Summiting The Unknown: New Physics, New Opportunities, New Voices

14 Jul 2022, 08:00 → 16 Jul 2022, 20:00 US/Pacific

University of Washington, Department of Physics (Seattle)

Masha Baryakhtar (University of Washington), Patrick Fox (Fermilab), Seyda Ipek (Carleton University), David B. Kaplan (University of Washington), Devin Walker (SLAC), Neal Weiner (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University)

Over three days, we will provide a forum to enable future advances in both theoretical and experimental particle physics in understanding what lies beyond the Standard Model. The meeting will focus on model building, the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, neutrinos, and cosmology/astroparticle physics.

This workshop is dedicated to Ann Nelson, who was a pioneer in many areas of theoretical particle physics and who steered the particle physics community in novel directions throughout her career.

 

We thank The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the American Physical Society for their support through the Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards. We also thank the University of Washington and the Institute of Nuclear Theory for their support and hospitality.  

Thursday, 14 July

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Laurence Yaffe (University of Washington)

09:30 → 10:00 Causal modifications to QM, plus other insanity

David E Kaplan

Speaker: David E. Kaplan

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 11:00 Thermal squeezeout for heavy dark matter

Tracy Slatyer

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer

slatyer.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 An axion dark matter-induced echo of supernova remnants.

Speaker: Katelin Schultz

schultz.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Low Energy Searches for New Physics

Speaker: Danielle Speller

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Neutrino Oscillation Physics: Current Landscape and Future Prospects

Speaker: Brooke Russell

russell.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Lightning talks: Lightning Talks (I)

14:30 Long-Lived Exotic Objects from Nearly-Free Theories

Speaker: David Cyncynates

14:42 Constraining Anomaly-Free Flavor Universal Vector U(1)'s

Speaker: Haidar Esseili

14:54 Recurrent Axinovae

Speaker: Huangyu Xiao

15:06 Scouring the Milky Way for Time Dependent Gravitational Lensing from Dark Objects

Speaker: Marius Kongsore

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:30 Clustering Stellar Structures and Connections to Dark Matter

Speaker: Lina Necib

Necib.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Dark matter direct detection from 1 to ∞ phonons

Speaker: Tongyan Lin

lin.pdf

Friday, 15 July

09:00 → 09:30 Observational signatures of quantum gravity

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek

zurek.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Unlocking New Physics out of Astrophysical Data Sets

Speaker: Cora Dvorkin

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 11:00 Gravitational Instabilities of Spacetime

Speaker: Isabel Garcia Garcia

11:00 → 11:30 B-Mesogenesis: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons

Speaker: Gilly Elor

11:30 → 12:00 ALPs from light meson decays

Speaker: Stefania Gori

gori.pdf

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Direct neutrino mass measurements

Speaker: Elise Novitski

novitski.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 Lightning talks: Lightning Talks (II)

14:30 Challenges for portal matter fermions and implications for Higgs decays

Speaker: Navin McGinnis

14:44 Constraining Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Quadratic Couplings from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Tom Boulay

14:54 Cosmological Detection of Massless Dark Photons

Speaker: Xucheng Gan

15:06 Dark Freeze-out Cogenesis

Speaker: Michael Shamma

15:18 Beyond the Standard Model Interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter detectors

Speaker: Tom Schwemberger

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 The Universe as a Lab for New Particles and Interactions

Speaker: Marilena Loverde

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 16 July

09:00 → 09:30 Pseudoscalars, Neutron Stars, and other Dark Matters

Speaker: David McKeen

09:30 → 10:00 Compact Objects as a Universal Probe of Bosonic Dark Matter

Speaker: Devin Walker

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 11:00 Nuclear matrix elements for BSM physics from lattice QCD

Speaker: Phila Shanahan

shanahan.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Ann Nelson, Pathfinder

Speaker: Michael Peskin

Peskin.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch