TPPC 2024 Kick-off meeting

Europe/Rome
Aula B (Galileo Galilei Institute)

Aula B

Galileo Galilei Institute

    • 1
      Cosmological information in perturbative forward modelling
      Speaker: Prof. Marko Simonovic (UNIFI)
    • 2
      Low energy avenues in sub-MeV dark matter searches

      I will present two complementary ideas to look for sub-MeV dark matter: superfluid helium-4 and anti-ferromagnetic materials. I will discuss advantages and possible difficulties, and argue that a prominent theoretical tool to tackle these problems should be Goldstone’s theorem for spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries.

      Speaker: Angelo Esposito (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 11:15 AM
      Coffee break
    • 3
      The QCD Axion: Some Like It Hot

      The QCD axion is a compelling target for physics beyond the Standard Model which offers also a characteristic imprint in the Early Universe as a hot relic. In this talk we present a state-of-the-art bound on the QCD axion from Cosmology by confronting momentum-dependent Boltzmann equations against up-to-date measurements of the CMB – including ground-based telescopes – and abundances from BBN. We conclude presenting forecasts using dedicated likelihoods for future cosmological surveys and recent non-perturbative computations at the crossover from lattice QCD.

      Speaker: Mauro Valli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 4
      Topics at the intersection of Particle Physics and Cosmology

      In this talk, three topics concerning aspects of cosmology and particle physics will be discussed: 1) primordial black hole production during the early universe; 2) higher-order computations of cosmological correlators in non-single-clock inflation, and 3) QCD axion dynamics and the role of gravitational anomalies.

      Speaker: Alfredo Leonardo Urbano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 1:15 PM
      Lunch
    • 5
      Flavor violating Higgs and Z decays at future lepton colliders
      Speaker: Michele Tammaro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 6
      Constraining Flavor from the semi-leptonic decays of baryons
      Speaker: Florentin Jaffredo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 7
      The X17 boson?
      Speaker: Daniele Barducci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 8
      Modular invariance and the strong CP problem
      Speaker: Arsenii Titov (University of Pisa and INFN)