Conveners
Session 3
- Leonidas Aliaga Soplin (College of William and Mary)
Gabriel Lee
(University of Chicago)
11/06/2013, 09:00
The parity and time-reversal invariant effective Lagrangian
for a heavy fermion interacting with an Abelian gauge field, i.e.,
NRQED, is constructed through order $1/M^4$. The implementation of
Lorentz invariance in the effective theory becomes nontrivial at this order,
and a complete solution for Wilson coefficient constraints is obtained. Matching
conditions in the one-fermion...
Mr
Jonathan Richardson
(University of Chicago)
11/06/2013, 09:18
The standard model of particle physics has been remarkably successful in accounting for every experimental result to date, with the exception of the acceleration of the universe. However, this theory becomes inconsistent at intervals shorter than the Planck scale, where quantum mechanics and general relativity collide, unless the geometry of space-time itself also acquires some quantum...
Matthew Wiesner
(Northern Illinois University)
11/06/2013, 09:36
In order to study a sample of galaxy clusters exhibiting strong gravitational lensing, we took images of ten galaxy clusters at Kitt Peak National Observatory. In our analysis, we extrapolated the total number of galaxies in the outer regions of the clusters because some sections of the clusters were outside of our original images. In early 2012, we took new observations of some of these...
Mr
Ritoban Basu Thakur
(Fermilab/ UIUC)
11/06/2013, 10:12
I will discuss the new Silicon results from the CDMS experiment. I will primarily talk about the observed events and their statistical significance as light WIMP candidates. In the paradigm of light WIMPs we will see how the SuperCDMS experiment intends to search for light WIMP dark matter using the CDMSlite experiment.