Ken van Tilburg (Stanford) “Your Noise is My Signal”
The inherent noise in the intensity of light from astrophysical sources imprints correlations in photon arrival times, forming the very signal of intensity interferometry. Recent technological advances are reviving intensity interferometers as capable tools for high-precision astronomical measurements. I will propose a technique called the “expanding ejecta method” (EEM) to determine angular diameter distances to supernovae based purely on geometry, … Read More
Simon Knapen (LBNL) “Physics at a high energy plasma wakefield collider”
Abstract: I will show how physics studies today may impact the direction of the R&D program for particle colliders based on plasma wakefield acceleration.
Vivian Gao (UCSB) “Monopole phenomenology from the electroweak anomaly”
Abstract: Magnetic monopoles are well known to catalyze baryon number violating processes in grand unified theories through the Callan–Rubakov effect. More generally, however, monopoles participating in the electroweak anomaly can catalyze processes with ΔB=ΔL=3. In this talk, I will present a first phenomenological exploration of such monopole-induced processes in different physical settings. I will highlight the experimental signatures that arise … Read More
Joey Takach (UCB) “tba”
Pavlos Vranas (LLNL) “Hyper Stealth Dark Matter, a Composite Particle at a Few GeV, and Lattice Simulations on Exascale Supercomputers”
The Hyper Stealth Dark Matter model extends the Standard Model by a confining SU(ND) force to U(1) × SU(2) × SU(3) × SU(ND). The new sector equilibrates with the Standard Model only through electroweak interactions and without any mediator fields. The dark matter particle is the lightest SU(ND) baryon, is almost an electroweak singlet, and can have a surprising low … Read More