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PITT PACC Workshop: Exploring Quantum Mechanics in High Energy Physics

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Tao Han (University of Pittsburgh), Tao Han
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Quantum mechanics is one of the foundations of modern physics.  Recently, theoretical developments have repurposed high-energy experiments as laboratories for testing quantum mechanics at unprecedented energy scales.  This workshop will bring together experts on exploring quantum mechanics in the high-energy regime.  The goal is to better understand the formulation of quantum experiments at high-energy colliders, to propose measurements of quantum mechanics in new particle physics systems, and to widen the scope of quantum mechanical observables that can be studied in high-energy experiments.

 

Dates: Thursday, March 7, 2024 - Saturday March 9, 2024

Location: University of Pittsburgh (in person, by invitation).  Talks will be held in Schenley I-IV (the first floor ballroom) of the Wyndham hotel. Continental breakfast will be served before the morning session. 

Organizers: Sally Dawson, Dorival Gonçalves, Tao Han, Matthew Low, Fabio Maltoni

Local Organizers:  Brian Batell, Amit Bhoonah, Arnab Dasgupta, Ayres Freitas, Akshay Ghalsasi

Administrators: Joni George

Confirmed Speakers:

Yoav Afik (UChicago)
Jack Araz (JLab)
Raffael Aoude (Edinburgh)
Alan Barr (Oxford)
Juan Ramón Muñez de Nova (Madrid)
Federica Fabbri (Bologna)
Adrien Florio (Brookhaven)
Tao Han (Pittsburgh)
James Howarth (Glasgow)
Andreas Jung (Purdue)
David E. Kaplan (Johns Hopkins)
Surjeet Rajendran (Johns Hopkins)
Kazuki Sakurai (Warsaw)
Claudio Severi (Manchester)
Sven Vahsen (Hawaii / Belle)
Carlos Wagner (University of Chicago and Argonne)
Arthur Wu (Pittsburgh)

 

 

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  • Thursday 7 March
    • 08:30 → 09:00
      Breakfast
    • 09:00 → 10:25
      Talks
    • 10:25 → 10:55
      Coffee Break
    • 10:55 → 12:15
      Talks
      • 10:55
        Observation of Quantum Entanglement in ttbar pairs at ATLAS 35m
        Speaker: Dr James William Howarth (University of Glasgow (GB))
        Entanglement_Seminar_Pittsburgh.pdf
      • 11:35
        Perspectives on Quantum Entanglement 35m
        Speaker: Andreas Werner Jung (Purdue University (US))
        PittPatt-0324-ajung.pdf
    • 12:15 → 12:30
      Discussion
    • 12:30 → 14:00
      Lunch
    • 14:00 → 15:20
      Talks
    • 15:20 → 15:50
      Coffee Break
    • 15:50 → 16:30
      Talks
    • 16:30 → 17:00
      Discussion
  • Friday 8 March
    • 08:30 → 09:00
      Breakfast
    • 09:00 → 10:20
      Talks
      • 09:00
        Three-body Entanglement in Particle Decays 35m

        Tentative Title

        Speaker: Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)
        Sakurai_three-body-Entanglement.pdf
      • 09:40
        Isolating Semileptonic H->WW* decays for Bell's inequality test 35m
        Speaker: Federica Fabbri (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
        PittPaccQuantum-Fabbri.pdf
    • 10:20 → 10:50
      Coffee Break
    • 10:50 → 11:30
      Talks
    • 11:30 → 12:00
      Discussion
    • 12:00 → 13:45
      Lunch
    • 13:45 → 15:05
      Talks
    • 15:05 → 15:35
      Coffee Break
    • 15:35 → 16:15
      Talks
      • 15:35
        Resonances in ttbar with quantum observables 35m

        Resonances in ttbar with quantum observables [2401.08751]
        The recent observation of entanglement between top and anti-top quarks at the LHC opens the way to interpreting collider data with quantum information tools. In this talk I will investigate the relevance of quantum observables in the top sector, for searches of resonances coming from hidden SM effects or new physics. I will show how QM-inspired observables provide complementary information and, in several notable cases, also the additional leverage necessary to detect new effects.

        Speaker: Claudio Severi (University of Manchester)
        claudio.pdf
    • 16:15 → 16:45
      Discussion
    • 18:00 → 21:30
      LeMont: Banquet

      We will depart from the hotel by bus around 6:00pm to start dinner around 6:30pm. The returning bus will depart Le Mont around 9:00pm.

  • Saturday 9 March
    • 08:30 → 09:00
      Breakfast
    • 09:00 → 10:20
      Talks
      • 09:00
        Real-time non-perturbative dynamics of jet production in the Schwinger model: from quantum entanglement to thermalization 35m

        The production of jets should allow the testing of the real-time response of the QCD vacuum disturbed by the propagation of high-momentum color charges. Addressing this problem theoretically requires a real-time, non-perturbative method. As a step in developing such an approach, we report on fully quantum simulations of a massive Schwinger model coupled to external sources representing quark and antiquark jets as produced in e+e−e+e− annihilation. It is well known that the Schwinger model [QED in (1+1) dimensions] shares many common properties with QCD, including confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, and the existence of vacuum fermion condensate. This allows us to study, for the first time, the modification of the vacuum chiral condensate by the propagating jets and the quantum entanglement between the fragmenting jets. Our results indicate robust entanglement between the fragmentation products of the two jets. We also discuss how this entanglement manifests itself in terms of potentially measurable correlations. It also gives us unique opportunities to investigate how such systems thermalize.

        Speaker: Adrien Florio
        main-v2.pdf
      • 09:40
        Quantum-probabilistic Hamiltonian learning for generative modelling and anomaly detection 35m
        Speaker: Jack Y. Araz (Jefferson Lab)
        Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Machine Learning
    • 10:20 → 10:50
      Coffee Break
    • 10:50 → 12:10
      Talks
      • 10:50
        Quantum Entanglement and Bell Inequality Violation in Semi-Leptonic Top Decays 35m
        Speaker: Arthur Wu
        Quantum in Semi-Leptonic Top Decay1.pdf
      • 11:30
        Entanglement Suppression, Enhanced Symmetry and a Standard-Model-like Higgs Boson 35m
        Speaker: Carlos E.M. Wagner
        Pitt-03-24.pdf
    • 12:10 → 12:30
      Discussion
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