Masayuki Asakawa, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Toward the understanding of strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
It was discovered at RHIC that the quark-gluon plasma is very strongly interacting matter contrary to naive expectation. First I will explain how this conclusion was drawn with emphasis on the characteristics of the physics of high energy nuclear collisions. After the introduction, I will examine the interaction in the quark-gluon plasma in three ways: interaction measure, charmonia with finite momenta, and fluctuations of conserved quantities. In the presentation, I will mainly discuss physical implications rather than technical details.
Takeshi Morita, Shizuoka University
Nuclear physics and D-branes in string theory
Meeting room 3, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only), slides (kek.jp only)
Holographic QCD predicts that nucleons in QCD may be described by D-branes so called baryon vertices in string theory. The effective theory of the baryon vertices is a matrix quantum mechanics similar to the Dp-Dp+4-brane systems. We study this quantum mechanics and find a similarity with the quark model. By solving our model for small numbers of baryons, we obtain the Gell-Mann-Okubo formula for hyperons, baryon resonances, dibaryon spectra, and a stable Helium like nucleus. In such a way, D-brane dynamics may be understood as nuclear physics.
Masatoshi Yamada, Heidelberg University
Scalegenesis from a bilinear scalar condensate and its phenomenological implications
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
We consider a classically scale invariant extension of the standard model where non-abelian scalar-gauge theory in a hidden sector is introduced to explain the origin of the electroweak scale. Due to the strong dynamics in the hidden sector a bilinear scalar condensate occurs and becomes an origin of a scale. We discuss phenomenological implications from this extension.
Masatoshi Yamada, Heidelberg U
Introduction to the functional renormalization group
Meeting room 3, Kenkyu honkan 1F
The functional renormalization group is a powerful tool to study critical phenomena in quantum field theory. In this lecture, we introduce its basic ideas and applications to scalar theories in 3 and 4 dimensional spacetime. We discuss the concept of renormalizability and the so-called gauge hierarchy problem from the view point of the functional renormalization group.
Mohab Abou Zeid, University of Gottingen
T-duality in (2,1) superspace and SKT geometry
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F
I will explain our recent derivation of the T-duality transformation rules for two-dimensional (2,1) supersymmetric sigma-models in (2,1) superspace. To this end I will first review the gauging of sigma-models in (2,1) superspace and present a new manifestly real and geometric expression for the gauged action. I will also discuss the obstructions to gauging (2,1) sigma-models and show that the obstructions to (2,1) T-duality are considerably weaker than the obstructions to gauging. Our complexified T-duality transformations are equivalent to the usual Buscher duality transformations (including an important refinement) together with diffeomorphisms.
So Chigusa, University of Tokyo
Indirect Studies of Electroweakly Interacting Particles at 100 TeV Hadron Colliders
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
There are many models beyond the standard model which include electroweakly interacting massive particles (EWIMPs), often in the context of the dark matter. We study the indirect search of EWIMPs using a precise measurement of the lepton pair production cross sections at future 100 TeV hadron colliders. It is revealed that this search strategy is suitable in particular for Higgsino and that the Higgsino mass up to about 850 GeV will be covered at 5 sigma level irrespective of the chargino and neutralino mass difference. We also show that the property of the observed signal, in particular its weak charges and mass, can be independently read off by using both the neutral and the charged current processes.
Pablo Soler, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg
Swampland conjectures and some phenomenological applications
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
An enormous amount of four dimensional effective field theories can be obtained from compactifications of string theory, forming a set known as the landscape of string theory. It has been suggested that, beyond this landscape, there exist consistent-looking effective field theories that cannot be embedded into UV complete theories of quantum gravity, in particular into string theory. They are said to belong to the swampland. In this talk, I will describe some of the conjectures that define the swampland and implications they have on phenomenology (e.g. dark matter, inflation and the cosmological constant).
Masazumi Honda, University of Cambridge
Quantum Black Hole Entropy from 4d Supersymmetric Cardy formula
Meeting room 3, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
I will talk about supersymmetric index of 4d N=1 supersymmetric theories on S^1xM_3 which counts supersymmetric states. In the first part, I will discuss a general formula to describe an asymptotic behaviour of the index in the limit of shrinking S^1 which we refer to as 4d (refined) supersymmetric Cardy formula. This part is based on arXiv:1611.00380 with Lorenzo Di Pietro. In the second part, I will apply this formula to black hole physics. I will mainly focus on superconformal index of SU(N) N=4 super Yang-Mills theory which is expected to be dual to type IIB superstring theory on AdS_5 x S^5. We will see that the index in the large-N limit reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of rotating charged BPS black hole on the gravity side. Our result for finite N makes a prediction to the black hole entropy with full quantum corrections. The second part is based on arXiv:1901.08091.
Fumihiko Sugino, Institute for Basic Science
Study of highly entangled spin chains
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F, slides (kek.jp only)
Quantum entanglement is the most surprising feature of quantum mechanics. Ground states of quantum many-body systems typically exhibit the area law behavior in the entanglement entropy, which measures the amount of entanglement between a subsystem and the rest of the system. Recently, a class of solvable one-dimensional spin models with local interactions has been constructed, in which the ground state is expressed as a superposition of random walks, and has much larger entanglement entropy proportional to a square root of the volume. It seems to share some features of random geometry with matrix models. In this talk, I explain properties of these model and their implication to quantum gravity. In computation of the Renyi entropy for them, a new phase transition takes place in varying a parameter in the definition of the Renyi entropy.
Jung Chang, Chonnam National University
Forecast for Higgs boson self coupling measurement at the HL-LHC collider
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
