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

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Laurence Yaffe (University of Washington)

2 Causal modifications to QM, plus other insanity

David E Kaplan

Speaker: David E. Kaplan

10:00 Coffee

3 Thermal squeezeout for heavy dark matter

Tracy Slatyer

Speaker: Tracy Slatyer

slatyer.pdf

4 An axion dark matter-induced echo of supernova remnants.

Speaker: Katelin Schultz

schultz.pdf

5 Low Energy Searches for New Physics

Speaker: Danielle Speller

12:00 Lunch

6 Neutrino Oscillation Physics: Current Landscape and Future Prospects

Speaker: Brooke Russell

russell.pdf

Lightning talks: Lightning Talks (I)

7 Long-Lived Exotic Objects from Nearly-Free Theories

Speaker: David Cyncynates

8 Constraining Anomaly-Free Flavor Universal Vector U(1)'s

Speaker: Haidar Esseili

9 Recurrent Axinovae

Speaker: Huangyu Xiao

10 Scouring the Milky Way for Time Dependent Gravitational Lensing from Dark Objects

Speaker: Marius Kongsore

15:30 Coffee

11 Clustering Stellar Structures and Connections to Dark Matter

Speaker: Lina Necib

Necib.pdf

12 Dark matter direct detection from 1 to ∞ phonons

Speaker: Tongyan Lin

lin.pdf

Friday, 15 July

13 Observational signatures of quantum gravity

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek

zurek.pdf

14 Unlocking New Physics out of Astrophysical Data Sets

Speaker: Cora Dvorkin

10:00 Coffee

15 Gravitational Instabilities of Spacetime

Speaker: Isabel Garcia Garcia

16 B-Mesogenesis: Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from B Mesons

Speaker: Gilly Elor

17 ALPs from light meson decays

Speaker: Stefania Gori

gori.pdf

12:00 Lunch

18 Direct neutrino mass measurements

Speaker: Elise Novitski

novitski.pdf

Lightning talks: Lightning Talks (II)

19 Challenges for portal matter fermions and implications for Higgs decays

Speaker: Navin McGinnis

20 Constraining Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Quadratic Couplings from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Tom Boulay

21 Cosmological Detection of Massless Dark Photons

Speaker: Xucheng Gan

22 Dark Freeze-out Cogenesis

Speaker: Michael Shamma

23 Beyond the Standard Model Interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter detectors

Speaker: Tom Schwemberger

15:30 Coffee break

24 The Universe as a Lab for New Particles and Interactions

Speaker: Marilena Loverde

Dinner

Saturday, 16 July

25 Pseudoscalars, Neutron Stars, and other Dark Matters

Speaker: David McKeen

26 Compact Objects as a Universal Probe of Bosonic Dark Matter

Speaker: Devin Walker

10:00 Coffee

27 Nuclear matrix elements for BSM physics from lattice QCD

Speaker: Phila Shanahan

shanahan.pdf

28 Ann Nelson, Pathfinder

Speaker: Michael Peskin

Peskin.pdf

11:30 Lunch