PostGrad/PostDoc Discussion Group, Liverpool Theoretical Physics, Year 2006/07

Our internal PostGrad/PostDoc Discussion Group will happen approx. every two weeks (as announced) on Fridays, 1pm in our seminar room 117.

• 1st meeting in the academic year 2006/2007, 20th October:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Discussion of topics this year
  
• 2nd meeting, 10th November:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Topical discussion: Baryogenesis and Leptogenesis. Eric will lead the introductory discussion
  For preparation: Mark Trodden, hep-ph/0411301; Antonio Riotto and Mark Trodden, hep-ph/9901362. See also the Les Houches lecture notes by James M. Cline, hep-ph/0609145.
• 3rd meeting, 17th November:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Baryogenesis: Instantons and B+L violation (Eric), for prep. see also hep-ph/9803479; Affleck-Dine baryogenesis (Elisa + Cristina), see also A.D. Dolgov, Phys. Rept. 222 (1992), 309 - 386.
  
• 4th meeting, 1st December:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Electroweak Baryogenesis (Cathy + Elisa), see hep-ph/0411301 (section IV), section IX of the Phys. Rept. by Dolgov and the article of W. Bernreuther, hep-ph/0205279, chapter 5.
• 5th meeting, 8th December:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Electroweak Baryogenesis (continued)
• 6th meeting, 26th January 2007:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * GUT Baryogenesis; BG via Leptogenesis
• 7th meeting, 15th February 2007:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Axions: Introduction (by Cristina), discussion of next meetings. For reading, see the short review by Peccei and possibly chapter 2 of the paper by Svrcek and Witten; we may also consult the long review by Jihn E. Kim, Phys. Rept. 150 (1987) 1. For an untechnical introduction and some history see e.g. the CERN article , and for an overview over experiments.
• 8th meeting, 16th March 2007:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Axions: Experiments (table below in progress):
  
  

  Experiment	Reference	Discussion Leader
  Limits on the axion mass
  Red Giants	http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v18/i6/p1829_1 http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v22/i4/p839_ http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v56/i1/p26_1	Rob
  Supernovae	http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v56/i4/p2419_1	Kirk
  Cosmological Limits	page 3-4 of Axions 05
  Dark matter searches
  ADMX	http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~axion/Welcome.html http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v64/i9/e092003 http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/ http://www.llnl.gov/str/JanFeb04/Rosenberg.html	Eric
  Brookhaven	http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v59/i7/p839_1	Charles
  Florida	ref 44:Phys. Rev. D 42, 1297 - 1300 (1990)
  Kyoto	ref 45: Phys.Lett.B263:523-528,1991 Phys.Lett.B336:573-580,1994. Phys.Rev.D53:1740-1744,1996. hep-ph/9908445	Stephen
  Solar axion searches
  CAST	http://cast.web.cern.ch/CAST/ http://cast.mppmu.mpg.de/ http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Graphics/physics/axions/CAST.jpg http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/	Cathy
  Brookhaven	ref 56: Phys.Rev.Lett.69:2333-2336,1992
  Tokyo	ref 57: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9805026
  DAMA	ref 59: Phys.Lett.B515:6-12,2001.	Cristina
  SOLAX	ref 60: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9708008
  Laser experiments
  PVLAS	some reference	Carsten
  RBF	http://www.springerlink.com/content/q7p5l456465185k7/	Chris
  Future HERA	http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0701059	Elisa

  
  
• 9th meeting, 4th May 2007:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Axions: Experiments (continued)
• 10th meeting, 11th May 2007:
  * General questions / seminar debrief
  * Axions: Experiments (finished)
  

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