Probing the Lifetime Frontier with the ATLAS Inner Detector

Speaker: Jackson Burzynski Date: Monday, October 7, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: It is widely recognized that the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is not a complete description of the ...

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  Webb’s image of NGC 1300 shows a face-on barred spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which is circular and shows a bright white point at the center with a light yellow circle around it. The central core is tiny compared to the rest of the galaxy. The core ...

Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls Speaker: Isabel Garcia Garcia Date: Monday, June 3, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: I will discuss the effect of interactions between two-dimensional defects like bubble and domain walls and axion-like particles ...

Exploring the Dark Sector at LHC: Search for dark photons from Higgs boson decay with the ATLAS detector Speaker: Federica Piazza Date: Monday, May 20, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: The Dark Matter (DM) problem is one of the crucial open questions in physics ...

Quark Nuggets

Speaker: Yang Bai Date: Monday, May 13, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: A while ago, the concept of quark nuggets was proposed as the potential “ground state” of QCD, characterized by a mass per baryon number lighter than iron and ...

News from the SpinQuest and DarkQuest experiments

Speaker: Stefania Gori Date: Monday, May 6, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: Dark Matter (DM) remains a compelling enigma, offering substantial evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Arguably, ...

Measurement of the B0s→ µµ Effective Lifetime with the ATLAS Detector

Speaker: Ondra Kovanda Date: Friday, May 3, 2024 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: In the Standard Model (SM), the B0s→ µµ decay proceeds exclusively through the heavy eigenstate of the ...

The semiclassical description of CFT in the large charge regime

Speaker: Riccardo Rattazzi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 Time: 1:30 – 2:30 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract I will give an overview of the progress made in recent years in ...

Detectable Vector Dark Matter

Speaker: David Cyncynates (University of Washington) Date: Monday, April 22, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: Ultralight dark photons are compelling dark matter candidates, but their allowed kinetic mixing with the Standard Model ...

Searching for Dark Matter Axions with DMRadio

Speaker: Maria Simanovskaia (Stanford University) Date: Monday, April 15, 2024 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm Location: 472 Willamette Hall Abstract: The nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the modern era. The axion is a promising dark ...