May 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

1. 3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is measuring the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon with an improved factor of four accuracy (140 ppb). The new measurement is inspired by the > 3s discrepancy between the Brookhaven experimental measurement and Standard Model prediction, where the discrepancy gives hints of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The Fermilab's Muon g – 2 experiment is taking physics data and is projected to accumulate 1 x BNL statistics by the end of the spring 2018 Fermilab's accelerator shutdown. In this presentation, I will discuss the scientific motivation and physics of muon g – 2 experiments and conclude with a snapshot of data results from the beginning of the physics run.

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3

1. 3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

There exists a > 3 sigma discrepancy between the experimental measurement and Standard Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment for the muon. The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will reduce the experimental uncertainty of 540 ppb to 140 ppb, which includes improving the systematic uncertainty by a factor of 3. A significant reduction in the systematic uncertainty for sources associated with the dynamics of the muon beam are needed in order to achieve the expected goal. The experiment is operational and accumulating physics data. The presentation focus on measuring the spatial distribution and dynamics of the muon beam using high advanced tracking detectors. In addition, beam dynamics measurements using other detector systems are presented. By taking advantage of the different detector systems, the Fermilab's experiment is highly equipped to control the various sources contributing to the muon beam-related uncertainties.

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1. 12:15 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

2. 2 pm, Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Hosted by: Yimei Zhu

A wide range of astrophysical processes, from condensation of dust particles in circumstellar envelopes to space weathering on airless bodies, are inherently pico-to-nanoscale phenomena. Thus an electron microscope, used for direct observation of planetary materials in the laboratory, can be as much of an astronomical tool as a telescope pointed at the sky. The energy resolution of state-of-the-art monochromated scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEMs), as low as 10 meV, makes it possible to directly observe the infra-red optical properties of individual cosmic dust grains in the 5 to 25 um range. Thus, distinguishing the 10-um and 18-um features of individual bonafide astrosilicates is now possible. The identity of volatiles, trapped in individual nanoscale vesicles, can be determined with STEM-EELS to better constrain space weathering processes in lunar soils. Finally, STEM-EDS offers to possibility of constraining noble gas contents of primitive carbonaceous materials, including nanodiamond, and "phase Q", thus thus constrain their formation histories.

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8

1. 3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

In the 50+ years since its discovery, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has yielded surprisingly detailed and precise information about the form, content and dynamics of the early universe. High angular resolution maps, and polarization data at all angular scales, are the focus of current and next-generation instruments. I will describe what we already know about the universe from the CMB, and lay the ground for future revelations from the CMB, with special emphasis on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT is a special-purpose 6m telescope situated at 17,000 ft in the dry Atacama Desert of northern Chile, at a latitude of 23 degrees South. ACT's millimeter-wave detectors measure both polarization and intensity at very fine angular scales (arcminutes). I will describe the ACT instrument and its data in the context of other ongoing and proposed CMB projects, their scientific impact, and the potential discovery space. I will include a brief description of the upcoming Simons Observatory.

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10

1. 12:30 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Mattia Bruno and Enrico Rinaldi

Quantum simulation proposes to use future quantum computers to calculate properties of quantum systems. In the context of chemistry, the target is the electronic structure problem: determination of the electronic energy given the nuclear coordinates of a molecule. Since 2006 we have been studying quantum approaches to quantum chemical problems, and such approaches must face the challenges of high, but fixed, precision requirements, and fermion antisymmetry. I will describe several algorithmic developments in this area including improvements upon the Jordan Wigner transformation, alternatives to phase estimation, adiabatic quantum computing approaches to the electronic structure problem, methods based on sparse Hamiltonian simulation techniques and the potential for experiments realizing these algorithms in the near future. I will also briefly review work by others on the analog and digital simulation of lattice gauge theories using quantum simulators.

11

1. 12:15 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Co-hosted by Christoph Lehner and Taku Izubuchi

12

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15

1. 11 am, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Oleg Eyser

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions depend on the pair of scaling parameters and their evolution is given by a pair of coupled equations. I present the analysis of the TMD evolution equations and their solution with the emphasis on their two-dimensional structure. It results in a new viewpoint on TMD evolution, both from the technical and interpretation sides. I formulate the non-perturbative definition of zeta-prescription and introduce the notion of optimal TMD distribution. I demonstrate that the updated form of TMD evolution produces lesser theoretical uncertainty and improves agreement with the data.

2. 3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

16

1. 2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Mattia Bruno

The study of the low energy strong interaction effects in neutral K-meson oscillations is based on the lattice regularisation of QCD. Precise and consistent results for the bag parameter BK, in line with expectations from Standard Model flavour phenomenology, have been obtained over the years, from several variants of lattice QCD. More recently, a few groups have also studied BK in extensions of the Standard Model. The discrepancies seen between certain results from different groups are arguably attributed to uncontrolled systematic errors in the non-perturbative renormalisation and running of weak matrix elements. The Schroedinger Functional renormalisation scheme may help resolve these discrepancies.

17

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18

1. 12:15 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

19

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22

1. 2:30 pm, Large Conference Room, Bldg. 535

The High-Luminosity LHC operations are scheduled to start in 2026. The ATLAS experiment is currently preparing for an upgrade of the inner tracking detector. The radiation damage at the maximum integrated luminosity of 4000/fb implies integrated hadron fluencies over 2x10^16 neq/cm2 requiring replacement of the existing Inner Detector. An all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) is proposed with a pixel detector surrounded by a strip detector. The current prototyping phase, targeting an ITk Strip Detector consisting of a four-layer central barrel and forward regions composed of six disks at each end, will be described. In this contribution I will present the design of the ITk Strip Detector and the preparations for production.

2. 3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Sergey Panitkin

LHC Run3 and Run4 represent an unprecedented challenge for HEP computing in terms of both data volume and complexity. New approaches are needed for how data is collected and filtered, processed, moved, stored and analysed if these challenges are to be met with a realistic budget. To develop innovative techniques we are fostering relationships with industry leaders. CERN openlab is a unique resource for public-private partnership between CERN and leading Information Communication and Technology (ICT) companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide HEP community. In 2018, CERN openlab started its phase VI with a strong focus on tackling the upcoming LHC challenges. Several R&D programs are ongoing in the R&D areas of data centre technologies and infrastructures. computing performance and software, machine learning and data analytics. This talk gives an overview of the various innovative technologies that are currently being explored by CERN openlab VI and discusses the long-term strategies that are pursued by the LHC communities with the help of industry in closing the technological gap in processing and storage needs expected in Run3 and Run4.

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1. MAY

23

Wednesday

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

Parton showers aim to consistently model the evolution of the soft and collinear structure of QCD. As such, they are important pieces of event generator software. Parton shower methods have, since their inception, been limited to lowest order precision. For a consistent NLO event generator framework, and to reduce the uncertainties inherent in a lowest-order approach, it is important to push parton showers beyond lowest order precision. In this talk, I will discuss recent advances within the Dire parton shower (of Pythia and Sherpa) to construct a consistent NLO parton shower.

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1. MAY

24

Thursday

1:30 pm, ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Peter D. Johnson

In this talk, I will present an overview of some of our recent results in the area of non-equilibrium many-body theory. Experimental developments are enabling the study of electrons and atoms in the time domain with ever increasing resolution. The theoretical development has been somewhat lacking, and remains mostly rooted in extensions of equilibrium models. Our work has been to put the theoretical modeling on a firmer footing. Through numerical solution of the equations of motion, we can directly evaluate experimentally relevant spectra. These may be analyzed with the benefit of knowing the precise model and correlation functions that underlie the spectra. Most of the talk will focus on the interaction between a system of electrons interacting with several degrees of freedom, including the lattice, impurity scattering, and each other. Typically, non-equilibrium results are analyzed through a framework that relies on equilibrium intuition. Our results show that the validity of this type of analysis falls on a spectrum that varies from correct to wholly incorrect, which I will illustrate with specific examples. This line of thinking will be further developed by considering the flow of energy between various subsystems.

2. MAY

24

Thursday

3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 3:00 pm

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

The K+ to pi+ nu nubar decay has been attracting interest for many decades. The accurate measurement of its branching ratio is a powerful test of the Standard Model (SM) and could reveal effects beyond the SM. As the decay occurs at the level of 1 in a 10 billion kaon disintegration, many experimental challenges have to be overcome. The CERN NA62 experiment uses a novel kaon decay-in-flight technique to observe K+ to pi+ nu nubar. The analysis of the 2016 data set was used to establish the method by allowing us to reach the 10^-10 single event sensitivity. The preliminary NA62 result on K+ to pi+ nu nubar from the analysis of the full 2016 data set will be presented.

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1. MAY

25

Friday

10:30 am, Building 510, CFNS Seminar Room 2-38

Friday, May 25, 2018, 10:30 am

Hosted by: Chun Shen

An electron-ion collider can test many fundamental features of QCD for hadron and nuclear physics, including flavor-dependent antishadowing in deep inelastic electron-nucleus scattering, the breakdown of sum rules for nuclear structure functions, the role of hidden-color " degrees of freedom, and the effects of "color transparency" on the baryon-to-meson anomaly observed at high transverse momentum in heavy-ion collisions. I will also discuss intrinsic heavy quark phenomena and the production of exotic multiquark states at the EIC. On the theory side, I will discuss the new insights into color confinement that one obtains from light-front holography, including supersymmetric features of the meson, baryon, and tetraquark spectroscopy. The Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) can be used to systematically eliminate renormalization scale ambiguities and thus obtain scheme-independent pQCD predictions.

2. MAY

25

Friday

12:15 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Friday, May 25, 2018, 12:15 pm

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

26

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31

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1. MAY

23

Wednesday

HET Seminar

"Towards NLO parton showers"

Presented by Stefan Prestel, Fermilab

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

Parton showers aim to consistently model the evolution of the soft and collinear structure of QCD. As such, they are important pieces of event generator software. Parton shower methods have, since their inception, been limited to lowest order precision. For a consistent NLO event generator framework, and to reduce the uncertainties inherent in a lowest-order approach, it is important to push parton showers beyond lowest order precision. In this talk, I will discuss recent advances within the Dire parton shower (of Pythia and Sherpa) to construct a consistent NLO parton shower.

2. MAY

24

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Developing theoretical understanding of non-equilibrium phenomena"

Presented by Alexander Kemper, North Carolina State University

1:30 pm, ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Peter D. Johnson

In this talk, I will present an overview of some of our recent results in the area of non-equilibrium many-body theory. Experimental developments are enabling the study of electrons and atoms in the time domain with ever increasing resolution. The theoretical development has been somewhat lacking, and remains mostly rooted in extensions of equilibrium models. Our work has been to put the theoretical modeling on a firmer footing. Through numerical solution of the equations of motion, we can directly evaluate experimentally relevant spectra. These may be analyzed with the benefit of knowing the precise model and correlation functions that underlie the spectra. Most of the talk will focus on the interaction between a system of electrons interacting with several degrees of freedom, including the lattice, impurity scattering, and each other. Typically, non-equilibrium results are analyzed through a framework that relies on equilibrium intuition. Our results show that the validity of this type of analysis falls on a spectrum that varies from correct to wholly incorrect, which I will illustrate with specific examples. This line of thinking will be further developed by considering the flow of energy between various subsystems.

3. MAY

24

Thursday

Particle Physics Seminar

"K+ to pi+ nu nubar- First result from NA62 experiment"

Presented by Bob Velghe, TRIUMF

3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 3:00 pm

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

The K+ to pi+ nu nubar decay has been attracting interest for many decades. The accurate measurement of its branching ratio is a powerful test of the Standard Model (SM) and could reveal effects beyond the SM. As the decay occurs at the level of 1 in a 10 billion kaon disintegration, many experimental challenges have to be overcome. The CERN NA62 experiment uses a novel kaon decay-in-flight technique to observe K+ to pi+ nu nubar. The analysis of the 2016 data set was used to establish the method by allowing us to reach the 10^-10 single event sensitivity. The preliminary NA62 result on K+ to pi+ nu nubar from the analysis of the full 2016 data set will be presented.

4. MAY

25

Friday

Joint Nuclear Theory/RIKEN/CFNS Seminar

"Novel QCD Physics at an Electron-Ion Collider"

Presented by Stanley Brodsky, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University

10:30 am, Building 510, CFNS Seminar Room 2-38

Friday, May 25, 2018, 10:30 am

Hosted by: Chun Shen

An electron-ion collider can test many fundamental features of QCD for hadron and nuclear physics, including flavor-dependent antishadowing in deep inelastic electron-nucleus scattering, the breakdown of sum rules for nuclear structure functions, the role of hidden-color " degrees of freedom, and the effects of "color transparency" on the baryon-to-meson anomaly observed at high transverse momentum in heavy-ion collisions. I will also discuss intrinsic heavy quark phenomena and the production of exotic multiquark states at the EIC. On the theory side, I will discuss the new insights into color confinement that one obtains from light-front holography, including supersymmetric features of the meson, baryon, and tetraquark spectroscopy. The Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) can be used to systematically eliminate renormalization scale ambiguities and thus obtain scheme-independent pQCD predictions.

5. MAY

25

Friday

HET Lunch Discussions

"Nucleon Charges and Form Factors from Lattice QCD"

Presented by Yong-Chull Jang, BNL

12:15 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Friday, May 25, 2018, 12:15 pm

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

6. JUN

1

Friday

Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Liouville action, high multiplicity tail and shape of proton"

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Friday, June 1, 2018, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Chun Shen

In this talk I violate the common wisdom "one seminar — one message" and discuss two seemingly unrelated results in the framework of the dilute-dense CGC approach: the effect of spatial eccentricity of the projectile (proton) shape on the second harmonic in double-inclusive gluon production and the theoretical description of the high gluon multiplicity tail. I will show that these two superficially unrelated results in combination may lead to unexpected consequences for the phenomenology of p-A collisions.

7. JUN

5

Tuesday

Physics Colloquium

"How we got the government we have, and why scientists should engage with it"

Presented by Benn Tannenbaum, Sandia National Laboratory

3:30 pm, Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Tuesday, June 5, 2018, 3:30 pm

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

It seems like a terrible time to be a scientist in the United States. Federal budgets aren't being passed, and when they are, funding for science never seems to increase. The debate over immigration reform—including what to do about visas for high-skilled workers, such as scientists—is stalled. Everyone agrees that cybersecurity is a problem, but no one seems to have a solution. Meanwhile, we have no meaningful debate in Congress or in the administration on climate change or energy policy. This lecture will cover how we got here, why we are stuck, some speculation on how the current administration is impacting research, and how the scientific community can impact policy.

8. JUN

11

Monday

Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

"Heterostructures for Nanoelectronics and Photovoltaics"

Presented by Deep Jariwala, University of Pennsylvania

1:30 pm, CFN, Bldg. 735, Conference Room A, 1st Floor

Monday, June 11, 2018, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Don DiMarzio & Mircea Cotlet

The isolation of a growing number of two-dimensional (2D) materials has inspired worldwide efforts to integrate distinct 2D materials into van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. While a tremendous amount of research activity has occurred in assembling disparate 2D materials into "all-2D" van der Waals heterostructures,1, 2 this concept is not limited to 2D materials alone. Given that any passivated, dangling bond-free surface will interact with another via vdW forces, the vdW heterostructure concept can be extended to include the integration of 2D materials with non-2D materials that adhere primarily through noncovalent interactions.3 In the first part of this talk I will present our work on emerging mixed-dimensional (2D + nD, where n is 0, 1 or 3) heterostructure devices performed at Northwestern University. I will present two distinct examples of gate-tunable p-n heterojunctions.4-6 I will show that when a single layer n-type molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) (2D) is combined with p-type semiconducting single walled carbon nanotubes (1D), the resulting p-n junction is gate-tunable and shows a tunable diode behavior with rectification as a function of gate voltage and a unique anti-ambipolar transfer behavior.4 The same concept when extended to p-type organic small molecule semiconductor (pentacene) (0D) and n-type 2D MoS2 leads to a tunable p-n junction with a photovoltaic effect and an asymmetric anti-ambipolar transfer response.6 I will present the underlying charge transport and photocurrent responses in both the above systems using a variety of scanning probe microscopy techniques as well as computational methods. Finally, I will show that the anti-ambipolar field effect observed in the above systems can be generalized to other semiconducting heterojunction systems and extended over large areas with practical applications in wireless communication circuits.5 The second part of talk will discuss my more recent work performed at Caltech on photovo

9. JUN

14

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Doublon-holon origin of the subpeaks at the Hubbard band edges"

Presented by Seung-Sup Lee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

1:30 pm, ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Thursday, June 14, 2018, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Andreas Weichselbaum

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) studies frequently observe a fine structure in the local spectral function of the SU(2) Fermi-Hubbard model (i.e., one-band Hubbard model) at half filling: In the metallic phase close to the Mott transition, subpeaks emerge at the inner edges of the Hubbard bands. Here we demonstrate that these subpeaks originate from the low-energy effective interaction of doublon-holon pairs, by investigating how the correlation functions of doublon and holon operators contribute to the subpeaks [1, 2]. We use the numerical renormalization group (NRG) as a DMFT impurity solver to obtain the correlation functions on the real-frequency axis with improved spectral resolution [3]. A mean- field analysis of the low-energy effective Hamiltonian [2] provides results consistent with the numerical result. The subpeaks are associated with a distinctive dispersion that is different from those for quasiparticles and the Hubbard bands. Also, the subpeaks become more pronounced in the SU(N) Hubbard models for larger number N of particle flavors, due to the increased degeneracy of doublon-holon pair excitations. Hence we expect that the sub-peaks can be observed in the photoemission spectroscopy experiments of multi-band materials or in the ultracold atom simulation of the SU(N) Hubbard models. [1] S.-S. B. Lee, J. von Delft, and A. Weichselbaum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 236402 (2017). [2] S.-S. B. Lee, J. von Delft, and A. Weichselbaum, Phys. Rev. B 96, 245106 (2017). [3] S.-S. B. Lee and A. Weichselbaum, Phys. Rev. B 94, 235127 (2016).

10. JUN

14

Thursday

Particle Physics Seminar

"Jet substructure in ATLAS at the LHC – a tool for discoveries and measurements"

Presented by Peter Loch, University of Arizona

3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, June 14, 2018, 3:00 pm

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) applies jet substructure analysis techniques to extract the internal energy flow in high energy jets produced in the proton-proton collisions in searches for new physics as well as in Standard Model (SM) measurements. In this talk we will introduce the most commonly applied techniques and present an overview of results from the respective performance evaluations. In addition, we will discuss selected configurations of tagging algorithms designed to extract two- or three-prong energy flow patterns inside a jet, as generated by decays of SM particles like the W-boson or the top quark, or possible new heavy particles indicating physics beyond the SM. A brief presentation of recent results from searches and SM measurements, including the recent measurement of the internal structure of light quark and gluon jets, concludes the talk.

11. JUN

21

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"TBA"

Presented by Elizabeth Green, Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory

9:30 am, ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 9:30 am

Hosted by: Cedomir Petrovic

TBA

12. JUN

21

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Theories of transport scaling in disordered semimetals and topological spin-nematic excitonic insulators in graphite under high magnetic field"

Presented by Ryuichi Shindo, Peking University, China

1:30 pm, ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Thursday, June 21, 2018, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Alexei Tsvelik

In the first part of my talk, I will talk about transport scaling theories in disordered Weyl semimetal [1,2]. In electronic band structure of solid state material, two band touching points with linear dispersion (called as Weyl node') appear in pair in the momentum space. When they annihilate with each other, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition from Weyl semimetal (WSM) phase to a band insulator (BI) phase. The continuous phase transition is recently discovered in solid state materials [3]. The phase transition is described by a critical theory with a magnetic dipole' like object in the momentum space. The critical theory hosts a disorder-driven quantum multicritical point, which is encompassed by three quantum phases, WSM phase, BI phase, and diffusive metal (DM) phase. Based on the renormalization group argument, we clarify transport scaling properties around the Weyl node at the quantum multicritical point as well as all phase boundaries among these three phases [1,2]. In the second part of my talk, I will argue that three-dimensional topological excitonic insulator is realized in graphite under high magnetic field [4,5]. Graphite under high magnetic field exhibits consecutive metal-insulator (MI) transitions as well as re-entrant insulator-metal (IM) transition at low temperature. We explain these enigmatic insulator phases as manifestation of excitonic insulator phases with spin nematic orderings ("SNEI" phases). Especially, we explain unusual field-dependences of in-plane resistivity in the graphite experiment by surface transports via 2+1 massless surface Dirac fermion in one of the SNEI phases [4,5]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09051, under review [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00572, selected as PRB editors' suggestion [3] Tian Liang, et.al., Science Advances, 3, e1602510 (2017) [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10253, under review [5] in preparation &

13. JUN

22

Friday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"TBA"

Presented by Dmitry Karpov, New Mexico State University

11 pm, ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Friday, June 22, 2018, 11:00 pm

Hosted by: Ian Robinson

TBA

14. JUN

27

Wednesday

HET Seminar

"TBA"

Presented by Johann Brehmer, New York University

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

15. JUL

9

Monday

Office of Educational Programs Event

"High School Research Program Begins"

8 am, Berkner Hall Auditorium

Monday, July 9, 2018, 8:00 am

Hosted by: Aleida Perez

16. JUL

19

Thursday

Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Mechanism of strange metal and strange metal state near a heavy fermion quantum critical point"

Presented by Chung-Hou Chung, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

1:30 pm, ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Thursday, July 19, 2018, 1:30 pm

Hosted by: Alexei Tsvelik

Strange metal (SM) behaviors with non-Fermi liquid (NFL) properties, generic features of heavy fermion systems near quantum phase transitions, are yet to be understood microscopically. A paradigmatic example is the magnetic field-tuned quantum critical heavy fermion metal YbRh2Si2 (YRS), revealing a possible SM state over a finite range of fields at low temperatures when substituted with Ge. Above a critical field, the SM state gives way to a heavy Fermi liquid with Kondo correlation. The NFL behavior shows most notably a linear-in-temperature electrical resistivity and a logarithmic-in-temperature followed by a power-law-in-temperature in the specific heat coefficient at low temperatures [1]. We propose a mechanism to explain it: a quasi-2d fluctuating anti-ferromagnetic short-range resonating-valence-bond (RVB) spin-liquid competing with the Kondo correlation (Fig. 1) [2]. Applying renormalization group analysis on an effective field theory beyond a large-N approach to an antiferromagnetic Kondo-Heisenberg model, we identify the critical point, and explain remarkably well the SM behavior. Our theory goes beyond the well-established framework of quantum phase transitions and serves as a new basis to address open issues of the non-Fermi liquid behavior in quantum critical heavy-fermion compounds, such as: the strange superconductivity observed in the "115" family CeMIn5 (M=Co, Rh)[3]. References: [1] J. Custers et al., Nature 424, 524 (2003); J. Custers et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186402 (2010). [2] Yung-Yeh Chang, Silke Paschen, and Chung-Hou Chung, Phys. Rev. B 97, 035156 (2018). [3] Y. Y. Chang,, F. Hsu, S. Kirchner, C. Y. Mou, T. K. Lee and C. H. Chung (un-published).

17. AUG

5

Sunday

Summer Sundays

"Atom Smashing Fun with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider"

10 am, Berkner Hall, Room B

Sunday, August 5, 2018, 10:00 am

18. SEP

13

Thursday

Particle Physics Seminar

"Higgs couplings"

Presented by Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

3 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, September 13, 2018, 3:00 pm

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

19. SEP

26

Wednesday

HET Seminar

"Loop-Induced Single Top Partner Production and Decay at the HL-LHC"

Presented by Jeong Han Kim, Kansas University

2 pm, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

1. Particle Physics Seminar

"CERN openlab R&D for the LHC Run3 and Run4"

Presented by Maria Girone, CERN

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Sergey Panitkin

LHC Run3 and Run4 represent an unprecedented challenge for HEP computing in terms of both data volume and complexity. New approaches are needed for how data is collected and filtered, processed, moved, stored and analysed if these challenges are to be met with a realistic budget. To develop innovative techniques we are fostering relationships with industry leaders. CERN openlab is a unique resource for public-private partnership between CERN and leading Information Communication and Technology (ICT) companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide HEP community. In 2018, CERN openlab started its phase VI with a strong focus on tackling the upcoming LHC challenges. Several R&D programs are ongoing in the R&D areas of data centre technologies and infrastructures. computing performance and software, machine learning and data analytics. This talk gives an overview of the various innovative technologies that are currently being explored by CERN openlab VI and discusses the long-term strategies that are pursued by the LHC communities with the help of industry in closing the technological gap in processing and storage needs expected in Run3 and Run4.

2. Instrumentation Division Seminar

"The ATLAS ITK Strip Detector for High-Luminosity LHC"

Presented by Stefania Stucci, CERN, Italy

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 2:30 pm
Large Conference Room, Bldg. 535

The High-Luminosity LHC operations are scheduled to start in 2026. The ATLAS experiment is currently preparing for an upgrade of the inner tracking detector. The radiation damage at the maximum integrated luminosity of 4000/fb implies integrated hadron fluencies over 2x10^16 neq/cm2 requiring replacement of the existing Inner Detector. An all-silicon Inner Tracker (ITk) is proposed with a pixel detector surrounded by a strip detector. The current prototyping phase, targeting an ITk Strip Detector consisting of a four-layer central barrel and forward regions composed of six disks at each end, will be described. In this contribution I will present the design of the ITk Strip Detector and the preparations for production.

3. HET Lunch Discussions

"Decays of the Higgs into gauge bosons in the SMEFT at the NLO"

Presented by Pier Paolo Giardino, BNL

Friday, May 18, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

4. HET Seminar

"Review of Neutral Kaon Oscillations in and beyond the Standard Model from Lattice QCD"

Presented by Anastassios Vladikas, INFN Roma Tor Vergata

Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Mattia Bruno

The study of the low energy strong interaction effects in neutral K-meson oscillations is based on the lattice regularisation of QCD. Precise and consistent results for the bag parameter BK, in line with expectations from Standard Model flavour phenomenology, have been obtained over the years, from several variants of lattice QCD. More recently, a few groups have also studied BK in extensions of the Standard Model. The discrepancies seen between certain results from different groups are arguably attributed to uncontrolled systematic errors in the non-perturbative renormalisation and running of weak matrix elements. The Schroedinger Functional renormalisation scheme may help resolve these discrepancies.

5. Physics Colloquium

"Driven Quantum and Dirac Matter"

Presented by Alexander Balatsky, Los Alamos

Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

6. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"TMD evolution as a double-scale evolution"

Presented by Alexey Vladimirov, Universitat Regensburg

Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Oleg Eyser

Transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distributions depend on the pair of scaling parameters and their evolution is given by a pair of coupled equations. I present the analysis of the TMD evolution equations and their solution with the emphasis on their two-dimensional structure. It results in a new viewpoint on TMD evolution, both from the technical and interpretation sides. I formulate the non-perturbative definition of zeta-prescription and introduce the notion of optimal TMD distribution. I demonstrate that the updated form of TMD evolution produces lesser theoretical uncertainty and improves agreement with the data.

7. HET/RIKEN Lunch Discussions

"Localized 4-Sigma and 5-Sigma Dijet Mass Excesses in ALEPH LEP2 Four-Jet Events"

Friday, May 11, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Co-hosted by Christoph Lehner and Taku Izubuchi

8. HET/RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Quantum Simulation from Quantum Chemistry to Quantum Chromodynamics"

Presented by Peter Love, Tufts

Thursday, May 10, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Mattia Bruno and Enrico Rinaldi

Quantum simulation proposes to use future quantum computers to calculate properties of quantum systems. In the context of chemistry, the target is the electronic structure problem: determination of the electronic energy given the nuclear coordinates of a molecule. Since 2006 we have been studying quantum approaches to quantum chemical problems, and such approaches must face the challenges of high, but fixed, precision requirements, and fermion antisymmetry. I will describe several algorithmic developments in this area including improvements upon the Jordan Wigner transformation, alternatives to phase estimation, adiabatic quantum computing approaches to the electronic structure problem, methods based on sparse Hamiltonian simulation techniques and the potential for experiments realizing these algorithms in the near future. I will also briefly review work by others on the analog and digital simulation of lattice gauge theories using quantum simulators.

9. Physics Colloquium

"The Cosmic Microwave Background and How It Keeps on Revealing More about the Universe"

Presented by Suzanne Staggs, Princeton

Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

In the 50+ years since its discovery, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has yielded surprisingly detailed and precise information about the form, content and dynamics of the early universe. High angular resolution maps, and polarization data at all angular scales, are the focus of current and next-generation instruments. I will describe what we already know about the universe from the CMB, and lay the ground for future revelations from the CMB, with special emphasis on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). ACT is a special-purpose 6m telescope situated at 17,000 ft in the dry Atacama Desert of northern Chile, at a latitude of 23 degrees South. ACT's millimeter-wave detectors measure both polarization and intensity at very fine angular scales (arcminutes). I will describe the ACT instrument and its data in the context of other ongoing and proposed CMB projects, their scientific impact, and the potential discovery space. I will include a brief description of the upcoming Simons Observatory.

10. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Picoastronomy: an electron microscopist's view of the history of the Solar System"

Presented by Rhonda Stroud, US Naval Research Laboratory

Friday, May 4, 2018, 2 pm
Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Hosted by: Yimei Zhu

A wide range of astrophysical processes, from condensation of dust particles in circumstellar envelopes to space weathering on airless bodies, are inherently pico-to-nanoscale phenomena. Thus an electron microscope, used for direct observation of planetary materials in the laboratory, can be as much of an astronomical tool as a telescope pointed at the sky. The energy resolution of state-of-the-art monochromated scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEMs), as low as 10 meV, makes it possible to directly observe the infra-red optical properties of individual cosmic dust grains in the 5 to 25 um range. Thus, distinguishing the 10-um and 18-um features of individual bonafide astrosilicates is now possible. The identity of volatiles, trapped in individual nanoscale vesicles, can be determined with STEM-EELS to better constrain space weathering processes in lunar soils. Finally, STEM-EDS offers to possibility of constraining noble gas contents of primitive carbonaceous materials, including nanodiamond, and "phase Q", thus thus constrain their formation histories.

11. HET Lunch Discussions

"Variation of alpha from a long range force"

Presented by Hooman Davoudiasl, BNL

Friday, May 4, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

12. Particle Physics Seminar

"Beam Dynamics Measurements for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab"

Presented by Dr. Tammy Walton, Fermilab

Thursday, May 3, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

There exists a > 3 sigma discrepancy between the experimental measurement and Standard Model prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment for the muon. The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will reduce the experimental uncertainty of 540 ppb to 140 ppb, which includes improving the systematic uncertainty by a factor of 3. A significant reduction in the systematic uncertainty for sources associated with the dynamics of the muon beam are needed in order to achieve the expected goal. The experiment is operational and accumulating physics data. The presentation focus on measuring the spatial distribution and dynamics of the muon beam using high advanced tracking detectors. In addition, beam dynamics measurements using other detector systems are presented. By taking advantage of the different detector systems, the Fermilab's experiment is highly equipped to control the various sources contributing to the muon beam-related uncertainties.

13. Physics Colloquium

"The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab"

Presented by Tammy Walton, FNAL- Leona Woods Lectureship award winner's colloquium

Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab is measuring the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon with an improved factor of four accuracy (140 ppb). The new measurement is inspired by the > 3s discrepancy between the Brookhaven experimental measurement and Standard Model prediction, where the discrepancy gives hints of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The Fermilab's Muon g – 2 experiment is taking physics data and is projected to accumulate 1 x BNL statistics by the end of the spring 2018 Fermilab's accelerator shutdown. In this presentation, I will discuss the scientific motivation and physics of muon g – 2 experiments and conclude with a snapshot of data results from the beginning of the physics run.

14. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Chemistry beyond the crystal- advanced Fourier techniques"

Presented by Simon Kimber, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Monday, April 30, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Ian Robinson

Chemical crystallography nowadays makes structure determination and refinement trivial. However, advances in x-ray and neutron sources mean that we should revisit some of the basic assumptions that shape our experiments. For example, most chemical reactivity in e.g. catalysis, self-assembly etc, occurs in the solution phase. Why are we as crystallographers then wedded to the solid state? In this presentation, I will show how total scattering can be used to determine changes in cluster structure during photochemical reactions and to probe the role of the solvent in 'magic size' cluster formation. I will then describe how neutron scattering techniques can be used to challenge another basic assumption- the static approximation in total scattering. We have successfully applied so-called 'dynamic-PDF' techniques to simple chalcogenide materials. This allows to determine the time scale on which local distortions appear, providing insight into the role of highly anharmonic phonons in e.g. phase change and thermoelectric materials. Time allowing, I will also provide a short update on progress at ORNL, including the upcoming restart of the SNS, and new instrumentation for diffraction, total and diffuse scattering.

15. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Exploring the QCD phase structure with functional methods"

Presented by Bernd-Jochen Schaefer, University of Giessen

Friday, April 27, 2018, 2 pm
Building 510, CFNS Seminar Room 2-38

Hosted by: Chun Shen

QCD at finite temperature and moderate densities predicts a phase transition from a chiral symmetry broken hadronic phase to a chirally restored deconfined quark-gluon plasma phase. In this talk I report on recent progress achieved basically with functional renormalization group (FRG) methods to reveal the QCD phase structure. Two and three quark flavor FRG investigations are confronted to results obtained with effective chiral low-energy models. The importance of quantum and thermal fluctuations is demonstrated and their consequences for the experimental signatures to detect possible critical endpoints in the phase diagram are discussed.

16. HET Lunch Discussions

"Revisiting the Dark Photon Interpretation of the Muon g-2 Anomaly"

Presented by Gopolang Mohlabeng, BNL

Friday, April 27, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

17. CFNS Seminar

"Polarized light ion physics with spectator tagging at EIC"

Presented by Christian Weiss, Jefferson Lab

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 4 pm
CFNS Seminar Room, Bldg. 510, Room 2-38

Hosted by: Andrey Tarasov

Measurements of deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) on polarized light ions (deuteron, 3He, ...) address important physics topics such as the spin structure of the neutron, nuclear modifications of parton densities, and coherent effects at small x. Detection of the nuclear breakup state ("spectator tagging") reveals the nuclear configurations present during the high-energy process and permits a controled theoretical treatment of nuclear effects. We report about an on-going effort to develop the theoretical and experimental methods for spectator tagging with the deuteron at EIC. This includes (a) the description of nuclear structure and breakup in DIS using methods of light-front quantization; (b) extraction of free neutron spin structure from tagged DIS using on-shell extrapolation; (c) novel studies of nuclear shadowing in diffractive tagged DIS at small x; (d) the forward detector and ion beam requirements for spectator tagging at EIC. We present suggestions for future physics studies and detailed process simulations.

18. Joint BNL/SBU HET Seminar

"Mining the LHC Data for Anomalies"

Presented by Matthew Buckley, Rutgers University

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

19. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Topological properties of Weyl semimetals in the presence of randomness"

Presented by Jedediah Pixley, Rutgers

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Laura Classen

We will discuss the effects of short-range disorder on three-dimensional Weyl semimetals with a focus on the topological Fermi arc surface states and the existence of the axial anomaly in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields. We will briefly review the bulk properties of disordered Weyl semimetals concentrating on the proposed quantum critical point separating a semimetal and diffusive metal phase driven by disorder. We show that quasi-localized, rare eigenstates contribute an exponentially small but non-zero density of states at the Weyl node energy. This destabilizes the semimetal phase and converts the semimetal-to-diffusive metal transition into a cross over (dubbed an avoided quantum critical point). In turn, it is no longer obvious how robust the topological properties are in these materials. We will therefore discuss the effects disorder has on the robustness of Weyl Fermi arc surface states and the axial anomaly. We find that the Fermi arcs, in addition to having a finite lifetime from disorder broadening, hybridize with the non-perturbative bulk rare states, which unbinds them from the surface (i.e. they lose their purely surface spectral character). Nonetheless, the surface chiral velocity is robust and survives in the presence of strong disorder. Lastly, we will discuss the robustness of the axial anomaly for a single Weyl cone in the presence of disorder. We will show that deep in the diffusive limit, when a band structure picture of dispersing (chiral) Landau levels no longer applies, the axial anomaly survives.

20. Physics Colloquium

"Nature vs. Nurture in Complex (and Not-So-Complex) Systems"

Presented by Daniel Stein, NYU

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

Understanding the dynamical behavior of many-particle systems following a deep quench is a central issue in both statistical mechanics and complex systems theory. One of the basic questions centers on the issue of predictability: given a system with a random initial state evolving through a well-defined stochastic dynamics, how much of the information contained in the state at future times depends on the initial condition (nature'') and how much on the dynamical realization (nurture'')? We discuss this question and present both old and new results for both homogeneous and random systems in low and high dimension.

21. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Building and understanding magnetic nano-structures, one atom at a time"

Presented by Adrian Feiguin, Northeastern University

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Alexei Tsvelik

In the past decade we have witnessed enormous progress in experiments that consist of placing magnetic atoms at predetermined positions on substrates and building magnetic nanostructures one atom at a time. The effective interaction between spins is mediated by the conduction electrons in the substrate. In order to understand these interactions, we rely on a theory developed decades ago by Ruderman, Kittel, Kasuya, and Yosida, dubbed "RKKY theory", which applies when the spins are classical. The quantum nature of the electronic spin introduces another degree of complexity and competition with another quantum phenomenon: the Kondo effect. This competition is quite subtle and non-trivial, and can only be studied by numerical means. We investigate this mechanism on different lattice geometries in 2 and 3 dimensions by introducing an exact mapping onto an effective one-dimensional problem that we can solve with the density matrix renormalization group method (DMRG). We show a clear and departure from the conventional RKKY theory, and important differences that can be attributed to the dimensionality and geometry. We have found that there is a critical distance at which the Kondo effect dominates, translating into a finite range for the RKKY interaction. In particular, for dimension d>1, Kondo physics dominates even at short distances, while the ferromagnetic RKKY state is energetically unfavorable. Remarkably, in the case of impurities with higher spin S=1, both effects can co-exist: while the impurities are partially screened by the conduction electrons, an effective dangling spin S=1/2 is responsible for the entanglement between impurities.

22. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Fictions, fluctuations and mean fields"

Presented by Pasi Huovinen, Uniwersytet Wroclawski

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Oleg Eyser

The difference between fluctuations and correlations as calculated using lattice QCD from the values evaluated using hadron resonance gas model, has been taken as an indication that there must be more resonance states then observed so far. In this talk I explore how the fluctuations and correlations change if I include the unobserved states (fictions) predicted by a quark model to the hadron resonance gas, and, on the other hand, how the fluctuations and correlations change if we include the repulsive interactions between baryons and antibaryons in the hadron resonance gas model using repulsive mean field.

23. Particle Physics Seminar

"Signal Processing in Single-Phase LArTPCs - Application at MicroBooNE"

Presented by Brooke Russell, Yale University, Wright Laboratory

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

The single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is a burgeoning detector technology with extensive use in existing and planned accelerator neutrino experiments. While engineering challenges in developing this technology have largely been overcome, high-quality reconstruction of the detailed topological and calorimetric information provided by the fine-grained drifted ionization charge signal is still in active development. In this talk, I describe a robust ionization charge extraction method developed at MicroBooNE and generically applicable to all single-phase LArTPC experiments. This technique accurately converts the raw digitized TPC waveforms into the number of ionization electrons from both induction and collection wire planes. The performance of cold electronics is critical to the success of signal extraction methods. I motivate how characterization and suppression of detector noise translates to signal processing proficiency. Finally, I relate the performance of signal processing to the context of MicroBooNE's physics goals and prospects to realize the promised capability of LArTPC detector technology.

24. Joint BNL/SBU HET seminar

"Neutron stars chirp about vacuum energy"

Presented by Csaba Csaki, Cornell University

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 2:30 pm
YITP

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

While the current vacuum energy of the Universe is very small, in our standard cosmological picture it has been much larger at earlier epochs. We try to address the question of what are possible ways to try to experimentally verify the properties of vacuum energy in phases other than the SM vacuum. One promising direction is to look for systems where vacuum energy constitutes a non-negligible fraction of the total energy, and study the properties of those. Neutron stars could be such systems, and we discuss how to use the recent observation of neutron star mergers to try to learn about the inner core of the neutron star which may be dominated by vacuum energy.

25. Physics Colloquium

"Plasma science - From laboratory-fusion to astrophysical plasmas"

Presented by Fatima Ebrahimi, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

Our universe is immersed in magnetized plasma, electrically conducting ionized gas. Some of the most fundamental and long-standing astrophysical problems, such as the magnetization of the universe, collimation of astrophysical jets, the accretion process and transport in astrophysical disks (surrounding e.g. black holes) and their coronas can only be explored through plasma physics. Our sun as a natural laboratory for plasma physics provides inspiring as well as challenging problems, including its dynamo cycles, heating, and the replication of its core reaction, fusion energy, on earth in a lab. There is an abundance of observational/experimental data emerging from natural phenomena of space and astrophysical plasmas, as well as laboratory plasma experiments, for plasma physicists to explore. I will review some of these topics, in particular magnetic reconnection, the rearrangement of the magnetic ?field topology of plasmas, which energizes many processes in nature and has been shown to also be critical in the nonlinear dynamics of many processes in toroidal fusion plasmas. Using global simulations, I will demonstrate the instrumental role of magnetic reconnection, which enables an innovative technique for producing current in fusion plasmas.

26. Joint ATLAS/HET lunch discussion

"Post LHC theory"

Presented by Eder Izaguirre / Alessandro Tricoli, BNL

Friday, April 13, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-84

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

27. Particle Physics Seminar

"First Results from CUORE - Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in 130Te"

Presented by Karsten Heeger, Yale University, Wright Laboratory

Thursday, April 12, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is a ton-scale cryogenic experiment at Gran Sasso National Laboratory designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) in tellurium-130. The experiment consists of 988 ultracold tellurium dioxide bolometric crystals, which act as both the double-beta decay sources and detectors. An observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would be direct evidence of lepton number violation and unambiguously prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles. This talk presents the first results from CUORE based on an exposure of 83.6 kg yr of tellurium dioxide. With this data we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay and set the world-leading limit on the rate of 0νββ in 130Te

28. Physics Colloquium

"Quantum Chromodynamics in the Exascale Era with the Emergence of Quantum Computing"

Presented by Martin Savage, University of Washington

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

A century of coherent experimental and theoretical investigations uncovered the laws of nature that underly nuclear physics ? Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and the electroweak interactions. While analytic techniques of quantum field theory have played a key role in understanding the dynamics of matter in high energy processes, they become inapplicable to low-energy nuclear structure and reactions, and dense systems. Expected increases in computational resources into the exascale era will enable Lattice QCD calculations to determine a range of important strong interaction processes directly from QCD. However, important finite density systems, non equilibrium systems, and inelastic processes are expected to remain a challenge for conventional computation. In this presentation, I will discuss the state-of-the-art Lattice QCD calculations, progress that is expected in the near future, and the potential of quantum computing to address Grand Challenge problems in nuclear physics.

29. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Dense nuclear and quark matter from holography"

Presented by Andreas Schmitt, University of Southampton

Friday, April 6, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

QCD at large, but not asymptotically large, baryon density presents an enormous theoretical challenge because first-principle calculations are nearly impossible. Phenomenologically, dense QCD is of great interest for the interior of neutron stars, in particular after the recent detection of gravitational waves from neutron star mergers. I will discuss a holographic approach to dense matter, making use of the Sakai-Sugimoto model, which can account for both nuclear matter and quark matter and the transition between them. In particular, nucleons are implemented as instantons in the bulk, and I will discuss certain approximations for many-nucleon matter based on the flat-space instanton solution and present the resulting phase diagrams.

30. HET Lunch Discussions

"Isospin Breaking corrections in tau decays from Lattice QCD"

Presented by Mattia Bruno, BNL

Friday, April 6, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

31. Particle Physics Seminar

"Time for High Luminosity – a new Detector for ATLAS"

Presented by Joern Lange, Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE) Barcelona

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

32. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Plastic Deformation at the Nanoscale and Superconductivity Enhancement in Decompression"

Presented by Bin Chen, Shanghai Laboratory of Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Cedomir Petrovic

Plastic Deformation at the Nanoscale: Understanding the plastic deformation of nanocrystalline materials is a longstanding challenge [1,2]. Various controversial observations, mainly on the existence of dislocations and the mechanisms for a reversed Hall–Petch effect, have been reported. However, in situ observation of plastic deformation in ultrafine (sub-10 nm) nanocrystals has long been difficult, precluding the direct exploration of mechanics at the nanometer scale. By using a radial diamond-anvil cell (rDAC) x-ray diffraction technique we plastically deformed nickel to pressures above 35 GPa and observed that 1) dislocation-mediated deformation was still operative in as small as 3 nm nickel particles [3]; 2) 70 nm nickel particles were found to rotate more than any other grain size, signaling the reversal in the size dependence of grain rotation [4,5]; 3). Hall-Petch effect in nickel can be extended to 3 nm [6]. These observations demand considering the role of defects in the physical behaviors of nanomaterials. Superconductivity Enhancement in Decompression: An unexpected superconductivity enhancement was recently observed in decompressed In2Se3 [7]. The onset of superconductivity in In2Se3 occurred at 41.3 GPa with a critical temperature (Tc) of 3.7 K, peaking at 47.1 GPa. The striking observation shows that this layered chalcogenide remains superconducting during decompression down to 10.7 GPa. More surprisingly, the highest Tc in decompression was 8.2 K, a twofold increase in the same crystal structure as in compression. The novel decompression-induced superconductivity enhancement implies that it is possible to maintain pressure-induced superconductivity at lower or even ambient pressures with better superconducting performance. References: [1] B. Chen, et al., MRS Bulletin 41, 473 (2016). [2] H. K. Mao, et al., Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 1, 59 (2016). [3] B. Chen, et al., Science 338, 1448 (2012). [4] B. Chen, et al., Proc. Natl. Ac

33. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"QCD crossover at zero and non-zero baryon densities"

Presented by Patrick Steinbrecher, BNL

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Yuya Tanizaki

34. HET Seminar

"Excluding a thin dark matter disk in the Milky Way with Gaia DR1"

Presented by Katelin Schutz, UC Berkeley

Thursday, April 5, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

If a component of the dark matter has dissipative interactions, it could collapse to form a thin dark disk in our Galaxy coincident with the baryonic disk. It has been suggested that dark disks could explain a variety of observed phenomena, including mass extinction events due to periodic comet impacts. Using the first data release from the Gaia space observatory, I will present the results of a search for a dark disk via its effect on stellar kinematics in the Milky Way. I will discuss our strong new limits that disfavor the presence of a thin dark matter disk and present updated measurements on the total matter density in the solar neighborhood.

35. HET Seminar has been CANCELLED for today

"Excluding a thin dark matter disk in the Milky Way with Gaia DR1"

Presented by Katelin Schutz, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

If a component of the dark matter has dissipative interactions, it could collapse to form a thin dark disk in our Galaxy coincident with the baryonic disk. It has been suggested that dark disks could explain a variety of observed phenomena, including mass extinction events due to periodic comet impacts. Using the first data release from the Gaia space observatory, I will present the results of a search for a dark disk via its effect on stellar kinematics in the Milky Way. I will discuss our strong new limits that disfavor the presence of a thin dark matter disk and present updated measurements on the total matter density in the solar neighborhood.

36. Physics Colloquium

"Eigenstate thermalization and its implications to statistical mechanics"

Presented by Anatoli Polkovnikov, Boston University

Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

In this talk I will overview recent developments in understanding quantum chaos through random matrix theory. I will discuss various conjectures on the nature of quantum stationary states in chaotic systems and show numerical evidence supporting them. It is the random nature of eigenstates, which ultimately leads to loss of information about initial conditions and leads to emergence of statistical mechanics in isolated systems. I will then introduce the so-called Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) ansatz first proposed by J. Deutsch and M. Srednicki in 90th, which gives a unified framework for the structure of physical observable in quantum chaotic systems. I will demonstrate how the ETH ansatz naturally leads to emergence of various thermodynamic relations. At the end of the talk I will mention some open problems.

37. HET Lunch Discussions

"Lattice QCD Study of Exclusive Channels in the Muon HVP"

Presented by Aaron Meyer, BNL

Friday, March 30, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

38. Particle Physics Seminar

"Searches for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector"

Presented by Vakhtang Tsiskaridze, Stony Brook

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

39. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Non-abelian symmetries and applications in tensor networks"

Presented by Andreas Weichselbaum, Brookhaven National Lab

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Igor Zaliznyak

I will give a brief introduction to tensor network states with focus on exploiting all symmetries, abelian and non-abelian alike. I will briefly motivate a generic framework for finite-dimensional Lie algebras, which has been fully implemented in the tensor library QSpace [1]. The latter was already put under extensive scrutiny over the past couple of years. Along it already also gave rise to a range of excellent applications. Here, in particular, I will briefly highlight 1D density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations on SU(N) Heisenberg ladders, 2D projected entangled pair state (PEPS) simulations on Spin-1 Kagome [2], and infinite-dimensional dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) simulations on Hund's metals [3]. [1] A. Weichselbaum, Annals of Physics 327, 2972 (2012) [2] Liu et al., PRB 91 (R), 060403(R) (2015) [3] Stadler et al. PRL 115, 136401 (2015)

40. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Accurate spectral calculations for testing electronic structures, low energy excitations, and vibronic interactions"

Presented by Keith Gilmore, The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 11 am
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Robert Konik

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) is a relatively new technique for probing low energy excitations in materials. In addition to traditional techniques, such as angle resolved photoemission, it has become an important, high precision characterization tool of strongly correlated electron materials. To calculate RIXS, and related core and valence level spectra, we solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) based on a self-energy corrected density functional theory electronic structure. I outline our implementation of the BSE and use SrVO3 for demonstration. The sensitivity of spectral features to the self-energy approximation – whether G0W0, qpscGW, or DMFT – is highlighted. To include interactions beyond the usual BSE I introduce the cumulant expansion. Spectral functions derived from a GW self-energy are typically inadequate when the dressed Green's function is built via the Dyson equation. With the same GW self-energy, a superior Green's function and spectral function, implicitly including vertex corrections, is obtained through the cumulant expansion. I consider application of the GW-cumulant expansion to photoemission, photoabsorption, and X-ray scattering. Lastly, vibronic coupling has important impacts on these spectra. I show how to calculation the phonon contribution to photoemission, absorption and scattering with a vibronic cumulant.

41. PubSci

"PubSci: Nuclear Medicine for Personalized Cancer Treatment"

Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 7 pm
Napper Tandy's 60 E. Main Street Bay Shore, N

42. Physics Colloquium

"Particles Colliders: Past, Present and Future"

Presented by Dmitri Denisov, Fermilab

Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

Developments of the particle colliders over last 50 years have seen tremendous progress in both the energy of the collisions and the intensity of the colliding beams. In order to reach even higher collision energy many fundamental inventions in the colliders design have been achieved. Progress to even higher energies was strongly stimulated by physics interests in studying smaller and smaller distances and in creation of heavier and heavier elementary particles. Experiments at colliders required major breakthroughs in the particle detection methods in order to discover new particles such as c and t quarks, gluons, tau lepton, W, Z and Higgs bosons which completed currently expected set of elementary particles. Options for even higher energy colliders will be discussed, including their design parameters, acceleration principles as well as construction challenges. Such colliders is the only way to understand the Nature at even smaller distances and create particles with higher masses than we can reach today.

43. HET Lunch Discussion /Neutrino Discovery Initative

"Boosted Dark Matter at DUNE"

Presented by Lina Necib, Caltech

Friday, March 23, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room - 2-160

44. HET Seminar

"Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocities"

Presented by Lina Necib, Caltech

Friday, March 23, 2018, 10 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

45. HET Seminar

"Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocities"

Presented by Lina Necib, Caltech

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

46. Physics Colloquium

"Nuclear lattice simulations"

Presented by Dean Lee, Michigan State University

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

This is an introduction to how atomic nuclei and other quantum few- and many-body systems can be studied using lattice simulations. The first part of the talk explains the basic formalism called lattice effective field theory. The rest of the talk is a discussion of novel methods and the new physics insights one gains with each. The methods discussed are the adiabatic projection method for scattering and reaction calculations, pinhole algorithm for probing structure and thermodynamic properties, and eigenvector continuation for extending calculations to regions of parameter space where things otherwise break down.

47. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Spatial Resolution of Low-Loss EELS"

Presented by R.F. Egerton, University of Alberta, Canada

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 2 pm
Building 480 Conference Room

Hosted by: Yimei Zhu

Recent-generation TEM/STEM instruments fitted with an electron monochromator provide an energy resolution down to 0.01 eV for electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and are themselves capable of achieving a spatial resolution approaching 0.1 nm. Besides offering the possibility of vibrational-mode EELS for examining chemical bonds, these instruments could be useful for mapping the electronic properties (e.g. band gap) of insulators and semiconductors. However, basic physics imposes a spatial resolution of few nm (or tens of nm) for energy loss below 10 eV, due to delocalization of the inelastic scattering. We will discuss what might be done to improve the spatial resolution, to make low-loss EELS competitive with other techniques.

48. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Probing the collectivity of heavy quarks in pPb collisions with prompt D0 elliptic flow using CMS detector"

Presented by Zhenyu Chen, Rice University

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Lijuan Ruan

Recent years, evidence for collective effects has been revealed in pp and pPb collisions when looking at events releasing large number of particles. The experimental observations lead to a debate of the formation of strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma in those small collision systems. Azimuthal anisotropy coefficient (vn) of heavy-flavor particles, and especially the comparison to light flavor particles vn, can shed light on the strength of the coupling between heavy flavor quarks and the hypothesized hydrodynamic medium at a significantly reduces size, and impose further constrains on different interpretations related to the origin of the observed collectivity. In this talk, the most recent results of prompt D0 meson elliptic flow (v2) in high-multiplicity pPb collisions are presented over a wide transverse momentum range. The results are compared to those of strange hadrons, including Kshort, Lambda, Cascade and Omega particles.

49. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Correlators of twist-2 light-ray operators in the BFKL approximation"

Presented by Ian Balitsky

Friday, March 16, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrey Tarasov

It is well known that BFKL gives anomalous dimensions of twist-2 operators of spin j in the "BFKL limit'' $g^2\righarrow 0,\omega\equiv j-1\righarrow 0,{g^2\over\omega}$ fixed. I demonstrate that such limit describes the non-local light-ray operators and present the results of calculation of two- and three-point correlation functions of these operators in this limit. The calculation is performed in ${\cal N}$=4 SYM but the result is valid in other gauge theories such as QCD.

50. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Quantum dimer models for high temperature superconductors"

Presented by Garry Goldstein, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Friday, March 16, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Robert Konik

In this talk we review the slave boson meanfield formulation of the fermion+boson quantum dimer model for the pseudogap phase of the high temperature superconductors. We show that in the presence of weak slowly varying external magnetic and electric fields the fermionic dimers undergo semiclassical motion in the external field. As a result in the presence of magnetic fields strong enough to destroy superconductivity the dimers undergo quantum oscillations. Indeed they satisfy Onsager quantization for their orbits and Lifshtiz-Kosevich formula for the amplitude of oscillations. We also compute the effective charges of the dimers in the presence of external magnetic fields as a function of temperature. We show that the effective magnetic charge changes sign from negative −e at low temperature to positive +e at high temperature. This leads to a change of the sign of the Hall coeÿcient as a function of temperature. We also compute the magnetoresistance as a function of the external field and temperature within a linearized Boltzmann equation approximation for the fermionic dimers. Furthermore we further show that the dimers undergo a Lifshitz transition as a function of doping with a van Hove singularity appearing at the Fermi surface near optimal doping ∼ 20%. Indeed the van Hove singularity leads to a divergence of the density of states and as such an optimum Tc. We study the interplay of nematic fluctuations and the van Hove singularity both of which occur near optimal doping. We show that the van Hove singularity modifies the critical properties of the QCP (quantum critical point) for nematic fluctuations and that the QCP may be described by Hertz Millis like theory with z = 4. This allows us to calculate the critical exponents of the nematic fluctuations and to show that the fermionic dimers have non-Fermi liquid behavior near the QCP with the self energy diverging ∼ |ω3/4| near the QCP.

51. HET Lunch Discussions

"Updated Global SMEFT Fit to Higgs, Diboson and Electroweak Data"

Presented by Christopher Murphy, BNL

Friday, March 16, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

52. Particle Physics Seminar

"Precision Measurements of Asymmetries and Spectra in Neutron Decay"

Presented by Brad Plaster, University of Kentucky

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

Precision measurements of various asymmetries in neutron decay permit an extraction of the weak axial-vector coupling constant, gA, a fundamental quantity important for weak-interaction physics and as a benchmark for lattice QCD calculations. I will discuss a recent new result from the UCNA Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory for a 0.16% precision result on gA from a measurement of the 'A' asymmetry, which represents the parity-violating angular correlation between the neutron's spin and the decay electron's momentum. This long-standing effort was carried out with a superconducting solenoidal electron spectrometer at the LANL Ultracold Neutron (UCN) facility. This new result will be placed in the context of historical results for gA and recent discrepant values for the neutron lifetime obtained via different experimental techniques. I will also discuss the first-ever extraction of the Fierz interference term 'b' in free neutron decay from an analysis of the electron's spectral shape as measured in the UCNA Experiment. A non-zero 'b' term would result from beyond-Standard Model interactions, such as Scalar or Tensor physics. Although the result for 'b' from the UCNA Experiment was systematics limited, it points to the requisite significant improvements in the characterization of the detector energy response that future experiments aimed at a measurement of 'b' will need to achieve in order to probe beyond Standard Model physics at a competitive precision.

53. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Splitting of electrons and violation of the Luttinger sum rule"

Presented by Eoin Quinn, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Robert Konik

We obtain a controlled description of a strongly correlated regime of electronic behaviour. We argue that there are two ways to characterise the electronic degree of freedom, either by the canonical fermion algebra or by the graded Lie algebra su(2|2). The first underlies the Fermi liquid description of correlated matter, and we identify a novel regime governed by the latter. We obtain the electronic spectral function within a controlled approximation, and find a splitting in two of the electronic band. The Luttinger sum rule is violated and a Mott metal-insulator transition is exhibited.

54. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Hadronic light-by-light scattering in the muon g-2"

Presented by Andreas Nyffeler, University of Mainz

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

55. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Enabling emergent spin-orbit magnetism in iridate-based heterostructures"

Presented by Jian Liu, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 11 am
ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Mark Dean

5d transition metal oxides have emerged as a novel playground for some of the most outstanding and challenging problems in condensed matter physics, such as metal-insulator transition and quantum magnetism. In particular, layered iridates hosting square lattices of IrO6 octahedra have drawn significant interests due to the electronic and magnetic analogy with high-Tc cuprates. However, materials of this kind are limited to a few Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) compounds. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work on overcoming this bottleneck by constructing such two-dimensional (2D) structures confined in superlattices grown by heteroepitaxy. By leveraging the layering control of epitaxial growth, we are not only able to develop new structural variants of layered iridates, but also unravel and exploit the intriguing spin-orbit-driven 2D magnetism beyond the cuprate physics yet invisible in the RP iridates. The results demonstrate the power of this approach in tailing the exchange interactions, enabling new magnetic controls, and providing unique insights into the emergent phenomena of 5d electrons.

56. Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

"Metal oxide/semiconductor heterojunctions as carrier-selective contacts for photovoltaic applications"

Presented by Gabriel Man

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 2 am
CFN, Bldg. 735 - first, floor, conference room A

Hosted by: Mingzhao Liu

Solar radiation is a vast, distributed, and renewable energy source which Humanity can utilize via the photovoltaic effect. The goal of photovoltaic technology is to minimize the true costs, while maximizing the power conversion efficiency and lifetime of the cell/module. Interface-related approaches to achieving this goal are explored here, for two technologically-important classes of light absorbers: crystalline-silicon (c-Si) and metal halide perovskite (MHP). The simplest solar cell consists of a light absorber, sandwiched between two metals with dissimilar work functions. Carrier-selective contacts (CSC's), which are ubiquitous in modern solar cells, are added to improve the electrical performance. Solar cells require asymmetric carrier transport within the cell, which can be effected via electrostatic and/or effective fields, and CSC's augment the asymmetry by selectively transporting holes to one contact, and electrons to the other contact. The proper design and implementation of a CSC is crucial, as the performance, lifetime, and/or cost reduction of a solar cell can be hampered by a single interface or layer. A framework, consisting of eight core requirements, was developed from first-principles to evaluate the effectiveness of a given CSC. The framework includes some requirements which are well-recognized, such as the need for appropriate band offsets, and some requirements which are not well-recognized at the moment, such as the need for effective valence/conduction band density of states matching between the absorber and CSC. The application of the framework to multiple silicon-based and MHP-based CSC's revealed the difficulties of effectively designing and implementing a CSC. Three metal oxide/c-Si heterojunctions initially expected to yield comparable electron-selective contacts (ESC's), titanium dioxide/c-Si (TiO2/c-Si), zinc oxide/c-Si (ZnO/c-Si), and tin dioxide/c-Si (SnO2/c-Si), were instead discovered to be widely diff

57. Particle Physics Seminar

"From first beam to particle physics discoveries with petabytes of data"

Presented by Paul Laycock, CERN

Monday, March 12, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

The LHC experiments require huge, ever-increasing volumes of data to explore the frontiers of particle physics, and the grid provides the infrastructure to meet this challenge. Today, even medium sized experiments produce petabytes of data that need to be analysed by international collaborations and the relationship between particle physicists and their data has had to evolve to keep pace. Calibrating and systematically understanding detectors requires detailed information, deep learning algorithms promise to allow us to fully exploit our experiments, and on the other hand we want to analyse our data quickly and be the first to publish. This talk will first describe how, shortly after the Higgs discovery, ATLAS realised that the way that analysis was done had to change, and will briefly illustrate what those changes entailed. Next, the NA62 experiment will be described. Recording a billion events per day, NA62 aims to measure the very rare decay of a charged kaon to a charged pion and two neutrinos. The collaboration had to quickly implement petabyte scale data processing infrastructure to perform the sub-nanosecond calibrations needed to challenge the 10% precision of the theory prediction.

58. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Yang-Mills action on the light front: MHV amplitudes and Wilson lines"

Presented by Anna Stasto, Penn State

Friday, March 9, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

The MHV action is the Yang-Mills action quantized on the light-front, where the two explicit physical gluonic degrees of freedom have been canonically transformed to a new set of fields. This transformation leads to the action with vertices being off-shell continuations of the MHV amplitudes. We show that the solution to the field transformation expressing one of the new fields in terms of the Yang-Mills field is a certain type of the Wilson line. More precisely, it is a straight infinite gauge link with a slope extending to the light-cone minus and the transverse direction. One of the consequences of that fact is that certain MHV vertices reduced partially on-shell are gauge invariant — a fact discovered before using conventional light-front perturbation theory. We also analyze the diagrammatic content of the field transformations leading to the MHV action. We found that the diagrams for the solution to the transformation (given by the Wilson line) and its inverse differ only by light-front energy denominators.

59. HET Lunch Discussions

"An update on the HVP contribution to the muon g-2"

Presented by Christoph Lehner

Friday, March 9, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

60. Particle Physics Seminar

"New neutrino oscillation results from NOvA"

Presented by Jeremy Wolcott, Tufts University

Thursday, March 8, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

The NOvA experiment is an off-axis long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using the NuMI $\nu_{\mu}$ beam originating at Fermilab. By examining the disappearance of muon neutrinos and the appearance of electron neutrinos between the near detector at Fermilab and the far detector in Ash River, MN, NOvA has the potential to help answer a number of fundamental questions: Are the neutrinos' masses ordered the same way as those of the charged leptons? Do leptons experience charge-parity violation? Are there underlying symmetries in the way the neutrino states mix with one another? In this talk I will present NOvA's most recent constraints on the answers to those questions utilizing muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance. These updated results are based on a 50% increase in exposure relative to previous results as well as numerous simulation and analysis improvements.

61. HET Seminar

"Dispersion relation for hadronic light-by-light scattering"

Presented by Peter Stoffer, UC San Diego

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

62. Physics Colloquium

"Quantum simulation of gauge theories in optical lattices"

Presented by Alexei Bazavov, Michigan State University

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

hile non-perturbative approaches such as lattice gauge theory led to significant advances in understanding the physics of strong interactions, many problems remain out of reach for classical computation, in particular, real-time dynamics or properties of QCD at finite baryon density that are being explored in heavy-ion collision experiments. Recent advances in the technology of engineering custom interactions for ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices opened a possibility for quantum simulations as was envisioned by R. Feynman in the 1980s. The main idea is that the degrees of freedom of the original system are mapped onto a quantum Hamiltonian whose dynamics can be realized in a laboratory. Many condensed matter Hamiltonians, such as Bose-Hubbard model, have been recently studied in this way. Quantum simulation of gauge theories is however challenging since the gauge symmetry is not naturally present in the ultra-cold atomic systems. I will review the current status of theoretical proposals for quantum simulation of field theories and then focus on our recent work on an explicitly gauge-invariant formulation of the Abelian-Higgs model for simulation on optical lattices.

63. Instrumentation Division Seminar

"Table-top MeV laser particle accelerator @ kHz repetition rate"

Presented by Enam Chowdhury, Department of Physics, Ohio State University

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 2:30 pm
Large Conference Room, Bldg. 535

At the Extreme Light Lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, we explore light matter interaction at relativistic fields with liquid targets. Although demonstrations of up to 4 GeV1 electrons and ~100 MeV protons2 have been achieved in the past, all of these are not feasible as future accelerators, due to their slow duty cycle (usually single shot, rarely 1 Hz). There are many challenges to increasing the duty cycle, where laser technology, target technology, damage to system, target alignment, high repetition rate sub-micron plasma diagnostics provides nearly insurmountable obstacles. In this program, we developed ways to accelerate MeV x-rays, electrons3 and ions4 at kHz repetition rate with a small milli-joule class laser system, by developing a combination of suitable laser system, diagnostic system, target system and experimental data collection system capable of handling the high duty cycle. We also perform femtosecond-time resolution pump-probe imaging of the interaction, and extensive large scale relativistic laser plasma interaction simulations5 that reveal the nature of the acceleration processes. Such a system opens the door to extensive future application as a source for materials processing, radiation hardness testing, medical isotope production, time resolved proton probing on relativistic interactions, and many others.

64. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Looking ahead to BESII: new observables and new theoretical frameworks"

Presented by Yin Yi, MIT

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Jia Jiangyong

Upcoming beam energy scan (BES) phase II will explore the QCD phase diagram with an unprecedented precision and would potentially discover the QCD critical point. I will discuss recent theoretical developments aim at maximizing the discovery potential of BESII from both phenomenological and formal perspectives. First, I will discuss new observables which are very sensitive to the presence of the QCD critical point and are possible due to the iTPC upgrade. In the second part, I will report recent progress on understanding and describing hydrodynamic fluctuations. Remarkably, effects of hydrodynamic fluctuations can be potentially important for precise determination of shear viscosity at top RHIC energy and would play a crucial role near the QCD critical point.

65. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Quark / Antiquark Correlations in Heavy-Light Ion Collisions"

Presented by Matt Sievert, LANL

Friday, March 2, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

It has long been known that sub-nucleonic fluctuations of the energy density in the initial stages of heavy ion collisions play an important role in generating the observed distributions of particles and their flow. These energy density fluctuations are dominated by the radiation of small-x gluons which are populated to classically large occupation numbers in the wave functions of ultra-relativistic heavy ions. While these soft gluons dominate the initial conditions for the energy density, it is quark production which determines the initial conditions of other conserved charges, like flavor and baryon number. With the recent development of state-of-the art hydrodynamics codes tailored to the Beam Energy Scan which can propagate these conserved charges into the final state, it is timely and important to calculate the initial conditions of these conserved charges from first principles in QCD. In this talk, I will present new results for the spatial correlations among quarks and antiquarks produced at mid-rapidity by pair production from small-x gluons. This single-pair production mechanism, which has been studied for some time in momentum space, is the leading contribution to these correlations in coordinate space for dilute-dense collisions. As one moves from the dilute-dense regime toward the dense-dense regime, correlations due to double pair production become more important, and these correlations persist over larger length scales than the single-pair production mechanism. Over nonperturbative length scales, only the correlations from the overlap geometry remain. I will present explicit results for quark-antiquark correlations due to single pair production, and I will outline some preliminary results for the various double-pair production mechanisms. The ultimate goal of this work will be to construct a code which can initialize these conserved charges over all length scales in heavy-ion collisions.

66. HET Lunch Discussions

"Semileptonic decays using Oktay-Kronfeld heavy quarks on the HISQ lattice"

Presented by Yong-Chull Jang, BNL

Friday, March 2, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

67. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"3D non-Fermi liquid behavior from 1D critical local moments"

Presented by Laura Classen, BNL

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Igor Zaliznyak

We study the temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity in a system composed of critical spin chains interacting with three dimensional conduction electrons and driven to criticality via an external magnetic field. The relevant experimental system is Yb2Pt2Pb, a metal where itinerant electrons coexist with localized moments of Yb-ions which can be described in terms of effective S = 1/2 spins with dominantly one-dimensional exchange interaction. The spin subsystem becomes critical in a relatively weak magnetic field, where it behaves like a Luttinger liquid. We theoretically examine a Kondo lattice with different effective space dimensionalities of the two interacting sub-systems. We characterize the corresponding non-Fermi liquid behavior due to the "local criticality" from the spins by calculating the electronic relaxation rate and the dc resistivity and establish its quasi linear temperature dependence.

68. Joint BNL/SBU HET Seminar

"Searching for Light Dark Matter with Dirac Materials"

Presented by Yonatan Kahn, Princeton University

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

Dark matter with mass below a GeV is invisible to standard WIMP searches. In this talk I will present two recent proposals for direct detection of keV-GeV mass dark matter, both utilizing Dirac materials, where low-energy electronic excitations have linear dispersion relations and obey the Dirac equation. Dark matter with mass in the MeV-GeV range can eject electrons from graphene sheets, which can act as both targets and detectors when employed in a field-effect transistor mode, allowing directional detection. Dark matter as light as a few keV can excite electrons to the conduction band of Dirac semimetals like ZrTe5, where the linear dispersion protects the in-medium mass of the mediator and provides superior reach to a light dark photon mediator compared to superconductors. I will discuss recent progress towards experimental realizations of these proposals.

69. High-Energy Physics & RIKEN Theory Seminar

"Preparing High Energy Physics Software for the Future - the Community White Paper"

Presented by Dr. Benedikt Hegner, CERN, Switzerland

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 12 pm
Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

Hosted by: Eric Lancon

Particle physics has an ambitious and broad experimental program for the coming decades. This program requires large investments in detector hardware, either to build new facilities and experiments, or to upgrade existing ones. Similarly, it requires commensurate investment into R&D of software to acquire, manage, process, and analyses the shear amounts of data to be recorded. In planning for the High Luminosity LHC in particular, it is critical that all of the collaborating stakeholders agree on the software goals and priorities, and that their efforts complement each other. In this spirit, the High Energy Physics community has created a white paper (arXiv:1712.06982) to describe and define the R&D activities required in order to prepare for this software upgrade. This presentation describes the expected software and computing challenges, and the plans to address them that are laid out in the white paper.

70. Physics Colloquium

"The Multi-Messenger Picture of a Neutron Star Merger"

Presented by Brian Metzger, Columbia University

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

On August 17 the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave observatories detected the first binary neutron star merger event (GW170817), a discovery followed by the most ambitious electromagnetic (EM) follow-up campaign ever conducted. A gamma-ray burst (GRB) of short duration and very low luminosity was discovered by the Fermi and INTEGRAL satellites within 2 seconds of the merger. Within 11 hours, a bright but rapidly-fading thermal optical counterpart was discovered in the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance of only 40 Mpc. The properties of the optical transient match remarkably well predictions for kilonova emission powered by the radioactive decay of heavy nuclei synthesized in the expanding merger ejecta by the r-process. The rapid spectral evolution of the kilonova emission to near-infrared wavelengths demonstrates that a portion of the ejecta contains heavy lanthanide nuclei. Two weeks after the merger, rising non-thermal X-ray and radio emission were detected from the position of the optical transient, consistent with delayed synchrotron afterglow radiation from an initially off-axis relativistic jet with the properties consistent with those of (on-axis) cosmological short GRB. I will describe a unified scenario for the range of EM counterparts from GW170817 and their implications for the astrophysical origin of the r-process and the properties of neutron stars. I will preview the upcoming era of multi-messenger astronomy, once Advanced LIGO/Virgo reach design sensitivity and a neutron star merger is detected every few weeks.

71. HET Lunch Seminar

"Recent indications of LU...... violations: A possible shaking of HEP in the making"

Presented by Amarjit Soni, BNL

Friday, February 23, 2018, 12 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

72. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Drell-Yan process beyond collinear approximation"

Presented by Stebel Tomasz, BNL

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Yuya Tanizaki

73. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Topological Spin Excitations in a Highly Interconnected 3D Spin Lattice"

Presented by Yuan Li, International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, China

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 11 am
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Mark Dean

The recent discovery of topological semimetals, which possess distinct electron-band crossing with non-trivial topological characteristics, has stimulated intense research interest. By extending the notion of symmetry-protected band crossing into one of the simplest magnetic groups, namely by including the symmetry of time-reversal followed by space-inversion, we predict the existence of topological magnon-band crossing in three-dimensional (3D) collinear antiferromagnets. The crossing takes on the forms of Dirac points and nodal lines, in the presence and absence, respectively, of the conservation of the total spin along the ordered moments. In a concrete example of a Heisenberg spin model for a "spin-web" compound, we theoretically demonstrate the presence of Dirac magnons over a wide parameter range using linear spin-wave approximation, and obtain the corresponding topological surface states [1]. Inelastic neutron scattering experiments have been carried out to detect the bulk magnon-band crossing in a single-crystal sample. The highly interconnected nature of the spin lattice suppresses quantum fluctuations and facilitates our experimental observation, leading to remarkably clean experimental data and very good agreement with the linear spin-wave calculations. The predicted topological band crossing is confirmed [2]. [1] K. Li et al., PRL 119, 247202 (2017). [2] W. Yao et al., arXiv:1711.00632.

74. HET Seminar

"Analysis of a Dilaton EFT for Lattice Data"

Presented by Thomas Appelquist, Yale University

Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christoph Murphy

75. Particle Physics Seminar

"21-cm cosmology topics"

Presented by Dr. Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

Thursday, February 15, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chris Sheehy

76. Physics Colloquium

"The Social Life of Heavy Quarks"

Presented by Marek Karliner, Tel Aviv University

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

I will discuss recent developments regarding new types of hadrons involving heavy quarks: hadronic molecules, doubly heavy baryons, stable tetraquarks and others. I will also explain how the discovery of the doubly heavy baryon leads to quark-level analogue of nuclear fusion, with energy release per reaction an order of magnitude greater than in ordinary fusion.

77. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Nematic superconductivity in topological materials"

Presented by Matt Smylie, Argonne National Laboratory

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Genda Gu

In a topological superconductor, a bulk superconducting gap induces a symmetry-protected gapless superconducting surface state. This surface state can host exotic Majorana zero modes, which are expected to revolutionize computation technology through energy-efficient fault-tolerant quantum computing. In this talk, we will discuss the search for bulk topological superconductors and the discovery of nematic superconductivity in MxBi2Se3 (M=Cu,Sr,Nb), where the superconducting system spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry at Tc. The nematic superconducting state and possible origins of the rotational symmetry breaking will be explored, with many conventional causes being eliminated.

78. Computational Science Initiative Event

"Physics Informed Machine Learning"

Presented by Michael (Mischa) Chertkov, Los Alamos National Lab

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 10:30 am
Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

Hosted by: Frank Alexander

Machine Learning (ML) capabilities are in a phase of tremendous growth, and there is great opportunity to point these tools toward physical modeling. The challenge is to incorporate domain expertise from traditional scientific discovery into next-generation ML models. We propose to develop new Physics Informed Machine Learning (PIML) algorithms that extend cutting-edge computational and algorithmic ML tools and merge them with physical knowledge in the form of constraints, symmetries, and domain expertise regarding effective degrees of freedom. This PIML methodology is illustrated on the following four enabling examples: 1. Topology and Parameter Estimation in Power Grids [based on arXiv:1710.10727] 2. Creating Turbulent Flows with Deep Learning [based on an APS/DFD2017 abstract] 3. Learning Graphical Models [Science 2018 in print; arXiv:1612.05024] 4. Renormalization of Tensor Networks (Graphical Models) [based on arXiv:1801.01649 and ICML2018 submission]

79. Joint Nuclear Theory and HET Seminar

"TeV Scale Lepton Number Violation: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay & the LHC"

Presented by Michael Ramsey-Musolf, U. Mass. Amherst

Friday, February 9, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

80. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Biased nuclear gluon distribution from a reweighted JIMWLK small-x ensemble"

Presented by Adrian Dumitru, Baruch College/BNL

Thursday, February 8, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Yuya Tanizaki

81. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"New nonperturbative scales and glueballs in confining gauge theories"

Presented by Mohamed Anber, Lewis & Clark College

Friday, February 2, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

Studying confining gauge theories on a circle can provide answers to some of the deepest questions about QCD. In this talk, I start by summarizing the main characteristics shared by the compactified theories and their four dimensional cousins. Next, I show that the glueball spectrum of the compactified theories is much richer than what have been thought before. In particular, new nonperturbative scales and glueballs emerge in the deep IR regime of the theory. I discuss the spectrum in the context of super Yang-Mills and show that the lightest glueball states fill a chiral supermultiplet with doubly nonperturbative binding energy. I end with possible implications of these findings for the four dimensional gauge theories.

82. NSLS-II Friday Lunchtime Seminar Series

"Combining high energy x-ray diffraction techniques with laser-induced fluorescence in operando catalysis"

Presented by Uta Hejral, Lund University, Sweden

Friday, February 2, 2018, 12 pm
NSLS-II Bldg. 743 Rm 156

Hosted by: M. Abeykoon, S. Chodankar, B. Ocko, T. Tanabe, J. Thieme

83. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"The Coulomb Branch of N=4 SYM and Its Gravity dual as a New Holographic Model to QCD"

Presented by Kiminad Mamo, Stony Brook

Thursday, February 1, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Yuya Tanizaki

84. Joint BNL / SBU Seminar

"New SM Physics and the LHC"

Presented by Yuval Grossman, Cornell University

Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 2:30 pm
Stony Brook University YITP

85. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Establishing Jeff =3/2 Ground State in a Lacunar Spinel GaTa4Se8"

Presented by Myung Joon Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Sangkook Choi

In this talk, after briefly introducing the research activities in my group, I will present our recent progress on GaTa4Se8 which is known as a 'paramagnetic Mott' insulator and exhibits superconducting transition under pressure. Its low temperature behaviors found in susceptibility and specific heat measurement have not yet been clearly understood. The important first step to study these intriguing phenomena and the relationship between them is to clarify the nature of its electronic and magnetic property. By using first-principles band structure calculation and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering technique, we show that GaTa4Se8 is a novel 'Jeff=3/2 Mott' insulator in which spin-orbit interaction plays a key role to form a gap together with electronic correlation. The excitations involving the Jeff = 1/2 molecular orbital are absent only at the Ta L2 edge, manifesting the realization of the molecular Jeff = 3/2 ground state in GaTa4Se8. Based on this finding, the possible consequences of the Jeff = 3/2 state will be discussed

86. Physics Colloquium

Presented by Jeff Peterson, Carnegie Mellon University

Tuesday, January 30, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond flashes of radio emission that appear randomly across the sky. Since the first report of a burst in 2006, over 20 of these FRBs have been reported. I will review the evidence that FRB sources are at cosmological distances and therefore have inferred brightness temperatures as high as 10^35 K, twenty orders of magnitude higher than gamma ray bursts. The all-sky rate of these events is estimated to be about 5000 per day, so the new HIRAX telescope in South Africa will have the potential to detect 10 events per day. HIRAX will also localize the emission to a single galaxy, so there will be much more information on these mysterious objects in the next few years.

87. Joint Nuclear and Particle Physics Seminar

"The SNOLAB Science Programme: cutting-edge science from a deep hole in the ground"

Presented by Nigel Smith, SNOLab

Tuesday, January 30, 2018, 1:30 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Hong Ma

SNOLAB is a deep underground research facility, hosted 2km beneath the surface of the Earth in a working mine at Creighton, near Sudbury, Ontario. Initially the site of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, which unambiguously demonstrated flavour-change in neutrinos created in the fusion process of the Sun, SNOLAB now hosts a multi-disciplinary programme. Why do we need to go to such great depths to probe the Universe? This work, and several of the major questions studied in contemporary astro-particle and sub-atomic physics, such as the search for the Galactic dark matter, and studies of neutrinos from supernova, require the ultra-quiet radiation environment afforded by deep underground facilities like SNOLAB. In these facilities, the cosmic-radiation induced backgrounds in the detection systems are reduced to a manageable level, with additional shielding from natural ambient radioactivity and low background construction of detector systems. This talk will provide a review of the science programme at SNOLAB outlining the main science objectives, will review the detectors used for these studies, and outline future plans for the facility.

88. Particle Physics Seminar

"A Tale of Two Higgs"

Presented by Baojia Tong, Harvard University

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

An enhanced production of double Higgs bosons at the LHC would be a clear sign of beyond Standard Model physics. An ATLAS search is performed for resonant and non-resonant production, where the two Higgs bosons both decay to a pair of Bottom quarks. The analyses use up to ~13/36 fb−1 of p-p collision data collected at 13 TeV. The talk will focus on the boosted analysis, with the resolved analysis introduced as well. Other RunII double Higgs search results and future prospect will also be discussed.

89. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Exact results on massless 3-flavor QCD through new anomaly matching"

Presented by Yuya Tanizaki, RBRC

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Enrico Rinaldi

Recently, we find a new 't Hooft anomaly of massless 3-flavor QCD, and it turns out to be useful for constraining the possible chiral symmetry breaking at finite density and zero temperature. We briefly review the anomaly matching by a toy example, and show that massless 3-flavor QCD has an 't Hooft anomaly related to ''center'' and discrete axial symmetries. We also discuss its consequences on the expectation value of the special symmetry-twisting operator, which gives the phase diagram of so-called Z(3)-QCD.

90. Physics Colloquium

"Cold Atom Sensing: Gravity, Tomography, and Gyroscopes"

Presented by Steve Libby, LLNL

Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

The ability to use lasers to cool atoms to micro-kelvin temperatures and to subsequently control their quantum mechanical behavior1 has led to the development of exquisitely precise 'quantum' sensors.2 Applications of these sensors include the measurement of local gravitational anomalies to unprecedented accuracy and very accurate, highly stable gyroscopes. Our LLNL - AOSense, Inc. collaboration is pursuing diverse applications of these sensors that directly exploit their extraordinary scale factor stability, low noise and bias drift characteristics. These applications include shielded threat detection in passing vehicles, emergency response, and treaty verification, all of which require rapid, passive methods to determine hidden mass configurations precisely and/or verify the masses present in containers. Such dense, localized objects can in principle be discovered and accurately measured by their effect on the local gravitational field.3 Furthermore, near field measurements of these gravitational perturbations from multiple vantage points allow for a kind of gravitational 'tomography,' leading to the real-time determination of the hidden mass distribution. Additionally, we are interested in the potential of atom interferometer Sagnac gyroscopes to do accurate 'dead reckoning' navigation without the aid of GPS.4 After reviewing the physics of atom interferometry in atomic fountain-Mach-Zehnder and Sagnac configurations, I will describe the development of a 'gravity tomography' signal analysis system for vehicle portals, including the optimal synthesis of the gravitational sensor signals with complementary radiation detection.

91. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Open Heavy Flavor Mesons using CMS detector"

Presented by Professor Yen-Jie Lee, MIT

Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rongrong Ma

The measurements of heavy flavor production and collective flow could be used to extract the properties of the high-density QCD medium created in heavy-ion collisions as heavy quarks are sensitive to the transport properties of the medium and may interact with the QCD matter differently from light quarks. In particular, the comparison between the nuclear modification factors (RAA) of light- and heavy-flavor particles provides insights into the expected flavor dependence of in-medium parton energy loss. Furthermore, azimuthal anisotropy coefficient (vn) of heavy-flavor particles provide information about the degree of the thermalization of the bulk medium at low pT, and unique information about the path length dependence of heavy quark energy loss at high pT. Recently, a comprehensive heavy flavor program is established in the CMS collaboration including the detection of charm and beauty meson. Using the large statistics heavy ion data samples collected during the 2015 and 2016 LHC runs, high precision open charm and beauty measurements are performed with CMS over a wide transverse momentum range. This allows us to set an important milestone in our understanding of the interactions between heavy quarks and the medium. In this talk, the most recent results of v2 and v3 of D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV are presented and compared to the same results for charged hadrons at the same energy. Latest results on nuclear modification factor of D, non-prompt J/psi and B mesons in PbPb collisions are also presented.

92. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Spin-orbit coupling and electronic correlations in Hund's metals: Sr2RuO4"

Presented by Minjae Kim, École Polytechnique, France

Monday, January 22, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Gabi Kotliar

We investigate the interplay of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Hund's rule coupling driven electronic correlations in Sr2RuO4 using dynamical mean-field theory. We find that the orbital diagonal components of the dynamical electronic correlations are unaffected by the SOC, which validates the concept of a Hund's metal in the presence of SOC. In contrast, SOC itself is enhanced by approximately a factor of two by electronic correlations. We introduce the concept of an energy dependent quasiparticle SOC, which is found to be essential in accounting simultaneously for: (i) the Fermi surface (ii) the low-energy dispersion of quasiparticles and (iii) the splitting between bands at higher binding energy. Our calculations are in good agreement with available experimental data. References: [1-4] [1] C. Veenstra et al., Physical Review Letters 112, 127002 (2014) [2] M. Haverkort et al., Physical Review Letters 101, 026406 (2008) [3] J. Mravlje et al., Physical Review Letters 106, 096401 (2011) [4] M. Kim et al., arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02462 (2017)

93. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Semi-inclusive jet cross sections within SCET"

Presented by Felix Ringer, LBL

Friday, January 19, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

We review the de nition of semi-inclusive jet functions within Soft Collinear E ective Theory (SCET) and their application to inclusive jet cross sections. We consider the fully inclusive production cross section of jets as well as several jet substructure observables in proton-proton collisions relevant for the LHC and RHIC. The corresponding semi-inclusive jet functions satisfy renormalization group (RG) equations which take the form of standard timelike DGLAP evolution equations, analogous to collinear fragmentation functions. By solving these RG equations, the resummation of potentially large single logarithms n s lnn R can be achieved. We present numerical results at NLO+NLLR accuracy and compare to the available data.

94. Particle Physics Seminar

"Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a b quark pair with the ATLAS detector at LHC"

Presented by Thomas Calvet, Stony Brook University

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

The discovery of a particle compatible with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at LHC is a milestone in particle physics. In order to assess whether or not this Higgs boson belongs to the SM, it is necessary to measure its properties, in particular its coupling to the top quark (the strongest Yukawa coupling in the SM). The associated production of a Higgs boson with a pair of top quarks, ttH gives the most favorable direct access to the top quark Yukawa coupling and is accessible for the first time in LHC Run 2. A search for the ttH production with the Higgs boson decaying into a b quark pair, ttH(bb), will be presented. It uses the 36.1 fb^-1 of data recorded by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016. The main limitation to the search of ttH(bb) events is the tt+jets background and its systematic uncertainties. To achieve sufficient sensitivity, this complex analysis relies on several advanced tools to separate the leading background tt+jets from the signal, and to extract both of these processes from data (multi-variate analysis, profile likelihood fit, etc.). All these key aspects of the analysis will be discussed. The combination of the ttH(bb) channel with the other decay modes is necessary to improve the sensitivity to the ttH production mode. This combination leads to 4.2 sigma evidence of the ttH production and will be also presented.

95. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"World-line Approach to Chiral Kinetic Theory and the Chiral Magnetic Effect"

Presented by Niklas Mueller, BNL

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 1-224

Hosted by: Enrico Rinaldi

Experimental searches for messengers of CP- and P- odd phenomena at RHIC and LHC have attracted much interest and are a prime motivation for significant theoretical effort: Anomalous and topological effects receive important contributions from the pre-equilibrium phase of a collision and an interesting question of phenomenological relevance is how the chiral imbalance generated at early times persists through a fluctuating background of sphalerons in addition to other "non-anomalous" interactions with the QGP. To address this question, we construct a relativistic chiral kinetic theory using the world-line formulation of quantum field theory. We outline how Berry's phase arises in this framework, and how its effects can be clearly distinguished from those arising from the chiral anomaly. We further outline how this framework can be matched to classical statistical simulations at early times and to anomalous chiral hydrodynamics at late times.

96. Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar

"Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Long-Duration Floods using Physics Informed Bayesian Multilevel Models"

Presented by Naresh Devineni, CUNY

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 11 am
Conference Room Bldg 815E

Hosted by: Bob McGraw

Long duration floods cause substantial damage and prolonged interruptions to water resource facilities, critical infrastructure, and regional economic development. We present a novel physics-based model for inference of such floods with a deeper understanding of dynamically integrated nexus of land surface wetness, effective atmospheric blocking/circulation, and moisture transport/release mechanism. Diagnostic results indicate that the flood duration is varying in proportion to the antecedent flow condition which itself is a function of the available moisture in the air, the persistency in atmospheric pressure blocking, convergence of water vapor, and the effectiveness of divergent wind to condense the aforesaid atmospheric water vapor into liquid precipitation. A physics-based Bayesian inference model is developed that considers the complex interactions between moisture transport, synoptic-to-large-scale atmospheric blocking/circulation pattern, and the antecedent wetness condition in the basin. We explain more than 80% variations in flood duration with a high success rate on the occurrence of long duration floods. Our findings underline that the synergy between a large persistent low-pressure blocking system and a higher rate of divergent wind often triggers a long duration flood, even in the presence of moderate moisture supply in the atmosphere. This condition in turn causes an extremely long duration flood if the basin-wide surface wetness prior to the flood event was already high.

97. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

""In situ characterization of the phase behavior of metal oxides at extreme conditions""

Presented by Leighanne Gallington, Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Ian Robinson

In situ characterization of the phase behavior of materials in the lab is complicated by the difficulty of designing compatible sample environments as well as the long time scales required to acquire diffraction data with sufficient counting statistics for crystallographic analyses. The high energy x-rays available at synchrotron sources allow for penetration of most sample environments, while high flux allows for rapid acquisition of diffraction patterns, thereby allowing construction of detailed phase diagrams. Low and negative thermal expansion (NTE) materials have been studied extensively, as they can potentially be used to create composites with finely controlled thermal expansion characteristics, improved resistance to thermal shock, and a broader range of operating temperatures.1-4 While the thermal expansion behavior of the NTE materials ZrW2O8 and HfW2O8 was well-described at ambient pressures,4-6 knowledge of the effects of stress on their thermal expansion was limited.7 In situ synchrotron powder diffraction was utilized to explore the role of orientational disorder in determining both the phase behavior and the thermoelastic properties of these materials. An especially designed pressure cell allowed for simultaneous sampling of temperatures up to 513 K and pressures up to 414 MPa.8 Reversible compression-induced orientational disordering of MO4 tetrahedra occurred concomitantly with elastic softening on heating and enhanced negative thermal expansion upon compression in ZrW2O8 and HfW2O8, but only in the ordered phase.9, 10 In light of the comparatively recent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, understanding interactions and phase behavior in nuclear fuels under severe accident conditions is of paramount interest. While diffraction measurements have been performed on materials recovered from melts of corium (UO2-ZrO2), there is a lack of in situ characterization of this material at elevated temperatures. Achieving the extreme temperatures required

98. Physics Colloquium

"Nuclear nonproliferation: the role of Brookhaven, and the nuclear agreement with Iran"

Presented by Susan Pepper & Leslie Fishbone, BNL

Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

99. Particle Physics Seminar

"Improved Point Source Detection in Crowded Fields using Probabilistic Cataloguing"

Presented by Stephen Portillo, Harvard University

Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Erin Sheldon

Cataloging is challenging in crowded fields because sources are extremely covariant with their neighbors and blending makes even the number of sources ambiguous. We present the first optical probabilistic stellar catalogue, cataloguing a crowded (~0.1 sources per pixel) SDSS r band image from M2. We show that our probabilistic catalogue goes more than a magnitude deeper than the DAOPHOT while having a lower false discovery rate brighter than 20th magnitude. We detail our efforts to speed up the method and extend it to galaxies, making probabilistic cataloguing applicable to the data that will be collected in the LSST era.

100. HET Lunch Discussions

"Precision physics in the LHC era"

Presented by Pier Paolo Giardino, BNL

Friday, January 12, 2018, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

101. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Singular density fluctuations in the strange metal phase of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x observed with momentum-resolved EELS (M-EELS)"

Presented by Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Friday, January 12, 2018, 11 am
ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Peter D. Johnson

High-temperature superconductivity arises out of an anomalous normal state commonly referred to as a "bad" or "strange" metal, since it lacks the usual signatures of electron quasiparticles. In ordinary metals, such quasiparticles manifest as propagating collective modes encoded in the dynamic charge susceptibility ??(q,?), which describes the response of the system to applied fields. However, the analogous collective modes of a strange metal are currently unknown. Here, we present the first measurement of ??(q,?) for a prototypical strange metal, Bi2.1Sr1.9CaCu2O8+x (BSCCO), using momentum-resolved inelastic electron scattering (M-EELS). We discover a surprising energy- and momentum-independent continuum of fluctuations extending up to 1 eV, at odds with the dispersive plasmons expected in normal metals. This spectrum is found to be temperature-independent across the superconducting phase transition at optimal doping. Tuning the composition to overdoping, where a crossover to Fermi liquid behavior is expected, this momentum-independent continuum is found to persist, though a 0.5 eV gap-like feature now emerges at low temperature. Our results indicate that the phenomenon underlying the strange metal is a singular form a charge dynamics of a new kind, that does not fit into any known picture of quantum critical scaling.

102. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Bose condensation of excitons in TiSe2"

Presented by Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Thursday, January 11, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Peter D. Johnson

Bose condensation has shaped our understanding of macroscopic quantum phenomena, having been realized in superconductors, atomic gases, and liquid helium. Excitons are bosons that have been predicted to condense into either a superfluid or an insulating electronic crystal. But definitive evidence for a thermodynamically stable exciton condensate has never been achieved. In this talk I will describe our use of momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy (M-EELS) to study the valence plasmon in the transition metal dichalcogenide semimetal, 1T-TiSe2. Near the phase transition temperature, TC = 190 K, the plasmon energy falls to zero at nonzero momentum, indicating dynamical slowing down of plasma fluctuations and crystallization of the valence electrons into an exciton condensate. At low temperature, the plasmon evolves into an amplitude mode of this electronic crystal. Our study represents the first observation of a soft plasmon in any material, the first definitive evidence for exciton condensation in a three-dimensional solid, and the discovery of a new form of matter, "excitonium."

103. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Three-dimensional gauge theories using lattice regularization"

Presented by Nikhil Karthik

Thursday, January 11, 2018, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Yuya Tanizaki

Three-dimensional gauge theories with massless fermions provide a simple yet non-perturbative setting to understand why QCD has a scale, and also provide effective descriptions of condensed matter systems. Along these lines, I will present results on infra-red scaling and scale-breaking in three-dimensional QED, QCD and large-Nc theories. I will also present some preliminary results on three-dimensional QED with one flavor of fermion regulated with and without parity anomaly.

104. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

""Photoemission studies of the electronic properties of rare-earth intermetallics and oxide interface""

Presented by Alla Chikina, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Monday, January 8, 2018, 3 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Cedomir Petrovic

Longer than 70 years solid state research has been focused on the study of materials with strong electron correlations due to their remarkable electronic and magnetic properties. In such systems, the average energy of the Coulomb interaction is greater or comparable to its kinetic energy and electrons tend to be localized. This localization is strong enough that electrons can be considered in the framework of the atomic approach. Interaction with itinerant electrons makes the interpretation of their physical properties more complicated. A typical example of a strongly-correlated system contains transition and rare earth (RE) elements. Here, I present both theoretical and experimental insight into the itinerant-localized electron interaction in rare-earth 122 silicides (RERh2Si2). The properties of RERh2Si2 change from the heavy-fermion behavior in YbRh2Si2 up to well-pronounced magnetic properties in EuRh2Si2 and GdRh2Si2. The competition between the Kondo effect and the magnetic RKKY interactions determines the properties of a large class of materials which have localized 4f magnetic moments coupled to itinerant valence electrons. The strong electron correlations, also well known in the transition metal oxides, rise up their remarkable functional and magnetic properties. It gives a route in a manipulation of electron, spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom for novel electronic and spintronic devices based on oxide interfaces. An important role in the electronic and magnetic properties of this interface is played by oxygen vacancies which form a dichotomic electron system where strongly correlated localized electrons in the in-gap states (IGSs) coexist with less correlated ones constituting the mobile two-dimensional electron system (2DES). On the example of the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 we consider a complex band ordering in the dichotomic LAO/STO electron system that goes beyond the conventional eg vs t2g picture.

105. Nuclear Theory Seminar

"Thermodynamics of string bits"

Presented by Sourav Raha, University of Florida

Monday, January 8, 2018, 11 am
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrey Tarasov

We study the Hagedorn transition in the singlet sector of the simplest super-string bit model in the tensionless limit. The gauge group of our model is SU(N) and this transition takes place when N is infinite. We use orthogonality of group characters in order to calculate the partition function. At the Hagedorn temperature there is a change in the distribution of parameters that maximize this partition function. We conclude by devising a field-theoretic interpretation of the this phenomenon.

106. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Thermodynamics of string bits"

Presented by Sourav Raha, University of Florida

Friday, January 5, 2018, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

We study the Hagedorn transition in the singlet sector of the simplest super-string bit model in the tensionless limit. The gauge group of our model is SU(N) and this transition takes place when N is infinite. We use orthogonality of group characters in order to calculate the partition function. At the Hagedorn temperature there is a change in the distribution of parameters that maximize this partition function. We conclude by devising a field-theoretic interpretation of the this phenomenon.

107. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Illuminating rationally engineered complex oxides"

Presented by Derek Meyers, BNL

Friday, January 5, 2018, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Mark Dean

Advances in unit cell scale synthesis have unlocked the ability to create artificial materials at the interface of complex oxides. This opens the door to the rational design of materials properties. To explore the spin, charge, and orbital character of these synthetic materials, resonant x-ray scattering techniques are utilized which unveil their long-range ordering and low energy excitations. In this talk, we will explore several recent examples of this new methodology and provide an outlook on the future of this emergent field.

108. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Spin fluctuations in 122 transition metal arsenides measured using inelastic neutron scattering technique"

Presented by Aashish Sapkota, Ames Laboratory

Thursday, December 21, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

122 transition metal compounds with ThCr2Si2-type structure have been extensively studied because of their wide range of interesting physical properties like superconductivity, valence fluctuations, various magnetic ground states, etc. A subset (ATM2Pn2) of this class consisting of alkaline earth metals (A), 3d transition metals (TM) and pnictogen (Pn) attracted significant interest after discovery of an unconventional superconductivity in 122 iron arsenide compounds. In 122 iron arsenide superconductors, magnetism is in close proximity to the superconductivity and the spin fluctuations are considered as a key component for the pairing mechanism for superconductivity. These properties as well as the wide range of magnetic ground states, found in ATM2As2, motivated a detail studies of the magnetism in these compounds and neutron scattering technique has been extensively used for the study. In this seminar, I will discuss our results of inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the spin fluctuations in two compounds [CaCo1.86As2 and Ca(Fe1-xCox)2As2] of ATM2Pn2 class. First, I will discuss extremely extended spin fluctuations along two directions of reciprocal space in CaCo1.86As2, which shows A-type antiferromagnetic ground states. The result suggests that CaCo1.86As2 is highly-frustrated and is a unique example of highly-frustrated square-lattice system. Next, I will discuss the evolution of the spin fluctuations in Co-doped CaFe2As2 and compare it to that of Co-doped BaFe2As2. In this part, I will also discuss a peculiar suppression of the spin fluctuations with temperature observed in Ca(Fe1-xCox)2As2, x = 0.030 compound, which shows superconducting ground state.

109. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Simultaneous extraction of spin-dependent parton distributions"

Presented by Nobuo Sato, Jlab/University of Connecticut

Friday, December 15, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrey Tarasov

In this talk, I will present a recent global QCD analysis of spin-dependent PDFs and FFs using a MC methodology by the Jefferson Angular Momentum collaboration (JAM).

110. HET Seminar

"Searching for Ultralight Particles with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves"

Presented by Masha Baryakhtar, Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

The LIGO detection of gravitational waves has opened a new window on the universe. I will discuss how the process of superradiance, combined with gravitational wave measurements, makes black holes into nature's laboratories to search for new light bosons, from axions to dark photons. When a bosonic particle's Compton wavelength is comparable to the horizon size of a black hole, superradiance of these bosons into hydrogenic' bound states extracts energy and angular momentum from the black hole. The occupation number of the levels grows exponentially and the black hole spins down. One candidate for such an ultralight boson is the QCD axion with decay constant above the GUT scale. Current black hole spin measurements disfavor a factor of 30 (400) in axion (vector) mass; future measurements can provide evidence of a new boson. Particles transitioning between levels and annihilating to gravitons may produce thousands of monochromatic gravitational wave signals, and turn LIGO into a particle detector.

111. Physics Colloquium

"The "self-stirred" genome: Bulk and surface dynamics of the chromatin globule"

Presented by Alexandra Zidovska, New York University

Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Chromatin structure and dynamics control all aspects of DNA biology yet are poorly understood. In interphase, time between two cell divisions, chromatin fills the cell nucleus in its minimally condensed polymeric state. Chromatin serves as substrate to a number of biological processes, e.g. gene expression and DNA replication, which require it to become locally restructured. These are energy-consuming processes giving rise to nonequilibrium dynamics. Chromatin dynamics has been traditionally studied by imaging of fluorescently labeled nuclear proteins and single DNA-sites, thus focusing only on a small number of tracer particles. Recently, we developed an approach, displacement correlation spectroscopy (DCS) based on time-resolved image correlation analysis, to map chromatin dynamics simultaneously across the whole nucleus in cultured human cells [1]. DCS revealed that chromatin movement was coherent across large regions (4–5μm) for several seconds. Regions of coherent motion extended beyond the boundaries of single-chromosome territories, suggesting elastic coupling of motion over length scales much larger than those of genes [1]. These largescale, coupled motions were ATP-dependent and unidirectional for several seconds. Following these observations, we developed a hydrodynamic theory of active chromatin dynamics, using the two-fluid model and describing the content of cell nucleus as a chromatin solution, which is subject to both passive thermal fluctuations and active (ATP-consuming) scalar and vector events [2]. In this work we continue in our efforts to elucidate the mechanism and function of the chromatin dynamics in interphase. We investigate the chromatin interactions with the nuclear envelope and compare the surface dynamics of the chromatin globule with its bulk dynamics [3]. Furthermore, we explore the rheology of the chromatin inside the cell nucleus using the native subnuclear structures [4]. [1] Zidovska A, Weitz DA, Mitchi

112. Particle Physics Seminar

"A Unified Program of Argon Dark Matter Searches: DarkSide-20k and The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration"

Presented by Cristiano Galbiati, Princeton University

Monday, December 11, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

: Experimenters from four different argon dark matter searches have joined their forces in the the "Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration" to carry out a unified program for dark matter direct detection. The participants are researchers currently working on the ArDM experiment at LSC; on the DarkSide-50 experiment at LNGS; on the DEAP-3600 experiment at SNOLab; and on the MiniCLEAN experiment at SNOLab. In 2015/2016 The DarkSide-50 experiment at LNGS produced two zero-background science results, along with a comparison of the results obtained with both atmospheric and underground argon fills, demonstrating the ability of large experiments to eliminate background from betas/gammas at the tens of tonne-year exposure. The DEAP-3600 experiment at SNOLAB is the first tonne-scale experiment to achieve both stable operations and an extended physics run. DEAP-3600 has been collecting physics data with over 3 tonnes of argon since late 2016 and published its first results in 2017. Researchers from the four experiments will jointly carry out as the single next step at the scale of a few tens of tonnes the DarkSide-20k experiment. DarkSide-20k was approved in 2017 by the Italian INFN, by the host laboratory LNGS, and by the US NSF. DarkSide-20k is also officially and jointly supported by the three underground laboratories LNGS, LSC, and SNOLab. DarkSide-20k is a 20-tonne fiducial volume dual-phase TPC to be operated at LNGS with an underground argon fill, designed to collect an exposure of 100 tonne×years, completely free of neutron-induced nuclear recoil background and all electron recoil background. DarkSide-20k is set to start operating by 2021 and will have sensitivity to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross sections of 1.2 × 10−47 cm2 for WIMPs of 1 TeV/c2 mass, to be achieved during a 5 year run. An extended 10 year run could produce an exposure of 200 tonne×years, with sensitivity for the cross-section of 7.4 × 10&min

113. Special HET Seminar

"Effective Theories and Phenomenology of Dark Mesons"

Presented by Graham Kribs, University of Oregon

Monday, December 11, 2017, 1:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hooman Davoudiasl

114. HET Lunch Discussions

"A precise determination of the QCD coupling by the ALPHA Collaboration"

Presented by Mattia Bruno, BNL

Friday, December 8, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

115. Particle Physics Seminar

"Machine Learning Analysis of Ising Worms"

Presented by Sam Foreman, University of Iowa

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

Motivated by recent results demonstrating the applicability of machine learning techniques to quantum spin systems, we explore an application of the worm algorithm to the two dimensional Ising model. We begin by presenting the high temperature expansion of the Ising model, which is used to generate equilibrium configurations of "worms" represented as two¬dimensional greyscale images. From these configurations, we are then able to calculate physical quantities of interest. In particular, we are able to identify the logarithmic divergence of the specific heat at the critical temperature. We then propose a complementary approach using machine learning techniques (in particular, principal component analysis, (PCA)) which also successfully identifies the divergent behavior near criticality. Finally, we investigate the behavior of the previously mentioned concepts under a renormalization group coarse¬graining procedure, and present ideas for future research.

116. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Pushing the boundaries of relativistic fluid dynamics"

Presented by Jorge Noronha

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Enrico Rinaldi

For nearly a century, dissipative effects have been included in fluid dynamics using gradients of macroscopic quantities such as the temperature and fluid velocity. Recently, results from heavy ion collision experiments and explicit model calculations have pushed the boundaries of relativistic fluid dynamics towards the far-from-equilibrium regime. In this talk I will present calculations of the large order behavior of the gradient expansion, both in kinetic theory and in holography, which have demonstrated that this series has zero radius of convergence. I will discuss the role played by novel non-equilibrium attractor solutions in determining the emergence of fluid dynamic behavior in many-body systems under extreme conditions.

117. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Examples of translational research using thermoelectric oxides"

Presented by Ryoji Funahashi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan

Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 3 pm
Conference Room, Building 480

Hosted by: Qiang Li

We have been relishing a lot of affluence thanks to energy. Fossil energy provides us fun to drive, warmth to escape from cold, brightness of illumination, etc. However consumption of the fossil fuel produces CO2. The amount of CO2 emission will increase with increasing consumption of fossil energy, gas, oil, and coal year by year. The average of total utilizing efficiency of the primary energy is as low as 30 %, with 70 % exhausted to the air as waste heat. It is clear that improved efficiencies of energy conversion systems could have a significant impact on energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission rate. Where a large sum of heat is localized, mechanical conversion systems can be used to generate electricity. However, most sources of waste heat are widely dispersed. Although technologies of storage and transport of such the dilute heat energy have been developed, most waste heat can't be used effectively. Electricity is a convenient form of energy that is easily transported, redirected, and stored, thus there are a number of advantages to the conversion of waste heat emitted from our living and industrial activities to electricity. Thermoelectric conversion is paid attention as the strongest candidate to generate electricity from dilute waste heat. Oxide materials are considered to be promising ones because of their durability against high temperature, low cost for producing etc. The misfit CoO2 compounds show high thermoelectric efficiency at high temperature in air. Thermoelectric modules using p-type Ca3Co4O9, one of the CoO2 compounds and n-type CaMnO3 have been produced [1, 2]. The maximum power density against area of the substrate of the module reaches 4.3 kW/m2 at 973 K of the heat source temperature [3]. Portable power generation units composed of an oxide thermoelectric module. Water circulation and batteries for air cooling are unnecessary for thermoelectric conversion. The units can generate 2-5 W using heat energy with temperature of 300-8

118. Physics Colloquium

"Thinking inside the box - hadron resonances in QCD"

Presented by Jozef Dudek, JLab

Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Rob Pisarski

I will describe how we can make use of the finite box in which lattice QCD calculations are performed to learn something about hadron scattering amplitudes from first principles. These amplitudes contain information about the resonance structure of QCD and hence the spectrum of excited mesons and baryons. I'll present the results of recent calculations in which the lightest scalar, vector and tensor mesons have been studied.

119. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN seminar

"Medium modification of jet and jet-induced medium excitation"

Presented by Shanshan Cao, Wayne State University

Friday, December 1, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

A coupled linear Boltzmann transport and hydrodynamics model (CoLBT-hydro) is developed for concurrent simulation of jet propagation and hydrodynamic evolution in high-energy nuclear collisions. Diverse microscopic scattering processes (elastic and inelastic) are incorporated for parton showers, and both massive and massless partons are calculated on the same footing. Energy deposition from jets into nuclear matter is treated as source term of hydrodynamic evolution. Within this CoLBT-hydro model, nuclear modification of heavy and light flavor hadrons are simultaneously described. Evidence of jet-induced medium excitation is explored with photon-triggered jets, where significant enhancement of soft hadron production is found due to energy deposition from jets.

120. HET Lunch Discussions

"Double Higgs Production in the Complex Singlet Extended Standard Model"

Presented by Matt Sullivan, University of Kansas

Friday, December 1, 2017, 12:15 pm
Orange Room

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

121. HET Seminar

"Do Electroweak Corrections Violate Factorization?"

Presented by Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon U

Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Eder Izaguirre

122. Particle Physics Seminar

"The strong CP-problem and axion dark matter searches"

Presented by Yannis Semertzidis, KAIST and IBS

Monday, November 27, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chao Zhang

The strong CP-problem, i.e. why is the neutron EDM experimental limit is at least ten orders of magnitude lower than expected from the theory of QCD is one of the mysteries in physics today. Peccei and Quinn came up with a solution to the strong CP-problem at the expense of requiring an extra pseudo-scalar particle, the axion. It turns out, the axion at a certain mass range is also an ideal dark matter candidate and it can be detected via its conversion to microwave photons in the presence of a strong magnetic field. IBS/CAPP in South Korea, the center for axion and precision physics research of the institute for basic science, was established to elucidate the strong CP-problem and in particular the axion dark matter mystery. I'm going to give an overview of the history of axion dark matter searches, the present status and the plans for answering whether or not axions are a significant part of the dark matter in our galaxy.

123. Physics Colloquium

"Numerical Relativity in the Multimessenger Era"

Presented by Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

The recent discovery of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO ushered in a new kind of astronomy, one potentially integrating its findings with those obtained from electromagnetic and/or neutrino observations. Multi-messenger astronomy promises to revolutionize our understanding of the universe by providing dramatically contrasting views of the same objects. To understand this unprecedented wealth of observational evidence, computer intensive theoretical calculations of the Einstein field equations, coupled with the equations of magneto-hydrodynamics, are required in order to link data with underlying physics. In this talk, I will provide a review on the recent progress in this exciting field of computational astrophysics. With Advanced LIGO now fully operational and the detection of additional gravitational wave events imminent, we expect that there will be a surge in the number of researchers interested in performing simulations of compact binary mergers.

124. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Higher-order corrections to jet quenching"

Presented by Yacine Mehtar-Tani, University of Washington

Friday, November 17, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

The phenomenon of jet quenching in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions reveals to effect of substantial finial state interactions which cause QCD jets to lose energy to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), mainly by induced gluon radiation. In standard analytic approaches to energy loss, jets are approximated by single partons and thus higher-order effects in the strong coupling constant are neglected. This may prove insufficient to reliably extract QGP properties at high pT, where a significant jet suppression was recently reported by the ATLAS collaboration in PbPb collisions at the LHC. In this work we explore higher-order corrections to the inclusive jet spectrum which may be sizable owing to the fact that the probability for a highly virtual parton to split in the medium increases with the jet pT. As the effective number of jet constituents increases, jets are expected to lose more energy than a single color charge. This translates into large logarithmic enhancements of higher-orders in the perturbative series, that need to be resummed. As a result we obtain a Sudakov-like suppression factor which we investigate in the leading logarithmic approximation. We note, however, that the phase space for higher-order corrections is mitigated by coherence effects that relate to the fact that, below a characteristic angular scale, the medium does not resolve the inner jet structure. In this case, the jet lose energy coherently as a single color charge, namely, the primary parton.

125. HET Lunch Discussions

"Unified Scenario for Composite Right-Handed Neutrinos and Dark Matter"

Presented by Pier Paolo Giardino

Friday, November 17, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

126. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Complementary response of static spin-stripe order and superconductivity to non-magnetic impurities and pressure in cuprates"

Presented by Zurab Guguchia, Columbia University

Thursday, November 16, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734, Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Emil Bozin

Cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) have complex phase diagrams with multiple competing ordered phases. Understanding to which degree charge, spin, and superconducting orders compete or coexist is paramount for elucidating the microscopic pairing mechanism in the cuprate HTSs. In this talk, i will report some novel results of muonspin rotation (μSR), neutron Scattering and magnetization experiments on non-magnetic Zn impurity and hydrostatic pressure effects on the static spin-stripe order and superconductivity in the La214 cuprates [1,2]. Namely, in La2−xBaxCu1−yZnyO4 (0.11 ≤ x ≤ 0.17) and La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12Cu1−yZnyO4. Remarkably, it was found that in these systems the spin-stripe ordering temperature Tso decreases linearly with Zn doping y and disappears at y ≈ 4 % , demonstrating the extreme sensitivity of static spin-stripe order to impurities within a CuO2 plane. Moreover, Tso is suppressed in the same manner as the superconducting transition temperature Tc by Zn impurities. We also observed the same pressure evolution of both Tc and Tso in La2−xBaxCuO4, while there is an antagonistic pressure evolution of magnetic volume fraction and superfluid density [1,2,3]. These results indicate that static spin-stripe order and SC pairing correlations develop in a cooperative fashion in La214 cuprates. In other words, the existence of the stripe order requires intertwining with the SC pairing correlations, such as occurs in the proposed pair-density wave (PDW) state [4]. [1] Z. Guguchia et. al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 214511 (2016). [2] Z. Guguchia et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087002 (2017). [3] Z. Guguchia et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 057002 (2014). [4] E. Fradkin, S.A. Kivelson, and J.M. Tranquada, Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 457 (2015).

127. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"QCD from gluon, quark, and meson correlators"

Presented by Mario Mitter, BNL

Thursday, November 16, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

We present non-perturbative first-principle results for quark-, gluon- and meson 1PI correlation functions of two-flavour Landau-gauge QCD in the vacuum and Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature. They are obtained by solving their Functional Renormalisation Group equations in a systematic vertex expansion, aiming at apparent convergence within a self-consistent approximation scheme. These correlation functions carry the full information about the theory and their connection to physical observables is discussed. The presented calculations represent a crucial prerequisite for quantitative first-principle studies of QCD and its phase diagram within this framework. In particular, we have computed the ghost, quark and scalar-pseudoscalar meson propagators, as well as gluon, ghost-gluon, quark-gluon, quark, quark-meson, and meson interactions and the magnetic and electric components of the gluon propagator, and the three- and four-gluon vertices. Our results stress the crucial importance of the quantitatively correct running of different vertices in the semi-perturbative regime for describing the phenomena and scales of confinement and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking without phenomenological input. We confront our results for the correlators with lattice simulations and compare our Debye mass to hard thermal loop perturbation theory. Finally, applications to "QCD-enhanced" low-energy effective models of QCD are discussed.

128. HET Seminar

"Analysis of a Dilaton EFT for Lattice Data"

Presented by Thomas Appelquist, Yale University

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Mattio Bruno

129. Physics Colloquium

""The muon anomalous magnetic moment — A precision test of the standard model""

Presented by Christoph Lehner, BNL

Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Robert Pisarski

The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is one of the most precisely determined quantities in particle physics. It is currently known both experimentally and from theory to approximately 1/2 parts per million. Interestingly, there is an approximate 3—4 sigma tension between theory computation and the experimental value (BNL E821) which may hint at new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. In this talk, I review the current status of a soon-expected improved experimental measurement (FNAL E989) and recent rapid progress in reducing the uncertainty of the standard model theory computation.

130. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Fermilab E-906/SeaQuest: A novel nucleon structure laboratory"

Presented by Bryan Ramson, University of Michigan

Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Oleg Eyser

SeaQuest is the latest iteration in a series of Fermilab experiments designed to probe nucleon structure using the Drell-Yan process. The most recent ancestor of SeaQuest, E866/NuSea, used the Drell-Yan process to provide the most comprehensive observations of the light-quark flavor asymmetry to date, which suggested significant non-pertubative effects in the nucleon sea. Other measurements concerning cold nuclear matter, J/Psi production, and Drell-Yan angular distributions were conducted as well. SeaQuest aims to complement the flagship NuSea measurement by probing higher seaquark momenta at a lower center-of-mass energy and higher intensity. A summary of the light-quark flavor asymmetry measurement status will be reported as well as the status of various parallel analyses, one of which could have implications for the Boer-Mulders initial state TMD.

131. Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

"Using Modeling and Machine Learning to Accelerate High-Throughput Experimental Materials Discovery"

Presented by Jason R. Hattrick-Simpers, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Monday, November 13, 2017, 11 am
CFN, Bldg. 735, Conference Room A, 1st Floor

Hosted by: Matthew Sfeir

Over the past 10 years there has been a resurgent interest in the development of novel metallic alloys, both as multiple principle component solid solution alloys, so-called high entropy alloys (HEA) as well as amorphous metallic glasses. Although a number of empirical rules have been proposed for the prediction of potential alloy compositions, calculating their stability and quantifying their properties of interest at operating temperatures from first principles represents a significant challenge. In fact, even high-throughput experimental studies struggle to effectively explore such large composition-processing-property parameter spaces efficiently. Here, I will discuss an approach that seeks to address the rational experimental exploration of such alloys by combining theory, experiment and data science. Our approach is to use insights from the literature, theory, and/or data mining to identify the regions of parameter space most likely to yield interesting materials. We then employ computationally guided high-throughput synthesis techniques to strategically probe composition and processing space. In situ synchrotron diffraction studies yield tens of thousands of data sets describing the evolution of the alloy phase and corrosion products. The data are evaluated using automated knowledge extraction techniques, enabling us to assess our experiments, update the models used to generate the initial lead materials, and plan the next material system to study. In this talk, I will emphasize our recent work using these techniques to investigate phase stability in metallic glasses.

132. Particle Physics - SB/BNL Joint Cosmo seminar (at BNL)

"Dark Matter Searches with CCDs and the Sensei Experiment"

Presented by Dr. Javier Tiffenberg, FNAL

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Erin Sheldon

133. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Quasiparticle spectra from stochastic many-body methods"

Presented by Vojtech Vlcek, University of California, Los Angeles

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Gabi Kotliar

I will present new developments and applications of stochastic approaches to electronic structure and many-body perturbation theory, which overcome the steep scaling of conventional deterministic schemes. The general principles of linear-scaling stochastic methods for TDDFT, GW and BSE will be discussed and exemplified on realistic nanoscale systems with more than 5000 valence electrons. The stochastic approaches enable mapping the evolution of optical absorption, spectral functions and quasiparticle energies and lifetimes, as well as the emergence of collective excitations, over the full range from molecules to large bulk-like 3D nanoclusters and 2D layers.

134. HET Seminar

"Tomorrow's Colloquium: Joanna Kiryluk: IceCube: Understanding the High Energy Universe with Cosmic Neutrinos"

Presented by Linda Carpenter, Ohio State University

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Sally Dawson

Though the Higgs has a non trivial branching fraction -8 percent, to light jets, this is a very hard channel to directly capture with the LHC. We study the Higgs boson (h ) decay to two light jets at the 14 TeV High-Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC), where a light jet (j ) represents any nonflavor-tagged jet from the observational point of view. The decay mode Higgs to gluons is chosen as the benchmark since it is the dominant channel in the Standard Model, but the bound obtained is also applicable to the light quarks. We estimate the achievable bounds on the decay branching fractions through the associated production V h (V =W±,Z ). Events of the Higgs boson decaying into heavy (tagged) or light (untagged) jets are correlatively analyzed. We find that with 3000 fb-1 data at the HL-LHC corresponds to a reachable upper bound of a few times the SM prediction. Which can ten be turned into a bound on the Higgs couplings to gluons and light quark flavors. A consistency fit also leads to an upper bound on the Higgs to charm coupling. The estimated bound may be further strengthened by adopting multiple variable analyses or adding other production channels.

135. Updated HET Seminar

"Capturing Higgs Boson Decays to Light Jets at LHC"

Presented by Linda Carpenter, Ohio State University

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Christopher Murphy

Though the Higgs has a non trivial branching fraction -8 percent, to light jets, this is a very hard channel to directly capture with the LHC. We study the Higgs boson (h ) decay to two light jets at the 14 TeV High-Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC), where a light jet (j ) represents any nonflavor-tagged jet from the observational point of view. The decay mode Higgs to gluons is chosen as the benchmark since it is the dominant channel in the Standard Model, but the bound obtained is also applicable to the light quarks. We estimate the achievable bounds on the decay branching fractions through the associated production V h (V =W±,Z ). Events of the Higgs boson decaying into heavy (tagged) or light (untagged) jets are correlatively analyzed. We find that with 3000 fb-1 data at the HL-LHC corresponds to a reachable upper bound of a few times the SM prediction. Which can ten be turned into a bound on the Higgs couplings to gluons and light quark flavors. A consistency fit also leads to an upper bound on the Higgs to charm coupling. The estimated bound may be further strengthened by adopting multiple variable analyses or adding other production channels.

136. Physics Colloquium

"Building an entanglement sharing quantum network"

Presented by Professor Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Andrei Nomerotski

In the first part of our talk we will show how to produce photonic quantum entanglement and how to store it and distribute it by optically manipulating the properties of room temperature atomic clouds. We will discuss our recent experiments in which several quantum devices are already interconnected forming an elementary quantum cryptographic network. We will also discuss our progress regarding the construction of an entanglement sharing link between Stony Brook and BNL. In the second part we will show our progress regarding the construction of an analog quantum computer capable of simulating relativistic dynamics using atoms and quantized light. We will show how our device is already capable of simulating Dirac and Jackiw-Rebbi Hamiltonians as well as the road map towards simulating Quantum Field Theory Hamiltonians.

137. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Proximity effects in cuprate/manganite multilayers"

Presented by Christian Bernhard, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Monday, November 6, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Seminar Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Chris Homes

Recently we observed an intriguing, magnetic-filed-induced insulator-to-metal transition in YBa2Cu3O7/Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (YBCO/PCMO) multilayers [1]. In the low field regime, the response of these multilayers is highly resistive and resembles the one of granular superconductors or frustrated Josephson-networks. Notably, a coherent superconducting response can be restored with a large magnetic field. The latter also suppresses the charge/orbital order of the PCMO layers towards a ferromagnetic state. This coincidence suggests an intimate relationship between the insulator-to-superconductor transition in the YBCO layer and the suppression of the charge/orbital order in the PCMO. I will discuss the evidence, based on resonant x-ray scattering experiments, that the latter induces (or strongly enhances) a static Cu-CDW order in YBCO that is intertwined with superconductivity. [1] B.P.P. Mallett et al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 180503(R) (2016).

138. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

Presented by Gerald Miller, University of Washington

Friday, November 3, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

139. HET Lunch Discussions

"Dark Parity Violation After Qweak and Future Neutrino Physics Discussion"

Presented by William J. Marciano, BNL

Friday, November 3, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

140. Updated HET Lunch Discussions

""Dark Parity Violation After Qweak and Future Neutrino Physics Discussion" (Neutrino Discovery Initiative)"

Presented by William J. Marciano, BNL

Friday, November 3, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

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141. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Wandering amongst the Feynamn diagrams"

Presented by Nikolay Prokofiev, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Friday, November 3, 2017, 11 am
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Igor Zaliznyak

Feynman diagrams are the most celebrated and powerful tool of theoretical physics usually associated with the analytic approach. I will argue that diagrammatic expansions are also an ideal numerical tool with enormous and yet to be explored potential for solving interacting many-body systems by direct simulation of Feynman diagrams (bare or skeleton) for the proper self-energies and polarization operators up to high order. Though the original series based on are propagators are sign-alternating and often divergent one can determine the answer behind them by using proper series re-summation techniques and working with skeleton diagrams, i.e. by making the entire scheme self-consistent. The bottom line is that the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach generically solves the computational complexity for interacting fermionic systems. In terms of physical applications, I will disucss results for the Hubbard model, resonant fermi gas at unitarity, and stability of Dirac liquid against strong Coulomb interaction in graphene.

142. Particle Physics Seminar

"UCNtau: A magneto-gravitational trap measurement of the free neutron lifetime"

Presented by Robert Pattie, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Thursday, November 2, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

The neutron is the simplest nuclear system that can be used to probe the structure of the weak interaction and search for physics Beyond the Standard Model. Measurements of neutron ?-decay observables are sensitive to scalar and tensor interactions in the weak force which are not present in the Standard Model. The lifetime of the neutron ?n is an important parameter for Big-Bang Nucleo-synthesis models, solar fusion models, and absolute neutrino scattering cross-sections, and can be used to test the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix. Presently, the two typical methods used to measure the neutron lifetime, cold neutron beam measurements and stored ultracold neutron (UCN) measurements, disagree by roughly 4?. This discrepancy motivates the need for new measurements with complementary systematic uncertainties to previous efforts. The UCN? experiment uses an asymmetric magneto-gravitational UCN trap with in situ counting of surviving neutrons to measure the neutron lifetime. Previous bottle experiments confined UCN in a material storage vessel creating a significant correction due to losses resulting from the material UCN interactions. The magnetic and gravitational confinement of the UCN minimizes losses due to material interactions. Additionally, UCN? uses a detection system that is lowered into the storage volume which avoids emptying the surviving UCN into an external detector. This minimizes any possible transport related systematics. This in situ detector also enables counting at various heights in the vessel, which provides information on the trapped UCN energy spectrum, quasi-bound orbits, and possible phase space evolution. I will present the physics motivation for precision neutron physics, a description of the UCN? experiment, the results of data collected during the 2016-2017 accelerator cycle which resulted in a value of τn=877.7±(0.7) stat (+0.3/−0.1) sys in agreement with previous material bottle

143. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Rotating Dirac fermion in Magnetic field in 1+2 and 1+3 dimensions"

Presented by Yizhuang Liu, Stony Brook University

Thursday, November 2, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

144. HET/RIKEN Seminar

"Calculation of the electric dipole moment with the gradient flow"

Presented by Andrea Shindler, Michigan State University

Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Sally Dawson

145. HET Lunch Discussions

"A statistical approach to Higgs couplings in the SMEFT, 1710.02008"

Presented by Chris Murphy, BNL

Friday, October 27, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

146. Particle Physics Seminar

"Search for dark matter at the CMS experiment"

Presented by Adish Vartak, University of California San Diego

Friday, October 27, 2017, 10 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

There is an extensive, on-going dark matter search program at the LHC that explores several different types of possible interactions between WIMP-like dark matter and standard model particles. The dark matter searches at the LHC are complementary, and in case of certain models, significantly more sensitive than the direct and indirect dark matter searches. In this talk I will discuss several key dark matter searches being pursued by the CMS collaboration. These cover a wide variety of final states in which dark matter particles are produced in association with one or more energetic, visible objects in the detector resulting in 'MET+X' signatures. Furthermore, I will also discuss the constraints set on dark matter interactions by certain resonance searches.

147. Particle Physics Seminar

"Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering by COHERENT"

Presented by Kate Scholberg, Duke University

Thursday, October 26, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus at low momentum transfer, and for which the observable signature is a low-energy nuclear recoil. It represents a background for direct dark matter detection experiments, as well as a possible signal for astrophysical neutrinos. Furthermore, because the process is cleanly predicted in the Standard Model, a measurement is sensitive to beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, such as non-standard interactions of neutrinos. The process was first predicted in 1973. It was measured for the first time by the COHERENT collaboration using the high-quality source of pion-decay-at-rest neutrinos from the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a CsI[Na] scintillator detector. This talk will describe COHERENT's recent 6.7-sigma measurement of CEvNS, the status and plans of COHERENT's suite of detectors at the SNS, and future physics reach.

148. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Approach to equilibrium of quarkonium in quark-gluon plasma"

Presented by Xiaojun Yao, BNL

Thursday, October 26, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

Quarkonium can be used as a probe of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy ion collisions. The production process is complicated by several factors: plasma screening effect, in-medium dissociation and recombination, cold nuclear matter effect and feed-down contributions. In this talk, I will present a set of Boltzmann transport equations that govern the in-medium evolution of the heavy quark and quarkonium system. The dissociation and recombination rates are calculated from potential non-relativistic QCD at leading order. I will explain how the system reaches equilibrium in a QGP box and show how the system evolves under a boost invariant longitudinal expansion. I will argue that the angular distribution of quarkonium probes the stages at which recombination occurs. The presented framework will be extended in future work to include other factors influencing quarkonium production.

149. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Theory and Computation Guided Discovery of New Thermoelectric Materials"

Presented by Vladan Stevanovic, Colorado School of Mines & National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Cedomir Petrovic

Progress in the widespread adoption of all solid heat-to-electricity technologies has largely been hindered by the absence of suitable thermoelectric materials. In pursuit for new thermoelectrics recent advances in large-scale deployment of first principles calculations could be useful in identifying new promising material systems. However, the need to predict electron and phonon transport properties with sufficient accuracy renders direct assessment of the thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) for large numbers of systems unfeasible. This is true even in the case of relatively simple semiconductor materials, which could be described by the computationally inexpensive single particle theories such as density functional theory (DFT). While the state-of-the-art DFT based approaches to charge carrier and heat transport of semiconductors can deliver desired accuracy, they are currently limited to relatively simple chemistries and/or case-by-case studies. In this talk I will discuss integrated theory-computation-experiment efforts in developing a robust set of material descriptors that: (1) are rooted in the Boltzmann transport theory, but do not rely on classic and largely inapplicable constant relaxation time or constant mean free path approximations, (2) are computationally tractable allowing material searches across large chemical spaces, and (3) are sufficiently accurate to provide reliable predictions. Our approach is demonstrated to correctly identify known thermoelectric materials1 and reliably suggest new and promising candidate semiconductors.2 At the end, I will review successes and failures in our quest for new thermoelectrics, and discuss dopability of semiconductors as the critical outstanding challenge in achieving high zT materials. 1. Yan, P. Gorai, B. Ortiz, S. Miller, S. A. Barnett, T. Mason, V. Stevanovic, and E. S. Toberer, "Material descriptors for thermoelectric performance", Energy Environ. Sci. 2. P. Gorai, V. Stevanovic, and E. Tobe

150. Physics Colloquium

"The Path Forward in Gravitational-wave astronomy"

Presented by Zsuzsa Marka, Columbia University

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

On August 17, 2017 the merger of two neutron stars was detected in the form of gravitational-waves by LIGO/Virgo. As a result of over a decade long preparation for multimessenger observations the event was also seen electromagnetically across the full spectrum. The history and future of the multimessenger effort using gravitational-waves will be discussed from an instrumentalist viewpoint.

151. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"To CME or not to CME? Implications of recent charge separation measurements in p(d)+Au, Au(Cu)+Au and U+U collisions for the chiral magnetic effect in heavy ion collisions"

Presented by Roy Lacey, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Bjoern Schenke

The observation of charge separation induced by the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), could provide crucial insights on anomalous transport and the interplay of chiral symmetry restoration, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions. I will discuss recent differential charge separation measurements,for p(d)+Au, Au(Cu)+Au and U+U, with a correlator specifically designed to give discernible responses to CME-driven charge separation and non-CME backgrounds. Measurements which span the beam energy range Root_s = 19.5 - 200 GeV will be presented. The d(p)+Au results are observed to be consistent with the reduced magnetic field strength and the essentially random B-field orientations expected in these collisions. In contrast, the Au(Cu)+Au and U+U measurements validate the presence of CME-driven charge separation quantified by the Fourier dipole coefficient a1. Ongoing attempts for CME-signal quantification, as well as implications for the upcoming RHIC isobar run, will be discussed as well.

152. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Pressure-driven collapse of Jeff=1/2 electronic state in a honeycomb iridate"

Presented by Young-June Kim, University of Toronto, Canada

Friday, October 20, 2017, 3 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Igor Zaliznyak

Orbital and spin degrees of freedom in heavy transition metal compounds can be locked into each other due to strong spin-orbit coupling. The magnetism in this case is described by an effective total angular momentum jeff=1/2 rather than usual spin angular momentum. Furthermore, these jeff=1/2 moments residing on a honeycomb lattice can be coupled through bond-dependent Kitaev interactions. Magnetic properties of some honeycomb lattice iridates, such as Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3 have been extensively investigated to examine whether Kitaev quantum spin liquid is realized in these compounds. However, the applicability of the jeff=1/2 local moment model in real materials have not been critically scrutinized experimentally. A combination of x-ray absorption spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments on a honeycomb lattice Li2IrO3 reveals that the jeff=1/2 picture breaks down under high pressure, and electrons take on more itinerant character under this condition.

153. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Quantization of three-body scattering amplitude in isobar formulation"

Presented by Maxim Mai, George Washington University

Friday, October 20, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Chun Shen

In the so-called isobar parametrization the three-particle states are populated via an interacting two-particle system (resonant or non-resonant), and a spectator. Using this parametrization, we derive the isobar-spectator interaction such that the three-body Unitarity is ensured exactly. In the first part of my talk I will show the major steps of this derivation. (arXiv:1706.06118) The second part of the talk will be dedicated to the finite-volume implementation of the framework (arXiv:1709.08222). Imaginary parts in the infinite volume, dictated by Unitarity, determine the dominant power-law finite volume effects to ensure the correct 3-body quantization condition. Furthermore, various building blocks of the 3->3 amplitude in the finite volume can become singular. However, when all contributions are summed-up, only genuine 3-body singularities remain. I will demonstrate the corresponding cancellation mechanisms explicitly for the simplified case of only one S-wave isobar.

154. Particle Physics Seminar

"Study of the Higgs properties in the H->ZZ*->4l channel with the ATLAS detector"

Presented by Gaetano Barone, Brandeis University

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

Recent measurements of the Higgs boson properties in the four lepton channel for 36.1 fb-1 of proton—proton collisions at 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector will be presented. The measurements include the Higgs boson mass as well as inclusive, fiducial and differential cross sections and, constraints on Higgs boson production couplings. The results are interpreted within the Standard Model and various extensions.

155. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Lattice QCD and Neutrino Physics"

Presented by Aaron Meyer, HET Group

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Enrico Rinaldi

The nucleon axial form factor is a dominant contribution to systematic uncertainties in neutrino oscillation studies. The most commonly used model parametrization of the axial form factor has uncontrolled and underestimated systematic errors. First-principles computations from lattice QCD have the potential to control theory errors by disentangling the effects of nuclear corrections from the nucleon amplitudes. In this talk, I discuss fits to the axial form factor with deuterium bubble chamber data using the model-independent $z$ expansion parameterization. I then present preliminary results for a blinded lattice QCD calculation of the nucleon axial charge $g_A$ with physical light quark masses. This calculation is being done with the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action and 2+1+1 flavors of sea quarks.

156. Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar

"Desert Dust, Wildfire Smoke, Volcanic Ash, Urban and Industrial Pollution – Grasping the Role Particles Play in Global Climate and Regional Air Quality"

Presented by Ralph Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 11 am
Conference Room Bldg 815E

Hosted by: Steve Schwartz

Airborne particles are ubiquitous components of our atmosphere, originating from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources, exhibiting a wide range of physical properties, and contributing in multiple ways to regional air quality as well as regional-to-global-scale climate. Most remain in the atmosphere for a week or less, but can traverse oceans or continents in that time, carrying nutrients or disease vectors in some cases. Bright aerosols reflect sunlight, and can cool the surface; light-absorbing particles can heat the atmosphere, suppressing cloud formation or mediating larger-scale circulations. In most cases, particles are required to collect water vapor as the initial step in cloud formation, so their presence (or absence) and their hygroscopic or hydrophilic properties can affect cloud occurrence, structure, and ability to precipitate. Grasping the scope and nature of aerosol environmental impacts requires understanding microphysical-to-global scale processes, operating on timescales from minutes to days or longer. Satellites are the primary source of observations on kilometer-to-global scales. Spacecraft observations are complemented by suborbital platforms: aircraft in situ measurements and surface-based instrument networks that operate on smaller spatial scales, some on shorter timescales. Numerical models play a third key role in this work — providing a synthesis of current physical understanding with the aggregate of measurements, and allowing for some predictive capability. This presentation will focus on what we can say about aerosol amount and type from space. Constraining particle "type" is at present the leading challenge for satellite aerosol remote sensing. We will review recent advances and future prospects, including the strengths and limitations of available approaches, and current work toward better integrating measurements with models to create a clearer picture of aerosol environmental impacts, globally.

157. HET Seminar

"Semileptonic decays of B_(s) mesons to light pseudoscalar mesons with lattice QCD"

Presented by Zechariah Gelzer, Iowa University

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Mattia Bruno

158. Particle Physics Seminar

"The R&D and Mass Production of 20"MCP-PMT for Neutrino Detection"

Presented by Dr. Sen Qian, IHEP China

Monday, October 16, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Researchers at IHEP, Beijing have conceived a new concept of MCP-PMT several years ago. The small MCP (Microchannel Plate) units replace the bulky Dynode chain in the tranditional large PMTs for better photoelectron detection. After three years R&D, a number of 8 inch prototypes were produced and their performance was carefully tested at IHEP in 2013 by using the MCP-PMT evaluation system built at IHEP. The 20 inch prototypes were followed in 2014, and its' performance were improving a lot in 2015. Compensating the PMT performances with fiducially volume convert all specifications to cost, radioactivity, dark noise, TTS, the JUNO ordered 15000 pic 20-inch MCP-PMT from the NNVT in Dec.2015. In 2016, the MCP-PMT collaboration group finished to build the mass production line in Nanjing at the end of 2016, and finished the batch test system in the same place within 100 days at the beginning of 2017. From 2017 to 2019, all the 20-inch MCP-PMT will be produced and tested one by one in NNVT for JUNO. This presentation will talk about the R&D process and mass production, batch test result of the first 2K pieces of MCP-PMT prototypes for JUNO.

159. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Domain walls and phase boundaries - new nanoscale functional elements in complex oxides"

Presented by Jan Seidel, UNSW Sydney

Monday, October 16, 2017, 1:30 pm
Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Hosted by: Myung-Geun Han

Topological structures in functional materials, such as domain walls and skyrmions, see increased attention due to their properties that can be completely different from that of the parent bulk material [1]. I will discuss recent results on multiferroic phase boundaries, domain walls in BiFeO3 [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] using SPM, TEM and ab-initio theory, and discuss future prospects [7]. References [1] J. Seidel (ed.), Topological structures in ferroic materials: domain walls, skyrmions and vortices, ISBN: 978-3-319-25299-5, Springer, Berlin (2016) [2] P. Sharma, et al., Scientific Reports 6, 32347 (2016) [3] P. Sharma, et al., Advanced Electronic Materials 2, 1600283 (2016) [3] J. Seidel, et al., Advanced Materials 26, 4376 (2014) [4] Y. Heo, et al., Advanced Materials 26, 7568 (2014) [5] Y. Heo et al., ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07869 (2017) [6] P. Sharma, et al., Advanced Materials Interfaces 3, 1600033 (2016) [7] J. Seidel, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 190 (2015)

160. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"What can we learn from flow observables in heavy-ion collisions?"

Presented by Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Rutgers University

Thursday, October 12, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Chun Shen

The Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), nature's first and most perfect liquid, has been successfully reproduced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The dynamics of the QGP can be well described by relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, allowing for precise comparisons to experimental data in order to extract the properties of the QGP. While a small shear viscosity is well-established, questions still remain regarding the precise initial state, the temperature dependence of viscosity, the smallest system that displays QGP-like properties, and the equation of state at large densities. In this talk, the various flow harmonic observables are analyzed to help answer these remaining questions.

161. Particle Physics Seminar

"SB/BNL Joint Cosmo Seminar (at Stony Brook)"

Presented by Chang Feng, UC Irvine

Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 1:30 pm
Stony Brook

Hosted by: Neelima Sehgal

162. HET Lunch Discussions

"Repulsion of Dark Matter and Null Direct Signals"

Presented by Hooman Davoudiasl, BNL

Friday, October 6, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

163. HET Seminar

"Flavorful Higgs bosons"

Presented by Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Cincinnati University

Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Sally Dawson

Measurements of Higgs production and decays have revealed that most of the mass of the weak gauge bosons is due to the 125 GeV Higgs. Similarly, we know that the Higgs is at least partially responsible for giving mass to the top and bottom quarks and the tau lepton. Much less is known about the origin of mass for the first two generations. In this talk, I will discuss a framework in which the first and second generation masses originate from a second source of electroweak symmetry breaking and outline the phenomenological implications.

164. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"The nature of flow fluctuations, from pp to A+A, and back again"

Presented by Mingliang Zhou, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Jiangyong Jia

In recent years, there have been rapid progresses in our understanding of the event-by-event flow fluctuation, which provides direct insight into the fluctuations in the initial geometry. I will start my talk by briefly discussing the flow (collectivity) and its fluctuation in small systems pp and p+Pb, using the newly-proposed subevent cumulant method, which is able to suppress the non-flow background effectively. I will show there is significant fluctuation of elliptic flow $v_2$ in pp and non-Gaussian fluctuation of triangular flow $v_3$ in p+Pb. Moving from small to large systems, STAR collaboration recently has shown different behaviors of cumulant $c_2\{4\}$ between Au+Au and U+U in ultra-central collisions, which is believed to support the different geometry fluctuations. By presenting the newest ATLAS flow measurements in ultra-central collisions, together with detailed MC Glauber studies, I will explain why sign change of $c_2\{4\}$ is observed and its implications. In the end, I will go back to small systems and discuss the potential impact of centrality resolution on pp flow measurements.

165. Particle Physics Seminar

"Latest Results from the T2K Experiment"

Presented by Kendall Mahn, Michigan State University

Friday, September 29, 2017, 3:30 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

One of the most promising investigations of beyond-the-Standard-Model physics has been the study of neutrino oscillation, that is, the conversion of neutrinos from one flavor to another as they propagate. While neutrino oscillation is studied in a wide variety of experiments, accelerator based experiments, such as T2K, use a muon neutrino or antineutrino beam as a source to look for electron (anti)neutrino appearance, muon neutrino disappearance. The source also is used to make measurements of neutrino interactions and search for exotic physics. This talk will describe a recent analysis of both neutrino and antineutrino beam data from T2K. Comparisons between neutrino and antineutrino event rates provide a tantalizing window on possible CP violation in the neutrino sector. The talk will also highlight the increasingly important role of systematic uncertainty assessment for T2K and other future measurements of CP violation with accelerator beams.

166. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"QCD on a small circle"

Presented by Aleksey Cherman, University of Washington

Friday, September 29, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

Recent developments have shown that QCD-like theories can be engineered to remain in a confined phase when compactified on an arbitrarily small circle, where their features may be studied quantitatively in a controlled fashion. I'll explain how a non-perturbative mass gap and chiral symmetry breaking, which are both historically viewed as prototypical strong coupling effects, appear from systematic weak-coupling calculations. Then I'll describe the rich spectrum of hadronic states, including glueball, meson, and baryon resonances in the calculable small-circle context.

167. Particle Physics Seminar

"Beauty and charm decays and physics beyond the Standard Model: an experimentalist perspective"

Presented by Marina Artuso, Syracuse University

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

The Standard Model provides a comprehensive explanation for a vast array of data collected at different experiments. Nonetheless fundamental questions remain unanswered and the search for a more complete theory is still a coveted goal of particle physics. Recently, tensions with standard model predictions have been uncovered in several experimental observables in b-hadron decays at LHCb. I will discuss the data, possible implications, and the connection with other experimental programs such as study of kaon rare decays and neutrino mixing and CP violation

168. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Suppression of weak ferromagnetism in ultrathin iridates by interfacial engineering of octahedral rotations"

Presented by Yuefeng Nie, Nanjing University, China

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Weiguo Yin

Layered iridates, Srn+1IrnO3n+1, have drawn great attention since they share remarkable similarities with high-Tc cuprates, including layered crystalline structure, (pseudo) spin ½ states, antiferromagnetic (AFM) Mott insulating ground state, Fermi arcs, and V shape energy gap, etc. Nonetheless, direct evidences of superconductivity such as zero resistivity and Meissner effect are still lacking up to date. The strong spin-orbit coupling and IrO6 octahedral rotations in 5d iridates result in a canted AFM ground state with weak ferromagnetic moments in each IrO2 plane. Here, we propose to suppress the weak ferromagnetism by suppressing the octahedral rotations in iridates, which may facilitate the Cooper pairing. Using a combination of reactive molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), in situ angleresolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and first principle calculations, we investigate the evolution of octahedral rotations, electronic structure and magnetic ordering in ultra-thin SrIrO3 films grown on (001) SrTiO3 substrate. Our experimental results and theoretical calculations show that octahedral rotations and weak ferromagnetic moments are fully suppressed in 1 and 2 unit cell thick SrIrO3 films through interfacial clamping effects. If time allows, I will also present our recent work on the new understanding of RHEED oscillations in the growth of oxides and the chemically specific termination control of oxide interfaces via layerby- layer mean inner potential engineering.

169. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Color Memory, Large Gauge Transformations, and Soft Theorems in Yang-Mills Theory"

Presented by Monica Pate, Harvard University

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

An infinite dimensional symmetry group which governs the infrared sectors of gauge and gravity theories has been recently discovered. This symmetry can be established both from an asymptotic symmetry analysis as well as from the corresponding Ward identities which are quantum field theoretic soft theorems. Moreover, the spontaneous breaking of these symmetries induces vacuum transitions which are detectable by charged particles through the so-called memory effect. In this seminar, I will explain the precise equivalence between asymptotic symmetries, soft theorems and memory effects in the context of tree level Yang-Mills. In particular, in this context the soft gluon theorem is Ward identity of a large gauge symmetry, whose action on the vacuum can be measured from the relative color charge of colored detectors.

170. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Ultrafast TEM and Time-of-Flight EELS using microwave cavities"

Presented by Jom Luiten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Friday, September 22, 2017, 11 am
Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Hosted by: Yimei Zhu

Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy (U-TEM) has become a very important tool for the study of ultrafast phenomena at (sub-)nm length scales and (sub-)ps time scales. U-TEM is usually based on the creation of ultrashort electron pulses by femtosecond laser photoemission from a flat cathode, with the result that both the beam quality and the average current are significantly less than in state-of-the-art continuous-beam TEMs. At Eindhoven University we have developed U-TEM in which ultrashort electron pulses are produced by using a 3 GHz deflecting microwave cavity in TM110 mode to sweep a high-brightnes continuous beam across a slit [1]. We have demonstrated ultrafast beam chopping with conservation of the beam quality and the sub-eV energy spread of the FEG source of an adapted 200 keV Tecnai TEM, enabling atomic resolution with sub-ps temporal resolution at 3 GHz rep rate [2] In addition we have developed a new method for doing Time-of-Flight Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (ToF-EELS) based on the combined use of two TM110 deflecting cavities and two TM010 (de)compression cavities. The first 'chopping' TM110 cavity produces ultrashort electron pulses which are sent through a sample. Energy loss in the sample translates into reduction of the electron velocity and thus into a later arrival time at the detector, which is measured with a synchronized second TM110 'streak' cavity. In this way an energy resolution of 12 eV at 30 keV has been demonstrated [3]. By adding a TM010 (de)compression cavity after the sample, the longitudinal phase space can be manipulated in such a way that the energy resolution is improved to 2 eV (to be published). By adding a second TM110 cavity before the sample, full control over the longitudinal phase space can be achieved. Detailed charged particle tracking simulations show that an energy resolution of 20 meV combined with a temporal resolution of 2 ps can be achieved; or, alternatively, 2

171. Particle Physics Seminar

"Evidence for the H to bb decay with the ATLAS detector"

Presented by Giacinto Piacquadio, Stony Brook University

Thursday, September 21, 2017, 4 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

Most Higgs bosons are expected to decay to a pair of b-quarks, with the Standard Model predicting a branching fraction of about 58%. Probing this decay is important to furthering our understanding of the Higgs sector, but its observation at hadron colliders is complicated by overwhelming Standard Model backgrounds. In this seminar, the search for the Higgs to bb decay, looking at the associated production of the Higgs boson with a W or Z boson, is presented, based on 36 fb-1 of 13 TeV LHC Run 2 data.

172. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Two new applications of geometric critical phenomena for disordered electron systems"

Presented by Matthew Foster, Rice University

Thursday, September 21, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Robert Konik

I will discuss two very recent results relating to the properties of electrons in two spatial dimensions (2D), subject to the effects of quenched disorder (impurities) and quantum interference [Anderson (de)localization]. In both cases, the key physics is tied to classical geometric critical phenomena in 2D. I will first present numerical evidence that strongly suggests the equivalence of disordered surface states of topological superconductors and geometric percolation. Percolation is known to play a role in quantum Hall systems with magnetic fields. Our unexpected result implies that percolation applies to topological superconductor surface states in the absence of time-reversal symmetry breaking. Moreover, the usual "even-odd" effect that occurs in such a system (as identified by Pruisken in the integer quantum Hall effect and by Haldane for spin chains) is found to be absent. Second, I will discuss a "toy model" for the ergodic to many-body localized phase transition in 2D, and relate it to an effective self-interacting walk. I will present analytical results of a controlled expansion which suggest that the transition can be viewed as a "dephasing catastrophe."

173. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"TMD gluon distributions for dijet production and their behavior at small x"

Presented by Elena Petreska, NIKHEF

Friday, September 15, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

Starting from the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) cross section for dijet production in proton-nucleus collisions we derive a transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) factorization formula for small transverse-momentum imbalance of the jets and for finite number of colors. For the eight TMD distributions appearing in the cross section we determine their operator definitions at small-x as CGC correlators of Wilson lines and we study their JIMWLK evolution. We find that at large transverse momentum the universality of TMDs gets restored. We also discuss an extension of the approach to generalized TMDs (GTMDs) that can give an insight into the angular correlations between impact parameter and dipole size in the CGC framework.

174. HET Lunch Discussions

"Precision calculation of the g-2 HVP contribution by combining lattice and R-ratio data"

Presented by Christoph Lehner, BNL

Friday, September 15, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

175. Particle Physics Seminar

"SB/BNL Joint Cosmo seminar (at BNL): Mapping the Cosmos with the Dark Energy Survey"

Presented by Dr. Chihway Chang, ETH Zurich

Thursday, September 14, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Erin Sheldon

The first year data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y1) provides the most powerful optical survey dataset to date. In this talk I will first give an overall summary of the cosmology results from the DES Y1 dataset combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing. Next, I will describe our work in generating and testing the wide-field weak lensing mass maps from the galaxy shape measurements and some exciting applications for the maps. I will end with thoughts on how weak lensing could also inform us on various topics of galaxy formation, which is essential for completing the story behind the Universe we see today.

176. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Thermal Fluctuations in Hydrodynamic Simulations of QGP"

Presented by Mayank Singh, McGill University

Thursday, September 14, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

Multi-particle correlations measured in heavy-ion collision experiments carry info on fluctuations present in the entire evolutionary history of the system. Initial states include geometric and quantum fluctuations and are important contributors. The thermal fluctuations during the course of QGP evolution is another conceptually important source of these fluctuations and should be studied in detail. We begin by treating thermal fluctuations as a linearized perturbation on hydrodynamic background. We present a full calculation of hadronic and photonic observables including these fluctuations. Recently we have included fluctuations in our simulations in a non-perturbative manner. Progress based on this approach will be discussed.

177. Physics Colloquium and Leona Woods Lecture

"Momentum-space structure of hadrons and nuclei at high energy"

Presented by Elena Petreska, NIKHEF

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Peter Petreczky

Transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) distributions describe the configuration of quarks and gluons inside protons and nuclei in three-dimensional momentum space. Observables in scattering experiments can be calculated with the help of TMD factorization formulas, where the target and projectile are represented with non-perturbative TMD distributions, which are separated from the short-distance perturbative part of the collision. A complementary approach to study the momentum structure of protons and nuclei at high energy is the Color Glass Condensate which is an effective theory for the high-gluon-density region of ultra-relativistic particles. We introduce both theories and we discuss connections between them. We present phenomenological results derived from these connections.

178. NSLS-II Seminar

"On the assessment of radiation damage and high temperature effects in novel nuclear materials using the BNL accelerators and synchrotrons"

Presented by Nick Simos, Sr Scientist Emeritus, BNL

Friday, September 8, 2017, 3 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Ron Pindak

In search for new and improved materials, composites and super-alloys capable of withstanding the anticipated extreme states associated fusion reactors; high temperature fast reactors and multi-MW particle accelerators, novel reactor steels, super-alloys and composites are continuously being explored to help meet both the challenge of the higher demand environments and the intended application. Higher fluxes and fluences of irradiating species (neutrons and/or protons), extreme temperatures and aggressively corrosive environments make up the new cocktail of operating conditions of the new array of material structures. One of the challenges in characterizing the effects that high radiation fluxes of neutrons and protons induce on these novel material structures in conjunction with high temperatures is the link between lattice induced damage and phase transformation and macroscopic physical properties which ultimately determine performance in the real environment. High energy X-rays at the BNL synchrotrons have offered a path in establishing this important connection between micro-scale effects and physical properties of novel material structures exposed to high radiation fluxes. Specifically, by integrating the unique capabilities of the BNL accelerator complex that includes, in addition to the NSLS and NSLS II, the proton accelerator and Tandem as well as those of CFN, the evolution and/or damage of materials ranging from classical structures such as graphite, beryllium and steels to novel super-alloys, such as those of Invar and "Gum" metal, and new composites have been characterized both at the two length scales. The pivotal role of high energy X-rays from NSLS to NSLS II in making the connection will be presented demonstrating the enormous potential of the NSLS II in answering fundamental questions in our path towards the next generation nuclear materials. Furthermore, first glimpses of the correlation of lattice effects or damage induced by differ

179. HET Lunch Discussions

"Towards a non-perturbative calculation of Weak Hamiltonian Wilson Coefficients"

Presented by Mattia Bruno, BNL

Friday, September 8, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

180. NSLS-II Colloquium Series

"Experiments, Analyses, and Manipulations with Particle Beam"

Presented by Shyh-Huan Lee, Indiana University, IN

Thursday, September 7, 2017, 4 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: John Hill

Progress on particle beam physics research have provided marked improvements in beam intensity, brightness, and stability advancing frontier research in applied and fundamental science. This talk will review some beam measurements and manipulation studies being undertaken to improve beam performance in storage rings. Hopefully, these studies will be relevant to the operation and improvement of National Accelerator User Facilities.

181. Particle Physics Seminar

"Radiation damage study of a thin YAG:Ce scintillator using low-energy protons"

Presented by Dr. Vladmir Linhart, Czech Technical University in Prague

Thursday, September 7, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Radiation hardness of a 50µm thin YAG:Ce scintillator in a form of dependence of a signal efficiency on 3.1MeV proton ?uence was measured and analyzed using X-ray beam. The signal efficiency is a ratio of signals given by a CCD chip after and before radiation damage. The CCD chip was placed outside the primary beam because of its protection from damage which could be caused by radiation. Using simplified assumptions, the 3.1MeV proton fluencies were recalculated to: • 150 MeV proton fluencies with intention to estimate radiation damage of this sample under conditions at proton therapy centers during medical treatment, • 150 MeV proton doses with intention to give a chance to compare radiation hardness of the studied sample with radiation hardness of other detectors used in medical physics, • 1 MeV neutron equivalent fluencies with intention to compare radiation hardness of the studied sample with properties of position sensitive silicon and diamond detectors used in nuclear and particle physics. The following results of our research were obtained. The signal efficiency of the studied sample varies slightly (±3%) up to 3.1MeV proton ?uence of c. (4 − 8) × 1014 cm−2. This limit is equivalent to 150MeV proton ?uence of (5 − 9) × 1016 cm−2, 150MeV proton dose of (350 − 600) kGy and 1MeV neutron ?uence of (1 − 2) × 1016 cm−2. Beyond the limit, the signal efficiency goes gradually down. Fifty percent decrease in the signal efficiency is reached around 3.1MeV ?uence of (1 − 2) × 1016 cm−2 which is equivalent to 150 MeV proton ?uence of around 2 × 1018 cm−2, 150MeV proton dose of around 15 MGy and 1 MeV neutron equivalent ?uence of (4 − 8) × 1017 cm−2. In contrast with position sensitive silicon and diamond radiation detectors, the studied sample has at least two order of magnitude greater radiation resistance. Therefore, YAG:Ce sci

182. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Public Lecture

"Mysteries of the Universe and Everyday Life"

Presented by Michelangelo Mangano; Young-Kee Kim; Joe Lykken, LHC/CERN; University of Chicago; Fermilab

Tuesday, September 5, 2017, 5:30 pm
Simons Center at Stony Brook University, Della Pie

In the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the basic laws of Physics in the infinitely small – and the infinitely large – and how the two are intimately connected. New windows have expanded our understanding, and many unexpected questions have emerged. This is an exhilarating time in history. New tools, both theoretical and observational, may lead in the next decade to major advances in our understanding of the universe. As in the past, when major discoveries are made about the fundamental laws of Nature, not only is our view of the world enriched, but also our life is transformed. A good place to explore the discoveries from the past decades is in the description of symmetry, symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson in High Energy Physics: why, how and where to…. in a nutshell. These talks will present what we know and what we seek in the fundamental laws of Nature; how we go about answering basic questions in high energy experiments, how much we have learned, and how the technical developments needed to make discoveries have changed society. They will also delineate the boundaries of our knowledge and the known unknowns in fundamental high energy physics and cosmology.

183. HET Lunch Discussions

"Finite Volume in QCD+QED & g-2 HLbL"

Presented by Taku Izubuchi, BNL

Friday, September 1, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

184. Particle Physics Seminar

"Wiener-SVD approach to data unfolding"

Presented by Dr. Hanyu Wei, BNL

Thursday, August 31, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Data unfolding is a commonly used technique in the high energy physics experiments, to retrieve the distorted or transformed measurements by various detector effects. Inspired by the deconvolution technique in the digital signal processing, a new unfolding technique based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the response matrix is developed. With the well-known Wiener filter concept, the modified SVD approach, Wiener-SVD, achieves the maximizing signal-to-noise ratio of the binned data in a transformed set of orthonormal bases where the uncertainties are bin-to-bin uncorrelated. In this talk, the mathematical principles and formulations of the newly developed Wiener-SVD unfolding will be presented. A few applications will be demonstrated. A comparison with the commonly used regularization method will also be shown. The advantages and disadvantaged of the Wiener-SVD approach will be discussed.

185. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"QCD corrections to high-pT hadron production in ep scattering"

Presented by Werner Vogelsang, Tuebingen University

Friday, August 25, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

We discuss various cross sections and spin observables in high-pT hadron production in lepton proton collisions, with special focus on the role of perturbative QCD corrections. We present phenomenological studies relevant for present fixed-target experiments and for a future EIC.

186. Particle Physics Seminar

"Precision tests with antimatter: A glimpse at the 1S – 2S transition in trapped antihydrogen"

Presented by Dr. William Bertsche, CERN

Thursday, August 24, 2017, 10 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Optical spectroscopy with antihydrogen atoms remains one of the most promising routes towards testing CPT invariance and physics beyond the Standard Model in an effort to address the observed Baryon asymmetry in the Universe today. The ALPHA collaboration has made significant progress towards the first measurements of optical transitions in trapped antihydrogen atoms, and has recently published the first observation of the 1S – 2S transition in a fully antimatter atom. This work finds the transition consistent with CPT invariance at a level of approximately 2 x 10-10 [1]. This talk will review the details of this pioneering experiment and discuss the prospects of future spectroscopy studies and other fundamental measurements with the ALPHA experiment. [1] M. Ahmadi, et al (ALPHA Collaboration), "Observation of the 1S–2S transition in trapped antihydrogen" Nature 541, 506–510 (2017).

187. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Experiments on electron hydrodynamics with and without applied magnetic fields"

Presented by Andrew Mackenzie, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany

Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 1:30 pm
Bldg. 734, ISB Conf. Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Cedomir Petrovic

Will discuss experiments aimed at probing signatures of viscous contributions to electrical transport in ultra pure metallic systems. The hydrodynamic regime was reached in semiconductor heterostructures in the 1990s, but has only recently come into reach in naturally occurring compounds. I will focus on our group's work on layered delafossite metals, but possibly also discuss results from other groups on different material families.

188. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Factorization and phenomenology for Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions"

Friday, August 18, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

Factorization and phenomenology for Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions Abstract: The factorization of the hadronic part of the cross sections plays a central role in our comprehension of collider physics. I will review some aspects of the factorization, like the appearence of rapidity divergences and the related subtractions and log resummation (up to higher orders in QCD perturbative expansion) in transverse momentum dependent cross sections. As an application I will describe the inclusion of the TMD formalism in an analysis of vector boson production data.

189. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Revisit the energy density and the gluon spectrum in the boost-invariant Glasma from a semi-analytic approach"

Presented by Ming Li

Thursday, August 17, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

In high energy heavy-ion collisions, the soft degrees of freedom at the very initial stage after the collision can be effectively represented by strong classical gluonic fields within the Color Glass Condensate framework. Understanding the space-time evolution of the system is equivalent to solving the classical Yang-Mills equations for the gluonic fields. There have been many efforts in the past two decades in numerically solving these equations. In this talk, on the contrary, I will use a semi-analytic approach that assumes the solution has the form of a power series expansion in the proper time. I will discuss the energy-momentum tensor and the gluon spectrum obtained from this approach and make comparisons with the numerical results in the literature.

190. Special Nuclear Theory Seminar

"Gluon orbital angular momentum at small-x"

Presented by Yoshitaka Hatta, YITP, Kyoto University

Wednesday, August 16, 2017, 10:30 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Raju Venugopalan

After reviewing the general aspects of the partonic orbital angular momentum in QCD (rigorous definition, connection to the Wigner distribution, etc), I focus on the gluon OAM in the small-x regime and discuss its measurability and a possible relation to the polarized gluon distribution.

191. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Resummation of nonglobal logarithms in QCD"

Presented by Yoshitaka Hatta, Kyoto University

Friday, August 11, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

The large angle emission of soft gluons from QCD jets gives rise to the so-called nonglobal logarithms. In this talk I discuss the resummation of nonglobal logarithms at finite Nc with particular emphasis on its deep connection to the small-x logarithms in high energy scattering.

192. HET Lunch Discussions

"Hierarchion - a unified framework to address the Standard Model's hierarchies"

Presented by Gilad Perez, Weizmann Institute

Friday, August 11, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

193. Brookhaven Lecture

"516th Brookhaven Lecture: 'From NSLS to NSLS-II and Beyond: Accelerator Physics Challenges'"

Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 4 pm
Berkner Hall Auditorium

Hosted by: Larry Carr

194. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"General formulae for dipole Wilson line correlators with the Color Glass Condensate"

Presented by Kenji Fukushima, University of Tokyo

Friday, August 4, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

I talk about general formulae to compute Wilson line correlators with the Color Glass Condensate approximated by the McLerran-Venugopalan model. Specifically, as an application, I explain about a perturbative expansion of the dipole correlators in terms of 1/N_c to derive fully analytical expressions. I finally discuss the validity of the large-N_c expansion by calculating the higher-order harmonics of the flow observables in the dipole model.

195. HET Lunch Discussions

"The Standard Model as a Lamppost"

Presented by Eder Izaguirre, BNL

Friday, August 4, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

196. NSLS-II Friday Lunchtime Seminar Series

"From Particles to Patients: The Role of an Epoxide Hydrolase in P. Aeruginosa Virulence"

Presented by Kelli Hvorency, 2017 Julian D. Baumert. PhD. Thesis Award Winner, Dartmouth College

Friday, August 4, 2017, 12 pm
NSLS-II Bldg 743 (LOB 3), room 156

Hosted by: Ben Ocko, Shirish Chodankar, Milinda Abeykoon, Juergen Thieme and Guimei Wang

197. HET Lunch Discussions

"Possible origin(s) of flavor anomalies"

Presented by Amarjit Soni, BNL

Friday, July 28, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

198. Particle Physics Seminar

"Latest Results from NOvA"

Presented by Louise Suter, Fermilab

Thursday, July 27, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino experiment which utilizes two basically fully active, finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors: a Near Detector located at Fermilab, and a Far Detector located in Ash River, MI, and situated roughly 14 mrad off Fermilab's NuMI beam. Using this narrow-band beam of mostly muon neutrinos we study the oscillation of these neutrinos over the 810 km baseline to measure the rate of electron neutrino appearing and of muon neutrinos and neutral current interactions disappearing between the two detectors. These are interpreted to give our latest measurements on the neutrino mass ordering, CP violation, the flavor content of the third neutrino mass eigenstate, and tests of the three-neutrino paradigm.

199. Computational Science Initiative Event

"The AMReX Astrophysics Suite: Simulating the Stars at the Exascale"

Presented by Michael Zingale, Associate Professor, Dept. Of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

Thursday, July 27, 2017, 1:30 pm
Seminar Room, Bldg. 725

Hosted by: Meifeng Lin

Astronomy is an observational science — we take data (primarily light) from the objects in the Universe and use this to infer how systems work. Astrophysical simulations allow us to perform virtual experiments on these systems, giving us the ability to see into stars in a way that light alone does not allow. Stellar systems can be modeled using the equations of hydrodynamics, together with nuclear reactions, self-gravity, complex equations of state, and at times, radiation (and magnetic fields). The resulting simulation codes are multiphysics and multiscale, and a variety of techniques have been developed to permit accurate and efficient simulations. We describe the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) codes for astrophysics built upon the AMReX library: the AMReX Astrophysics Suite. We'll focus on the codes for stellar / nuclear astrophysics: Maestro and Castro. Maestro models subsonic stellar flows while Castro focuses on highly-compressible flows. They share the same microphysics (reaction networks, equations of state) and parallelization strategy. Through AMReX, we distribute boxes in our AMR hierarchy across nodes and we use OpenMP (via a logical tiling model in Castro) to spread the work on a box across cores in a node. Recently we've implemented a GPU strategy in AMReX that allows us to move the computational kernels onto GPUs to offload expensive calculations. We'll discuss the current performance of the hydrodynamics and reaction networks on GPUs and how our strategy will evolve in the future.

200. Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar

"Classifying Aerosol Particles with a Centrifugal Particle Mass Analyzer (CPMA)"

Presented by Kristen Okorn, Stevens Institute of Technology (SULI Student Summer 2017)

Thursday, July 27, 2017, 11 am
Conference Room Bldg 815E

Hosted by: Ernie Lewis

Although wood stoves are a carbon-neutral renewable energy source, they are the largest source of particulate matter (PM) emissions in New York State. A Differential Mobility Analyzer (DMA), which classifies particles by their mobility diameter, has traditionally been employed to characterize such particulate emissions. However, because the black carbon (BC) particles produced by combustion that contribute to PM are fractal, their mobility diameters are not equal to their mass-equivalent diameters. In contrast to the DMA, the Centrifugal Particle Mass Analyzer (CPMA) classifies aerosol particles by their mass, using two rotating cylinders and an electric potential; when the centrifugal and electrostatic forces on a particle are equal, it passes through. The CPMA can select particles with masses ranging from 2×10 4 to 1.05×103 fg (corresponding to diameters, for particles with density 1 g cm 3, ranging from 7 to 1300 nm). It can be operated in two different ways: the "Run" classification method can be used to select for a single particle mass, and the "Step Scan" method can be used to select particles over a set range of masses. A neutralizer must be used upstream of the CPMA to create a charge distribution on particles before they enter the instrument. A DMA can optionally be used to pre-select particles of a specific mobility diameter before entering the CPMA. Downstream of the instrument, a Condensation Particle Counter (CPC) must be used in order to determine the number concentration of particles that pass through the CPMA. The basic operating principles of the CPMA are discussed, and results are presented for its characterization of polystyrene latex (PSL) particles, ammonium sulfate particles, and emissions from a wood burning stove.

201. HET Lunch Discussions

"Quasi PDFs"

Presented by Luchang Jin, BNL

Friday, July 21, 2017, 12:15 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Christoph Lehner

202. Particle Physics Seminar

"W boson mass measurement with the ATLAS experiment"

Presented by Fabrice Balli, CEA Saclay

Thursday, July 20, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

The W boson mass is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model (SM) and was measured by several experiments at high energy e+e- and ppbar colliders. This parameter's measurement has the biggest impact on indirect searches for new particles or interactions, by comparing the measurement of this parameter with the prediction from the SM. It was measured recently by the ATLAS experiment at LHC, using data recorded in 2011, with a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV. I will review the thorough work that was performed in the ATLAS collaboration for this measurement and will discuss some considerations for future measurements at the LHC.

203. HET Lunch Discussions

"Long-lived light scalars and displaced vertices as probe of seesaw"

Presented by Bhupal Dev, Washington University

Friday, July 14, 2017, 12 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Amarjit Soni

In low-scale seesaw models for neutrino masses with local B −L symmetry breaking, the Higgs field breaking the B −L symmetry can leave a physical real scalar field with mass around GeV scale. In the specific case when the B − L symmetry is embedded into the left-right symmetry, low energy flavor constraints necessarily require such a light scalar to be long lived, with a distinct displaced photon signal at the LHC. We will discuss this previously unexplored region of parameter space, which opens a new window to TeV scale seesaw physics at colliders.

204. NSLS-II Friday Lunchtime Seminar Series

"Bio-cryo Electron Microscopy: The Opportunity and Plan" and "Characterizing Self-Assembled Nanoparticles Employed in Drug Delivery Systems"

Presented by Sean McSweeney and Kazuo Sakurai, NSLS-II, BNL and University of Kitakyushu

Friday, July 14, 2017, 12 pm
NSLS-II Bldg 743 (LOB 3), room 156

Hosted by: Ben Ocko, Shirish Chodankar, Milinda Abeykoon, Juergen Thieme and Guimei Wang

205. Physics Colloquium

"Anomalies in Reactor Neutrinos"

Presented by Chao Zhang, BNL

Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 3:30 pm
Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Nuclear reactors are one of the most intense, pure, controllable, cost-effective and well-understood sources of neutrinos. Reactor neutrinos have played a major role in the discovery of neutrinos and neutrino oscillations. However, recently there emerged a few anomalies from reactor neutrino experiments when compared with state-of-the-art model predictions. The anomalies include a 5.5% deficit of the integrated antineutrino flux, a discrepancy in the antineutrino prompt energy spectrum around 5 MeV, and a 7.8% deficit in the 235U antineutrino flux from the new fuel evolution analysis in the Daya Bay Experiment. In this talk, those anomalies and their implications will be discussed. A new reactor neutrino experiment, PROSPECT, is aiming to resolve the anomalies by precisely measuring the 235U antineutrino spectrum at a very short baseline. The status of the PROSPECT experiment will also be reported

206. Office of Educational Programs Event

"High School Research Program Begins"

Monday, July 10, 2017, 8:30 am
Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg. 555

207. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Holographic Pomeron: Scattering, saturation, entropy and black hole."

Presented by Ismail Zahed, Stony Brook

Friday, July 7, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

I will discuss the general nature of the holographic Pomeron as a quantum QCD string exchange in both flat and curved AdS space for both pp and ep collisions at either large energies or small x. This description leads naturally to the concept of wee-strings and their distribution both in rapidity and transverse space. The holographic Pomeron carries intrinsic temperature and entropy, with the latter being identical to the recently reported entanglement entropy. I will show that this non-perturbative description of the Pomeron cross over to the the perturbative one, with a phase boundary dominated by string balls, i.e. long and massive strings near their intrinsic Hagedorn temperature. These string balls lead to a distribution of large multiplicity pp events that is in agreement with the one reported for pp collisions at the LHC. I will show that at low-x, the quantum string is so entangled that very weak string self-interactions can cause it to turn to a black hole. I will suggest that low-x saturation occurs when the density of wee-strings reaches the Bekenstein bound, with a proton size that freezes with increasing rapidity.

208. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Probing Transverse Momentum Broadening in Heavy Ion Collisions"

Presented by Feng Yuan, LBL

Friday, June 30, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

In this talk, we will discuss the dijet azimuthal de-correlation in relativistic heavy ion collisions as an important probe of the transverse momentum broadening effects in heavy ion collisions. We take into account both the soft gluon radiation in vacuum associated with the Sudakov logarithms and the jet PT-broadening effects in the QCD medium. We find that the Sudakov effects are dominant at the LHC, while the medium effects can play an important role at RHIC energies. This explains why the LHC experiments have not yet observed sizable PT-broadening effects in the measurement of dijet azimuthal correlations in heavy ion collisions. Future investigations at RHIC will provide a unique opportunity to study the PT-broadening effects and help to pin down the underlying mechanism for jet energy loss in a hot and dense medium.

209. HET Seminar

"Double Gauge Boson Production in the SM Effective Field Theory"

Presented by Ian Lewis, University of Kansas

Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Sally Dawson

210. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Measurement of longitudinal flow correlations in 2.76 and 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector"

Presented by Peng Huo, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Jin Huang

Longitudinal dynamics has recently become a topic of great interest in the study of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Measurement of the longitudinal fluctuations of the flow harmonic coefficients $v_n$ and event-plane angles $\Psi_n$ can provide a more complete picture of space-time evolution of the hot, dense medium formed in heavy ion collisions. Longitudinal flow decorrelations can be modeled with two contributions: magnitude fluctuations and event plane twist. However, existing observables do not separate these two effects. In this analysis, a new 4-particle correlator is used to separate the event-plane twist from magnitude fluctuations in 2.76 and 5.02 Pb+Pb collisions. Results show both effects have a linear dependence on pseudorapidity separation for $v_{2-5}$, and show a small but measurable variation with collision energy. The correlation of $\Psi_n$ of different order are also expected to have longitudinal fluctuations due to the non-linear mixing effects between lower and higher order flow harmonics. First measurement of such non-linear mode-mixing effects as a function of pseudorapidity is also presented. These result will help to constrain initial conditions along longitudinal direction and also help understand the longitudinal evolution of the fireball.

211. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering on "moderately correlated" quantum materials"

Presented by L. Andrew Wray, New York University

Thursday, June 22, 2017, 1 pm
ISB Bldg. 734 Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Mark Dean

The resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) technique is best known for significant breakthroughs in the investigation of strongly correlated materials such as cuprates. However, the rapid advancement of RIXS spectrographs has made it increasingly attractive to apply the technique to a broad range of quantum materials outside of this comfort zone. This talk will review lessons learned from our recent measurements on material systems that feature a balance of correlated and itinerant physics, including VO2, the hidden order compound URu2Si2, and Prussian blue analogue battery electrodes. RIXS spectra enable the first observation of important collective modes for these systems, and provide a look into how correlated electron symmetries are melted - or persist! - in relatively itinerant and covalent environments. The data also highlight the need for improved theoretical modeling and higher photon throughput to achieve deeper insights.

212. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Tailoring Lattice and Charge at Complex Oxide Nanostructures and Interfaces"

Presented by Xia Hong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 11 am
Bldg. 480, Conference Room

Hosted by: Yimei Zhu

Capitalizing on the energy competition of charge itineracy with the strong electron-electron and electron-phonon couplings, nanoscale manipulation of the charge and lattice degrees of freedom in strongly correlated oxides can often lead to new functionalities that are inaccessible in the bulk form. In this talk, I will present our studies of the emerging phenomena at epitaxial correlated oxide nanostructures and hetero-interfaces that result from the nanoscale lattice and charge control. By creating nanoscale periodic depth modulation, we have achieved a 50-fold enhancement of the magnetic crystalline anisotropy in ultrathin colossal magnetoresistive (La,Sr)MnO3, which is attributed to a non-equilibrium strain distribution established in the nanostructures [1]. I will also discuss the intricate interplay between epitaxial strain and electric field effect in determining the correlated transport of the charge transfer type Mott insulator (Sm,Nd)NiO3 [2,3], and how the interfacial charge transfer between two correlated oxides can be exploited to effectively engineer the performance of ferroelectric-gated Mott transistors [4]. [1] A. Rajapitamahuni et al., PRL 116, 187201 (2016). [2] L. Zhang et al., JPCM 27, 132201 (2015). [3] L. Zhang et al., APL 107, 152906 (2015). [4] X. Chen et al., Adv. Mater, in press (2017).

213. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"Laser-driven Pulsed Neutron Sources as a Potential Pool-side Characterization Tool for Nuclear Fuels"

Presented by Sven Vogel, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Monday, June 19, 2017, 1:30 pm
ISB Bldg. 734, Conf. Rm. 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Emil Bozin

The unique advantages of neutrons for characterization of nuclear fuel materials [1] are applied at the pulsed spallation neutron source at LANSCE to accelerate the development and ultimately licensing of new nuclear fuel forms. Neutrons allow to characterize the crystallography of phases consisting of heavy elements (e.g. uranium) and light elements (e.g. oxygen, nitrogen, or silicon) [2]. The penetration ability in combination with comparably large (e.g. cm sized) beam spots provide microstructural characterization of typical fuel geometries for phase composition, strains, and textures from neutron diffraction. In parallel, we are developing energy-resolved neutron imaging and tomography with which we can complement diffraction characterization. This unique approach not only allows to visualize cracks, arrangement of fuel pellets in rodlets etc., but also characterization of isotope or element densities by means of neutron absorption resonance analysis [3]. Laser-driven pulsed neutron sources [4] have the potential to provide these capabilities "pool-side", e.g. at the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. Compared to proton accelerator driven spallation sources, requiring investments exceeding $1B, the investment cost for a laser-driven neutron source would be of the order of several$10M with the potential of similar flux to that of a smaller, earlier generation spallation neutron source. Compared to electron accelerator-driven neutron sources, the flux of a laser-driven source would be at least one order of magnitude higher. Compared to reactor neutron sources, the pulse structure of the laser-driven neutron source would enable unique characterization not possible with steady-state reactor neutrons. In this presentation, we provide an overview of our recent accomplishments in fuel characterization for accident-tolerant fuel consisting of uranium nitride/uranium silicide composite fuels as well as metallic fuels.

214. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Better fitting through (fictitious) chemistry"

Presented by Pasi Huovinen, Uniwersytet Wroclawski

Monday, June 19, 2017, 10 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

One of the puzzles we have faced at the LHC is why the thermal models apparently cannot properly fit the yield of protons. I will explore how the fit improves if we assume that nucleon-antinucleon annihilations freeze-out way later than all other number changing processes or if strange particles freeze-out before non-strange particles, and how this affects the final particle distributions in hydrodynamical calculations.

215. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Exploring the phase structure and dynamics of QCD"

Presented by Jan Pawlowski, Heidelberg

Friday, June 16, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

The past years have seen tremendous progress in the description of Quantum Chromodynamics at vanishing and finite temperature and density with functional approaches, such as the functional renormalisation group or Dyson-Schwinger equations. Within these approaches QCD correlation functions of quarks, gluon and hadrons are computed non-perturbatively from first principles. In the talk I will discuss results for the phase structure of QCD at finite temperature and density, as well as for thermodynamical obserables such as the pressure and the trace anomaly. The approach is also applied to baryon number fluctuations. By now functional approaches also allow for a direct computation of transport coefficients in QCD. First results concern the temperature dependence of the shear viscosity over entropy ratio in Yang-Mills theory and QCD. The talk concludes with a discussion of the further prospects for our understanding of the phase structure and dynamics of QCD.

216. Particle Physics Seminar

"First Results from XENON1T"

Presented by Dr. Fei Gao, Columbia University

Thursday, June 15, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Understanding the properties of dark matter particle is a fundamental problem in particle physics and cosmology. The search of dark matter particle scattering off nuclei target using ultra-low background detector is one of the most promising technology to decipher the nature of dark matter. The XENON1T experiment, which is a dual phase detector with ~2.0 tons of xenon running at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy, is designed to lead the field of dark matter direct detection. Since November 2016, the XENON1T detector is continuously taking data, with a background rate of more than one order of magnitude lower than any current generation dark matter search experiment. In this talk, I will present the first dark matter search results from XENON1T. Details about the XENON1T detector as well as the data analysis techniques will also be covered.

217. Condensed-Matter Physics & Materials Science Seminar

"A model of chiral spin liquids with tunable edge states"

Presented by Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Thursday, June 15, 2017, 1:30 pm
Bldg. 734, ISB Conference Room 201 (upstairs)

Hosted by: Alexei Tsvelik

We construct a quantum field theory in (2+1)-dimensional spacetime for strongly interacting Majorana fields that is amenable to a mean-field approximation. The mean-field phase diagram predicts the existence of two competing phases, one of which supports chiral non-Abelian topological order, while the other supports chiral Abelian topological order. The two mean-field phases are separated by a continuous phase transition. This quantum field theory captures the low-energy physics of quantum spin-1/2 localized on the sites of a lattice whose interactions are $SU(2)$ symmetric but break time-reversal symmetry. The lattice geometry can be interpreted as a one-dimensional stacking of two-leg ladders or as a bilayer of two square lattices. Both incompressible ground states can thus be thought of as chiral spin liquids in two-dimensional space supporting non-Abelian and Abelian topological order, respectively.

218. HET/RIKEN Seminars

"Searching for New Physics with Higgs Decays"

Presented by Daniel Stolarski, Carleton University

Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Pier Paolo Giardino

219. Particle Physics Seminar

"Hadronically interacting Dark Matter, and a new mechanism for the Baryon Asymmetry, within QCD"

Presented by Professor Glennys Reynolds Farrar, NYU

Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 10 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

There may be a so-far-undiscovered neutral, stable particle composed of 6 quarks, denoted S, with mass m_S ~ 2 m_p. If so, the S is an excellent Dark Matter candidate. More generally, I will discuss how hadronic-strength interaction between DM and baryons can cause local DM to co-rotate with gas and stars, resulting in DM energy deposits below threshold for direct detection. DM-baryon interactions cause rotation curves to reflect baryonic density profiles, as observed in some galaxies, and can help alleviate some of the issues with CDM at small scales. An open question is whether the measured Ly-alpha power spectrum places an upper limit on the DM-baryon cross section, which is sufficiently robust and constraining to rule out the co-rotation scenario. The S-DM scenario suggests a new mechanism for producing the observed baryon asymmetry, and appears capable of naturally explaining the DM to baryon ratio.

220. Physics Colloquium

"Stable Sexaquark as Dark Matter"

Presented by Professor Glennys Reynolds Farrar, NYU

Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 3:30 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Xin Qian

Dark Matter could be composed of an as-yet-undiscovered stable or essentially stable, neutral B=2 hadron composed of uuddss quarks. How such a particle, designated S for Sexaquark and to distinguish from the loosely bound di-Lambda called H-dibaryon, can be compatible with current knowledge is explained. The S is absolutely stable if m_S < 2 m_p+ 2 m_e. If m_S > 2 m_p+ 2 m_e but < m_p+m_e + m_Lambda, its lifetime could be longer than the age of the Universe. Experiments are proposed to discover and measure the mass of the proposed particle. To first approximation it behaves like standardl Cold Dark Matter, but some distinctive differences may help explain some puzzles about DM at galactic scales.

221. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Gluon structure of hadrons and nuclei"

Presented by Phiala Shanahan, MIT

Friday, June 9, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

I will present the results of recent lattice QCD studies of the gluon generalised form factors of both hadrons and light nuclei. The generalised transversity gluon distributions are of particular interest since they are purely gluonic; they do not mix with quark distributions at leading twist. In light nuclei they moreover provide a clean signature of non-nucleonic degrees of freedom. The goal of these studies is to provide QCD predictions to be tested at an electron-ion collider (EIC) designed to access gluon structure quantities including transverse-momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) and gluon generalised parton distributions (GPDs).

222. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Anomalies and Exact Results In Massive Quantum Chromodynamics"

Presented by Zohar Komargodski, Stony Brook

Thursday, June 8, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

223. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Anatomy of Azimuthal Angle Correlations in Large and Small Systems - Why the fuss?"

Presented by Roy Lacey, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Oleg Eyser

Azimuthal momentum anisotropy measurements are ubiquitous at both RHIC and the LHC. However, there are pervasive misconceptions as to the mechanistic origin of this anisotropy in both small and large systems. In this talk, I will demonstrate how recent momentum anisotropy measurements, for a broad range of systems, have been leveraged to gain new mechanistic insights and to constrain the properties of the medium produced in these collisions. In particular, the role of final state effects versus initial state momentum domain effects in explanations of the measurements will be addressed.

224. Nuclear Theory/RIKEN Seminar

"Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions"

Presented by Derek Teaney, Stony Brook

Friday, June 2, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Heikki Mantysaari

We develop a set of kinetic equations for hydrodynamic fluctuations which are equivalent to nonlinear hydrodynamics with noise. The hydrokinetic equations can be coupled to existing second-order hydrodynamic codes to incorporate the physics of these fluctuations. We use the hydrokinetic equations to analyze thermal fluctuations for a Bjorken expansion, evaluating the contribution of thermal noise from the earliest moments and at late times. In the Bjorken case, the solution to the kinetic equations determines the coefficient of the first fractional power of the gradient expansion $\sim 1/(\tau T)^{3/2}$ for the expanding system. Numerically, we find that the contribution to the longitudinal pressure from hydrodynamic fluctuations is larger than second-order hydrodynamics for typical medium parameters used to simulate heavy ion collisions. Subsequently we analyze the behaviour of hydrodynamic fluctuations of near the QCD critical point, and dilineate the relevance Kiblle-Zurek scaling relative to other physics. If time permits we will also describe how thermal fluctuations place a lower bound on the bulk viscosity of QCD. References: Y.~Akamatsu, A.~Mazeliauskas and D.~Teaney, A kinetic regime of hydrodynamic fluctuations and long time tails for a Bjorken expansion,'' [arXiv:1606.07742 [nucl-th]]. Y.~Akamatsu, D. Teaney, F. Yan, Y. Yin, `Transitting the critical point,'' in progress.

225. Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar

"Cloud radiative fraction: Determination by high resolution photography from the surface looking upward"

Presented by Stephen E. Schwartz, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department

Thursday, June 1, 2017, 11 am
Conference Room Bldg 815E

Clouds greatly affect short- and longwave radiation transfer in the atmosphere and consequently climate. Hence it is essential that the amount and radiative influences of clouds be accurately represented in climate models. The conventional measure of the amount of cloud in a grid cell is cloud fraction, CF, the fraction of the surface area covered by cloud. CF is a commonly reported meteorological quantity, with a long record of surface observations, greatly augmented in the past several decades by satellite observations. Global cloud fraction determined from satellite measurements has systematically increased with time, a consequence not of secular increase in cloud fraction but of an increase with time in the sensitivity of active and passive satellite instruments. Such a situation raises the question of whether CF can be defined and how well it can be measured. Commercially available digital cameras provide an unprecedented opportunity for detailed study of cloud structure from the surface, looking upward. Key attributes of such cameras include large number of pixels, (e.g., 3456 x 4608; 16 M pixel) yielding rich detail of spatial structure, high spatial resolution, and high dynamic range (16 bit in each of three color channels at visible wavelengths). In the work reported here two cameras were pointed vertically, typically with field of view FOV 21 × 29 mrad and 120 × 160 mrad, respectively, denoted here narrow field of view, NFOV, and wide field of view WFOV, corresponding, for cloud base at 1 km, to 21 × 29 m (NFOV) and 120 × 160 m (WFOV). For perspective, the FOV for the NFOV camera is 2 × 3 sun diameters and for the WFOV camera 11 × 15 sun diameters. Nominal angular dimension of a single pixel is 6 μrad for the NFOV camera and 34 μrad for the WFOV camera, corresponding, again for cloud height 1 km, to 6 mm and 34 mm, respectively. Such single-pixel resolution is some 3 to 5 orders of magnitude finer than that avai

226. Particle Physics Seminar

"Higgs boson properties: what we learn from run II of LHC"

Presented by Andrei Gritsan, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, May 25, 2017, 3 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Alessandro Tricoli

During the second run in 2015-2016, LHC delivered the number of proton-proton collisions far beyond expectation and at higher energy than in run I. We will review the very first results on the H boson properties based on the full dataset collected by CMS by now. We will go through the four main topics: H boson couplings to gauge bosons, couplings to fermions, self-couplings, and search for an extended Higgs sector. Prospects of some of these measurements through the end of run III and phase II of LHC will be discussed.

227. RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Mixed Anomaly and Global Consistency"

Presented by Yuya Tanizaki, RBRC

Thursday, May 25, 2017, 12:30 pm
Building 510, Room 2-160

Hosted by: Hiromichi Nishimura

Symmetry and topology are powerful tools to study strongly interacting dynamics. In this talk, we will see that mixed 't Hooft anomaly and global consistency strongly constrains the possible low-energy dynamics in a simple quantum mechanical example. I will briefly explain the same idea is useful to study the phase diagram of bifundamental gauge theories at finite theta angles.

228. HET/RIKEN Seminar

"Cosmology in Mirror Twin Higgs and Neutrinos"

Presented by Patrick Fox, Fermilab

Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 2 pm
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

229. Nuclear Physics Seminar

"Searching for collectivity and testing the limits of hydrodynamics: results from the 2016 d+Au beam energy scan"

Presented by Ron Belmont, University of Colorado Boulder

Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 11 am
Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Hosted by: Jin Huang

The standard picture of heavy ion collisions is that large systems (collisions of large nuclei like Au+Au and Pb+Pb) create a quark-gluon plasma that exhibits collective behavior indicative of nearly inviscid hydrodynamical evolution. Recently, data from small systems (collisions of a small projectile and a large target like d+Au and p+Pb) have been found to exhibit strikingly similar evidence for collective behavior. To further elucidate these results, RHIC delivered in 2016 a beam energy scan of d+Au collisions at 4 different energies: 200, 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV. In this talk we present a wide array of results from the Run16 d+Au BES and discuss the implications for collective behavior and the limits of applicability for hydrodynamics.

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