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(0,4) sigma models and K3

Sarah Harrison Stanford University
December 18, 2013

PIRSA:13120071
High Energy Physics
Integrability (and Near Integrability) in Matrix-valued Field Theories

Axel Cortes Cubero City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Physics
December 13, 2013

PIRSA:13120068
High Energy Physics
(0,2) Trialities

Abhijit Gadde Stony Brook University
December 10, 2013

PIRSA:13120062
High Energy Physics
No GUTs, All Glory: Charge Quantization and the Standard Model from Nonlinear Sigma Models

John Kehayias University of Tokyo
December 06, 2013

PIRSA:13120056
High Energy Physics
BBN and the Unnatural Weak Scale

David Pinner University of California, Berkeley
December 05, 2013

PIRSA:13120058
High Energy Physics
Using the Higgs as a Direct Probe of New Physics

Michael Park Rutgers University
December 05, 2013

PIRSA:13120050
High Energy Physics
Jets Without Jets

Daniele Bertolini Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
December 04, 2013

PIRSA:13120052
High Energy Physics
Fully exploring exotic production of the 125 GeV Higgs

Felix Yu Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
December 03, 2013

PIRSA:13120047
High Energy Physics
Cornering Gluinos at the LHC

Jared Evans Rutgers University
December 02, 2013

PIRSA:13120057
High Energy Physics
Insightful supersymmetry

Erich Poppitz University of Toronto
November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110061
High Energy Physics
Classical Space Times from S Matrices

Ira Rothstein Carnegie Mellon University
November 26, 2013

PIRSA:13110053
High Energy Physics
New Light Species and the CMB - Joint Cosmology/Particle Physics Seminar

Christopher Brust
November 19, 2013

PIRSA:13110051
High Energy Physics

(0,4) sigma models and K3

Sarah Harrison Stanford University
December 18, 2013

PIRSA:13120071
High Energy Physics
TBA
Integrability (and Near Integrability) in Matrix-valued Field Theories

Axel Cortes Cubero City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Physics
December 13, 2013

PIRSA:13120068
High Energy Physics
The principal chiral sigma model (PCSM) in 1+1 dimensions is asymptotically free and has as SU(N)-valued field with massive excitations. We have found all the exact form factors and two-point function of the Noether-current operators at large N using the integrable bootstrap program. At finite N, only the first non-trivial form factors are found, which give a good long distance approximation for the two-point function. We show how to use these new exact results to study non-integrable deformations. One example is the PCSM coupled to a Yang-Mills field. One can approximate the spectrum of the meson-like bound states using our form factors. We also examine an anisotropic version of (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, which can be interpreted as an array of coupled PCSM’s.
(0,2) Trialities

Abhijit Gadde Stony Brook University
December 10, 2013

PIRSA:13120062
High Energy Physics
Motivated by the connection between 4-manifolds and 2d N=(0,2) theories, we study the dynamics of a fairly large class of 2d N=(0,2) gauge theories. We see that physics of such theories is very rich, much as the physics of 4d N=1 theories. We discover a new type of duality that is very reminiscent of the 4d Seiberg duality. Surprisingly, the new 2d duality is an operation of order three. We study the low energy physics and use elliptic genus to detect dynamical supersymmetry breaking.
No GUTs, All Glory: Charge Quantization and the Standard Model from Nonlinear Sigma Models

John Kehayias University of Tokyo
December 06, 2013

PIRSA:13120056
High Energy Physics
I will present recent and ongoing work in collaboration with Tsutomu Yanagida and Simeon Hellerman (arXiv:1309.0692 and 1312.xxxx) on a new way to obtain charge quantization, without a GUT or monopole solution. In the CP^1 model, SU(2)_G/U(1)_H, consistency conditions for a charged field and its transformation properties over the entire group manifold lead to a charge quantization condition. By gauging the U(1)_H and identifying it with hypercharge, we find charge quantization in the SM without a monopole or GUT, purely from the structure and dynamics of the nonlinear sigma model. This is easily extended to CP^2 and general CP^k models. Phenomenologically, the CP^1 model has a fractionally charged stable Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB), which has intriguing applications to nuclear physics and dark matter. The CP^2 model has the Higgs as the NGB. With some additional minor assumptions, anomaly freedom then leads to the matter content of a generation in the SM.
BBN and the Unnatural Weak Scale

David Pinner University of California, Berkeley
December 05, 2013

PIRSA:13120058
High Energy Physics
The discovery of a perturbatively-coupled, 125 GeV Higgs, together with the absence of LHC signals for supersymmetry, places the principle of naturalness under tension. In this talk I will discuss the possibility that the weak scale is unnatural, with its value determined environmentally in the landscape. In particular, this environmental selection may be driven by BBN: as the weak scale is increased, the abundance of Hydrogen in the early universe is rapidly depleted. That our own universe contains an O(1) fraction of primordial Helium arises as a conspiracy among the weak scale, the neutron-proton mass difference, and the planck scale.
Using the Higgs as a Direct Probe of New Physics

Michael Park Rutgers University
December 05, 2013

PIRSA:13120050
High Energy Physics
The discovery of the Higgs boson marks the first direct probe into the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. All evidence currently points to the fact that electroweak symmetry is broken by at least one fundamental scalar, and naturalness remains the most compelling reason to expect additional degrees of freedom at the weak scale. This talk will describe some ideas for how to utilize powerful and proven experimental techniques, in conjunction with the fact that observables directly related to the Higgs boson are now experimentally accessible, to make concrete statements about the existence of possible new degrees of freedom at the weak scale.
Jets Without Jets

Daniele Bertolini Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
December 04, 2013

PIRSA:13120052
High Energy Physics
Jets are key tools for physics at the LHC. Usually, jets are identified through a jet algorithm. In this talk, I will present an alternative way of thinking about jets, by showing how a broad class of inclusive jet-based observables can be replaced by event shapes. These event shapes do not require any jet clustering, but they still implement a jet-like pT cut on "jets" with an R-like radius. I will discuss various applications, including event selection at trigger-level, event-wide trimming, and alternative definitions for boosted objects identifiers.
Fully exploring exotic production of the 125 GeV Higgs

Felix Yu Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
December 03, 2013

PIRSA:13120047
High Energy Physics
I consider the effects of exotic production modes of the 125 GeV Higgs and their impact on Higgs searches and the Higgs discovery. I emphasize that new production modes have been largely overlooked in contemporary tests of the Standard Model nature of the Higgs boson but experimental tests of exotic production modes are viable now or will be soon. I present a couple explicit examples of exotic production arising from chargino-neutralino associated production in the MSSM. As a corollary of this work, I point out that current Higgs coupling fits do not adequately explore the complete space of new physics deviations possible in Higgs measurements.
Cornering Gluinos at the LHC

Jared Evans Rutgers University
December 02, 2013

PIRSA:13120057
High Energy Physics
Gluinos are expected to be light for a natural electroweak scale, but the LHC has not seen them yet. Many possibilities have been proposed to hide natural gluinos in the LHC data, but are these methods really effective? In this talk, I will discuss the current status of kinematically accessible gluinos. By noting the most common features - MET, tops, and high multiplicity - which pervade natural gluino decays, I will argue that there are few places left to hide. I will briefly discuss the remaining weaknesses in LHC coverage and how to bolster them.
Insightful supersymmetry

Erich Poppitz University of Toronto
November 27, 2013

PIRSA:13110061
High Energy Physics
It has recently been realized that some studies of supersymmetric gauge theories, when properly interpreted, lead to insights whose importance transcends supersymmetry. I will illustrate the insightful nature of supersymmetry by two examples having to do with the microscopic description of the thermal deconfinement transition, in non-supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory and in QCD with adjoint fermions. A host of strange ``topological" molecules will be seen to be the major players in the confinement-deconfinement dynamics. Interesting connections between topology, ``condensed-matter" gases of electric and magnetic charges, and attempts to interpret the divergent perturbation series will emerge. Much of the presentation will be aimed at non-experts.
Classical Space Times from S Matrices

Ira Rothstein Carnegie Mellon University
November 26, 2013

PIRSA:13110053
High Energy Physics
Progress in calculating S matrix elements have shown that the malicious redundancies in non-linear gauge theories can be circumvented by utilizing unitarity methods in conjunction with BCFW recursion relations. When calculating in this fashion all of the interaction vertices beyond the three point function can be ignored. This simplification is especially useful in gravity which contains an infinite number of such non-linear interactions. It is natural to ask whether off-shell quantities, such as classical solutions, can also be generated using only the three point vertex. In this talk I will show that this is indeed the case by extracting classical solutions to GR from on-hell two to two scattering S-matrix elements. In so doing we will completely circumvent the action as well as the equations of motion. The only inputs will be Lorentz invariance, the existence of a massless spin-two particle and locality. Because of the double copy relation this implies there exists, a yet to be understood, connection between solutions to Yang-Mills theory and Gravity. I will also discuss how this technique can be used to simplify calculations of higher order post-Newtonian corrections to gravitational potentials relevant to the problem of binary inspirals.
New Light Species and the CMB - Joint Cosmology/Particle Physics Seminar

Christopher Brust
November 19, 2013

PIRSA:13110051
High Energy Physics
The effective number of neutrino species in our universe, Neff, is capable of probing the presence of new light or massless species in our universe. I will first review relevant facts about both CMB measurements of new light species and thermodynamics in the early universe. Then, I will present the effects of many models of BSM physics containing new light species on the CMB, including models containing eV-scale sterile neutrinos compatible with anomalies in neutrino experiments, and interpret the compatibility of the parameter space of these models in terms of the recent results from the Planck satellite. I will argue that the bounds on couplings obtained from the Planck measurement of the CMB are competitive with bounds coming from other areas of physics.

Title	Date	Collection	Type	Info
(0,4) sigma models and K3	2013‑12‑18	Quantum Fields and Strings	Scientific Series	View details
Integrability (and Near Integrability) in Matrix-valued Field Theories	2013‑12‑13	Quantum Fields and Strings	Scientific Series	View details
(0,2) Trialities	2013‑12‑10	Quantum Fields and Strings	Scientific Series	View details
No GUTs, All Glory: Charge Quantization and the Standard Model from Nonlinear Sigma Models	2013‑12‑06	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
BBN and the Unnatural Weak Scale	2013‑12‑05	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
Using the Higgs as a Direct Probe of New Physics	2013‑12‑05	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
Jets Without Jets	2013‑12‑04	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
Fully exploring exotic production of the 125 GeV Higgs	2013‑12‑03	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
Cornering Gluinos at the LHC	2013‑12‑02	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
Insightful supersymmetry	2013‑11‑27	Colloquium	Scientific Series	View details
Classical Space Times from S Matrices	2013‑11‑26	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details
New Light Species and the CMB - Joint Cosmology/Particle Physics Seminar	2013‑11‑19	Particle Physics	Scientific Series	View details

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(0,4) sigma models and K3

Integrability (and Near Integrability) in Matrix-valued Field Theories

(0,2) Trialities

No GUTs, All Glory: Charge Quantization and the Standard Model from Nonlinear Sigma Models

BBN and the Unnatural Weak Scale

Using the Higgs as a Direct Probe of New Physics

Jets Without Jets

Fully exploring exotic production of the 125 GeV Higgs

Cornering Gluinos at the LHC

Insightful supersymmetry

Classical Space Times from S Matrices

New Light Species and the CMB - Joint Cosmology/Particle Physics Seminar

(0,4) sigma models and K3

Integrability (and Near Integrability) in Matrix-valued Field Theories

(0,2) Trialities

No GUTs, All Glory: Charge Quantization and the Standard Model from Nonlinear Sigma Models

BBN and the Unnatural Weak Scale

Using the Higgs as a Direct Probe of New Physics

Jets Without Jets

Fully exploring exotic production of the 125 GeV Higgs

Cornering Gluinos at the LHC

Insightful supersymmetry

Classical Space Times from S Matrices

New Light Species and the CMB - Joint Cosmology/Particle Physics Seminar