Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

Past Events

Date
Fri November 4th 2022, 3:00pm
Location:
PAB 102/103
Speaker
Philip Mansfield

There has been heated debate in the astronomical community about whether some ancient galaxies observed by JWST are far too large to have formed in our standard cosmology.

Date
Fri May 27th 2022, 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355 and Zoom
Speaker
Benjamin Safdi

The quantum chromodynamics axion is a well motivated new physics candidate that can explain the strong-CP problem related to the neutron electric dipole moment in addition to the dark matter (DM)…

Date
Fri May 20th 2022, 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355 and Zoom
Speaker
Annika Peter

Abstract: One of the strongest predictions of the standard cold dark matter paradigm is the hierarchy of structure down to Earth-mass scales.

Date
Fri May 6th 2022, 3:30pm
Location:
PAB 102/103 and Zoom
Speaker
Patrick Stengel

Any dark matter spikes surrounding black holes in our Galaxy are sites of significant dark matter annihilation, leading to a potentially detectable neutrino signal.

Date
Fri April 22nd 2022, 3:30pm
Location:
PAB 102/103 and Zoom
Speaker
Zach Bogorad

New millicharged particles—particles with weak electromagnetic interactions, either through an explicit photon coupling or through a kinetically-mixed hidden photon—are a well-motivated dark…

Date
Fri April 8th 2022, 3:30pm
Location:
PAB 102/103
Speaker
Rebecca Leane

Dark matter can be captured in stars and planets after scattering and losing sufficient energy to become gravitationally bound.