Forum: Cosmology – Topic: Discussion Session 5/4/16

Lucas Macri (Texas A&M University) will give a talk on the recent measurement of the Hubble constant based on the data from the Hubble Space Telescope, and the tension with the value obtained from measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 4/27/16

Chris’ slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 4/27/16

Chris Bouchard (College of William&Mary) will give an overview of lattice studies of B and B_s meson mixing.

Forum: Other – Topic: Discussion Session 4/20/16

Christophe’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Other – Topic: Discussion Session 4/20/16

Christophe Grojean (DESY) will give us an overview of the SHiP experiment (at SPS), which is designed to uncover hidden sectors by searching for very weakly interacting long lived particles.

Forum: Other – Topic: Discussion Session 3/2/2016

Ilias’ slides can be found here.

Forum: Other – Topic: Discussion Session 3/2/2016

Ilias Cholis (Johns Hopkins & FNAL) will tell us about the detection of gravitational waves by LIGO.

Title: Observing gravitational waves with LIGO

Abstact: Recently Advanced LIGO has detected an event of Binary Black Hole coalescence. I will discuss those generic recent results and LIGOs future capacities in detecting gravitational waves. I will also consider the possibility that the black-hole binary detected may have something to do with dark matter. There remains a window for masses ~10 $M_{\odot}$ and 100 $M_{\odot}$ where primordial black holes may constitute the dark matter. If two black holes in a galactic halo pass sufficiently close, they can radiate enough energy in gravitational waves to become gravitationally bound. The bound black holes will then rapidly spiral inward due to emission of gravitational radiation and ultimately merge. Within reasonable estimates, gravitational waves from primordial black holes span a range that overlaps the 2 − 53 Gpc^−3 yr^−1 rate estimated from the event observed at LIGO, thus raising the possibility that LIGO may have detected PBH dark matter.

Forum: LHC - photons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 2/10/16

Simon’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - photons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 2/10/16

Simon Knapen (UC Berkeley, LBNL) will give us an overview of the experimental details and the proposed theoretical models associated with the diphoton excess recently observed by ATLAS and CMS.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 1/27/16

You can download Simona’s slides here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 1/27/16

Simona Murgia (UC Irvine) will give a talk on the recent Fermi-LAT analysis of gamma ray emission from the Galactic Center.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 11/19/15

Ben’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 11/19/15

Ben Safdi (MIT) will tell us about the status of the gamma ray excess from the center of the Milky Way, in particular vis-a-vis the contribution of point sources.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 10/7/15

Jernej’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 10/7/15

Jernej Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana & CERN) will give us an overview of recent LHC results that may signal a possible violation of lepton universality.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 9/30/15

Zhen’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 9/30/15

Zhen Liu (Fermilab) will give us an overview on the results of the ATLAS and CMS searches in the boosted diboson final state.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 9/16/15

Jeremy’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Direct Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 9/16/15

Jeremy Mardon (Stanford) will give us an overview of looking for light dark matter via electron scattering in direct detection experiments.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 10/13/11

Jay’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 5/13/15

Jared’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 5/13/15

Jared Evans (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) will give a talk on the results of searches in the opposite-sign same-flavor dileptons plus missing energy (plus jets) final state in ATLAS and CMS.

Forum: Astroparticle Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 4/29/2015

Will’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Astroparticle Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 4/29/2015

William Dawson (UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Lab) will tell us about the analysis of merging clusters by Massey et al. and implications for dark matter self interactions.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 4/22/15

Peter’s slides can be found here.

Forum: LHC - leptons + X – Topic: Discussion Session 4/22/15

Peter Onyisi (ATLAS, University of Texas at Austin) will tell us about the status of searches in the t-tbar-Higgs channel.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 4/15/15

Wolfgang’s slides can be found here.

Forum: Flavor Physics – Topic: Discussion Session 4/15/15

Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute) will give a talk on the results of b -> s l+ l- analyses.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 4/8/15

Regina’s slides can be found here.

Forum: DM - Indirect Detection – Topic: Discussion Session 4/8/15

Regina Caputo (UC Santa Cruz) will tell us about the recent results of searches for Dark Matter Annihilation in dwarf spheroidals by the Fermi collaboration as well as by others, including results concerning Reticulum 2.