Parallel Session Topics and Convenors
(as of 8/31/21)
CIPANP Scientific Topics 2022
Physics at High Energies
Conveners: cipanp-high-energy@googlegroups.com
Louise Skinnari, Northeastern University
Hector de la Torre Perez, Michigan State University
Frank Petriello, Northwestern University, Argonne
- Higgs physics
- Collider searches for SUSY and other beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics
- Theoretical interpretations
- Next generation colliders – Future Circular Collider, International Linear Collider, …
- Models of BSM physics
Precision Physics at High Intensities
Conveners: cipanp-high-intensity@googlegroups.com
Sophie Middleton, CalTech
Luchang Jin, University of Connecticut
Mark Pitt, Virginia Tech
- Muon Physics
- g-2
- muon-to-electron conversion and other lepton flavor violation
- muon capture
- muonium studies
- muonic Lamb shift
- Rare meson decays
- Weak charges of the electron and proton
- Antihydrogen
- Family and lepton number tests at high energies
- Proton decay, n-nbar oscillations
Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity
Conveners: cipanp-cosmology@googlegroups.com
Elizabeth Krause, University of Arizona
Simone Ferraro, LBNL
Kyle Dawson, Utah
- Cosmic microwave background and its polarization
- Other high-precision cosmology
- Large-scale structure formation
- Cosmological parameters
- Re-ionization epoch
- Cosmologically generated gravitational waves
- Short-range tests of gravity and new interactions
- Astrophysical tests of general relativity
- Inflation and baryogenesis
- Theories of dark energy/inflation
- Multi-verses, cyclic universes, arrow of time
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing
Conveners: cipanp-neutrinos@googlegroups.com
Lisa Kaufman, SLAC
Brian Ramson, Fermilab
Pedro Machado, Fermilab
- Neutrino oscillations in neutrino beams and with reactor fluxes
- Double beta decay
- Solar and atmospheric neutrinos
- Direct neutrino mass measurements
- Cosmological constraints on neutrino mass
- Neutrino flavor physics of supernovae
- Neutrino cross section measurements
Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
Conveners: cipanp-EWsymmetries@googlegroups.com
Jordy de Vries, University of Massachusetts
Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Stephanie Roccia, Grenoble
Beatrice Franke, TRIUMF
- CKM tests in neutron and nuclear beta decay
- Hadronic parity violation
- EDMs of the electron, neutron, atoms, and molecules
- P- and T-odd neutron and nuclear beta decay correlations
- Neutron lifetime
Dark Matter
Conveners: cipanp-dark-matter@googlegroups.com
Deborah Pinna, University of Wisconsin
Keith Bechtol, University of Wisconsin
Bjoern Penning, University of Michigan
- Direct detection of WIMP dark matter
- Astrophysical searches for dark matter
- Collider searches for dark matter
- Axions and other light dark matter candidates
- Theories of dark matter and its interactions
- Instrumentation
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
Conveners: cipanp-part-nuc-astro@googlegroups.com
Kate Jones, University of Tennessee
Sanjay Reddy, University of Washington
Zach Meisel, Ohio University
- Supernovae: Observations and modeling
- Neutron stars and neutron star mergers
- Multi-messenger astrophysics
- Big bang nucleosynthesis
- Explosive nucleosynthesis
- Detection of high energy cosmic rays (IceCube, Pierre Auger, …)
- Cosmic ray sources and acceleration mechanisms: nucleons, nuclei, electrons/positrons, gammas, neutrinos
- Underground laboratories
Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix
Conveners: cipanp-hf-ckm@googlegroups.com
Racha Chealb, University of British Columbia
Alejandro Vaquero, Utah
Carla, Marin Benito, CERN
- Decays, mixings, lifetimes, and CP asymmetries of charmed and b-flavored hadrons
QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and ExoticsDecays, mixings, lifetimes, and CP asymmetries of charmed and b-flavored hadrons - QCD calculations that aid in the determination of the CKM matrix
- Interpretations of non-standard model effects and extensions
- BES3, CLEO, BaBar and Belle results
- LHC flavor physics results
- Rare decays
- Lattice QCD calculations of heavy quark physics
- BSM contributions to flavor physics
QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics
Conveners: cipanp-qcd-spec-exotic@googlegroups.com
Justin Stevens, William and Mary
Martha Constantinou, Temple University
Tomaz Skwarnicki, Syracuse University
- Diagonal and transition form factors
- Proton charge radius
- Light quark meson and baryon spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy of heavy quark states
- Models
- Lattice QCD calculations
- Determining hadronic properties from experimental data
Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei
Conveners: cipanp-pdfs@googlegroups.com
Maria Zurek, Argonne
Pia Zurita, Brookhaven
Simona Malace, Jefferson Lab
Martha Constantinou, Temple
- Unpolarized parton distribution functions
- Longitudinal and transverse spin structure of the nucleon
- Generalized parton distributions
- Nucleon spin
- Quark-gluon correlations
- Non-perturbative models
- Lattice QCD calculations
- Hadronization
Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects
Conveners: cipanp-nn@googlegroups.com
Dien Nguyen, Jefferson Lab
Alessandro Lovato, Argonne
Markus Diefenthaler, Jefferson Lab
Robert Janssens, University of North Carolina
- Polarizabilities
- Structure functions and the Coulomb sum rule
- EMC effect, color transparency
- Short-range correlations
- Nuclear forces, chiral interactions
- Nuclear models vs. ab initio methods
- Nuclei and nuclear forces from lattice QCD
- Nuclei far from the valley of stability
- Neutron-rich nuclei, nuclear matter, and the equation of state
- Nucleon and nuclear structure for fundamental symmetries
Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
Conveners: cipanp-heavy-ion@googlegroups.com
Anne Sickles, University of Illinois
Alexei Bazavov, Michigan State University
- 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
