Charla de Diego Blas (on-line)

 

 

 

 

Soundscape of gravitational waves: a new tool to access the fundamental blocks of the Universe

Diego Blas is a researcher at UAB (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) and IFAE (Instituto de Física de Altas Energías). His research interests are in theoretical physics, gravitation and cosmology.
Abstract: In this talk, current and future efforts to detect gravitational waves from Earth and space observatories will be reviewed. Diego will also emphasise the physical consequences of these searchers, in particular regarding fundamental physics (primordial cosmology, dark matter, modified gravity…)

Jueves 22 febrero, 12 horas online(GoogleMeet) y en el Seminario de Física Nuclear

3rd edition of the International INFN «School of Underground Physics: Theory and experiments» (SoUP2024)

The 3rd edition of the International INFN «School of Underground Physics: Theory and experiments» (SoUP2024) is addressed to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers involved in the field of Underground (or Underwater) Physics: Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and other rare-event searches.

This year the School is organised by INFN-Bologna, and it will take place from October 14th to October 18th, 2024 at the CeUB center in Bertinoro (FC – Italy), a small Middle Age village 60 km far away from Bologna.

Registration is now open, with deadline May 15th.

Charla de David Cerdeño

How dark matter came to be: Experimental constraints on dark matter production mechanisms

Lecturer:  David G. Cerdeño, UAM-IFT

Abstract: : Despite various decades of ongoing experimental efforts, the nature of the dark matter in the Universe remains unknown. Direct and indirect search methods have explored models of particle dark matter with increasing sensitivity, leading to strong constraints on their parameters. In this seminar I will review different ways in which dark matter might have been produced in the early Universe. We will then discuss if (and how) these mechanisms have been probed by current experimental searches.

Jueves 1 de febrero, 12 horas, seminario de Física Nuclear

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Charla de M. Pérez Torres

 SKA: the mother of all radio telescopes

               

Miguel Á. Pérez Torres is a  research scientist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain) and collaborator of the DFTUZ

 Abstract : The Square Kilometre Array (SKtA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The SKA is expected to conduct transformational science to improve our undersanding of the Universe and the laws of fundamental physics, monitoring the sky in unprecedented detail and mapping it many times faster than any current facility. The SKA  will not be a single telescope, but a collection of telescopes spread over long distances in the Southern Hemisphere. In this talk, I will give an overview of the SKA project and its science goals, which range from the cradle of life in exoplanets up to shedding light on the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages of the Universe.

Jueves 19 de octubre , 12 horas, seminario de Física Nuclear

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Charla de Jordi Miralda

QCD axions as dark matter and their potential detection by gravitational microlensing

Jordi Miralda Escudé es ICREA Professor of Astrophysics Institut de Ciències del Cosmos

Abstract:The most distant single stars we have observed are in cases of extreme gravitational lensing magnification, when the source star crosses a lensing caustic of a cluster of galaxies that is affected by microlensing. This has enabled detections of stars at redshifts above unity with HST, and now with JWST to even fainter levels. If dark matter is smoothly distributed, microlensing should be caused only by intracluster stars, with rates and lightcurves of caustic crossings that have precise statistical predictions. Deviations from the shapes and other characteristics of these lightcurves are then a powerful probe to small-scale granularity in the dark matter, which is unavailable through other astronomical observations. In particular, if the QCD axion is present in the dark matter, minihalos predicted to have formed around the epoch of equalization can affect the lightcurves of stars that are supermagnified when crossing microlensing caustics.

Viernes 29 de septiembre, 12 horas, seminario de Física Nuclear . Online

CONVOCATORIA 2022 DEL PREMIO DFTP A LAS MEJORES TESIS DOCTORALES EN FÍSICA TEÓRICA Y FÍSICA EXPERIMENTAL

La División de Física Teórica y de Partículas (DFTP) de la Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF), queriendo reconocer el trabajo desarrollado en España por los investigadores jóvenes de su ámbito de conocimiento, convoca el V Premio DFTP para tesis doctorales presentadas oficialmente durante el año 2022 en cualquiera de las universidades españolas. El premio presenta dos modalidades independientes:  a la mejor tesis doctoral en Física Teórica y a la mejor tesis doctoral en Física Experimental. Los candidatos deberán ser miembros de la RSEF en el momento de presentar la solicitud (formulario de inscripción http://rsef.es/area-de-miembros/formulario-de-inscripcion-en-la-rsef).

Ambos premios consisten en un diploma acreditativo y un premio económico de 1.000 € cada uno. Las solicitudes deberán enviarse hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2023.

Todos los detalles en: https://rsef.es/images/Fisica/ConvocatoriaPremiosTesisDFTP2022.pdf

TAE 2023 – International Workshop on High Energy Physics

The TAE (Taller de Altas Energias) – Workshop on High Energy Physics is an international workshop aimed at completing the education of first and second year graduated students who are starting their research on experimental or theoretical High Energy Physics, Astroparticles and Cosmology.

The Workshop will take place at Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual from Sep 03 — Sep 16.

Organizers:
G. Luzón (CAPA, Universidad de Zaragoza)
M. Cepeda (CIEMAT, Madrid)
O. Pujolas (IFAE, Barcelona)
J. Santiago (Universidad de Granada)

List of topics

– Statistical Methods, Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, London, UK)
– QFT and Effective Field Theories, Clara Peset (IPARCOS, U. Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
– Standard Model, Adrian Carmona (U. Granada, Spain)
– Neutrino physics (theory), Mariam Tórtola (IFIC, Valencia, Spain)
– Neutrino physics (experiment), Clara Cuesta (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)
– Astroparticle physics, Pasquale Serpico (LAPTH, Annecy, France)
– Cosmology, Jacobo Asorey (IPARCOS, U. Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
– Beyond the Standard Model, J Serra (IFT, Madrid, Spain)
– LHC physics, Aurelio Juste (IFAE, Barcelona, Spain)
– Flavour / LHCb , Jeremy Peter Dalseno (IGFAE, Santiago de Compostela U)
– Dark Matter, María Martínez (CAPA, U. Zaragoza, Spain)
– Gravitational waves, Alicia Sintes (U. Illes Balears, Spain)
– Future detectors, Ivan Vila (IFCA, CSIC, Santander, Spain)
– Quantum technologies, Gemma Rius (CNM, Barcelona, Spain)
– Machine Learning, Stefano Carrazza (CERN, Switzerland)
– Lattice, Feliciano de Soto (Univ. Pablo Olavide, Sevilla, Spain)
– Axions, Maurizio Gianotti (CAPA, U. Zaragoza, Spain)
– Strings theory phenomenology, Irene Valenzuela (CERN & IFT Madrid)
– Cosmic strings and topological defects in cosmology, Jose Juan Blanco Pillado (UPV/EHU)
– Outreach workshop.

The registration is now open.

Charla de Farida Fassi «Searches for New Physics at the LHC using challenging signatures with the ATLAS detector»

Lecturer:  Farida Fassi, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Faculty of Sciences. Morocco

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the largest and most complex machine ever built will extend the frontiers of particle physics with its unprecedented high energy and luminosity. The ATLAS experiment is the largest particle detector at LHC, targets to detect the tiny subatomic particles and study the fundamental constituents of matter to better understand the rules behind their interactions. The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has a broad search program covering a wide variety of models of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Various BSM theories predict unique signatures that are difficult to reconstruct and for which estimating the background rate is also a challenge. With the large amount of data gathered by the Run-2 of the LHC, the production of four top quarks (𝒕𝒕 𝒕𝒕 ) has become a very interesting probe of the Standard Model (SM) and beyond. In the SM of particle physics, 𝒕𝒕 𝒕𝒕 production is an extremely rare process with a cross section of approximately 12 fb. In extensions of the SM with top-philic new states, the four-top production rate can be enhanced considerably. Highlights from recent new physics searches with the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC will be presented. They include searches for the SM 𝒕𝒕 𝒕𝒕 and BSM 𝒕𝒕 𝒕𝒕 , among others. Results are based on analysis of proton-proton collision data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.

Viernes  28 abril, 10:30 horas, Seminario de Física Nuclear

Charla Pr. Farida Fassi ATLAS

Charla Antoine Kouchner «High Energy Neutrino Astronomy from the Deep Sea»

Antoine Kouchner ,  Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC) Paris, is the ANTARES experiment spokesperson

Abstract: Messengers of the infinitely small, neutrinos provide us with valuable insights into the fundamental laws of physics. Messengers of the infinitely large, traveling on cosmological distances, they are privileged probes of cataclysmic astrophysical phenomena.

Neutrino Telescopes, buried deep in the sea/lake/ice are trying to meet this double challenge. These detectors consist of a 3D matrix of photomultipliers that detect the Cherenkov light inferred by the displacement of charged particles produced when neutrinos interact inside or around the detector.

After a brief historical introduction, I will review the latest results from the first generation deep-sea neutrino telescope ANTARES and the expectations and status of the next generation detector KM3NeT, both immersed in the Mediterranean Sea. In this context, synergies with Earth and Sea sciences will be mentioned.

Some emphasis will be placed on the potential of neutrino telescopes for the determination of the neutrino mass ordering through oscillation studies of atmospheric neutrinos in the GeV range (KM3NeT/ORCA) in the Mediterranean Sea.

Miércoles 26 abril, 12:10 horas, Seminario de Física Nuclear

 

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