CIPANP Scientific Topics 2015
Physics at High Energies
Convenors: Meenakashi Narain (meenakshi_narain@brown.edu), Brigitte Vachon (vachon@physics.mcgill.ca) and Adam Martin (amarti41@nd.edu)
- Direct searches for Higgs, SUSY, Exotics, Extra Dimensions (Collider results from LHC and TeV and theoretical interpretations)
- Next generation colliders – FCC, ILC
- Models of beyond-the-standard-model physics
High Intensity and Precision Physics
Convenors: Brendan Kiburg (kiburg@fnal.gov), Dave Armstrong (armd@jlab.org), and Adam Ritz (aritz@uvic.ca)
- Muon Physics
- g-2
- muon capture on light systems
- cLFV
- muonium studies
- muonic Lamb shift
- Rare and very rare meson decays
- Weak charge of the electron and proton
- High energy tests
- Proton decay, nnbar Oscillations
- Next-generation machines
Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy/Inflation
Convenors: Klaus Honscheid (kh@physics.osu.edu) and Eduardo Rozo (erozo@email.arizona.edu)
- Cosmic Microwave Background and its Polarization
- Other High-Precision Cosmology
- Large-scale Structure Formation
- Cosmological Parameters
- Re-Ionization Epoch
- Gravitational Waves
- Short-range tests of gravity and new interactions
- Astrophysical tests of general relativity
- Inflation and Baryogenesis
- Theories of Dark Energy/Inflation
- Cosmological theory: Multi-verses, Cyclic Universes, Arrow of Time
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing
Convenors: Jason Detwiler (jasondet@uw.edu), Alysia Marino (amarino@colorado.edu), and Silvia Pascoli (silvia.pascoli@durham.ac.uk)
- Neutrino Oscillations in Neutrino Beams and Reactors
- Double beta decay
- Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos
- Direct Neutrino Mass Measurements
- Cosmological constraints on Neutrino Mass
- Neutrino Cross Section Measurements
- Neutrino Flavor Physics in Astrophysics
Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
Convenors: Mark Pitt (pitt@vt.edu) and Jens Erler (erler.jens@gmail.com)
- CKM tests involving light flavors (neutron decay, nuclear 0+-0- beta decay, pion decay)
- EDMs of atoms, molecules, neutron and fundamental systems
- Neutron and nuclear beta decay correlations, including P- and T-violation
- Neutron decay (lifetime, beta decay correlations)
Dark Matter
Convenors: Hugh Lippincott (hugh@fnal.gov) and Tim Tait (ttait@uci.edu)
- Direct Detection of WIMP Dark Matter
- Astrophysical Searches for Dark Matter
- Collider Searches for Dark Matter
- Axions
- Theories of Dark Matter and its Interactions
- Instrumentation
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
Convenors: Barry Davids (davids@triumf.ca) and Markus Ahlers (markus.ahlers@icecube.wisc.edu)
- Supernovae: Observations and Modeling
- Neutron Stars and Neutron Star Mergers
- Big bang nucleosynthesis
- Explosive Nucleosynthesis
- Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Cosmic Rays and Acceleration Mechanisms: nucleons, nuclei, electrons and positrons, gammas, neutrinos
- Underground Laboratories
Heavy Flavor and the CKM Matrix
Convenors: Kay Kinoshita (kinoshky@ucmail.uc.edu) and Chris Bouchard (cmbouchard@wm.edu)
- Decays, Mixings, Lifetimes, and CP Asymmetries of Charmed and b-flavored hadrons
- QCD Calculations that aid in the determination of the CKM matrix
- Intepretations of non-standard model effects and extensions
- BES3, CLEO, BaBar and Belle results
- Tev and LHC flavor physics results
- Rare decays
- Lattice QCD calculations of heavy quark physics
- Hints of new physics
- BSM contributions to flavor physics
QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy and Exotics
Convenors: Robert Edwards (edwards@jlab.org) and Raffaella De Vita (Raffaella.Devita@ge.infn.it)
- Light quark meson and baryon spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy of heavy quark states
- Models
- Lattice QCD calculations
- Extractions from experimental data
Partonic Distributions in Nucleon and Nuclei
Convenors: Harut Avakian (avakian@jlab.org) and Cédric Lorcé (c.lorce@ulg.ac.be)
- Unpolarized Parton Distribution Functions
- Longitudinal and Transverse Spin Structure of the Nucleon
- Generalized Parton Distributions and the Spin Sum of the Nucleon
- Quark-gluon correlations
- Non perturbative models
- Lattice QCD Calculations
- Hadronization
Hadronic Physics and Structure of Nucleus and Nuclei
Barbara Pasquini (barbara.pasquini@pv.infn.it), Douglas Higinbotham (doug@jlab.org), and Bradley Sherrill (sherrill@frib.msu.edu)
- Form Factors
- Transition Form Factors
- Proton Charge Radius
- Polarizabilities
- Structure Functions and Coulomb Sum Rule
- EMC Effect, Color Transparency
- Short Range Correlations
- Nuclear Forces, chiral interaction
- Nuclear Model, ab initio methods
- Nuclei and Nuclear Forces from Lattice QCD
- Nuclei far from the valley of stability
- Neutron-Rich Nuclei and Matter
- Nucleon and Nuclear Structure for Fundamental Symmetries
Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
Convenors: Rosi Reed (rosijreed@gmail.com) and Hannah Petersen (petersen@fias.uni-frankfurt.de)
- QCD Phase Diagram
- Initial state effects
- Correlations and fluctuations
- Theromodynamics and hadron chemistry
- Relations to other strongly interacting systems
- Open heavy flavor and quarkonia
- Jets