UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Gökce Basar, University of Illinois, Chicago "Non-Perturbative approaches to strongly interacting systems" I will provide an overview of the outstanding problems, from my perspective, of the physics of strongly interacting systems, with an emphasis … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Walter Pettus, University of Washington "Weighing a Ghost: The Quest to Measure the Neutrino Mass" The ghostly neutrinos remain the only fundamental fermions whose masses are unknown. Neutrino oscillation measurements definitively demonstrate neutrinos have mass, … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Walter Pettus, University of Washington "Backwards is Better: Next-Generation Detectors for Nuclear Physics" The neutrino continues to conceal many of its fundamental properties, rebuffing the advances of modern physics. When our best isn’t good … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University "Searching for dark matter with liquid argon" The DarkSide collaboration has undertaken a staged program using argon time projection chambers (TPCs) to search for dark matter. I will introduce DarkSide-50, a … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University "Development of low-background detectors for future rare-event searches" Physics beyond the Standard Model may be accessible to novel, ultra low-background detectors that push the frontiers of experimental sensitivity. Two such … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy PhD Defense Andrew Loheac “Computational techniques to address the sign problem in non-relativistic quantum thermodynamics” Understanding quantum many-body physics is crucial to physical systems throughout condensed matter, high-energy, and nuclear physics, as well as the development … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Danielle Speller, Yale University "Low Temperature Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model" The standard model of particle physics provides a useful framework for understanding the known particles and their interactions, and heavily informs our … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk Danielle Speller, Yale University "Advancing the Search for New Physics through Low Temperature Quantum Metrologies" Understanding the nature and origin of matter is a critical component of the continuing search for new physics. In … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Thesis Proposal Presentation Christopher Haufe "A Comprehensive Background Model for the Majorana Demonstrator" The Majorana Demonstrator is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double beta decays in 76Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy … Read more
UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Matteo Agostini, Technical University Munich "Neutrinos: a Unique Probe to Uncover the Secrets of Nature" Neutrinos play a key role in our life. They are deeply involved in many particle and nuclear physics processes, from … Read more