Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2016; Salt Lake City, Utah
Session M2: DPF Prize Session: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physic, and J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation AwardInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DPF FOEP Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab Room: Ballroom A |
Sunday, April 17, 2016 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
M2.00001: Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics: Fundamental Lessons From String Theory Invited Speaker: Cumrun Vafa In this talk I review some of the fundamental lessons we have learned from string theory and how it has altered our view of physics. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 17, 2016 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
M2.00002: Higgs Hunt In The ZZ Channel Invited Speaker: Adish Vartak This talk describes the search and the discovery of the Higgs boson in the ZZ decay mode. The journey of the Higgs boson discovery is described through two searches at the CMS experiment. The search in the H->ZZ->2l2v final state was able to exclude a wide mass range from 270-440 GeV at the end of 2011. When combined with other search channels, it was able to narrow down the mass of the standard model Higgs boson between 115-127 GeV. The search in the H->ZZ->4l final state performed with data collected in 2011 and 2012, was then instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson, the precise measurement of its mass at 125.6 +/- 0.4(stat) +/- 0.2(syst) GeV, and other properties. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 17, 2016 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
M2.00003: Dark Forces Beyond the Standard Model Invited Speaker: Yoni Kahn The existence of dark matter is clear evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model, but the particle nature of dark matter remains unknown. Dark forces, which could mediate dark matter self-interaction or very weak interactions with the Standard Model, can strongly affect the experimental signatures for direct or indirect detection of dark matter. In this talk, I will describe two scenarios motivated by dark forces: production and detection of MeV-scale dark matter through a dark photon at a neutrino experiment, and direct-detection analysis methods which are independent of the dark matter velocity distribution. [Preview Abstract] |
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