54th SLAC Summer Institute (SSI 2026)

Session

Contributed Topical Session

11 Aug 2026, 15:30

48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D (SLAC)

106. Real-time Quantum Inspired Algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Collider Triggers

Sagar Addepalli (SLAC)

11/08/2026, 15:30

107. Questions on Fuzzy Dark Matter

Sunhaeng Hur (Virginia Tech)

11/08/2026, 15:45

108. Probing Higgs-charm Yukawa structure at the ATLAS Experiment

Prajita Bhattarai (SLAC)

11/08/2026, 16:00

109. Spin-Independent Searches for Axion Dark Matter via Second-Order Interactions

Sheakha Aldaihan (King Saud University)

11/08/2026, 16:15

102. Tribute to Henry Primakoff: Tests of Chiral Perturbation Theory via Primakoff Reactions

Murray Moinester (Tel Aviv University)

12/08/2026, 15:30

103. The Stimulated Emission and Detection of Gravitational Waves using Dissimilar Superconducting Josephson Junctions

Mr Gary Stephenson (Seculine Consulting)

12/08/2026, 15:45

104. MKID Bolometer

Jack Bargemann (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

12/08/2026, 16:00

105. Probing Freeze-In Dark Matter via a Spin-2 Portal at the LHC with Vector Boson Fusion and Machine Learning

Junzhe Liu (Vanderbilt University)

12/08/2026, 16:15

96. MKID Bolometer

Jack Bargemann (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

There are growing efforts to use substrate-coupled kinetic inductance detectors as athermal phonon detectors for particle detection. One challenge encountered is the significant position-dependence these detectors can exhibit, destroying energy resolution of non-collimated sources. We show this position dependence can be overcome by operating the detectors to be sensitive to thermalized...

101. Probing Freeze-In Dark Matter via a Spin-2 Portal at the LHC with Vector Boson Fusion and Machine Learning

Junzhe Liu (Vanderbilt University)

The persistent absence of signals in traditional dark matter searches has intensified interest in scenarios beyond the canonical weakly interacting massive particle paradigm. In this work, we investigate the collider phenomenology of feebly interacting dark matter produced via the freeze-in mechanism through a spin-2 portal. We consider a framework in which a massive graviton-like mediator...

99. Probing Higgs-charm Yukawa structure at the ATLAS Experiment

Prajita Bhattarai (SLAC)

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC was a landmark achievement in particle physics. In the decade since, its properties have been studied extensively and found to be consistent with Standard Model (SM) predictions. One key property that remains to be established is the coupling of the Higgs boson to second-generation quarks. The most direct...

98. Questions on Fuzzy Dark Matter

Sunhaeng Hur (Virginia Tech)

While Cold Dark Matter (CDM) simulations predict divergent central density profiles (cusps), observations of dwarf galaxies reveal flat, constant-density cores. Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), composed of ultralight bosons, offers a potential solution through quantum pressure that opposes gravitational collapse, forming a stable cored ground state known as a soliton. However, standard FDM soliton...

94. Real-time Quantum Inspired Algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Collider Triggers

Sagar Addepalli (SLAC)

Anomaly detection algorithms deployed at the edge of particle collider experiments offer a model-agnostic approach to search for signs of new physics, complementing typical topology- or energy-driven selections. Tensor networks are a class of quantum-inspired machine learning models that represent information in low-rank tensor factorizations rather than the dense weight matrices of fully...

97. Real-time Quantum Inspired Algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Collider Triggers

Sagar Addepalli (SLAC)

Anomaly detection algorithms deployed at the edge of particle collider experiments offer a model-agnostic approach to search for signs of new physics, complementing typical topology- or energy-driven selections. Tensor networks are a class of quantum-inspired machine learning models that represent information in low-rank tensor factorizations rather than the dense weight matrices of fully...

100. Spin-Independent Searches for Axion Dark Matter via Second-Order Interactions

Sheakha Aldaihan (King Saud University)

Most experimental searches for axions and axion-like particles have focused on leading-order spin-dependent couplings to matter. While these approaches have achieved strong sensitivity, they rely on polarized sources or targets and are therefore subject to important limitations, including magnetic backgrounds, projection noise, coherence–density tradeoffs, decoherence, and the difficulty of...

75. Tests of Three-Flavor Chiral Perturbation Theory

Murray Moinester (Tel Aviv University)

Introduction: Predictions in the low-energy regime of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are made using chiral perturbation theory (ChPT). We review ChPT predictions for the polarizabilities of pions and kaons, chiral anomaly (CA) amplitudes γ→πππ (F3π), γ→ππη and γ→KKπ, as well as π0 and η lifetimes. These quantities are extracted from the small four-momentum transfer Primakoff scattering of...

93. The Stimulated Emission and Detection of Gravitational Waves using Dissimilar Superconducting Josephson Junctions

Mr Gary Stephenson (Seculine Consulting)

Leveraging Fontana’s proposal for using high temperature superconductors as quantum sources of gravitational waves, an experiment is proposed to provide for the stimulated emission of gravitational waves using thin film superconducting devices. The proposal suggests that Josephson Junctions with dissimilar superconductors, an s-wave joined to a d-wave, can force spin 2 transitions, triggering...