Symmetry Webinar | Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics
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11th Symmetry Webinar
Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics
Dear all, the MDPI Symmetry webinar on the “Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics” will discuss topics from high energy physics based on some selected articles published in the Symmetry Special Issue (SI) with the same title.
The Standard Model (SM), while extremely powerful as a description of strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions, is not a natural candidate to explain dark matter. Theoretical and experimental motivations exist for the existence of a hidden or dark sector of phenomena that couples either weakly or in a special way to SM fields. Hidden sectors near the weak scale are motivated by naturalness, thermal dark matter and electroweak baryogenesis but also represent a generic expectation for physics beyond the SM (BSM). If there is such a family of particles and interactions, they may be accessible experimentally at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and at future high energy colliders. As a prototypical hidden sector can be considered, there is the compelling possibility of an exact or spontaneously broken U(1) dark gauge symmetry, mediated by a vector boson called the dark photon. The search for such a hidden sector is an important component of the LHC physics program. The LHC provides a unique tool to explore such models where these new states can be produced using, for example, exotic Higgs boson decays to light scalars or light vectors and inclusive dark photon decays or associated productions as a portal to this hidden or dark sector, which has remained inaccessible up to now.
Date: 05 October 2023
Time: 4:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am EDT | 10:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 820 0416 0606
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
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Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA;
Professor Baker’s research is in experimental particle physics: The energy frontier at the Large Hadron Collider in the ATLAS collaboration and precision studies at sub-eV energies. Current topics include quantum information science in HEP, electroweak symmetry breaking, and beyond the standard model physics searches.
Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy;
Emidio Gabrielli is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Italy. Emidio does research in the sector of Theory and Phenomenology of Elementary Particle Physics.
Dr. Spyros Argyropoulos
Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg;
Spyros Argyropoulos is principal investigator of an Emmy Noether young investigator group funded by the German Research Society. As a member of the ATLAS collaboration he is searching for physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC, with a focus on dark sector models.
Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, United States;
Andrei Afanasev currently leads the physics effort for the GWU energy initiative. He has made significant research contributions in the field of nuclear and particle physics probed with high-power electron accelerators and free-electron lasers.
Presently Prof. Afanasev contributes to energy research in three areas: (a) High-power particle accelerators that may serve as drivers for accelerator-driven subcritical nuclear reactors (ADSR), as well as probes of new materials for energy applications; (b) Development of novel techniques in photovoltaics, including nanostructures, quantum dots, and surface acoustic waves; (c) New technologies for non-proliferation of nuclear materials.
Prof. Afanasev is the Director of the Photoemission Research Laboratory where new solutions for particle accelerator sources and photovoltaics are being developed and tested.
In this section, you will find the recordings of this webinar to watch, re-watch and share with your colleagues!
"Hidden Dark Sector in High Energy Physics"
Edited by Theodota Lagouri
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023