Brookhaven Forum 2025: Launching the Second Century of Quantum Physics

US/Eastern
Description

The quest for new physics continues. As high energy physics and cosmology presses forward on multiple fronts, the BF2025 program will explore new cutting edge directions in experimental searches, theoretical calculations, and phenomenological efforts. 

If you would like to present a contributed talk (15+5 minutes), you'll have a chance to provide a title or topic in the registration form. Further event notifications will be sent once invited speakers are confirmed and contributed sessions are formulated. The final event agenda and URL will be sent to all registrants directly closer to the start of the event.

Event IDB000006849

Organizing Committee:
Peter Boyle (BNL)
Liza Brost (BNL)
Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)
Sally Dawson (BNL)
Peter Denton (BNL, co-chair)
Xin Qian (BNL)
Neelima Sehgal (SBU)
Anze Slosar (BNL)
Amarjit Soni (BNL)
Robert Szafron (BNL, co-chair)
Michel Hernandez Villanueva (BNL)

https://www.bnl.gov/brookhavenforum/

    • 09:00 12:20
      Plenary Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      • 09:00
        Welcome 10m
        Speakers: Peter Denton, Robert Szafron (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 09:10
        Physics Opportunities at Future Colliders 40m
        Speaker: Karri DiPetrillo (University of Chicago)
      • 09:50
        Searching for New Physics at the Electron-Ion Collider 40m
        Speaker: Brian Batell (Chicago)
      • 10:30
        Coffee beak 30m
      • 11:00
        Particle Physics Meets Quantum Information 40m
        Speaker: Ian Low (Argonne/Northwestern)
      • 11:40
        Recent BSM Results from ATLAS and CMS (remote) 40m

        The Standard Model of particle physics successfully describes many known interactions, but is known to be incomplete. In this talk, recent results of searches for beyond-the-Standard-Model signatures are reported. These use up to 140 fb-1 of pp collisions collected by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at sqrt(s)=13 TeV and up to 51.8 fb-1 collected at sqrt(s)=13.6 TeV. Searches for compressed electroweak supersymmetry, displaced jets, and new scalar resonances will be highlighted.

        Link

        Speaker: Michael Hank (member@upenn.edu;faculty@upenn.edu;employee@upenn.edu)
    • 12:20 14:00
      Lunch Break (on your own) 1h 40m
    • 14:00 15:30
      Parallel Talks: LHC Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Convener: Elizabeth Brost (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 14:00
        Underpinnings of CP Violation at the High-energy Frontier 18m
        Speaker: Shaouly Bar-Shalom (Technion)
      • 14:18
        Learning from Higgs Decays at NLO in SMEFT 18m
        Speaker: Clara Lavinia Del Pio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 14:36
        Higgs Coupling Measurements with Polarized Diboson Processes 18m
        Speaker: Spencer Ellis (Brown University)
      • 14:54
        The Signals of the Doomsday 18m
        Speaker: Amartya Sengupta (SUNY Buffalo)
      • 15:12
        High-Energy Colliders as Tests of the Born Rule 18m
        Speaker: Mira Varma (Yale)
    • 14:00 15:30
      Parallel Talks: Neutrinos Small Seminar Room

      Small Seminar Room

      Convener: Jay Hyun Jo (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 14:00
        Lepton Number Violating Neutrino Self-Interactions in Supernovae 18m
        Speaker: Anna Suliga (University of California, Berkeley)
      • 14:18
        Neutrino Magnetic Moment, Charge Radius and Polarizability from MeV to GeV Neutrino Interactions 18m
        Speaker: Sam Carey (Wayne State University)
      • 14:54
        Status of the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab 18m
        Speaker: Lynn Tung (lynnt@fnal.gov)
      • 15:12
        Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with the Short-Baseline Near Detector 18m
        Speaker: Vu Chi Lan Nguyen (UCSB)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:00 17:30
      Lab-Wide Open Lecture Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      • 16:00
        Centennial Celebration: Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, and More 1h
        Speaker: Tao Han (UPittsburgh)
    • 09:00 12:10
      Plenary Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Convener: Prof. Peter Boyle (BNL)
      • 09:00
        Novel Directions in Dark Matter Direct Detection 40m
        Speaker: Carlos Blanco
      • 09:40
        Theory Status of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment in the Fall of 2025 40m
        Speaker: Thomas Blum (University of Connecticut)
      • 10:20
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 10:50
        Origin of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays in Binary Neutron Star Mergers, and the Fascinating Physics it Entails (remote) 40m

        I will briefly review the observations of UHECRs, emphasizing what is robust and what remains uncertain and explain why a key piece of data strongly suggests that UHECRs are produced in BNS mergers. Then, I will discuss the likely acceleration mechanism and locus and explain how the spectral cutoff is determined; the no-free-parameter prediction of the cutoff energy for different nuclei agrees well with observations. Unique predictions which can be confirmed within a decade or so, are that neutrinos above a PeV are preceded by a co-directional gravitational wave arriving about a day earlier, and that the highest energy cosmic rays originated from r-process nuclei and are heavier than iron.

        Link

        Speaker: Glennys Farrar
      • 11:30
        Recent advances in Higgs physics and the Standard Model from ATLAS and CMS 40m
        Speaker: Cristina Ana Mantilla Suarez (FNAL)
    • 12:10 13:40
      Lunch Break (on your own) 1h 30m
    • 13:40 15:30
      Parallel Talks: LHC and Lattice Small Seminar Room

      Small Seminar Room

      Convener: Clara Lavinia Del Pio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 13:40 15:30
      Parallel Talks: Lattice and DM Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Convener: Hongkai Liu
      • 13:40
        Lattice calculation of K -> ππ decay 18m
        Speaker: Masaaki Tomii (Columbia University)
      • 13:58
        Light Dark Matter Search with NV Centers: Electron Spin, Nuclear Spin, and Comagnetometry 18m
        Speaker: So Chigusa (MIT)
      • 14:16
        Spin-Dependent Scattering of Sub-GeV Dark Matter: Models and Constraints 18m
        Speaker: Pankaj Munbodh (UCSC)
      • 14:34
        Dark plasmas in the nonlinear regime: constraints from particle-in-cell simulations 18m
        Speaker: Pierce Giffin (UCSC)
      • 14:52
        Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter: Cosmological Consequences and Observations 18m
        Speaker: M. Grant Roberts (UCSC)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break: Conference photo 30m
    • 16:00 17:00
      Special Physics Colloquium Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      • 16:00
        Wave Dark Matter 1h

        We will discuss the possibility that dark matter is composed of particles lighter than about 10 eV, the prime example being an axion or axion-like-particle. In this case, the dark matter galaxy halo is best thought of as a set of waves. The astrophysical consequences, and the experimental implications for axion detection, will be discussed.

        Speaker: Lam Hui
    • 18:30 21:30
      Banquet Dinner 3h

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    • 09:00 12:10
      Plenary Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room

      Convener: Hooman Davoudiasl (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
      • 09:00
        The Strong Force Could Have Heated the Universe’s First Moment 40m
        Speaker: Kim Berghaus
      • 09:40
        Open questions in Neutrino Physics and How (Not) to Answer Them 40m
        Speaker: Bhupal Dev (University of Maryland, College Park)
      • 10:20
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 10:50
        Physics of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (remote) 40m
        Speaker: Karsten Heeger (Yale University)
      • 11:30
        Short Baseline Neutrino Experiments: What We've learned and Where We're Going 40m
        Speaker: Mark Ross Lonergan
    • 12:10 12:25
      Organizers: Closing Large Seminar Room

      Large Seminar Room