VIRTUAL


 Thursday,  August 11,  2022

3:45 – 4:45 pm (MT)


Speakers: Dr. Milind Diwan

                                     Brookhaven National Laboratory                   

                       Prof. Jonathan Feng

UC Irvine



“Far forward detectors at the high luminosity”

 

Abstract: 

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a cavern with the space and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider during the High Luminosity era. Located along the beam collision axis and shielded from the interaction point by at least 100 m of concrete and rock, the FPF will house experiments that will detect particles outside the acceptance of the existing large LHC experiments and will observe rare and exotic processes in a low-background environment. We will talk about the current status of plans for the FPF, including recent progress in civil engineering in identifying promising sites for the FPF and the experiments currently envisioned. We briefly review the physics topics that will be advanced by the FPF, including searches for long-lived particles, probes of dark matter and dark sectors, high-statistics studies of TeV neutrinos of all three flavors, aspects of perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, and high-energy astroparticle physics. And then discuss the nature of detectors that are needed for this adventure including a liquid argon TPC which will push the state of the art for such detectors.



Bio: 

Diwan is a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory physics department.  Diwan's scientific interests span particle physics, analysis, and detector instrumentation.  He has contributed to rare decays of kaons, the physics of the neutrino, and development of detectors He is responsible for many innovations in particle physics experiments including important measurements in neutrino physics and rare kaon decays. His contributions span development of analysis, software,  and hardware techniques.  He is well known for organizing ambitious science and engineering projects with high efficiency. He was responsible for initiating, proposing, and organizing the ambitious long-baseline neutrino program in the US based on the high intensity FNAL Main Injector broad band beam and a massive underground detector at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.  He first demonstrated that this project was both scientifically valuable and feasible. The plan he promoted and developed  is now the  highest priority fundamental science project in the US called LBNF/DUNE.


Jonathan Feng is Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine.  He has worked on the theoretical study of dark matter and searches for new physics, and is Co-Spokesperson of FASER, the Forward Search Experiment at CERN. Feng received degrees in physics and mathematics from Harvard, Cambridge, and Stanford.  He joined the UC Irvine faculty in 2002 and became Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in 2006.   Feng is a Simons Investigator, and his research has been recognized by awards from the National Science, Sloan, Guggenheim, Heising-Simons, and Simons Foundations.