Charybdis++ Development webpage
Charybdis++ is a new version of the Charybdis2, a black hole event generator that models the production and evaporation of black holes in high energy hadronic collisions according to the ADD model.
High Energy Physics News & Events
Extra dimensions, black holes and fireballs at the LHC
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Anastasios Taliotis (Vrije U., Brussels)
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GAP room
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Abstract: The collision of two gravitationally interacting, ultra-relativistic, extended sources is being examined. This investigation classifies the transverse distributions that are collided according to whether one or two (a small and a large) apparent horizons may or may not be formed in a flat background in 4 dimensions.
Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy
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Juan Carlos Degollado
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GAP room
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Avoiding death by vacuum and other 2HDM stories
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Rui Santos (CFTC, U. Lisbon)
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GAP room
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Abstract: I will report on how some versions of the 2-Higgs doublet model (2HDM) are doing when confronted with the LHC data. I will also discuss some interesting limits of 2HDMs and in particular the case of degenerate scalars. Finally I will discuss how the LHC results help us to sleep safe at night.
Fermi LAT Search for Internal Bremsstrahlung Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilation
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Marco Sampaio
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GAP room
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A first course on Quantum Field Theory
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Marco O.P. Sampaio
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GAP room
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This is an introductory course on quantum field theory, focusing on particle physics and relativistic applications, though some of the tools may also be applied to condensed matter systems. The level will be aimed at 3rd/4th year Physics students, so there will be revision lectures to set the notation and background on quantum mechanics and special relativity.
QFT on Quantum Bianchi I Space-time
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Yaser Tavakoli (Univ. da Beira Interior)
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GAP room
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Abstract: In this talk we discuss the quantum theory of a scalar field on LQC Bianchi I geometry. By focusing on single modes of the scalar field, we show that, evolution of the quantum field on the background quantum space-time leads to a classical effective geometry emerging whose components depend on the quantum geometrical operators.
NRHEP Network First Meeting
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Physics Amphitheatre
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The first meeting of the Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics Network took place at Aveiro University, from 9-13 July 2012. This meeting brought together researchers from Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the USA, to discuss the state of the art in relativistic gravity and its application in various contexts, ranging from astrophysics to particle physics, using both anaytical and numerical techniques.
Constraining Grand Unification Scenarios using the First and Second Generation Sfermion Masses
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António Morais (Glasgow)
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GAP room
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Abstract: In this talk I will discuss Supersymmetric Grand Unification Theories (SUSY GUTs), focussing on the standard SU(5), SO(10) and E6 candidates. A short review of the Standard Model of Particle Physics is given as well as the main motivations for SUSY GUTs.
A holographic model of the fractional quantum Hall effect
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Niko Jokela (U. Santiago de Compostela)
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GAP room
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Abstract: I will describe a top-down holographic model of strongly-interacting fermions in 2+1 dimensions using D3 and D7 branes. The black hole embeddings of the D7-branes correspond to metallic states, while the Minkowski embedding represents a quantum Hall fluid at quantized fractional filling fraction.