The Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2024

from Thursday, 23 May 2024 (07:00) to Sunday, 26 May 2024 (19:00)
Mitchell Institute, Texas A&M University (Hawking Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 May 2024
24 May 2024
25 May 2024
26 May 2024
AM
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Collider: Machine Learning, Quantum Information (until 10:15) (Hawking Auditorium)
09:00 Phenomenlogy of $b$-associated TeV scale scalar production with baryon-number violation in $t\phi$ final states at the LHC - Denis Rathjens (Texas A & M University (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:25 Beyond Kinematics for Optimal Hadronic Top Quark Polarimetry - Zhongtian Dong (University of Kansas)   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:50 Testing quantum entanglement and violation of the Bell inequality from the top-quark decay at the LHC - Tao Han   (Hawking Auditorium)
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Dark Matter (until 12:25) (Hawking Auditorium)
10:45 A Lower Bound on Dark Matter Mass - Mustafa Amin   (Hawking Auditorium)
11:10 Superheavy Decaying Dark Matter - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)   (Hawking Auditorium)
11:35 Minimal Dark Matter Freeze-in with Low Reheating Temperatures and Implications for Direct Detection - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Texas at Austin)   (Hawking Auditorium)
12:00 Light axions with kinetic coupling - Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Collider: Belle, PDF (until 10:15) (Hawking Auditorium)
09:00 Recent results from Belle and Belle II - Angelo Di Canto (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:25 Revealing the fundamental character of the strong force: From PDFs to the underlying QCD.” - Prof. Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:50 Proton structure in precision calculations for colliders - Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Neutrino (until 12:25) (Hawking Auditorium)
10:45 Ab initio Nuclear Calculations for Dark Matter Detection and CEvNS - Baishan Hu   (Hawking Auditorium)
11:10 What’s the wave packet size of neutrinos? - Shirley Li (UC Irvine)   (Hawking Auditorium)
11:35 Unleashing the Power of EFT in Neutrino–Nucleus Scattering - Zahra Khajeh Tabrizi   (Hawking Auditorium)
12:00 Revisiting Reactor Anti-Neutrino 5 MeV Bump with 13C Neutral-Current Interaction - Min-Gwa Park (Jeonbuk National University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
BSM, Dark Matter (until 10:15) (Hawking Auditorium)
09:00 Constraints on Baryon Number Violation from Neutron Stars to the Lab - Adrian Thompson   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:25 A quantum description of wave dark matter - Nicholas Rodd   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:50 Direct Collapse Black Holes from Dark Matter Annihilation - Prof. Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)   (Hawking Auditorium)
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Dark Matter (until 12:25) (Hawking Auditorium)
10:45 Dark Matter and Dark Sectors at the LHC - Luca Lavezzo (MIT)   (Hawking Auditorium)
11:10 Dark-Matter Mass from Angular Dependence - Prof. Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University (KR))   (Hawking Auditorium)
11:35 The cosmology of ultralight scalar dark matter coupled to right-handed neutrinos - Ryan Plestid   (Hawking Auditorium)
12:00 Detecting Rare Species of Dark Matter with Terrestrial Detectors - Anupam Ray   (Hawking Auditorium)
08:00 --- Breakfast ---
09:00
Dark Matter, Axion (until 10:40) (Hawking Auditorium)
09:00 Addressing the Axion Quality Problem - Kaladi Babu   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:25 New Constraints on Axion-Like Particles from IXPE Polarization Data for Magnetars - Fazlollah Hajkarim (University of Oklahoma)   (Hawking Auditorium)
09:50 CMB Birefringence from Axion Strings - Andrew Long (Rice University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
10:15 Opening windows with Isospin-Violating Dark Matter - Jason Kumar   (Hawking Auditorium)
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
PM
12:25 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Accelerator Exp.: BSM (until 15:40) (Hawking Auditorium)
14:00 Neutrino and Muon physics at Forward Detectors at LHC - Roshan Mammen Abraham (University of California Irvine (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
14:25 Dark QCD: the Next Frontier in Dark Matter - Kevin Pedro (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
14:50 Introduction to DAMSA, A Novel Dark Sector Particle Search Experiment - Prof. Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
15:15 Flavor-violating new physics at the intensity frontier - Matheus Hostert   (Hawking Auditorium)
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Higgs, Astrophysics/Cosmology (until 18:15) (Hawking Auditorium)
16:10 Measurements of Higgs boson properties with the ATLAS and CMS experiments - Viviana Cavaliere (Brookhaven National Lab)   (Hawking Auditorium)
16:35 Searches for BSM Higgs at the LHC - Hyunyong Kim (Texas A & M University (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:00 Searching for scalar boson pairs at the Large Hadron Collider - Jason Veatch (California State University (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:25 New Cosmological Data Presents ν Opportunities - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:50 A comprehensive analysis of supernova neutrino-dark matter interactions - Deepak Sathyan   (Hawking Auditorium)
18:30 --- Reception ---
12:25 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Cosmology (until 15:40) (Hawking Auditorium)
14:00 Opportunities for Dark Matter Searches in Cosmology - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)   (Hawking Auditorium)
14:25 "Stasis, Stasis, Stasis" - Keith R. Dienes (University of Arizona)   (Hawking Auditorium)
14:50 Cosmological Stasis from Dynamical Scalars - Brooks Thomas   (Hawking Auditorium)
15:15 Primordial black holes and mattergenesis - Dr Chee Sheng Fong (Universidade de São Paulo)   (Hawking Auditorium)
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Gravitational Wave, Phase Transition (until 17:50) (Hawking Auditorium)
16:10 BSM Physics with Future Gravitational Wave Detectors - Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)   (Hawking Auditorium)
16:35 Dark Matter in the Time of Gravitational Waves - Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:00 Multi-Messenger Probes of First-Order Phase Transitions - Cash Hauptmann   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:25 Collider and gravitational wave signals for electroweak phase transition - Dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
18:30 --- Excursion ---
12:25 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Neutrino (until 15:40) (Hawking Auditorium)
14:00 Novel Neutrino Self-interaction Can Save Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter - Prof. Yue Zhang   (Hawking Auditorium)
14:25 New Physics Opportunities at Tau Neutrino Experiments - Prof. Seodong Shin (Jeonbuk National University)   (Hawking Auditorium)
14:50 Matter Effect on the Flavor Composition of Astrophysical Neutrinos - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)   (Hawking Auditorium)
15:15 Probing New Physics with Double Beta Decay - Prof. Frank F Deppisch   (Hawking Auditorium)
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10
Collider: BSM (until 17:50) (Hawking Auditorium)
16:10 Long-Lived Particles at the LHC - Todd Adams (Florida State University (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
16:35 Recent BSM Highlights from ATLAS and CMS: VLQ, LQ, W' and Z' - Hector De La Torre Perez (Northern Illinois University (US))   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:00 (Generalized) Tri-Boson Signals from a Warped Extra Dimension - Kaustubh Agashe   (Hawking Auditorium)
17:25 A guide to diagnosing colored resonances at hadron colliders - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)   (Hawking Auditorium)
18:00 --- Conference dinner ---