Parallel Session Topics and Convenors

CIPANP Scientific Topics 2018

Physics at High Energies  

Conveners:     Stefania Gori, Univ. Cincinnati (gorisa@ucmail.uc.edu)

Verena Martinez-Outschoorn, Univ. Massachusetts (Amherst) (vimartin@umass.edu)

Toyoko Orimoto, Northeastern Univ. (t.orimoto@northeastern.edu)

LinTao Wang, Univ. of Chicago (liantaow@uchicago.edu)

• Higgs physics
• Collider searches for SUSY and other beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics
• Theoretical interpretations
• Next generation colliders – Future Circular Collider, International Linear Collider, …
• Models of BSM physics

Precision Physics at High Intensities

Conveners:     Aida El-Khadra, Univ. Illinois (axk@illinois.edu)

Renee Fatemi,  Univ. Kentucky (rhfate2@g.uky.edu)

Kent Paschke, Univ. Virginia (paschke@virginia.edu)

• Muon Physics
  • g-2
  • muon-to-electron conversion and other lepton flavor violation
  • muon capture
  • muonium studies
  • muonic Lamb shift
• Rare meson decays
• Weak charges of the electron and proton
• Antihydrogen
• Family and lepton number tests at high energies
• Proton decay, n-nbar oscillations

Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity

Conveners:     David Kirkby, UC Irvine (dkirkby@uci.edu)

Neelima Sehgal, Stony Brook (neelima.sehgal@stonybrook.edu)

Mark Trodden, Univ. of Pennsylvania (trodden@physics.upenn.edu)

• Cosmic microwave background and its polarization
• Other high-precision cosmology
• Large-scale structure formation
• Cosmological parameters
• Re-ionization epoch
• Cosmologically generated gravitational waves
• Short-range tests of gravity and new interactions
• Astrophysical tests of general relativity
• Inflation and baryogenesis
• Theories of dark energy/inflation
• Multi-verses, cyclic universes, arrow of time

Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing

Conveners:     Andre DeGouvea, Northwestern Univ. (degouvea@northwestern.edu)

Jason Detwiler, Univ. Washington (jasondet@uw.edu)

Kanika Sachdev, Fermi Lab (ksachdev@fnal.gov)

Elisa Resconi, TU Muenchen (elisa.resconi@tum.de)

• Neutrino oscillations in neutrino beams and with reactor fluxes
• Double beta decay
• Solar and atmospheric neutrinos
• Direct neutrino mass measurements
• Cosmological constraints on neutrino mass
• Neutrino flavor physics of supernovae
• Neutrino cross section measurements 

Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction

Conveners:     Jordy de Vries, NIKHEF (Amsterdam) (jordy.de.vries@nikhef.nl)

Brad Filippone, Caltech (bradf@caltech.edu)

Bob Redwine, MIT (redwine@mit.edu)

• CKM tests in neutron and nuclear beta decay
• Hadronic parity violation
• EDMs of the electron, neutron, atoms, and molecules
• P- and T-odd neutron and nuclear beta decay correlations
• Neutron lifetime

Dark Matter

Conveners:     Matt Pyle, UC Berkeley (mpyle1@berkeley.edu)

Jiangli Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (jianglai.liu@sjtu.edu.cn)

George Fuller, UCSD (gfuller@ucsd.edu)

• Direct detection of WIMP dark matter
• Astrophysical searches for dark matter
• Collider searches for dark matter
• Axions and other light dark matter candidates
• Theories of dark matter and its interactions
• Instrumentation

Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics

Conveners:     Barry Davids, TRIUMF (davids@triumf.ca)

Samaya Nissanke, Radboud Univ. (samaya@astro.ru.nl)

Masaru Shibata, Kyoto Univ. (masaru.shibata@aei.mpg.de)

Rebecca Surman, Notre Dame Univ. (rsurman@nd.edu)

• Supernovae: Observations and modeling
• Neutron stars and neutron star mergers
• Multi-messenger astrophysics
• Big bang nucleosynthesis
• Explosive nucleosynthesis
• Detection of high energy cosmic rays (IceCube, Pierre Auger, …)
• Cosmic ray sources and acceleration mechanisms: nucleons, nuclei, electrons/positrons, gammas, neutrinos
• Underground laboratories

Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix

Conveners:     Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Univ. Cincinnati (altmanwg@ucmail.uc.edu)

                      Chris Bouchard, Univ. Glasgow (chris.bouchard@glasgow.ac.uk)

                      Christoph Schwanda, HEPHY (Wien) (christoph.schwanda@oeaw.ac.at)

• Decays, mixings, lifetimes, and CP asymmetries of charmed and b-flavored hadrons
• QCD calculations that aid in the determination of the CKM matrix
• Interpretations of non-standard model effects and extensions
  • BES3, CLEO, BaBar and Belle results
  • LHC flavor physics results
  • Rare decays
  • Lattice QCD calculations of heavy quark physics
  • BSM contributions to flavor physics

QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics

Conveners:     Raul Briceno, JLab (rbriceno@jlab.org)

Yuanning Gao, Tsinghua Univ. (gaoyn@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)

Seamus Riordan, ANL (sriordan@anl.gov)

Bernhard Ketzer, Bonn Univ. (ketzer@hiskp.uni-bonn.de)

• Diagonal and transition form factors
• Proton charge radius
• Light quark meson and baryon spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy of heavy quark states
• Models
• Lattice QCD calculations
• Determining hadronic properties from experimental data

Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei

Conveners:     Zhangbo Kang, UCLA (zkang@physics.ucla.edu)

Jen-Chieh Peng, Univ. Illinois (jcpeng@illinois.edu)

Juan Rojo, Oxford Univ. (juan.rojo@physics.ox.ac.uk)

Ralf Seidl, BNL (rseidl@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov)

• Unpolarized parton distribution functions
• Longitudinal and transverse spin structure of the nucleon
• Generalized parton distributions
• Nucleon spin
• Quark-gluon correlations
• Non-perturbative models
• Lattice QCD calculations
• Hadronization

Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects

Conveners:     John Arrington, ANL (johna@anl.gov)

Scott Bogner, MSU (bogner@nscl.msu.edu)

Jerry Miller, Univ. Washington (miller@phys.washington.edu)

Brad Sherrill, MSU (sherrill@frib.msu.edu)

• Polarizabilities
• Structure functions and the Coulomb sum rule
• EMC effect, color transparency
• Short-range correlations
• Nuclear forces, chiral interactions
• Nuclear models vs. ab initio methods
• Nuclei and nuclear forces from lattice QCD
• Nuclei far from the valley of stability
• Neutron-rich nuclei, nuclear matter, and the equation of state
• Nucleon and nuclear structure for fundamental symmetries

Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

Conveners:     Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Rugers Univ. (jacquelyn.noronhahostler@rutgers.edu)

Marta Verweij, CERN (marta.verweij@cern.ch)

Nu Xu, LBNL (nxu@lbl.gov)

• QCD phase diagram
• Initial state effects
• Correlations and fluctuations
• Theromodynamics and hadron chemistry
• Relations to other strongly interacting systems
• Open heavy flavor and quarkonia
• Jets