LEPP Journal Club

Welcome to the LEPP Journal Clubs, the seminars in Particle Physics and Cosmology at the Laboratory of Elementary-Particle Physics at Cornell University. We welcome speakers from all fields of elementary particle physics and cosmology. The organizers are Victoria Butler, and David Tarazona

For more information, please contact Katerina Malysheva

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Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri May 10	Sam Posen	Fermilab	High Q Cavities for Accelerators and Detectors	Matthias Ulf Liepe
Fri Jan 26	Teresa Symons(virtual)	IPAC/Caltech	Solar System Extragalactic Background Light	Victoria Butler
Fri Feb 2	Will Bergan	BNL	Coherent Electron Cooling for the Electron-Ion Collider	David Rubin
Fri Feb 9
Fri Feb 16
Fri Feb 23
Fri Mar 1
Fri Mar 8
Fri Mar 15	Tiziano Camporesi	CERN	SND and CMOS MAPS Development	Anders Ryd
Fri Mar 22	Petra Merkel	Fermilab	Innovating new detector technologies for HEP	Nigel Lockyer
Fri Mar 29
Fri Apr 5		Spring break
Fri Apr 12	Biplab Day	Eötvös Loránd University	Journeys BSM in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb	Anders Ryd
Fri Apr 19	Aaron Chou	Fermilab	Quantum Sensors for High Energy Physics	Nigel Lockyer & Julia Thom-Levy
Fri Apr 26	Peter Onyisi	U of Texas at Austin	Post-P5 Report and Progress	Anders Ryd
Fri May 3	Sudhir Malik	U of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez	Software Training, community engagement and broader impacts	Ritchie Patterson

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 15	Teresa Symons	UC Irvine		Victoria Butler
Fri Sep 8
Fri Sep 15	Johanna Nagy	Case Western Reserve University	Measuring CMB Polarization from the Stratosphere	Yaqiong Li & Victoria Butler
Fri Sep 22	Javier Tiffenberg	Fermilab	Going beyond the Skipper-CCD	Nigel Lockyer
Fri Sep 29	Doug Cowen	Penn State	Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos	Victoria Butler
Fri Oct 6	Christian Herwig	Fermilab	Accelerating Dark Matter discovery with Intelligent Detectors	Joey Reichert
Fri Oct 13	Kevin Labe	Cornell University	Muon Magnetic Moment: What is the Path to a Discovery?	David Tarazona
Fri Oct 20	Andre Frankenthal	Princeton	The Piper at the Gates of Dome: Probing low-mass new physics with the CMS data scouting and parking pipelines	Xuan Chen
Fri Oct 27	Adam Lister	UW - Madison	First Dual-Baseline Search for Sterile Neutrinos at the NOvA Experiment	Xuan Chen
Fri Nov 3	Will Bergan	BNL	Coherent Electron Cooling for the Electron-Ion Collider (POSTPONED, Feb-2)	David Rubin
Fri Nov 10	David Dean	JLAb	Science at Jefferson Lab: The Amazing World of Quarks and Gluons	Nigel Lockyer
Tue Nov 14 at 1:30pm	John Foster	University of Michigan	The Physics of Advanced Space Propulsion: A Survey of Nuclear Electric and Nuclear Thermal Rocket Technologies	Jared Maxson
Fri Nov 17	Farrah Medi Simpson	Brown University	Search for the Vector-Like Quark, X_5/3, at the Large Hadron Collider	Ritchie Patterson & David Tarazona
Fri Nov 24		Thanksgiving break
Fri Dec 1	Yongyi Wu	ANL	Current CLVF experiments with muons and their future upgrades	David Tarazona
Fri Dec 8 at 11:30am	Christine Claessens	University of Washington	The Project 8 neutrino mass experiment: First results and future prospects	David Tarazona

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri May 19	reserved			Xuan Chen
Fri Feb 3
Fri Feb 10	Allen Foster	Case	The Time-Variable mm-Wave Sky with SPT-3G	Yaqiong Li
Fri Feb 17
Fri Feb 24	Zhiyuan Ma	Massachusetts	The TolTEC Camera: Reduction Software, Detector Characterization and On-sky Commissioning	Yaqiong Li
Fri Mar 3 11am	Samantha Walker	Colorado	Superconducting Detectors for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy	Mike Niemack
Fri Mar 3 3pm	Michael Oshiro	UCSB	Looking for supersymmetric partners of Higgs bosons with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC	Anders Ryd
Fri Mar 10
Fri Mar 17
Fri Mar 24
Fri Mar 31	Doug Berry	Fermilab	Track to the Future	Xuan Chen
Fri Apr 7	Anna Grassellino	Fermilab	Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) – a new DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center	Julia Thom-Levy
Fri Apr 14
Fri Apr 21	Shih-Chieh Hsu	University of Washington	FASER entering uncharted territory: the first result of dark photon search and the first observation of collider neutrinos	Peter Wittich/Ritchie Patterson
Fri Apr 28
Fri May 5	Reinier Janssen		Terahertz Intensity Mapper: [CII] line intensity mapping using large-format Kinetic Inductance Detector arrays	Yaqiong Li
Fri May 12	Zeynep Demiragli		Invisible Decays of the Higgs Boson at CMS: Dark Matter and More	Xuan Chen

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 9	Loukas Gouskos	CERN	Advanced AI techniques for jet identification in CMS	Xuan Chen
Fri Sep 9
Fri Sep 16
Tue Sep 20	Yu-Dai Tsai	UC Irvine	The Elusive Universe at the Intensity and Precision Frontiers	Xuan Chen
Fri Sep 30	Kenneth Bloom	Nebraska U.	Climate Impacts of Particle Physics: A Sustainability Agenda	Ritchie Patterson
Fri Oct 7	Adam Iaizzi	AAAS	An unexpected journey: a physicist gets into policy work	Xuan Chen
Fri Oct 14	Carolina Núñez	Johns Hopkins University	Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor(CLASS): Overview & Updates to the 90 GHz Focal Plane	Yaqiong Li
Fri Oct 21
Fri Oct 28	Allen Foster	Case Western Reserve University	The Time-Variable Millimeter-Wave Sky with SPT-3G	Yaqiong Li
Fri Nov 4	Sarah Marie Bruno	Johns Hopkins University	Preserving Dark Skies for Astronomy	Yaqiong Li
Fri Nov 11	Christopher Groppi	ASU	The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM): design and development status of a far-infrared balloon for spectroscopic galaxy evolution studies	Yaqiong Li
Fri Nov 18	Dev Ashish Khaitan	University of Rochester	First Result of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment	Xuan Chen
Fri Nov 25	Thanksgiving break
Fri Dec 2

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri May 6	Jesse Liu	Cambridge		Rui Zou
Fri Feb 4	Mariel Petee	LBNL	Interdisciplinary Machine Learning for Particle Physics	Rui Zou
Fri Feb 11
Fri Feb 18	Selim Hotinli	Hopkins	Fundamental physics from velocity reconstruction with the cosmic microwave background and galaxy surveys	Eve Vavagiakis
Fri Feb 25	Saptaparna Bhattacharya	Northwestern	An experimental overview of effective field theory exploration at the LHC in multiboson processes	Rui Zou
Fri Mar 4	Jay Hyun Jo	Yale	Chasing Long Standing Neutrino Anomalies with MicroBooNE	Jose Monroy
Fri Mar 11	Mona Dentler	Inst. Astrophys. Gottingen	Fuzzy Dark Matter and the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data	Eve Vavagiakis
Fri Mar 18
Fri Mar 25	Rafael Coelho	University of Massachusetts - Amherst	The ITk Pixel Inner System Detector for the ATLAS HL-LHC	Jose Monroy
Fri Apr 1	Prasanna Siddireddy	UCSB	Search for lepton flavor violating decays of Higgs boson	Rui Zou
Fri Apr 8	Spring Break
Fri Apr 15	Tanvi Karwal	U Penn	The Hubble tension and theoretical, new-physics solutions video	Eve Vavagiakis
Fri Apr 22	Andres Plazas	Princeton	Systematic errors in weak gravitational lensing for cosmological investigations video	Jose Monroy
Fri Apr 29	Bei Zhou	Hopkins	"New" interactions and signatures in high-energy neutrino telescopes video	Eve Vavagiakis

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 10
Fri Sept 3	Akash Dixit	University of Chicago	Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Qubits video	Rui Zou
Fri Sept 10
Fri Sept 17	Valentina Cairo	SLAC	Probing the Higgs self-coupling with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC video	Jose Monroy
Fri Sept 24	Alex Lague	Toronto	Efficient Modelling of Ultralight Axions: From Field Theories to Neural Networks video	Eve Vavagiakis
Fri Oct 1	Fernanda Psihas	Fermilab	Prospects for a 100-ton scale neutrino-less double-beta decay at DUNE video	Eve Vavagiakis
Thu Oct 7 1:30pm	Emily Thompson	CERN	The quest for long-lived particles: searches for displaced vertices and a hardware-based track trigger	Julia Thom-Levy
Fri Oct 8	Lipi Gupta	LBNL	Methods for Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Learning Digital Twins of Free Electron Laser Scientific Facilities video	Rui Zou
Fri Oct 15	Dan Green	UCSD	Signals of Light Relics in Cosmic Surveys video	Eve Vavagiakis
Fri Oct 22	Frank Meier	Paul Sherrer Institute, Switzerland	CANCELLED	Jose Monroy
Fri Oct 29	Tom Browder	Hawaii	Belle II: Early Results and Future Potential for New Physics Discoveries	Rui Zou
Fri Nov 5	Andres Florez	Andes U., Bogota	Expanding the discovery reach at the LHC, using Vector Boson Fusion	Jose Monroy
Fri Nov 12	Justin Vasel	Indiana U.	CANCELLED	Eve Vavagiakis
Fri Nov 19	Phil Harris	MIT	Teaching an old Higgs new tricks	Jose Monroy
Fri Nov 26	Thanksgiving break
Fri Dec 3	Anna Sfyrla	Geneva	Looking forward to new physics: The FASER experiment at the CERN LHC	Rui Zou

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri May 14	Nadja Strobbe	U. Minnesota	Under the radar: searching for stealthy new particles with jets	Joey Reichert
Fri Jan 29	Xuan Chen video	Illinois U	CMS FPIX Phase I Upgrade & Search for ttbar Resonances in Boosted Semileptonic Final States	Jim Alexander/Joey Reichert
Fri Feb 5	Chad Freer	Northeastern U	Mono-Z, the Endcap Muon Track Finder and AutoDQM video	Jim Alexander/Joey Reichert
Fri Feb 12	Wei Shi	Rice U	A Model Independent Search for Dark Matter Particles at CMS using Muons	Jim Alexander/Joey Reichert
Fri Feb 19
Fri Feb 26	John Groh	Berkeley	Fundamental physics from the cosmic microwave background with the Simons Array	Steve Choi
Fri Mar 5
Fri Mar 12
Fri Mar 19
Fri Mar 26	No seminar - Prosp Grad visit day
Fri Apr 2	Andrew Mastbaum	Rutgers	The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program: LArTPCs as Tools for Discovery video	Kevin Labe
Fri Apr 9	Nhan Tran	Fermilab	Light Dark Sectors at Accelerators video	Joey Reichert
Fri Apr 16	Kevin Labe	Cornell	First Results from the Muon g-2 Experiment video
Fri Apr 23
Fri Apr 30	Tommaso Pajero	Oxford	Recent results on CP violation in charm at LHCb video	Joey Reichert
Fri May 7

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 11	Evan Shockley	University of Chicago	Recent Results from XENON1T video	Kevin Labe
Fri Oct 9	Stephane Cooperstein	UCSD	First evidence for Higgs boson decay to muons video	Joey Reichert
Fri Oct 16	Kimmy Wu	SLAC	CMB lensing and cosmic tensions	Steve Choi
Fri Oct 23	Martin Frank	University of South Alabama	First Results from NOvA’s Magnetic Monopole Search video	Kevin Labe
Fri Oct 30	Jesse Liu	University of Chicago	Colliding light to make dark matter and measure tau g–2 video	Joey Reichert
Fri Nov 6	Grant Wilson	University of Massachusetts	From Comets to Galaxy Clusters - Legacy Surveys with the TolTEC Camera video	Steve Choi and Mike Niemack
Fri Nov 13	Ari Cukierman	Stanford	The oscillating sky: Detecting axion dark matter with the CMB video	Steve Choi
Fri Nov 20	Tom Browder	Hawaii U	First Physics Results from Belle II@SuperKEKB video	Joey Reichert
Fri Nov 27	Thanksgiving Break
Fri Dec 4	Angela Romano	University of Birmingham	Recent results from the NA62 experiments at CERN SPS video	Kevin Labe

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri May 15
Fri Jan 24
Fri Jan 31
Fri Feb 7	Victor Gorbenko	IAS	CANCELLED	Theory Group
Fri Feb 14
Fri Feb 21	Matthias Schlaffer	Fermilab/Univ of Chicago	Relaxion searches at future colliders Poster	Theory Group
Fri Feb 28	Cynthia Chang	McGill	Illuminating the Dark Universe with Radio Observations Poster	Michael Niemack
Tue Mar 3 12:30pm	Caterina Vernieri	CERN	What is the Higgs boson hiding? Poster	Jim Alexander and Andre Frankenthal
Tue Mar 3 4pm	Andrew Edmonds	LBL	Searching for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation with Mu2e Poster	Lawrence Gibbons
Fri Mar 6
Tue Mar 10 3pm	Suzanne Staggs	Princeton	Devilish Details in Cosmic Microwave Background Maps	Michael Niemack
Fri Mar 13	Prasanth Shyamsundar	U. Florida		Theory Group
Fri Mar 20
Fri Mar 27
Fri Apr 3
Fri Apr 10
Fri Apr 17
Fri Apr 24	Daniel Stolarski	Carleton		Theory Group
Fri May 1
Fri May 8

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 6
Fri Sept 6	Emilie Passemar	Indiana	Determination of Vus and status of the first-row CKM unitarity Poster	Theory group
Fri Sept 13	Avital Dery	Cornell	New physics implications of the LHCb discovery of CP violation in charm decays Poster	Theory group
Fri Sept 20
Fri Sept 27
Fri Oct 4
Fri Oct 11
Fri Oct 18
Fri Oct 25
Fri Nov 1
Fri Nov 8
Fri Nov 15	Pouya Asadi	MIT	Theoretical Updates on the Flavor Anomalies Poster	Theory group
Fri Nov 22
Fri Nov 29

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri May 3 1pm	Cari Cesarotti	Harvard	Searching in CMS Open Data for Dimuon Resonances with Substantial Transverse Momentum Poster	Jim Alexander
Fri Feb 1	Iftah Galon	Rutgers	Exploring dark sectors at FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC Poster	Theory group
Fri Feb 8
Fri Feb 15	Itay Bloch	Tel Aviv	Comagnetometers as a Probe to New Physics Poster	Theory group
Fri Feb 22	Marat Freytsis	Tel Aviv/IAS	Seeing the dark matter halo through Gaia's eyes with machine learning Poster	Theory group
Fri Mar 1
Fri Mar 8 11am and 2:30pm	Ben Nachman	LBNL	Preparing ATLAS pixels for the high rate and radiation environment of the HL-LHC, and Modeling final state radiation on a quantum computer Poster	Jim Alexander
Fri Mar 8 1pm	Claudius Krause	Fermilab	Higgs Effective Field Theories and their renormalization Poster	Theory group
Fri Mar 15
Fri Mar 22
Fri Mar 29	Gustavo Marques Tavares	Maryland	Observable signatures of dark photons from supernovae Poster	Theory group
Fri Apr 5
Fri Apr 12 1pm	Bethe lecturer John Preskill	Caltech	Simulating Quantum Field Theory with a Quantum Computer Poster	Paul Ginsparg
Fri Apr 19
Fri Apr 26 1pm	Nima Arkani-Hamed	IAS	Toy models for UV-IR solutions of "fine-tuning" problems Poster	Yuval Grossman and Csaba Csaki

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 7
Fri Aug 31	Stefan Schacht	Cornell	Extraction of V_{cb} from B -> D^*l nu and SM prediction of R(D^*) Poster	Theory group
Fri Sept 7
Fri Sept 14	Nathan Lourie	U Penn	Sub-arcminute Galactic Polarimetry with the Next Generation Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) Poster	Mike Niemack
Fri Sept 21	Jim Talbert	DESY	Leptoquarks, residual flavour symmetries, and anomalous B-decays: a (roughly) model-independent approach to R_K(*) and fermionic mixing Poster	Theory group
Fri Sept 28
Fri Oct 5
Fri Oct 12	Zhen Liu	University of Maryland	Timing BSM signals at the LHC Poster	Theory group
Fri Oct 19
Fri Oct 26	Andrew J. Long	University of Michigan	Black Holes, and Nuggets, and Blobs. Oh my	Theory group
Fri Nov 2	Matthew D. Klimek	Cornell	Neural Network-Based Approach to Phase Space Integration Poster	Theory group
Fri Nov 9
Fri Nov 16
Fri Nov 23
Fri Nov 30

Spring/Summer 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Wed Aug 15 2pm	Joseph Reichert	CERN	Search for Compressed SUSY using Soft Leptons with the ATLAS Detector Poster	Julia Thom
Fri Jan 26
Fri Feb 2	David McKeen	University of Pittsburgh	Neutrino Portal Dark Matter Poster	Theory group
Fri Feb 9	Tomer Volansky	Tel Aviv University	New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter Poster	Theory group
Fri Feb 16
Fri Feb 23	Rahul Datta	NASA Goddard Space Science Center	Measuring CMB Polarization with ACTPol and PIPER Poster	Mike Niemack
Mon Feb 26	Amy Lowitz	University of Chicago	Detector and Readout Architectures for mm-wave Cosmology with SPT3G and Beyond Poster	Mike Niemack
Fri Mar 2	Corrinne Mills	UIC	Baryogenesis and BSM Higgs physics Poster	CMS group
Fri Mar 9	Oren Slone	Princeton	New Directions in the Search for Light Dark Matter Poster	Theory group
Fri Mar 16
Fri Mar 23	Reserved		(prospective grad student visit weekend)
Fri Mar 30	Philip Barbeau	Duke University	The World's Smallest Neutrino Detector Poster	CMS group
Fri Apr 6	No seminar		(Spring break)
Fri Apr 13	Matthias Neubert	Mainz	Effective Field Theory after a New Physics Discovery Poster	Theory Group
Fri Apr 20	Denver Whittington	Syracuse	Investigating Neutrino Properties with the NOvA Experiment Poster
Fri Apr 27
Fri May 4	Anže Slosar	Brookhaven National Laboratory	21-cm cosmology after 2021 Poster	Mike Niemack
Fri May 11	Gopolang Mohlabeng	Brookhaven National Laboratory	Revisiting the Dark Photon Interpretation of the Muon g-2 anomaly Poster
Fri May 18	Patrick Draper	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Strong CP at colliders and on the lattice Poster	Csaba Csaki
Fri May 18 2:30pm 301 PSB	Heather McCarrick	Columbia	Kinetic inductance detectors for millimeter-wave polarimetry Poster	Mike Niemack
Mon May 21 3pm 301 PSB	Michael Krohn	University of Colorado	Boosted Higgs: Precision Measurements and New Physics Poster	Julia Thom
Wed May 23 2pm 301 PSB	Jose Monroy	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	The inverted top-Higgs coupling and a bit on how the CMS pixel detector was built Poster	Julia Thom
Tue May 29 3pm 301 PSB	Menglei Sun	Carnegie Mellon University	Search for supersymmetry at CMS in events with photons Poster	Julia Thom
Fri Jul 20 1pm	Jennifer Chu	Cornell University	Thesis defense: Search for long-lived particles at CMS Poster	Advisor: Ritchie Patterson

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title	Hosts
Fri Dec 15	Steve Choi	Princeton	Precision Cosmology with Advanced ACTPol Poster	Mike Niemack
Fri Aug 25	No seminar	Q Exams
Fri Sep 1	Kyle Story	Stanford	Searching for cosmic inflation: CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel Poster	Mike Niemack
Fri Sep 8 120PSB	Kaustubh Agashe	Univ. of Maryland	Using Energy-Peaks to Measure (new and old) Particle Masses	Theory Group
Fri Sep 15
Fri Sep 22	Livia Soffi	Cornell	Unveiling New Physics with Photons at LHC CMS Experiment Poster	Peter Wittich
Fri Sep 29	Nima Arkani-Hamed	IAS	UV/IR Correlations Solve Fine- Tuning Problems?	Theory Group
Fri Oct 6	Tao Han	University of Pittsburgh	Physics Motivations for Future Colliders Poster	Theory Group
Fri Oct 13
Fri Oct 20
Fri Oct 27	Marcelle Soares-Santos	FNAL	Observation of a Gravitational Wave Emitting Neutron Star Merger with the Dark Energy Camera Poster	Yangyang Cheng
Fri Nov 3	David Curtin	Univ. of Maryland	BSM Opportunities at ep Colliders Poster	Theory Group
Fri Nov 10	Jessie Shelton	UIUC	Looking for the WIMP Next Door	Yangyang Cheng
Fri Nov 17	Lindsey Gray	FNAL	Time for an Upgrade: Trackers with Precision Timing at the HL-LHC and Beyond Poster	Yangyang Cheng
Fri Nov 24	No Seminar	Thanksgiving
Fri Dec 1	Scott Aaronson	UT Austin	Special Seminar : Firewalls, AdS/CFT, and Computational Complexity Poster	Paul Ginsparg
Fri Dec 8