Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) at LBNL

The INPA Seminar weekly talks are on Fridays, starting at 12:00 pm, unless informed otherwise. The seminar talk starts with a brief presentation of the weekly scientific news. Typically, the talks conclude by 1:00 pm. The seminars are held in the Sessler Conference Room,  located in Bldg. 50A- 5132.

The committee members are:

The seminar schedule for the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) is tentative and becomes final a few days before the Friday talk.

Please send all suggestions for future INPA talks and speakers to the INPA Committee.

To be added to the INPA News Mailing List, please contact Erica Hall.

Probing Dark Matter with Radio Surveys

INPA Common Room 50-5026

Julian Munoz Probing Dark Matter with Radio Surveys A significant part of dark matter could be compact, in particular in the form of primordial black holes. I will review the signatures of primordial black holes, both in the form of gravitational-wave events and as gravitational lenses of fast radio bursts. Alternatively, a WIMP-y dark-matter component […]

Initial results from the Majorana Demonstrator – By Alan Poon – LBNL

50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CA

Neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments play a major role in the search for lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of the neutrino mass. The MAJORANA Collaboration has assembled two modules of high-purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76-Ge at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. One of the […]

Marcelo Alvarez -Simulating Large Scale Structure Observables from Reionization to the Present

50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CA

The next generation of large scale structure surveys will map out the universe in unprecedented detail. Transformative techniques in computational astrophysics are emerging as the optimal ways to extract information from these surveys, with realistic and routine full sky simulations finally within reach. I will describe a new pipeline for efficiently simulating high resolution maps […]

Scott Daniel (University of Washington) – Deterministic \chi^2 Exploration to Find Credible Limits Faster than by Bayesian Sampling

50A-5132- Sessler 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CA

Once data has been collected, it is desirable to be able to quickly transform that data into statements about the values and corresponding uncertainties -- the "confidence limits" or "credible limits" -- of the physical parameters underlying the data.  Traditionally, this problem is treated probabilistically. This process can be time consuming, as enough samples need […]

Raul Hennings Yeomans (UCB)

Recent progress on the next generation double beta decay experiment with low-temperature macro-calorimeters (CUPID) The Cuore Upgrade with Particle IDentification, or CUPID, is a proposed next generation double-beta decay experiment that requires a low-threshold optical photon light detector. The use of a secondary bolometer as a light detector is being investigated since, $\alpha$-particles (the main […]

Lauren Ice (ASU) – Measurement of the Two-Photon Exchange Contribution to Elastic Lepton-Proton Scattering with the OLYMPUS Experiment

50B-4205

The OLYMPUS experiment measured the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton scattering, which is thought to be the most likely candidate to resolve the discrepancy observed between polarized and unpolarized measurements of the proton electric-to-magnetic form factor ratio. To deterimine the two-photon exchange contribtuion, OLYMPUS measured the positron-proton to electron-proton elastic scattering cross section ratio […]

INPA guests from campus can now come to the lab early on Fridays. The INPA Common Room (50-5026) is reserved for our guests from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Note that the seminars are now held in 50A-5132 to accommodate a more significant number of attendees.

CPTea Series (also known as INPA Tea Series)

The Physics Division CPTea Series invites you to an In-Person Tea Series 1st Friday of every month at 3:30 pm INPA Conference Room 50-5026.

Everyone is welcome to attend the open forum. Tea and light refreshments will be served.

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INPA Common Room (50-5026)
Fridays
3:30 pm

Access to the Lab

For a shuttle pass, please email Erica Hall. The pass is only valid for the day of the seminar.

Erica Hall