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Department of Physics and Astronomy

Nuclear, Astro and Particle Physics Seminars

These lectures feature speakers from around the country and globe. Each seminar lasts about an hour and takes a closer look at more specialized fields in various realms of physics and astronomy.

Many seminars will be held in a hybrid format and a recurring Zoom link is provided to access the virtual format.

The talks will be on Wednesdays at 4PM in the Rogers Room (Jones PSC 409).

Upcoming Seminar (Fall 2026):

Mu2e Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Search Physics and Agentic Workflows

Speaker: Dr. David Tedeschi
Affiliation: University of South Carolina
Date: November 04

Abstract:

The Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab will investigate charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV) through muon-nucleus interactions where a muon transforms into an electron without producing an associated neutrino. An observation of CLFV provides definitive proof of physics beyond the Standard Model and would herald a new era of research into the forces that shape our universe. The Mu2e detector subsystems contain nearly fifty thousand channels of electronics that will produce approximately twenty Petabytes of data over the course of the experiment. This presentation will describe the motivation behind the Mu2e experiment and the contributions of the USC group to the core effort, the measurement of new channels, and the role of artificial intelligence in data analysis.

Funding acknowledgement. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science through the Genesis Mission.

Seminar Series Fall 2026 schedule:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
September 2, 2026 Steffen Strauch University of South Carolina Electrons, Muons, and the Proton radius: The MUSE Experiment at PSI
September 16, 2026 Evrim Gülser University of South Carolina Characterizing HRPPDs for use in the hpDIRC at EIC
September 30, 2026 Siyao Xu University of Florida The Turbulent Origin of Wide-Binary Eccentricities
October 7, 2026 Yuan Li University of Massachusetts Amherst Journey to the Black Hole: Multiphase Accretion Flows From Galaxy Scales to Accretion Disk Scales
October 14, 2026 Ahmed Shaban University of South Carolina Mapping the Gas Cycle around Galaxies with IFU Spectroscopy and Gravitational Lensing
October 28, 2026 Maximilian Horzela Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Toponium Production at the LHC
November 04, 2026 David Tedeschi University of South carolina Mu2e Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Search Physics and Agentic Workflows
November 11, 2026 Vasiliy Morozov Oak Ridge National Laboratory Muon collider and its relevant R&D at the SNS

 

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