to possible increased fluctuations near a critical...Go to contribution page
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Mr Benoit Lefebvre (McGill University)02/06/2018, 17:25The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five with respect to the design value. To maintain excellent detection and background rejection capability in the forward region of the ATLAS detector, part of the muon detection system will be upgraded during the LHC long shutdown period of 2019–2020, with the complete replacement of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)02/06/2018, 17:30The mean charge radius of the proton has been measured with elastic electron scattering and through spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen with consistent results. Recent results based on spectroscopic measurements of muonic hydrogen, however, have found a notably smaller charge radius with extremely high precision. This difference, known as the Proton Radius Puzzle, raises interesting issues...Go to contribution page
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Andre Walker-Loud02/06/2018, 17:30The parity violating neutral current is the least well understood of all currents in the Standard Model. At low energies, these weak interactions manifest as short distance, 4-fermion operators. Unlike their flavor-changing charged counterparts, which are easy to detect experimentally, the neutral current interactions exist in the background of the strong interactions with a typical strength...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Che-Ming Ko (Texas A&M University)02/06/2018, 17:30Since the pioneering study by Matsui and Satz on $J/\psi$ suppression by quark-gluon plasma formation in relativistic heavy ion collisions, there have been a large number of theoretical and experimental studies on this topic. These studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the properties of $J/psi$, its excited states, and other quarkonium states consisting of bottom quarks at...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Fatiha Benmokhtar (Duquesne University)02/06/2018, 17:40It is well known that protons and neutrons are made from constituents, called quarks and gluons, which give substructure to these particles. The goal of this project is to make measurements of the spatial distributions and the momenta of the quarks that provide a three-dimensional map of quarks in the nuclear medium. This knowledge provides the basis of our understanding of nuclear matter in...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)02/06/2018, 17:50With the continuing discrepancy in experimental measurements of the proton radius, $\textit{ab initio}$ determination of this quantity from QCD is urgently needed. At present, QCD calculations on a lattice are performed with physical values of light and strange quarks and adequate lattice volumes to permit credible control of systematic errors. One particular obstacle to computing the nucleon...Go to contribution page
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Dr Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo (SLAC)02/06/2018, 17:50After an introduction to machine learning from the perspective of a theoretical physicist, I will describe a new method to perform a model independent search for new phenomena, with an emphasis on the LHC. I will discuss a systematic way to address the look-elsewhere effect and other issues that led similar attempts to fail in the past.Go to contribution page
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Dr Sidney Cahn (Yale University)02/06/2018, 17:50Purely hadronic weak interactions inside a nucleus produce a toroidal current distribution around the axis of nuclear spin. This distribution, known as the nuclear anapole moment, produces a local magnetic field that couples to the spin of a penetrating electron. This in turn gives rise to a nuclear spin-dependent parity-violating (NSD-PV) electron-nucleus interaction. We study NSD-PV effects...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ron Soltz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)02/06/2018, 17:50sPHENIX is a large-acceptance, high-rate jet and $\Upsilon$ detector designed to study the structure of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. It consists of full calorimeter over the full azimuth for $|\eta|<1.1$ with tracking and precision vertexing. These components will provide full jet reconstruction, heavy-flavor jet tagging, and $\Upsilon$ spectroscopy. We will...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ran Huo (UC Riverside)02/06/2018, 18:10We apply the covariant derivative expansion method to integrate out the neutralinos and charginos in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. The results are presented as set of pure bosonic dimension-six operators in the Standard Model effective field theory. In global fitting to the proposed leptonic collider constraint projections, special phenomenological emphasis is paid to the gaugino...Go to contribution page
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Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)02/06/2018, 18:10Semi-inclusive deep inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) has been a very successful tool to investigate the partonic structure of the nucleon over the last decade. Compared to inclusive DIS, information about the quantum numbers of the struck quark can be inferred from the identity, distribution and polarization of the final state hadrons. Up to now, virtually all knowledge about the quark-gluon...Go to contribution page
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Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)02/06/2018, 18:10We present a new method for calculating the nucleon electromagnetic form factors (EM FFs) combining Chiral Effective Field Theory (ChEFT) and dispersion analysis [1]. The FFs are expressed as dispersive integrals over the two-pion cut at timelike $t > 4 M_\pi^2$. The spectral functions are computed using elastic unitarity, chiral pion-nucleon amplitudes (LO, NLO, partial N2LO), and timelike...Go to contribution page
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Nick Hutzler (Caltech)02/06/2018, 18:10The fact that the universe is made entirely out of matter, and contains no free anti-matter, has no physical explanation. While we cannot currently say what process created the matter in the universe, we know that it must violate a number of fundamental symmetries, including those that forbid the existence of certain electromagnetic moments of fundamental particles. We can search for...Go to contribution page
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David Tlusty (Rice University)02/06/2018, 18:10The exploration of the QCD phase diagram has been one of the main drivers of contemporary nuclear physics. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL is uniquely suited for this task through its Beam Energy Scan (BES) program which allowed for a large range in baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ as was successfully demonstrated after the completion of Phase 1 in 2014. Phase 2 of the BES...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Barry C. Barish (Caltech)02/06/2018, 20:00Public Talk Sponsors: Physics Letters B, UC Berkeley, and UC RiversideGo to contribution page
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Prof. Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati), Verena Martinez Outschoorn (UMass Amherst)03/06/2018, 08:00Highlights of the Physics at High Energies parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)03/06/2018, 08:21Highlights of the Precision Physics at High Intensities parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)03/06/2018, 08:42Highlights of the Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Dr Barry Davids (TRIUMF)03/06/2018, 09:03Highlights of the Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Dr Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)03/06/2018, 09:24Highlights of the Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)03/06/2018, 10:10Highlights of the Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Dr Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)03/06/2018, 10:31Highlights of the QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Dr Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)03/06/2018, 10:52Highlights of the Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)03/06/2018, 11:13Highlights of the Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Prof. George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)03/06/2018, 11:34Highlights of the Dark Matter parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)03/06/2018, 11:55Highlights of the Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)03/06/2018, 12:16Highlights of the Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions parallel sessions at this conference.Go to contribution page
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Dr Brendan Casey (Fermilab)03/06/2018, 12:37Closing remarks, acknowledgements, and announcement of the co-chair for CIPANP 2021.Go to contribution page
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