Friday Phenomenology Group Seminars

Past Events

Date
Fri December 10th 2021, 3:30pm
Location:
Zoom and Varian 355
Speaker
Alexander Millar

The dark photon is a massive hypothetical particle that interacts with the Standard Model by kinetically mixing with the visible photon.  Due to the similarities with the electromagnetic…

Date
Fri December 3rd 2021, 2:00pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker
Davide Racco

The low frequency part of the gravitational wave spectrum generated by local physics, such as a phase transition, is largely fixed by causality, offering a clean window into the early Universe.

Date
Fri November 19th 2021, 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Itay Bloch

When DM bosons have an ultra-light mass, they can act as a classical, coherent field.

Date
Fri November 5th 2021, 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Simona Murgia

Fermi LAT has revealed an excess from the Galactic center that is compatible with a signal of dark matter annihilation, but other interpretations such as a population of millisecond pulsars have…

Date
Fri October 29th 2021, 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Alex Fieguth

The universal law of gravitation has undergone stringent tests for many decades over a significant range of length scales.

Date
Fri October 22nd 2021, 3:30pm
Location:
Varian 355
Speaker
Anirban Das

Macroscopic dark matter is mostly unconstrained over a wide asteroid-mass range, where it could scatter on visible matter with geometric cross section.