Physics

I'll evaluate the possibility of searching for the Higgs boson in channels with multiple non-resonant leptons in light of recent advances in multi-lepton search techniques at the LHC. The total multi-lepton Higgs signal exceeds the four lepton gold...

Sound waves with long-distance propagation are both a consequence of hydrodynamics, and a danger to hydrodynamics' very existence, as they violate the assumption of local equilibration. In the talk, I will discuss what the thermally excited sound...

In this talk I will discuss recent work constructing heterotic standard models by compactifying on smooth Calabi-Yau three-folds in the presence of purely Abelian internal gauge fields. The simple construction of these models allows for a large...

A non-trivial test of the string vs. integrability correspondence is suggested: exact equivalence is established between strings in AdS4 x CP3 and the Gromov-Vieira all-loop integrable chain. To do that, the complete one- and two-magnon sector of...

We consider unitary Conformal Field Theory in dimensions D higher than two with a finite central charge. We assume that CFT contains conserved current of spin higher than two. We analyze the consequences of this fact. We focus on the case of D=3 and...

I will present the open string tree level amplitude of massless states to any number of external legs. It turns out that the kinematic factor of disk amplitudes is entirely captured by the underlying SYM field theory, i.e. that all the dependence on...