Speakers: Peter Lewis (University of Hawaii) The Belle II experiment has been collecting data since 2019. The physics program of the experiment is very broad and depends on collecting as much data as possible. This necessitates operation at unprecedented luminosity, which will require extensive accelerator and detector upgrades scheduled for 2032. I will survey the planned ... Read more
Speakers: Prof. JoAnne Hewett (StonyBrook) Discovered a decade ago, the Higgs boson offers a unique portal into the laws of nature and any small deviation in its expected properties would constitute a major breakthrough. The full discovery potential of the Higgs will be unleashed by percent and sub-percent level precision studies of the Higgs properties. Such measurements ... Read more
Speakers: Prof. Nicholas Rodd (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) In this talk I'll describe how a magnet can be used as a Weber bar for the detection of gravitational waves. The concept is applicable to a broad class of magnets, but can be particularly well exploited by the powerful magnets being deployed in search of axion dark matter, ... Read more