Special Joint Theory Seminar
Speaker: Leonardo Rastelli
Title: The Superconformal Bootstrap Program
Host: Luty
Room: 432
Abstract: I will outline the modern bootstrap program for four- and six-dimensional theories with extended superconformal symmetry. The bootstrap equations neatly split into two classes. There are minibootstrap equations for supersymmetric quantities, which can be solved analytically, and full-fledged bootstrap equations for non-protected quantities, which can be studied numerically. The entire program relies on general symmetry principles, with no need for "fields" or Lagrangians.
User:
High-Energy Seminars
Time:
8:00am-9:00am
Description:
HE Seminar
Speaker: Scott Stephenson
Title: Searching for dark matter with the PandaX experiment
Host: Mani Tripathi
Room: 432
Abstract: Much evidence has amassed for the existence of a large nonbaryonic component of matter in the universe, termed dark matter (DM). The dark matter content of our own Milky Way galaxy allows for the possibility of direct detection of DM particles using sensitive earth-borne detectors. In search of DM, the PandaX collaboration has operated a low background, high sensitivity liquid xenon detector at China JinPing Laboratory in the Sichuan province of south-west China. The location of PandaX-I in the world's deepest underground lab protects the detector from cosmic radiation while the target of scintillating liquid xenon probes the existence of a large class of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates. I will discuss the first dark matter search result from the PandaX-I detector, achieved during 17.4 live days operation with a target of 37 kg fiducial mass, and compare it with existing world-data.
