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Unraveling the Particle World and the Cosmos at Berkeley—Workshop in Honor of Lawrence Hall and Hitoshi Murayama

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David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley

David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley

2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
Benjamin Safdi (University of California, Berkeley), Petr Horava (UC Berkeley), Raphael Busso (UC Berkeley), Simon Knapen, Yasunori Nomura, Zoltan Ligeti
Description

The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics at UC Berkeley and LBNL will host a workshop celebrating the distinguished careers of Professors Lawrence Hall and Hitoshi Murayama.

The event will kick off on Thursday morning and conclude before lunch on Saturday. It will be held at the David Brower Center (link is external)in Downtown Berkeley. A schedule for the event will be available soon. 

While talks are by invitation only, we will have a poster session for which we encourage contributions. See "submit abstract" button below or "poster session" tab on the left.

The registration fee covers our use of the conference center as well as breakfast and lunch on Thursday and Friday, and breakfast on Saturday.  

Photos from the event can be found here

https://photos.app.goo.gl/i3KpM2iRte8LciAe6

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Nima Arkani-Hamed
Raymond Co
Csaba Csaki
Andre de Gouvea
Savas Dimopoulos
Gilly Elor
Keisuke Harigaya
Roni Harnik
Yonit Hochberg
Takeo Moroi
Gilad Perez
Aaron Pierce
Joshua Ruderman
Katelin Schutz
Tracy Slatyer
Haruki Watanabe
Neal Weiner
Mark Wise
 
We thank UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab for sponsoring this event.

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  • Thursday, 26 September
    • 08:00
      Breakfast
    • 1
      Welcome
      Speaker: Steven Kahn
    • 2
      Welcome
      Speaker: Natalie Roe
    • 3
      Atomic effects relevant in the scattering of high energy leptons (e.g., neutrinos or muons) off atomic electrons

      I discuss the scattering of high energy leptons off atomic electrons. The focus of the talk is on how the cross section for this process differs from the scattering off free electrons. This involves, atomic binding corrections, Coulomb exchanges between the outgoing energetic struck electron with the remaining atomic debris and other effects. This is not beyond the standard model (BSM) physics, but the results may be relevant for experiments that constrain possible BSM physics.

      Speaker: Mark Wise
      Wise-Berkeley 2024.pdf
    • 4
      Baryogenesis with only the Standard Model CP violation

      Mesogenesis with a Morphing Mediator (3M) is a new proposal for baryogenesis and dark matter production in which, contrary to common lore, the Standard Model CP violation is sufficient to generate the entire primordial asymmetry of matter over antimatter. Furthermore, the dark sector dynamics of this mechanism produce gravitational waves that can be probed with current and future Pulsar Timing Arrays. 3M-baryogenesis is based on Mesogenesis mechanisms which leverage the CP violation in charged or neutral Standard Model meson systems. I will first give an overview of existing mechanisms of Mesogenesis (their respective signals and features), and discuss general ongoing and proposed search strategies (at colliders, neutrino detectors and more), before introducing the new 3M mechanism.

      Speaker: Gilly Elor
      GillyElor-Berkeley-Sept26.pdf
    • 10:30
      coffee break
    • remote session

      Opportunity for remote participants to give their best wishes to Hitoshi and Lawrence

      Conveners: Gian Giudice, Howard Georgi (Harvard University), John March-Russell, Riccardo Barbieri
    • 5
      Quantum Devices for Model Builders
      Speaker: Roni Harnik
      Hitoshi+Lawrence-Fest.pdf
    • 12:30
      lunch break
    • 6
      New Materials for Dark Matter Detection
      Speaker: Yonit Hochberg
      YH.pdf
    • 7
      Majorana versus Dirac, Beyond Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
      Speaker: Andre de Gouvea
      Hitoshi_Lawrence_Fest.pdf
    • 15:20
      coffee break
    • 8
      Nu Physics in the LCDM Desert
      Speaker: Neal Weiner
      LawrenceHitoshiFest.pdf
    • 9
      Dark matter detection using superconducting qubits

      Detection of wave-like dark matter using superconducting qubits is
      proposed. Due to their capacitive coupling with external electric
      fields, superconducting qubits are well-suited for detecting dark
      matter candidates such as hidden photons or axions, which induce
      effective electric fields. I will discuss the expected sensitivity in
      the search of these dark matter candidates using superconducting
      qubits as quantum sensors. I will also explore a possibility to
      enhance the signal rate with the help of the quantum coherence in
      qubits.

      Speaker: Takeo Moroi (U. Tokyo)
      dmqubitBerkeley24.pdf
    • 18:00
      Conference dinner Comal

      Comal

      2020 Shattuck Ave.

      At Comal

  • Friday, 27 September
    • 08:00
      breakfast
    • 10
      Exploring QCD-like dynamics with AMSB
      Speaker: Csaba Csaki
      Csaki.pdf
    • 11
      Will we see light dark matter?
      Speaker: Aaron Pierce
      Happy_Berkeley.key.pdf
    • 10:20
      coffee break
    • 12
      LOOKING FOR NEW PHYSICS IN THE MUD
      Speaker: Katelin Schutz
      Hitosh_fest.pdf
    • 13
      Spontaneous symmetry breaking and low-energy excitations in gapless frustration free systems.
      Speaker: Haruki Watanabe
      Watanabe_BerkeleySep272024.key
    • 12:10
      Lunch and poster session
    • 14
      TBA
      Speaker: Prof. Mike Witherell (LBNL)
    • 15
      TBA
      Speaker: Savas Dimopoulos
    • 16
      Going Beyond the Standard Model
      Speaker: Lisa Randall (remote)
      Randall.pptx
    • 15:30
      coffee break
    • 17
      Higgs and Z2 symmetry
      Speaker: Keisuke Harigaya
      Harigaya.pdf
    • 18
      TBA
      Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed (remote)
  • Saturday, 28 September
    • 08:00
      Breakfast
    • 19
      How to Unitarize the Sommerfeld Enhancement
      Speaker: Tracy Slatyer
      Slatyer.pdf
    • 20
      New era in dark matter searches the dawn of the nuclear clocks
      Speaker: Gilad Perez
      Gilad.pdf
    • 10:20
      coffee break
    • 21
      TBA
      Speaker: Joshua Ruderman
    • 22
      Impacts and Imprints of Axion Dynamics

      We discovered that the (QCD) axion’s novel evolution, an oscillation or a rotation in field space, can address cosmological mysteries of the Universe. Oscillations can give rise to a new origin of dark matter via parametric resonance. Rotation dynamics may naturally arise as a result of quantum gravity effects and cosmic inflation. This talk will explore the example where axion rotations contribute to axion dark matter through kinetic misalignment and can generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe via axiogenesis. Remarkably, rich phenomenology automatically arises with sharp, distinct, and correlated predictions, including stronger interactions, unique gravitational wave signals, correlated mass scales of supersymmetry and neutrinos, and dark matter gravitational lensing. Thus far, novel axion dynamics have added fuel to experimental efforts and paved new theory research avenues.

      Speaker: Raymond Co
      Impacts and Imprints of Axion Dynamics.pdf
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