Conveners
Evening 4 - Feb. 17, 2024
- Brigitte Vachon (McGill University)
Baryon asymmetry of our universe is one of the most important phenomena that drives new physics models. I will summarize the landscape of the BSM physics required to explain this asymmetry and I will discuss the wide variety of experimental observations required to test these models.
Dark photons can oscillate into Standard Model (SM) photons via kinetic mixing. The conversion probability depends sensitively on properties of the ambient background, such as the density and electromagnetic field strength, which cause the SM photon to acquire an in-medium effective mass. Resonances can enhance the conversion probability when there is a level-crossing between the dark photon...
Current experiments investigating the existence of magnetic monopoles and other exotic phenomena at the LHC such as MoEDAL are underway. This has included the search for velocity dependent visible monopoles. The upcoming MAPP experiment will pursue the possible detection of milli-magnetically charged dark monopoles. Many novel extended features of our model are proposed, including dark...
Studying atomic parity violation in weak interactions by using atomic spectroscopy-based techniques plays a vital role in testing the Standard Model on a different momentum scale. In Francium Trapping Facility at TRIUMF, we trap and cool francium atoms in a magneto optic trap and then drive a highly forbidden 7s-8s transition in this trapped radioactive atomic sample of francium. Recently, we...
