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Gen
1
Gio
Positivity Constraints on Lorentz-breaking EFTs (Paolo Criminelli, ICTP) @ Aula 500 e online
Gen 1 1970@1:00 am–Feb 7 2106@7:28 am

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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Mag
20
Mer
ANNULLATO Tematiche: Fondamenti di meccanica quantistica e modelli riduzionali @ Aula 501
Mag 20@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

ANNULLATO
Seminario teorico: Angelo Bassi (Uni Trieste)

Mag
26
Mar
ANNULLATO Seminario di Astrofisica Anna Ciurlo (UCLA) @ Aula 501
Mag 26@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

ANNULLATO
Seminario di Astrofisica Anna Ciurlo (UCLA)

Mag
27
Mer
ANNULLATO tematiche: termodinamica quantistica @ Aula 501
Mag 27@2:30 pm–3:30 pm

ANNULLATO Seminario teorico: Matteo Lostaglio (Barcellona)

Nov
4
Mer
Seminario di Fenomenologia Dr. Charanjit Kaur Khosa (Università di Genova) @ on-line
Nov 4@11:00 am–1:00 pm

Machine Learning for BSM searches: A New Perspective

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are emerging as a competitive tool for

Nov
11
Mer
Seminario di Fenomenologia Dr. Stefano Frixione (I.N.F.N. Genova) @ on-line
Nov 11@11:00 am–12:00 pm

The partonic structure of the electron

Although the computation of a vast class of $e^+e^-$ cross sections
is fully doable in perturbative QED, the perturbative series is not
well behaved unless a mechanism is devised that allows one to take
into account, to all orders in the coupling constant, the effects
due to multiple emissions of photons and $e^+e^-$ pairs off the
incoming particles. I shall discuss one such mechanism, that has
a strict analogy with its counterpart in QCD and is based upon
the so-called Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the electron
and the positron. I shall present recent results that have improved
the accuracy to which these PDFs are known.

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Nov
13
Ven
Seminario generale INFN – Dr. Andrea Celentano (INFN Genova) @ online
Nov 13@11:00 am–12:00 pm

POKER: POsitron resonant annihilation into darK mattER

Light dark matter is the new compelling hypothesis that identifies dark matter with new sub-GeV “Hidden Sector” states, neutral under Standard Model interactions and interfacing with our world through a new force. Accelerator-based searches at the intensity frontier are uniquely suited to explore it. However, current and planned efforts are either limited by the low sensitivity or the high backgrounds. This calls for a major breakthrough in the field.

The goal of POKER is to establish and demonstrate a new approach to search for light dark matter, based on a missing energy measurement with a positron-beam, active thick-target setup.
The new technique, based on light dark matter production through positron annihilation on atomic electrons, is characterized by a larger signal yield compared to previously explored reactions, and by a unique signal signature resulting from the underlying reaction dynamics: a peak in the missing energy distribution.
The final objective of the project, approved as a 1.5 M€ ERC Starting Grant for 2020-2025, is to perform a pilot run with the 100 GeV positron beam available at the H4 beamline at CERN, to demonstrate the technique by exploring a so-far unknown territory in the Hidden Sector parameters space.

In this seminar, after a brief introduction the Hidden Sector physics case, I’ll first discuss the potential of accelerator-based light dark matter efforts. I’ll then present the POKER experiment, focusing on the active thick target – the key element of the project. I’ll finally show the sensitivity of POKER to different Light Dark Matter scenarios.

Nov
18
Mer
Seminario di Fenomenologia Dr. Prasanna Dhani (I.N.F.N. Genova) @ on-line
Nov 18@11:00 am–12:00 pm

Threshold resummation in rapidity distribution of a colourless particle production at the LHC

We demonstrate a detailed procedure to resum threshold-enhanced logarithms to all orders in perturbative QCD in the rapidity distribution of a system of non-QCD partons produced at the hadron colliders. The resummation procedure has been carried out in the double-Mellin space where the kinematics get factorized. As an immediate application of our formalism, we consider both Higgs boson production and a pair of leptons through Drell-Yan at the LHC to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy matched to the corresponding fixed order results. We find that inclusion of these threshold logarithms through resummation procedure improves the reliability of perturbative predictions.
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Nov
25
Mer
Seminario di Fisica Teorica Dr. Paolo Solinas (Dip.to di Fisica e INFN Genova) @ on-line
Nov 25@11:00 am–12:00 pm

‘Schwinger effect in superconductors’

From the sixties a deep connection has followed the development of superconductivity and quantum field theory. The Anderson-Higgs mechanism and the similarities between the Dirac and Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations are the most intriguing examples. In this last analogy, the massive Dirac particle is identified with a quasiparticle excitation and the fermion mass energy with the superconducting gap energy. I will show that, following this parallelism, it is possible to predict a new phenomenon: the superconducting Schwinger effect. As in the quantum electrodynamics Schwinger effect, where an electron-positron couple is created from the vacuum by an intense electric field, an electrostatic field can generate two coherent excitations from the superconducting ground-state condensate. These excitations are crucially different from the ones usually observed in superconductors and should lead to the weakening of the superconductivity.
I will discuss the connection with recent experiments and future developments inspired by the original Schwinger paper.

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Dic
1
Mar
Seminario Generale INFN (Dr.ssa Sandra Zavatarelli – INFN Genova) @ on-line
Dic 1@3:00 pm–4:00 pm

L’esperimento LUNA fa luce sulla densità della materia barionica

Nel silenzio cosmico dei Laboratori sotterranei del Gran Sasso, dove 1400 m di roccia proteggono le sale sperimentali dalle radiazioni esterne, l’esperimento LUNA è in grado di ricreare i processi che sono avvenuti durante la nucleosintesi primordiale (BBN) e che tutt’ora avvengono nelle stelle, e di riportare con il suo acceleratore di particelle l’orologio indietro nel tempo fino a pochi minuti dopo la nascita dell’universo.
L’abbondanza di deuterio primordiale dipende in maniera molto sensibile dalla densità di materia barionica. La misura della sezione d’urto della reazione D(p,gamma)3He effettuata con una precisione del 3% alle energie tipiche della BBN ha migliorato di molto la conoscenza del processo che distrugge il deuterio e ha migliorato la stima della sua abbondanza primordiale.
Nel seminario, dopo un’introduzione sull’esperimento LUNA che è operativo presso i laboratori del Gran Sasso da ormai 25 anni, sarà descritta questa nuova misura e le sue conseguenze per i modelli cosmologici. La densità di materia barionica ottenuta attraverso il risultato di LUNA è in buon accordo con il valore ricavato dallo studio della radiazione cosmica di fondo, il residuo “fossile” del big bang e fornisce supporto al modello cosmologico standard.
Sarà inoltre brevemente illustrata l’attività scientifica prevista nel prossimo decennio e basata sull’acquisizione di un nuovo acceleratore da 3.5 MV, LUNA-MV: nello specifico il progetto scientifico sarà focalizzato sullo studio di controversi processi decisivi nelle fasi di combustione dell’elio e del carbonio e che attendono da decenni una soluzione.
Sandra Zavatarelli is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: LUNA p+d seminar
Time: Dec 1, 2020 02:30 PM Rome

Join Zoom Meeting
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