Particle Physics Seminar: Recasting LHC data for new BSM model constraints LHC measurements and searches are usually conducted with a particular theory model in mind, but can also have unexpected implications for alternative scenarios. Especially in the absence so far of smoking gun signals of new physics at the LHC, reinterpreting combinations of many…

  Particle Physics Seminar Effective field theory: New physics through precision measurements Date: 17 February 2017, 13:45 – 14:45 Venue: Physics C36 Speaker: Dr Chris Hays, Oxford With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model (SM) is complete. Yet the SM is itself an incomplete description of nature. One strategy to go beyond…

  Twenty minutes of Engineering Date: 15th February 2017. 13.00 Venue: C-floow Break-out Space, Engineering Building Speaker: Dr Denes Csala Title: Visualising the challenges of energy transitions “Twenty minutes of Engineering” is a novel series of short informal talks, offered by academics and researchers at Lancaster’s Engineering Department, on cutting edge engineering research themes. The friendly…

  Theoretical Particle Cosmology Group Seminar – Monday Date: Monday, 6 February 2017 @ 14:00 hrs Venue: C36 Speaker: Antonio Racioppi Title: Classical scale invariance and inflation Abstract: Classical scale invariance was applied to inflationary model building already from the very first papers. Recently the use of dynamically induced inflaton potentials à la Coleman-Weinberg became…