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Ott
18
Mer
Black hole thermodynamics from N=4 SYM: perturbations beyond supersymmetry and extremality (Alejandro Cabo Bizet, Università del Salento) @ Aula 500 e online
Ott 18@2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Seminario di Fisica Teorica-

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of supersymmetric and extremal (BPS) black holes has a precise statistical interpretation in the context of AdS/CFT duality. For non-BPS anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes in dimensions larger than three, such a precise statistical interpretation has not been found yet. After reviewing the microscopic interpretation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for large BPS black holes in five dimensional AdS, and time permitting, I will explain how some perturbative corrections, deviating from supersymmetry and extremality, can be computed in four-dimensional maximally supersymmetric SU(N) Yang Mills theory.

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Ott
20
Ven
First result of a search for diffuse supernova neutrino background in SK-Gd experiment (Dr. Masayuki Harada, Okayama University, Japan) @ Aula 605
Ott 20@11:00 am–12:00 pm

Diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB), which is an integrated flux of neutrinos from all past core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), are eagerly studied in the worldwide experiment because the detection of DNSB flux makes investigation about the star formation history as well as the neutrino emission from CCSNe.

Since 2020, Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector has been updated by loading gadolinium (Gd) as a new experimental phase, “SK-Gd”. In the SK-Gd experiment, neutrons can be efficiently identified due to high cross-section and high energy gamma-ray emission of thermal neutron capture on Gd. This enables to search low-energy electron antineutrinos such as a signal of DSNB via inverse-beta decay.
Until July 2022, the observation was operated with the 0.01% Gd mass concentration, termed as SK-VI. The neutron capture fraction on Gd is about 50% at that time. In this period, we operated neutron source calibration and obtained characteristics about the neutron identification in SK-Gd detector.
Using the whole period of SK-VI, we searched for astrophysical electron antineutrinos with the energy of O(10) MeV in SK-Gd with a 22.5×552 kton·day exposure at 0.01% Gd mass concentration for a first time in SK-Gd experiment.
This seminar provides the result of the search and prospects for future observation.

Ott
25
Mer
Travels through modified gravity (Peter Dusnby, University of Cape Town) @ Aula 500 e online
Ott 25@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Seminario di Fisica Teorica –

Over the past two decades, f(R) gravity has been at the forefront of providing an alternative to dynamical dark energy to explain the origin of late-time acceleration in the universe. This talk will provide a survey of work that has been done in this area using covariant methods, dealing with diverse topics from cosmological dynamics to gravitational lensing and perturbations of black holes.

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Nov
8
Mer
Heavy Barions and new Interacting Boson Fermion Fermion Model results (Hugo Garcia Tecocoatzi, INFN Genova) @ Aula 500 e online
Nov 8@2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Seminario di Fisica Teorica-

In the first part of the presentation, I will present a study of the spectra and strong decay widths of heavy baryons. The masses of single heavy baryons up to the D-wave have been calculated within a constituent quark model, employing both the three-quark and quark-diquark schemes. The decay widths of the ground and excited single heavy baryons into the heavy single baryon-(vector/pseudoscalar) meson pairs and the (octet/ decuplet) baryon-
(pseudoscalar/vector) heavy meson pairs, have been calculated. Moreover, I will discuss why the presence or absence of the ρ-mode excitations in the experimental spectrum is the key to distinguishing between the quark-diquark and three-quark behaviours, as it was originally pointed out in. The quantum number assignments and predictions for mass spectra and strong-decay widths are in agreement with the available data. These findings provide valuable
guidance for future measurements in experiments as ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, Belle, and Belle II.
In the second part of this talk, I will present a new application of the Interacting Boson Fermion-Fermion Model (IBFFM) for describing double charge exchange reactions. The study of double charge exchange reactions induced by heavy ions involving candidate nuclei for neutrinoless double beta decay is a complex task carried out by the NUMEN collaboration [5], to which I belong. This investigation faces the intricacies of complex odd-odd intermediate nuclei in sequential double charge exchange processes. I will offer a comprehensive description of heavy odd-odd nuclei using the (IBFFM). Additionally, I will outline the methodology for describing transfer operators within this framework.
Finally, I will explore the potential applications of our results in future reaction codes for describing double charge exchange reactions.

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Nov
15
Mer
Measurement-induced phase transitions in quantum circuits (Lorenzo Piroli, UNIBO, INFN BO) @ Aula 500 e online
Nov 15@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Seminario di Fisica Teorica-

The advent of noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices is opening new horizons for fundamental theoretical research. When viewed as experimental platforms for many-body quantum physics, NISQ devices can be conceptualized as systems evolving according to discrete sequences of few-body unitary processes, local projective measurements, and feedback. These ingredients give rise to new qualitative features and universal phenomena out of equilibrium, such as the recently discovered entanglement measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs). In the first part of the talk, I will provide an overview of the recent literature on the subject, introducing different quantum-circuit models for non-equilibrium many-body physics and the MITPs. In the second part, I will focus on some of my recent work on explicit models, showing either interesting new phenomena or allowing for analytic insight based on mappings to statistical mechanics problems.

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Nov
21
Mar
On the treatment of heavy quark mass at colliders (Davide Napoletano, UNImib, INFN MIB) @ Aula 603 e online
Nov 21@2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Seminario di Fenomenologia –

In this talk I will describe how the common treatment of heavy quark mass effects in either the initial of final state can lead to important issues and how can we construct a more effective way of dealing with massive quarks in a consistent way both theoretically and practically.

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Nov
22
Mer
Challenges and first results venturing into uncharted territories with forward proton tags at the LHC (Pedro Ferreira da Silva)) @ Aula 500
Nov 22@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Seminario Generale

The Precision Proton Spectrometer (PPS) was developed by the CMS and TOTEM Collaborations and started to be used extensively during Run 2 of the LHC. It is a powerful tool for advancing new measurements with forward proton tags and beyond the standard model searches. The commissioning of this new detector involves understanding different aspects of forward proton reconstruction (alignment and optics calibrations, radiation damage, pileup contributions and validation using standard model candles).
In this seminar I’ll illustrate how PPS can be used by focussing on a generic search for the associated production of a Z boson or a photon with an additional unspecified massive particle X in proton-tagged events from proton-proton (pp) collisions at √s =13 TeV, recorded in 2017. The so-called missing mass spectrum is analysed in the 600–1600 GeV range and a fit is performed to search for possible deviations from the background expectation. No significant resonant deviations in data with respect to the background predictions have been observed. Model-independent upper limits on the visible production cross section of pp → pp + Z/γ + X are set. Results from other recent searches with PPS and Run 2 will also be summarized.

Nov
28
Mar
Detecting Muonphilic Scalars at Neutrino Facilities (Dr. Duncan Rocha, University of Chicago) @ Aula 603
Nov 28@2:00 pm–4:00 pm

Neutrino experiments such as MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE produce a large quantity of secondary muons. This provides an
interesting opportunity to search for BSM particles that may
preferentially couple to the muon. In my talk, I will present a
scenario where neutrino experiments are particularly suitable for
studying BSM models, and show how these experiments have excluded
certain regions where a BSM scalar could explain the g-2 anomaly.

Nov
29
Mer
Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT (Pietro Benetti Genolini, Université de Genève) @ Aula 500 e online
Nov 29@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Seminario di Fisica Teorica-

On a space with a group action, the equivariant localization theorem allows one to compute integrals using only local information. We shall see how this can be applied to AdS/CFT to compute various supersymmetric gravity observables without solving the equations of motion, using just topological information.

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Dic
6
Mer
Testing the assumptions of LCDM (Matteo Martinelli, INAF – OAR) @ Aula 500 e online
Dic 6@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

Seminario di Fisica Teorica-

The standard cosmological model (LCDM) has shown a great ability to explain cosmological observations throughout the past 3 decades. Despite this, several of its component are still a mystery from the theoretical point of view; together with the observational tensions recently found between different measurements of its parameters, this motivates the search for alternative models or, at least, a thorough testing of LCDM.
In this talk, I will focus mostly on tests of one of the crucial assumptions done in cosmology, i.e. that General Relativity is a good description of gravity at cosmological scale, showing recent constraints and how upcoming surveys might improve our knowledge.
In addition to this I will also show results on other more fundamental assumptions, namely the validity of the Distance Duality Relation and on the possible variation of the fine-structure constant. Finally, I will also briefly summarize how new cosmological observables might shed new light on the dark component of the standard cosmological model.

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