Conveners
Parallel Sessions (III): Session 3A - alpha
- Kelly Weerman
Parallel Sessions (III): Session 3B - beta
- Marta Fernandes da Silva (Nikhef)
The quantum field theory of dark matter scattering has been extensively explored for numerous direct detection experiments. However, pseudoscalar-mediated interactions, such as those involving axion-like particles, have received comparatively little attention, primarily because they are both spin-dependent and momentum-suppressed. In this talk, I will discuss how several theoretical mechanisms...
Due to their scientific importance, e.g., in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmology, the scientific community is eagerly waiting to detect more neutron star mergers.
Motivated by this, we study the gravitational-wave trigger GW231109_235456, a sub-threshold neutron star merger candidate observed in the first part of the fourth observing run of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration....
The High-Luminosity LHC will subject vertex detectors to unprecedented radiation levels, requiring sensors that can withstand fluences up to $10^{17}$ n$_{\text{eq}}$/cm$^2$ while maintaining excellent spatial and temporal resolution. This work presents the development of 3D silicon pixel sensors for the second upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator (VELO). Unlike planar sensors, 3D sensors...
Proton radioactivity provides a unique probe of nuclear structure far from stability and for odd-Z elements it is expected to be the decay mode that determines the limit of observability for neutron deficient nuclei. Establishing these boundaries of observability and identifying the nuclear structure at these limits is a long-standing challenge in nuclear physics. The nuclei in the region of...
The identification of hadronic jets originating by either bottom, charm or light quarks, called flavor tagging, is a fundamental technique in many analyses at the LHC. Since 2017, this has been performed using deep learning models based on graph neural networks architecture, leveraging information from the inner tracking detector and the calorimeters. Accurate tagging is especially critical...
