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THERMAL ENTANGLEMENT & MAGNETIZATION PLATEAUS IN METAL-CONTAINING COMPLEXES

Quantum phase transitions play a key role in the understanding the phenomena of many-body systems, especially in anti-ferromagnetic magnetic plateaus. Thermal entanglement properties in spin-1/2 and spin-1 can be experimentally detected by magnetic susceptibility. The thermal concurrence properties researching of experimental Cu-containing compounds can be observed in diamond chains and polymers. Thermal negativity as a measure of the quantum entanglement is considered in spin-1 Ni-containing complexes.

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Toward a coherent picture of flavour and diphoton anomalies

We propose a coherent explanation for the 750 GeV diphoton anomaly and the hints of deviations from Lepton Flavor Universality in B decays in terms a new strongly interacting sector with vector-like confinement. The diphoton excess arises from the decay of one of the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons of the new sector, while the flavour anomalies are a manifestation of the exchange of the corresponding vector resonances (with masses in the 1.5–2.5 TeV range). We provide explicit examples (with detailed particle content and group structure) of the new sector, discussing both the low-energy flavour-physics phenomenology and the signatures at high pT. We show that specific models can provide an excellent fit to all available data. A key feature of all realisations is a sizeable broad excess in pp → τ τ (bb), that should be accessible at the LHC in the near future. Based on arXiv:1604.03940

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Collider Phenomenology of Higgs Compositeness

The Higgs naturalness problem can be addressed by considering the Higgs as a composite state emerging from a new strong dynamics. Beside the Higgs, new composite states: vectorlike quarks, vector resonances and new composite scalars, are predicted to exist in the few TeV energy range and to leave observable imprints at the LHC and future colliders. I will discuss their phenomenology, with special focus on the direct detection at colliders.

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From photonic crystals to superconducting nanowires single-photon detectors: fabrication and characterization of devices at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology – CNR in Rome

In this presentation, I will describe different devices fabricated at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology of the National research council in Rome, together with their applications. Special attention will be devoted to electromagnetic radiation detectors and to the realization and characterization techniques used. The devices range from photonic crystals to bolometers for THZ detection, from single photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires to gyroscopes and MEMS for space applications, from microfluidic circuits for biomedical applications to ZnO nanostructures and plasmonic metamaterials. The Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology in Rome is equipped with a 200m2 clean room. The clean room is provided with all the thin film equipments needed for the micro and nano fabrication of the different devices. The electron beam lithography system allows the patterning of different resists over large areas without using optical masks, with a resolution of less than 100 nm. Further details will be given on single photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires. Such devices are able to detect single photons with high temporal resolution (Jitter of the order of 30-40 ps and dead time of the order of 3-10 ns corresponding to a repetition rate of hundreds of MHz up to a maximum of one GHz). The fabrication process and the devices engineerization allow us to integrate those devices in complex optical circuits and to count up to 24 photons in a single bunch of light.

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Color and the Exclusion Principle

In 1964 I showed that the exclusion principle, which Wolfgang Pauli introduced for electrons in atomic physics, plays an important role in the quark physics of hadrons. Gursey and Radicati placed the ground-state baryons in 56 of SU(6). In the naive quark model this is 3 quarks, each in a 6 of SU(6), in a symmetric state. Since quarks are spin-1/2 particles the quarks should be in an antisymmetric state. To remedy that mismatch I suggested that the fermion quarks carry a new three-valued charge, later called “color,” and that the 56 of SU(6) should also be a singlet of the new SU(3)color . My insistence that the exclusion principle should be obeyed, together with the work of Nambu and Han who gauged SU(3)color in 1965, led to quantum chromodynamics, which is now a central part of the standard model of particle physics.

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Is the Higgs boson the inflaton?

The Higgs boson mass miraculously turns out to have a value very close to what has been expected form vacuum stability of the Standard Model up to the Planck scale. This opens the possibility that the Higgs boson not only provides masses to all SM particles, but very likely also supplied a huge dark energy which inflated the young universe just after the Big Bang. The Higgs boson looks to be a natural candidate for the inflaton. Higgs decays are reheating the universe after inflation. I also emphasize the role of the hierarchy problem and the cosmological constant problem

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CYGNUS-TPC kick-off meeting: a mini-workshop on directional Dark Matter searches and coherent neutrino scattering

The aim of this mini-workshop is to discuss the recent status of Dark Matter searches and coherent neutrino scattering, with a stress on innovative technologies with low background, low energy threshold and directional capability. In this context, we are presenting a new international enterprise for the construction of a global galactic elastic recoil Observatory, to be called CYGNUS-TPC. We envisage the ultimate vision of this experiment to be a multi-ton target mass gas to be detected by Time Projection Chambers distributed in five underground laboratories scattered around the globe. We are currently building a new international collaboration to prepare a Letter Of Intent and a proposal. For these reasons, the first day of the workshop will be dedicated to phenomenological and experimental reviews, together with CYGNUS-TPC presentation, while the second to a more detailed discussion of CYGNUS-TPC LOI and collaboration formulation.

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A discussion on the 750 GeV di-photon anomaly

The recent analyses from ATLAS and CMS showed an anomalous excess of events in di-photon searches at an invariant mass of about 750 GeV. Even if more data are required to clarify the origin of these excesses, after reviewing the experimental results, I will give a brief overview of the possibile theoretical interpretations of this anomaly.

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ICFDT 2016

4th International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies   The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together different scientific communities, laboratory plasmas, astrophysics, nuclear particle physics, accelerators, lasers, medical equipments and industrial applications, to discuss diagnostic measurements and technologies with a view to defining new strategies of common interest. The conference is interdisciplinary and the most of the sessions are organized with tutorials and orals. The tutorials are aimed at keeping up-to-date information in the field of the session, in a form suitable also for not experts in the field, while the orals are dedicated to specific set of new results. Registration will be active from November 23th; deadline Wednesday 23 March 2016 Abstract Oral presentation deadline: Monday 15 February 2016   Abstract Poster presentation deadline: Tuesday 15 March 2016 The conference proceedings will be published on line by JINST (Journal of instrumentation) in the nonopen access option. The max number of pages of contributed papers to be published is set to 8 . the template of the papers to be included into the proceedings can be found in the website of JINST ( journal of instrumentation). The papers can be uploaded to the website or sent to icfdt@lists.lnf.infn.it The deadline  for the presentation of the papers for the proceedings of the ICFDT4 is extended to 26 june 2016 .  

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Physics Beyond the Standard Model

New physics beyond the highly successful Standard Model is strongly motivated by a number of experimental observations in particle physics & cosmology. We explore the predictions of well-motivated models especially supersymmetric ones. The recently reported diphoton excess by ATLAS. & CMS experiments will be briefly discussed.

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