UC Davis Particle Physics Seminars

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Technicolor at Criticality Sep 27, 2010

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Luca Vecchi proposes an asymptotically non-free, natural model for dynamical electro-weak symmetry breaking characterized by the emergence of a weakly coupled Higgs in the IR regime.

The QCD Strings of Randall-Sundrum Models May 24, 2010

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Matt Reece investigates stringy excitations in Randall-Sundrum effective theories for electroweak symmetry breaking.

Jets in SCET May 17, 2010

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Chris Lee talks about how by using the framework of Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, it proves a factorization theorem for jet shape distributions.

Dark Matter Cartography: Mapping the Universe's Missing Matter May 11, 2010

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Marianglea Lisanti discusses how predictions for direct detection experiments depend on uncertainties in quenching factor measurements, the dark matter interaction with the Standard Model and the halo velocity distribution.

Flavorful Gravity Mediation May 10, 2010

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Takemichi Okui presents a complete, viable model of gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking that is safe from all flavor constraints.

The Power of Spin Correlations: from B-decays to Higgs and Beyond at the LHC May 05, 2010

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Andrei Gritsan presents on the production and decay of a new single resonance at the LHC, with examples ranging from the Standard Model Higgs boson to KK Graviton in the models with extra space dimensions.

Algebraic Singularity Methods for Mass Measurements with Missing Energy May 04, 2010

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Ian-Woo Kim proposes a novel generalized method for mass measurements based on phase space singularity structures that can be applied to any event topology with missing energy.

Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum May 03, 2010

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Peter Graham presents on the possibility that the observable universe originated in a transition from a vacua with lower dimensionality than ours.

XENON100 Sensitivity to Light Dark Matter May 01, 2010

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Rafael Lang gives a talk at the Light Dark Matter Workshop.

XENON10 Constraints on Light Dark Matter May 01, 2010

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Peter Sorensen gives a talk at the Light Dark Matter Workshop.