CF7. Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics

Description

CF7 covers cosmic probes of fundamental physics topics beyond Dark Matter and Dark Energy using gravitational waves, cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos, as well as their combined studies to facilitate the multi-messenger science.

Some Examples

This includes measurements of neutrino properties from cosmology (overlap with NF 5), tests of general relativity, emergent spacetime (overlap with CF2, 3, 5), black hole information with gravitational waves, the tension between local distance ladder measurements and cosmic microwave background estimates of the Hubble constant, equation of state of dense nuclear matter and hadron-quark gluon phase transitions, particle acceleration in astrophysical environments, bread-and-butter perturbative QCD and hadronic physics of extensive air showers, Lorentz Invariance Violation, search for evaporating primordial black holes, and exotic particles such as SUSY q-balls and axions.

CF7 Town Halls

Zoom link for the town halls [Zoom link removed]

Town hall meetings:

1. Tuesday 21 Jul 2020, 12:30-1:30 pm EDT (slides, notes, video recording)
2. Thursday 30 Jul 2020, 2:00-3:00 pm EDT (slides, notes, video recording)
3. Friday 13 Nov 2020, 4-5 pm ET (slides, video recording)

Agenda

1. Snowmass process and timeline
2. Cosmic Frontier Themes
3. CF7 and example LOI topics
4. Panel presentation and discussion
5. Deadlines
6. LOI template (Overleaf and Google doc)
7. Future meetings (next town hall but also Snowmass meetings next year)

Submitted LOIs

Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.