Rahool Kumar, IPMU
Machine learning the Higgs-top CP measurement at the LHC
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom
The conventional approach to LHC analysis involves comparing the measured data to Monte Carlo simulations. These simulations start at the hard-scattering level, where the potential for new physics is maximal, and proceed through various stages, including showering, hadronization, and detector response. Unfortunately, each stage introduces complexities, resulting in a convoluted representation of the true underlying physics at the simulated detector level. Events measured at the LHC detector are also somewhat convoluted versions of the true underlying physics due to various latent effects. Eliminating these convolutions is essential for a direct comparison between theoretical predictions and measured data, which can be achieved through the process of ‘Unfolding’, where measured events are directly mapped to the hard-scattering level.
Yuri Michinobu, YITP
Species bound and its moduli dependence
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom The species bound, a swampland conjecture, suggests that the cutoff of quantum gravity in an effective field theory coupled to a number of light fields is significantly lower than the Planck scale. Notably, the species bound offers insights into the interior of the moduli space. In this talk, I will review recent progress in this direction (2303.13580,2212.10286). I will begin by introducing the notion of the species bound and then discuss constraints on its dependence on moduli. Additionally, I will explain the connection to black hole entropy, which serves as a
The species bound, a swampland conjecture, suggests that the cutoff of quantum gravity in an effective field theory coupled to a number of light fields is significantly lower than the Planck scale. Notably, the species bound offers insights into the interior of the moduli space. In this talk, I will review recent progress in this direction (2303.13580,2212.10286). I will begin by introducing the notion of the species bound and then discuss constraints on its dependence on moduli. Additionally, I will explain the connection to black hole entropy, which serves as a
non-trivial check of the constraint.
Adil Jueid, Institute for Basic Science
[cancelled] Dark matter triggering flavor changing neutral current decays of the top quark
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom
In this talk, I will discuss a possible connection between dark matter (DM) and one-loop induced top quark FCNC decays. In a simplified t-channel DM model that extends the SM with one colored scalar mediator and one right-handed fermion both odd under an ad-hoc Z_2 symmetry, I will show that that moderate to large rates of the top quark FCNC decays are possible while respecting the existing constraints. Then I will discuss the phenomenological implications at hadron colliders (HL-LHC and FCC-hh) of four phenomenologically viable scenarios.
Tokiro Numasawa, ISSP
Gauging Spacetime Inversions
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom Spacetime inversion symmetries such as parity and time reversal play a central role in physics, but they are usually treated as global symmetries.
Spacetime inversion symmetries such as parity and time reversal play a central role in physics, but they are usually treated as global symmetries.
In quantum gravity there are no global symmetries, so any spacetime inversion symmetries must be gauge symmetries.
In particular this includes CRT symmetry (in even dimensions usually combined with a rotation to become CPT), which in quantum field theory is always a symmetry and seems likely to be a symmetry of quantum gravity as well.
In this talk, we will discuss what it means to gauge a spacetime inversion symmetry and explain some of the more unusual consequences of doing this.
In particular, I will argue that the gauging of CRT is automatically implemented by the sum over topologies in the Euclidean gravity path integral, that in a closed universe the Hilbert space of quantum gravity must be a real vector space, and that in Lorentzian signature manifolds which are not time-orientable must be included as valid configurations of the theory.
Tetsuo Hyodo, Tokyo Metropolitan University
[KEK-JAEA Joint Seminar] Femtoscopy for Exotic Hadrons and Nuclei
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom In high-energy collision experiments, the momentum distribution of hadron pairs reveals correlations arising from hadron interactions and quantum statistics. Traditionally, femtoscopy has been used to derive emission source information from these correlations. Recently, these techniques have also facilitated new methods to assess hadron
In high-energy collision experiments, the momentum distribution of hadron pairs reveals correlations arising from hadron interactions and quantum statistics. Traditionally, femtoscopy has been used to derive emission source information from these correlations. Recently, these techniques have also facilitated new methods to assess hadron
interactions, as exemplified by the ALICE collaboration’s significant advancements at the LHC. This talk will cover the fundamental theoretical methods for calculating momentum correlation functions and discuss recent applications to antikaon-nucleon systems and hypernuclei, with a look toward future research at J-PARC.
References:
[1] S. Cho et al., ExHIC collaboration, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 95, 279 (2017).
[2] Y. Kamiya, T. Hyodo, K. Morita, A. Ohnishi, W. Weise, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 132501 (2020).
[3] A. Jinno, Y. Kamiya, T. Hyodo, A. Ohnishi, arXiv:2403.09126 [nucl-th]
Kiyoharu Kawana, KIAS
Fine-Tuning as Quantum Phase Transition Point
Online (Zoom) We discuss analogy between statistical mechanics and quantum field theory from the point of view of fine-tuning problem. In the former, (first-order) phase transition (PT) point spans a finite parameter space in micro-canonical ensemble, while it is literally a point and looks like a fine-tuning of parameters in canonical ensemble.
We discuss analogy between statistical mechanics and quantum field theory from the point of view of fine-tuning problem. In the former, (first-order) phase transition (PT) point spans a finite parameter space in micro-canonical ensemble, while it is literally a point and looks like a fine-tuning of parameters in canonical ensemble.
In this talk, I would like to point out that similar picture holds in quantum field theory. As concrete examples, we discuss free scalar theory and \phi^4 theory and show that gapless point (m^2=0) is typically realized in micro- canonical ensemble. Then, as a phenomenological application, we show that the Higgs alignment in the two Higgs doublet model can be realized in the micro-canonical picture without imposing any symmetries.
George T. Fleming, FNAL
Matching Curved Lattices to Anisotropic Tangent Planes
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom
Radial quantization would be the ideal formalism for studying strongly-coupled near-conformal quantum field theories but it requires the ability to perform lattice calculations on static, curved manifolds, specifically a very long cylinder whose cross section is a sphere. Smoothly discretizing the surface of a sphere requires a graph with unequal edge lengths. The geometry of such graphs is well understood since 1961 using Regge Calculus. But, lattice quantum field theories are defined in terms of couplings which appear in the action rather than edge lengths and so the relationship between couplings and lengths must be determined dynamically. A simple example is computing the ratio of spatial to temporal lattice spacings in anisotropic lattice QCD. I will discuss our conjecture that computing anisotropic lattice spacing ratios on affine transformations of regular flat lattices is sufficient to determine coupling assignments on curved lattices.
Takuya Okuda, Univ. of Tokyo
Measurement-based quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories and anomaly inflow
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom
Quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories is expected to become a major application of quantum computers in the future. So far, most efforts have focused on the scheme based on quantum circuits. In this talk, I will advocate an alternative scheme inspired by measurement-based quantum computation. The Trotterized discrete time evolution of a Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory is driven by adaptive single-qubit measurements on an entangled resource state tailored for the simulated theory. The resource state itself has interesting physical properties and is in a symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase protected by higher-form symmetries. We demonstrate an anomaly inflow mechanism between the simulated theory and the resource state by computing the gauge transformations of defect-dependent partition functions. The resource state can also be used to prove Kramers-Wannier-Wegner dualities of various lattice models. Based on arXiv:2210.10908 and 2402.08720 with Sukeno and Parayil Mana.
Masashi Kawahira, YITP
Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism and theta term
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom
Quantum field theories (QFTs) describe a lot of physical phenomena in our world. And giving a mathematical definition of QFTs is a long-standing problem. There are several mathematical formulations: Wightman formulation, Osterwalder–Schrader formulation and Atiya-Segal formulation. And each of them cover different aspects of QFTs. Recently, Costello and their collabolators formulate QFTs by using factorization algbras. This formulaion cover a lot of classes of QFTs: TQFTs, 2d CFTs and perturbative QFTs. And they reproduce various results such as asymptotic freedom in non-Abelian gauge theories. Factorization algbras can be given by Batalin–Vilkovisky quantization (BV quantization) of the Lagrangian. However the original BV quantizations are perturbative and they do not have non-perturbative effects like instanton. In this talk, we propose BV quantizations which include instanton effects in compact scalar theory. In modern language, it is a BV formulation of ℤ gauging.
Hao Zhang, KIPMU
Z3 discrete theta angle in 10D heterotic string theory and Topological Modular Forms
Hybrid On-site: Kenkyu Honkan Seminar room 321, 322 Online: Zoom
