Prof. Susan Gardner

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Kentucky

Host: Brad Plaster

Title: QCD for New Physics Searches at the Sensitivity Frontier 

Abstract: 

Questions that drive searches for physics beyond the Standard Model  include the physical origin of the cosmic baryon asymmetry and of dark matter. Quark dynamics, as realized through the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), can appear in these studies in very different ways. In this talk, I develop these possibilities explicitly, first describing the role of QCD in ultra-sensitive searches for new physics, particularly at low energies, and then turning to how its features could be exploited in describing the undiscovered universe, along with the essential observational and experimental tests that could confirm them.