Aravind Natarajan, University of Pittsburgh, IMPU
Probes of dark matter
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for the dark matter of the Universe. Dark matter searches include collider, direct and indirect detection experiments. I briefly discuss how the La rge Hadron Collider can constrain theories of dark matter. I then discuss 2 cosmological probes of dark matter: (i) The cosmic microwave background and (ii) Radio observations of the nearby dwarf galaxies.
Tetsuo Hyodo, YTIP
Compositeness of hadrons and near-threshold dynamics
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F
We present the recent developments in the studies of the structure of hadron resonances, focusing on the notion of the compositeness in terms of the hadronic degrees of freedom. We discuss the model dependence of the compositeness, and show that the structure of the near-threshold bound states and resonances is model-independently determined, thanks to the low-energy universality.
Satoshi Shirai, DESY
Flavor and Minimal SUSY GUT
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu Honkan 1F
The discovery of the 125 GeV Higgs boson gives a strong motivation for further study of a highscale SUSY breaking model, where the sfermion mass scale is much higher than the electroweak scale. I will discuss the minimal GUT model is quite compatible with this framework. Especially I focus on the tight connections between the flavor structures of the model and the proton decay signals.
George T. Fleming, Yale U
Non-perturbative quantum field theory on curved manifolds
Meeting Room 1, Kenkyu Honkan 1F
A challenging problem in quantum field theory is the study of conformal (or nearly-conformal) fixed points occurring in the non-perturbative regime of a quantum field theory. Using radial quantization, computation on curved manifolds is essential. We propose a new approach called Quantum Finite Elements (QFE), an extension of the usual Finite Element Method (FEM) to solving classical PDEs, where renormalization of couplings can play a key role in the restoration of rotational invariance. Some aspects of our approach can be found in earlier work related to Regge calculus and lattice quantum gravity, as well as the random lattice approach of Christ, Friedberg and Lee.
Dian-Yong Chen, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Meson Loop Contributions to Heavy Quarkonium Decay
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F
As a phenomenological description of the non-perturbative property of QCD, meson loop mechanism plays a crucial role in understanding some particular decay behaviors of heavy quarkonia. In this talk, I will present our estimations of meson loop contributions to some strong decay process, such as $\Upsilon(5S) \to \omega \chi_{bJ}$, $\psi(4160)/\psi(4040) \to \eta J/\psi$ and $\chi_{c1} \to VV$. In addition, the meson loop contributions to the radiative transition processes are also discussed.
Kyohei Kawaguchi, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto University
Black hole-neutron star binary merger: dependence on black hole spin orientation and equations of state
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
Black hole-neutron star binary mergers are the one of most promising sources of gravitational waves for next generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO, Advanced VIRGO, and KAGRA, and gravitational waves from black hole-neutron star binary are expected to be detected in a next decade. Black hole-neutron star binary mergers have also been proposed as the progenitor of short gamma-ray-bursts in the so-called merger scenario. Moreover, some part of neutron-rich material of the neutron star is ejected dynamically during the merger, and the emission powered by decay of radioactive nuclei would occur (Kilonova/Macronova), which reflect the property of the binary. In this talk, I will discuss dependence of the gravitational waveform, the disk formation and the mass ejection from black hole-neutron star binary merger on the mass ratio of the binary, the equation of state of the neutron star and the black hole spin, which have been clarified by the numerical relativity simulations. In particular, I will focus on the case that the black hole spin is misaligned with the orbital angular momentum of the binary, and discuss the effects of the spin misalignment on the merger process.
Jnanadeva Maharana
Dimensional Reduction and T-duality
Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F
String theory is rich in symmetry contents. When the string effective action is dimensionally reduced to lower spacetime dimensions new symmetries manifest. T-duality is one of them. Of particular interest is the emergence of O(d,d) symmetry. I shall bring out the essential features of this symmetry. I shall also very briefly mention about the recent paper of Lechtenfeld, Sen and Zweibach.
Martin Stoll, The University of Tokyo
High-pT top tagging
Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
For highly boosted top quarks (pT above ~TeV), its decay products become collimated. Due to limited detector resolution commonly used jet substructure methods fail to work, whereas charged tracks still offer the possibility for efficient top tagging. I briefly review some standard top taggers and present recent development of the high-pT Top Tagger (HPTTopTagger). This algorithm is based on the charged tracks inside a large-radius jet and allows to probe new resonances in the multi-TeV range.
Astushi Tanaka, Tokyo metropolitan university
新奇な量子ホロノミーの幾何学的背景について
Seminar Room, Kenkyu Honkan 3F
断熱準静過程によるサイクル上を物理系が一周しても何の変化も起きないように思われます。しかし、孤立した量子系で始状態を固有状態に準備した場合、断熱サイクルは幾何学的な位相因子(ベリーの位相因子)と呼ばれる非自明な変化を状態ベクトルにもたらします。これはファイバー束のホロノミーとの対応 (Simon 1983)から(位相の)量子ホロノミーとも呼ばれます。Aharonov と Anandan (1997) はサイクルを記述する空間として射影ヒルベルト空間を用いることで、量子ホロノミーの非断熱拡張を与えました。 近年、断熱サイクルは固有エネルギーや固有空間に対しても非自明な変化をもたらすことが報告されてきました。これらを新奇な量子ホロノミーと呼びます (例えば、Yonezawa et al., PRA 87 (2013) 062113 とその引用文献参照)。ここでは、断熱サイクルが複数の固有エネルギーや固有空間達の置換を引きおこします。この現象はパラメーターを持つ量子系の解析全般、例えば、分子のボルン・オッペンハイマー近似、あるいは、固体中の電子のバンド理論と関連するように思われます。 本講演では、新奇な量子ホロノミーを示す物理系をいくつか紹介した後で、新奇な量子ホロノミーの位相幾何学的な背景について報告します。そこで現れる被覆空間の構造と断熱サイクルのホモトピーによる分類の役割を中心にお話しします。これは、幾何学的位相における Simon の定式化や Aharonov-Anandan の非断熱拡張に対応するものです (文献は AT and T. Cheon, arXiv:1409.5211)。
Yukinao Akamatsu, KMI, Nagoya U
Chiral plasma instabilities for Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields
Meeting room 345, 4 go-kan 3F
