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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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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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.
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.
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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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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Seminario di Fisica Teorica-
TBA
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Seminario di Fisica Teorica-
The coefficients of the operators of an effective field theory (EFT) are constrained to satisfy certain inequalities, under the (mild) assumption that the UV completion satisfies general requirements of causality and unitarity. We begin the extension of these ideas to theories where the Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken, as it happens in cosmology and condensed matter physics. Constraints are derived using dispersive arguments for the 2-point function of conserved currents and of the stress-energy tensor.
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