Abstract: Although the Standard Model of particle physics, in conjunction with General Relativity, explains a wide range of physical phenomena, there are good reasons to believe that it does not represent a complete description of Nature. In this lecture, we will introduce the Standard Model and discuss some of its empirical and conceptual shortcomings.
Some of the ideas that have been...
The neutrino - the "Little Neutral One" in Italian - is the most abundant of the elementary particles of physics in our Universe, yet remains the most mysterious. Physicists have hunted for signals of this elusive particle in vast vats of water and cleaning fluids located in deep mines and under mountains, at powerful nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, and in the Antarctic ice. In...
Abstract: I give a meandering and historical introduction to our understanding of the modern theory of strong interactions, Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD), and how at high temperature it is formed in the collisions of heavy ions at ultrarelativistic energies, to form a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP).
The discovery of the Higgs boson opens a new and rich experimental program that includes using the Higgs the boson to search for new particles. In this talk, I will discuss searches for dark sector particles in the decays of the Higgs Boson.
Recording is available at https://bluejeans.com/s/klU_gKZkQhQ/
Abstract: Lattice-QCD predicts the occurrence of a phase transition above a critical temperature from ordinary nuclear matter to a new state of matter, usually referred to as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is also believed to have existed momentarily after the Big Bang. One primary goal of the heavy-ion physics is to create and study the properties of the QGP. The last couple of decades...
Abstract:Modern nuclear and particle physics experiments generate huge amounts of data that need to be calibrated, processed and analysed so that we can extract and publish physics results. In this talk I will describe the journey of data, from the bits that leave the detectors through its transformation into well-understood physics objects that are analysed by physicists all over the world....
Abstract: I will give an introduction into the exciting field of quantum computation and quantum simulation from the perspective of a nuclear theorists.
My goal is to convince you that this potentially is the very beginning of a new era, where theorists may be able to compute things that had been impossible before.
I will highlight the many connections between high energy and nuclear,...
Final session of the Physics Department Summer Lecture Series. Participants are invited to participate in Q&A and informal discussions with lecturers.
12:00-12:30: Nuclear and Particle physics experiments and experimental measurements: Higgs, dark matter, neutrinos, quark-gluon plasma, EIC
12:30-:1:00pm: Enabling technologies: detector and accelerator technologies and...
