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Abstract: I present a novel mechanism for creating primordial black holes and MACHOs.   A heavy dissipative dark sector can come to dominate the...
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Mar18
The Bay Area Particle Theory Seminar aims to bring together particle theorists in the Bay Area, including UC Santa Cruz, SLAC, Stanford, San Francisco...
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Mar15
Abstract: Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory that describes strong interactions. Despite massive success in perturbative phenomena, this theory remains not very well understood...
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Mar13
Abstract: The thermal plasma in the early universe produced a guaranteed stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background, which peaks today in the microwave regime and...
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Mar8
Abstract: Neutrinos of cosmic origin are excellent messengers to investigate the Universe. The IceCube experiment discovered TeV-PeV neutrinos of astrophysical origin which opened a...
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Mar6
Abstract: The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was a groundbreaking achievement for high energy physics, and it...
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Mar1
Abstract:  We explore an odd class of QFTs where a hierarchy problem is resolved with new dynamics as opposed to new particles. The essential...
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Feb28
Abstract: Anomaly detection is a promising, model-agnostic strategy to find physics beyond the Standard Model. State-of-the-art machine learning methods offer impressive performance on anomaly...
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Feb21
Abstract: Precision, low-energy experiments provide complimentary constraints on the search for new physics.   These often take the form of looking for violations of...
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Feb16