The Callan Rubakov Effect
Speaker: T. Daniel Brennan (University of California, San Diego)
Date: Monday, January 22, 2024
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: The Callan Rubakov Effect describes the interaction between (massless) fermions and a smooth monopole in ...
Direct and indirect detection of dark matter with novel targets and why it pays to know a chemist
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Speaker: Carlos Blanco (Princeton)
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: As the WIMP draws under increasing tension ...
Emergent Symmetry from Entanglement Suppression
Speaker: Ian Low (Northwestern University)
Date: Monday, December 4, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: Symmetry is one of the most fundamental principles in nature, but where does it come from? I will discuss ...
Probing the internal dynamics of neutron stars with gravitational waves
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Speaker: Justin Ripley (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)
Date: Wednesday November 29, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract:
Neutron stars are the densest material ...
Geometric Frameworks for Effective Field Theories
Speaker: Alan Lee
Date: Monday November 27, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: Field-redefinition invariant properties of EFTs, such as scattering amplitudes, can be captured via geometric techniques. However, the ...
The DarkLight experiment and the hunt for a new boson
Speaker: Katherine Pachal
Date: Monday, November 20, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: The nature of dark matter and its relationship to the Standard Model is one of the highest priority open questions in ...
Dark Sector Glueballs at the LHC
Speaker: Austin Batz
Date: Monday, November 13, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: Confining dark sectors are motivated by naturalness of the Higgs boson mass and dark matter. In the limit where the dark sector quarks are heavy ...
Long-Range Correlations in Non-Equilibrium Quantum and Classical Fluids
Speaker: Dietrich Belitz
Date: Monday, November 6, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: Classical fluids in a non-equilibrium steady state characterized by a constant temperature gradient are ...
The Sound of Dark Matter
Speaker: Simon Knapen
Date: Monday, October 30, 2023
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: 472 Willamette Hall
Abstract: I will explain how we can search for light Dark Matter by detecting small amounts of phonons in specific crystals. To calculate the scattering rates, we ...
