Colóquios

"Searching for the effects of physics beyond the Standard Model through flavor"

Data: 
segunda-feira, 8 Dezembro, 2025 - 16:30 até 18:00
Palestrante: 
Prof. Damir Becirevic - IJCLAB, CNRS and University Paris-Saclay, France
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In this talk I will first focus on two flavour physics quantities for which the experimentally measured values appear to be larger than predicted in the Standard Model, and propose a viable BSM scenario that can accommodate both discrepancies. The discussion will then entail the (in)famous $V_{cb}$-problem which can be describe and explain the possible ways out. In the last part of this talk, time permitting, I will argue that the radiative decays of quarkonia can be valuable for searching peculiar effects of New Physics. In that respect the novel lattice QCD results are particularly handy because the Standard Model amplitudes are fully controlled to high precision and should be matched by experiments.

 

Quantum Switch on a Superposition of Spherical Shells | Colóquio DFMA

Data: 
quarta-feira, 15 Outubro, 2025 - 16:30 até 17:30
Palestrante: 
Prof. Dr. Nelson Yokomizo - UFMG
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AbstractPhenomenological models have recently been explored for the analysis of possible effects in quantum systems due to a superposition of geometries, including the occurrence of processes with indefinite order. In particular, in a gravitational quantum switch, the order of operations applied by two agents on a target system is entangled with the state of the geometry. We consider a model describing the superposition of geometries produced by distinct arrangements of spherical mass shells, and show that a protocol for the implementation of a gravitational quantum switch can be formulated in such a system. 

"Bridging the Gap Between QFT and Cosmology"| Colóquio do DFMA

Data: 
terça-feira, 9 Setembro, 2025 - 16:30 até 18:00
Palestrante: 
Dr. Henrique Rubira (LMU München, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge)
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AbstractMajor improvements in the theoretical aspects of Cosmology have been possible in recent years due to QFT-inspired methods, such as the effective field theory of large-scale structure (EFTofLSS). In this talk, I will discuss novel two-loop results. I will also explore further connections between high-energy physics and cosmology. I will present a systematic approach to renormalizing the galaxy bias parameters using path integrals and a finite cutoff scale Λ. I will derive the differential equations of the Wilson-Polchinski renormalization group that describe the evolution of the finite-scale bias parameters with Λ, analogous to the β-function running in QFT.

 
 

 

“On the quantumness of Quantum cosmology”

Data: 
terça-feira, 3 Junho, 2025 - 14:00 até 16:00
Palestrante: 
Prof. Dr. Patrick Peter (Institut D'Astrophysique de Paris)
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Abstract: Primordial cosmological perturbations are usually considered as resulting from quantum vacuum fluctuations over a classically evolving background, a serious drawback for consistency. To address this issue, one often quantize the background as well, and then restrict attention to a single peaked wave function whose expectation value provides a semi-classical scale factor. This procedure hides the most relevant quantum properties of the background.

 

I will first summarize classical and quantum cosmology to show that the latter implies possible quantum superpositions (interference between universes!) whose effects can be measured in forthcoming observations.

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