Latest Hadron Podcast Episodes
Beyond-the-Standard Model Higgs Results From ATLAS and CMS
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - April 22, 2013 07:00 - 1 hour - VideoStephen Sekula discusses the latest results on searches for new physics at ATLAS and CMS.
ATLAS Higgs 126 GeV Results
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - April 22, 2013 07:00 - 1 hour - VideoJonathan Hays describes the latest results from ATLAS on the Higgs.
CMS Higgs 126 GeV Results
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - April 22, 2013 07:00 - 1 hour - VideoAndrey Korytov gives the latest information on the Higgs data from CMS.
Gauging the Way to Minimal Flavor Violation
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - April 01, 2013 07:00 - 58 minutes - VideoGordan Krnjaic discusses how to search for models of gauged minimal flavor violation.
Flavor and CP Violating Higgs Decays
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - March 22, 2013 07:00 - 1 hour - VideoRoni Harnik describes how to search for new physics in Flavor and CP violating decays of the Higgs boson.
Goldstone Meets Higgs at the LHC
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - March 18, 2013 07:00 - 1 hour - VideoAfter the recent discovery at the LHC of a Higgs-like particle with mass around 125 GeV, it is mandatory to reassess the viability of the proposed solutions to the hierarchy problem of the electroweak scale. In this talk, Javi Serra focuses on compositeness as the fundamental idea, with the Higgs...
Effective Theory of a Light Dilaton
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - March 11, 2013 07:00 - 1 hour - VideoZackaria Chacko discusses light dilators and how one could mimic the Higgs boson.
The Once and Future Higgs
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - March 06, 2013 08:00 - 55 minutes - VideoNathaniel Craig discusses general search strategies for new physics in the Higgs sector.
Effective Theory in a Time Dependent World
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - March 04, 2013 08:00 - 47 minutes - VideoRichard Holman describes how to calculate processes in time-dependent effective theories.
Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - February 25, 2013 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoJoe Polchinksi argues that the following three statements cannot all be true: (i) Hawking radiation is in a pure state, (ii) the information carried by the radiation is emitted from the region near the horizon, with low energy effective field theory valid beyond some microscopic distance from the...
Hunting Asymmetric Stops
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - February 11, 2013 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoJessie Shelton describes how the LHC experiments can probe a model that explains the Tevatron anomaly in the forward-backward top asymmetry.
Time Dependence of Hawking Radiation Entropy
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - January 28, 2013 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoIf a black hole starts in a pure quantum state and evaporates completely by a unitary process, the von Neumann entropy of the Hawking radiation initially increases and then decreases back to zero when the black hole has disappeared. Here numerical results are given for an approximation to the tim...
Recent Developments in the Search for Dark Matter
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - January 25, 2013 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoThis lecture offers a careful look at dark matter searches, especially focusing on problems in the DAMA analysis of the annual modulation in the dark matter "signal."
Time Delay in Classical and Quantum Gravity
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - January 14, 2013 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoA class of diffeomorphism invariant, physical observables (so-called astrometric observables) is introduced. A particularly simple example, the time delay, which expresses the difference between two initially synchronized proper time clocks in relative inertial motion, is analyzed in detail. It i...
Higgs-like Dilatons in Particle Physics
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - January 07, 2013 08:00 - 34 minutes - VideoThis lecture discusses how the Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken scale symmetry can mimic the behavior of the Higgs boson.
Poincare Invariance and Charges in Shape Dynamics
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - December 10, 2012 08:00 - 45 minutes - VideoShape dynamics is a theory of gravity that is generically dynamically equivalent to general relativity and yet sheds refoliaiton invariance in favor of spatial Weyl invariance. The different invariance groups has caused some puzzlement regarding the theory. In this talk, we will show how shape dy...
Keeping Gd-Loaded Water Crystal Clear...Indefinitely!
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - December 04, 2012 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoLoading a water Cherenkov detector with a water soluble gadolinium compound makes possible the detection of thermal neutrons, dramatically improving such an enhanced detector's sensitivity to anti-neutrinos fluxes from both nuclear reactors and supernova explosions. But how can the Gd-loaded wate...
Solitons and the microscopic entropy of hairy black holes in three dimensions
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - December 03, 2012 08:00 - 54 minutes - VideoOne of the strongest evidences of the AdS/CFT correspondence is provided by three-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant, whose asymptotic symmetry group is the conformal one. As a further example, one can consider gravity coupled to self-interacting scalar field having a slow ...
How to Unlock the Hidden Photon Collider in the LHC
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 27, 2012 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoThe physics reach of the LHC can be extended by detecting events in which the beam protons interact via the gamma-gamma or gluon-gluon process and remain intact. Since there is no "underlying event" background from the breakup of the protons, which occurs in typical proton interactions, this cent...
Resurgence, transseries, and towards a continuum definition of QFT
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 26, 2012 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoResolving the problems with instantons and renormalons.
Searches for 0-nu-beta-beta Decay & WIMP Dark Matter
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 20, 2012 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoXenon is increasingly popular for both direct WIMP and 0-nu-beta-beta decay searches. Although the current trend has exploited the liquid phase, gas phase xenon offers some remarkable performance advantages for energy resolution, topology visualization, and discrimination between electron and nuc...
Mini-Split
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 19, 2012 08:00 - 57 minutes - VideoAn update on mini-split supersymmetry.
Metaphor for Dark Energy
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 16, 2012 08:00 - 2 hours - VideoThinking about dark energy using 3D gravity as a toy model.
Boosted Multijet Resonances and New Color-Flow Variables
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 13, 2012 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoWe use modern jet-substructure techniques to propose LHC searches for multijet-resonance signals without leptons or missing energy. We focus on three-jet resonances produced by R-parity-violating decays of boosted gluinos, showing that shape analyses searching for a mass peak can probe such gluin...
Searching for Supersymmetry with Final State Photons at ATLAS
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars 2013 - November 06, 2012 08:00 - 1 hour - VideoBruce Schumm describes the ATLAS search for SUSY using photons.
Searching for New Physics in Multilepton Events with the ATLAS Experiment
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars - October 30, 2012 07:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★ - 7 ratingsEvents with three or more prompt leptons are rare at hadron colliders. At the LHC, where high interaction energies and rates create extremely busy final states, such multilepton events are well suited as a probe for new physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Mike Hance describes some recent ana...
Higgs Identification
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars - October 29, 2012 07:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe July 4th announcement of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle at CERN LHC is only the beginning of a challenging program of "Higgs Identification" to establish the quantum numbers and couplings of the new particle, and to reveal its relationship, if any, to electroweak symmetry-breaking and...
Qjets: A Non-deterministic Approach to Tree-based Jet Substructure
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars - October 23, 2012 07:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★ - 7 ratingsJet substructure is typically studied using clustering algorithms, such as kT, which arrange the jets' constituents into trees. Instead of considering a single tree per jet, Tuhin Roy proposes that multiple trees should be considered, weighted by an appropriate metric. Then each jet in each even...
Goldstone Fermion Dark Matter
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars - October 22, 2012 07:00 - 50 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 7 ratingsNonlinear realizations describe the low-energy degrees of freedom of strongly coupled theories with spontaneously broken symmetry. When combined with SUSY, the Goldstone bosons of these theories are complex fields with "Goldstone fermion" super-partners. These, in turn, offer novel weakly intera...
Unwinding Inflation
UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars - October 16, 2012 07:00 - 59 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 7 ratingsGuido D'Amico describes a new model of inflation using branes unwrapping from extra dimensions.