UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars

Nima Arkani-Hamed discusses how fundamental physics started the 20th century with the twin revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics, and much of the second half of the century was devoted to the construction of a theoretical structure unifying these radical ideas, which has been confirmed to exquisite precision by experiments over the past three decades.

Nima Arkani-Hamed presents a new approach to quantum field theory that relies on dualities to avoid Feynman graphs.

Matt Reece discusses some distinctive phenomenology associated with low-scale breaking of supersymmetry (as in models of gauge mediation).

Graham Kribs talks about what can be extracted from (a single observation of) nuclear recoil events at a direct detection experiment completely independent of astrophysics.

Alexander Vikman discusses a new class of cosmological scalar fields.

Csaba Csaki reviews magnetic monopoles and describes a model where monopole bilinears condense and break electroweak symmetry.

Tony Padilla talks about problems with Lorentz Invariance violating theories of gravity.

Nathaniel Craig explores calculable models with low-energy supersymmetry where the flavor hierarchy is generated by quark and lepton compositeness, and where the composites emerge from the same sector that dynamically breaks supersymmetry.

Prateek Agrawal presents renormalizable theories where the scattering of dark matter is elastic and arises at tree-level.

Tomer Volansky presents a novel scenario in which the Higgs decays predominantly into a light hidden sector either directly or through light SUSY states.