Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – West
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Chris West (UA) Title: Exploring MeV to TeV Scales with Photons at the CMS Experiment Abstract: The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider can measure photons with energies ranging from hundreds of MeV to several TeV, enabling the exploration of a broad range of topics--from standard model physics to searches for new physics.
HEP Seminar – Spring 2019 – Arai
GL 338Prof. Dr. Arai is going to give a seminar talk about Vacua and walls of mass-deformed Kähler nonlinear sigma models.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Palmer
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Chris Palmer (Princeton University) Title: Observation of the Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks at CMS Abstract: The Higgs boson decay to a bottom quark-antiquark pair has been sought for decades by the high energy community (i.e. at LEP and Tevatron). LHC experiments built analyses based on the experience of Tevatron experiments' analysis techniques.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Gleyzer
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer Title: Opportunities for New Physics with Modern Deep Learning Methods for the CMS Experiment Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has achieved unprecedented levels of sensitivity to new particles at the TeV scale with on-going searches for new physics, including dark matter. This sensitivity trend is expected to continue during the next
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Narayan
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Gautham Narayan Title: From Tens to Tens of Thousands: Supernovae Science in the Big-Data Era Abstract: Despite observations of thousands of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we still do not have a clear understanding of the progenitor systems of these explosions. Our limited understanding of these events restricts our understanding of the nature of
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Visbal
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Eli Visbal Title: Revealing the First Billion Years of the Universe Abstract: How the first stars and galaxies formed is an exciting open question in astrophysics and cosmology. Answering this question will shed light on the earliest stages of galaxy evolution and test models of dark matter particle physics. In this talk, I shall
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Brinkerhoff
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Andrew Brinkerhoff Title: Higgs couplings: GREAT and small Abstract: Just 5 years after the Higgs boson was discovered, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN have precisely measured most of its properties. The observed Higgs lifetime, spin, and parity, and its interactions with weak bosons, bottom quarks, and tau leptons all agree with the
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Mohammadi
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Abdollah Mohammadi (Kansas State) Title: LHC and the quest of understanding the Universe Abstract: Almost a decade has passed since the first proton-proton beam collisions took place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson in 2012 represented a thrilling triumph for the particle physics community
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Barsukov
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesProf. Dr. Barsukov will give a colloquium talk about magnon condensation and exchange-mediated spin flows in magnetic heterostructures.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Spring 2019 – Duric
227 Gallalee Hall 514 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesSpeaker: Senka Duric Title: Electroweak and Higgs physics at the LHC: The present and the future Abstract: Contrary to all expectations, experiments at the LHC did not discover any fundamentally new particles other than the Higgs boson. However, a lot can be learned from precision measurements of Higgs boson properties and the production of vector