Calendar

Feb
2
Gio
Vector boson fusion production of new physics at current and future colliders (Timothy Martonhelyi, Università di Melbourne) @ Aula 500 e online
Feb 2@3:00 pm–4:00 pm

Seminario di Fenomenologia

We clarify the role of vector boson fusion (VBF) in the production of heavy vector triplets at the LHC and the HL-⁠LHC. We point out that the presence of VBF production leads to an unavoidable rate of Drell-⁠Yan
(DY) production and highlight the subtle interplay between the falling parton luminosities and the increasing importance of VBF production
as the heavy vector mass increases. We discuss current LHC searches and
HL-⁠LHC projections in di-⁠boson and di-⁠lepton final states and demonstrate that VBF production outperforms DY production for resonance masses above 1 TeV in certain regions of the parameter space. We define two benchmark parameter points which provide
competitive production rates in vector boson fusion.

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Feb
15
Mer
Inferring the impact of feedback on the matter distribution using the Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect (Dr. Shivam Pandey, Columbia University, NY) @ A603 e online
Feb 15@2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Seminario di Fenomenologia

Feedback from active galactic nuclei and stellar processes changes the matter distribution on small scales, leading to significant systematic uncertainty in weak lensing constraints on cosmology. In this talk, I will describe how the observable properties of group-scale halos can be used to constrain the impact of feedback on the matter distribution using Cosmology and Astrophysics with Machine Learning Simulations (CAMELS). By extending the results of previous work to smaller halo masses and higher wave numbers, k, we find that the baryon fraction in halos contains valuable information about the impact of feedback on the matter power spectrum. We will also explore how the thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich (tSZ) signal from group-scale halos can provide similar information. Using recent Dark Energy Survey (DES) weak lensing and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) tSZ cross-correlation measurements and models trained on CAMELS, we obtain 10% constraints on the effects of feedback on the power spectrum at k ~ 5 h/Mpc. I will also demonstrate that with future surveys, it will be possible to constrain baryonic effects on the power spectrum to O(<1%) at k = 1 h/Mpc and O(3%) at k = 5 h/Mpc using the methods introduced here. Per connettersi a zoom: Topic: Theory and Pheno seminars
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Meeting ID: 857 318 5271

Feb
22
Mer
Charm in the proton (Prof. Stefano Forte, Universitá di Milano) @ 603 e online
Feb 22@2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Seminario di Fenomenologia

I present the first clear evidence for the presence of an intrinsic charm component in the proton. I recall the meaning of intrinsic charm and how intrinsic and perturbative charm can be distinguished from each other. I briefly review the NNPDF4.0 determination of the structure of the proton, and I discuss how its results, together with recent advanced tools for the evolution and matching of parton distributions, can be used for a separation of the perturbative and intrinsic charm components and a determination of the latter. I present results for the intrinsic charm component, I compare them to models, I discuss which current data have animpact on it, and briefly examine ongoing future improvements of the current result.

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Feb
28
Mar
Signal-background interference effects in Higgs-mediated diphoton production beyond NLO (Federica Devoto, Oxford U.) @ 605 e online
Feb 28@2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Seminario di Fenomenologia

In this talk I will consider signal-background interference effects in Higgs-mediated diphoton production at the LHC. The inclusion of such effects results in a shift of the diphoton invariant mass distribution and in a destructive contribution to the total cross section. As pointed out in earlier works, one can exploit interference studies to put bounds on the Higgs boson decay width. After reviewing the Higgs interferometry framework I will present an extension of this analysis up to NNLO QCD in the soft-virtual approximation.

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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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