Ezequiel Alvarez: The Information frontier at the LHC

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)

Once we have obtained the data, the question is how much information is encoded in it and how we can extract it. Any framework with this purpose utilizes information-besides-data and mathematical and statistical tools.  Bayesian statistics has the virtue that, by … Read More

Manuel Szewc: Modeling Hadronization with Machine Learning

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)

A fundamental part of event generation, hadronization is currently simulated with the help of fine-tuned empirical models. Motivated by the difficulties of these models, in this talk I'll present MLHAD: a proposed alternative where the empirical model is replaced by … Read More

Chandan Hati: Nonstandard Nucleon Decays

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)

Nucleon decays are generic predictions of many well motivated theories, including those based on the unification of forces and supersymmetry. I will discuss how nonstandard nucleon decays offer a unique opportunity to broadly probe light new particles beyond the Standard … Read More

Nudžeim Selimović: Topological Portal to the Dark Sector

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)

I will discuss a novel topological portal between quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and a dark QCD-like sector. Such a portal is present only for a unique coset structure after QCD confinement and it connects three QCD to two dark pions. When … Read More

Somiealo Azote, “Quantitative Predictions of biomechanical drivers of cell delamination in stratified epithelia (skin epidermis) using a dynamic 3D vertex model”

C/2-X - F1 čajnica (Jamova)

Speakers: Somiealo Azote During embryonic development, the skin epidermis gradually transitions from a single layer of stem cells to a stratified, multi-layered tissue. This process involves the coordinated differentiation and upward movement of basal cells, known as delamination. It is … Read More

Shoji, Baratella: The Standard Model lifetime is slightly shorter

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)

We revisit the decay rate of the electroweak vacuum in the Standard Model with the full one-loop prefactor. We focus on the gauge degrees of freedom and derive the degeneracy factors appearing in the functional determinant using group theoretical arguments. … Read More

Pietro Baratella: Journal Club on WZW terms without anomalies: generalised symmetries in chiral Lagrangians

https://zoom.us/j/3601731049?pwd=bVNQRjUxU2ExZ0cveWcxYXNUUGdjZz09 (F1 tea room)

Journal Club on WZW terms without anomalies: generalised symmetries in chiral Lagrangians (arXiv:2407.20340)Abstract:We consider a 4d non-linear sigma model on the coset $(text{SU}(N)_L times text{SU}(N)_R times text{SU}(2))/(text{SU}(N)_{L+R}times text{U})cong text{SU}(N) times S^2$, that features a topological Wess--Zumino--Witten (WZW) term whose curvature … Read More