Adsorption of amphiphilic molecules to aqueous interfaces occurs in many technological and biological settings, sometimes desired (stabilization of foams), while other times not (contamination). I will discuss how atomistic computer simulations can help us elucidate molecular mechanisms of surfactant adsorption, … Read More

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Journal club presentation by Sašo Grozdanov on Y. Choi, H. T. Lam, S.-H. Shao, Noninvertible Global Symmetries in the Standard Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., 129, 161601 (2022)   https://indico.ijs.si/event/1558/

When designing novel anticancer drugs, it is crucial to analyze how they interact with cell membranes. For this purpose, Langmuir monolayers have been widely used to mimic half of a cell membrane under controlled conditions. In this study, healthy and … Read More

The mixing of neutral mesons has been playing a key role in the formulation and testing of the Standard Model. It is also sensitive to some of the highest Beyond the Standard Model scales probed in laboratory experiments. In light … Read More

We address the notorious metastability of the standard model (SM) Higgs potential and promote it to a model building task: What are the new ingredients required to stabilize the SM up to the Planck scale without encountering subplanckian Landau poles? … Read More

We discuss the role of time-dependent observables in probing CP-violation in b --> s l+ l- and b --> s nu nubar decays. We identify a set of new observables by looking at the time evolution of the differential decay rate of B_d,s --> P(S) l+ … Read More

The radial direction of the Peccei--Quinn field can drive cosmic inflation, given a non-minimal coupling to gravity. This scenario has been considered to be capable of explaining inflation, the strong $CP$ problem, and dark matter. We argue that Peccei--Quinn inflation … Read More