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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .  

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.

“Physics behind precision'' at future linear or circular colliders (ILC /FCC projects) require imporved input parameters. I will review the role alpha_{QED, eff} at future collider energies and report on possible progres from low energy machines. Besides "what physics can be discovered" with such FCC-ee option, we also would like to understand better how nature works when energies increase.

The first round of data taking with CMD-3 detector at VEPP-2000 e+e collider (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia) was performed in 2011-2013. The CMD-3 is the general purpose particle detector, equipped by tracking system, two crystal (CSI and BGO) calorimeters, liquid Xe calorimeter, TOF and muon systems. The main goal of experiments at CMD-3 is the measurement of cross-sections and dynamics of exclusive modes of e+e- —> hadrons. In particular, these results provide important input for calculation of the hadronic contribution to the muons anomalous magnetic moment. Here we present the survey of results of analysis of data taken in 2011-2013, including modes of e+e- —> hadrons with up to 6 pions or 2 kaons in final state. About 60 1/pb were taken in the energy range from 0.32 to 2.0 GeV in c.m. The beam energy was continuously measured concurrently with the data taking using Compton backscattering. In 2016 VEPP-2000 resumed operations after upgrade with project luminosity of 1032cm2s-1 at 2 GeV.