Presentation
One of the crucial aspects of nowadays’s ground-based experiments in physics is to find new phenomena. In fact, the Standard Model of fundamental interaction (SM) seems to describe very well phenomena that happen up to the energy scale of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. However, we know for sure that the SM is an incomplete model for many reasons: one of the most evident is that the SM cannot explain the abundance of matter over anti-matter in the universe.
Another crucial aspect concerns the existence of dark matter in the universe: based on cosmological and astrophysical observations, we know that the majority of stable matter is not made of atoms and nuclei, but of something else, with well-characterised thermodynamical properties, and whose nature is still unknown. In a scenario where questions span on different phenomena and observation, many experiments have been - and are - performed, to constrain their possible answers.
Complementarily, a setup to find suitable theories is needed. In such a context, Marco shall present his work in the DSTrain programme: how to implement new software for automating the constraints on new physics model, envisaging applications of high performance computing.
Speaker
Marco Palmiotto is a DSTrain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo. He earned his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in 2023. His research interests include fundamental physics, cosmology, and computational approaches to theoretical modeling.
Program
11:30 – Doors open and lunch is served
12:00 – "Numerical tools to explore new physics" by Marco Palmiotto (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics)
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