Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields

ERC-AdG 2008 FP7 IDEAS
(Physical Sciences and Engineering)
Panel: PE2- Fundamental Constituents of Matter
http://superfields.web.cern.ch/superfields/
Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Sergio Ferrara (CERN)
5 years: start 1 June 2009
Budget: 1.7 ME
The Host
Institution
The Second
Beneficiary
Scientist in charge:
Prof. Augusto Sagnotti
(Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa)
Dr. Anna Ceresole (INFN Torino)
Dr. Carlo Angelantonj (U. Torino & INFN Torino)
Prof. Gianguido Dall’Agata
(U. Padova & INFN Padova)
Prof. Augusto Sagnotti (SNS & INFN Pisa)
[Prof. Massimo Porrati (NYU, SNS & INFN Pisa)]
Dr. S. Bellucci (INFN- LNF)
The Team
Prof. Massimo Bianchi (U. Roma Tor Vergata & INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
Dr. J. Francisco Morales (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
Leron Borsten (INFN Torino)
Jan Perz (U. Padova & INFN Padova)
Rakibur Rahman (SNS & INFN Pisa)
Karapet Mkrtchyan (SNS & INFN Pisa)
Armen Yeranyan (INFN- LNF)
Fellows
Luca Martucci (U. Roma Tor Vergata & INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
12 Post-Doc years funded
Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields
3 Key Directions:
1) Black Holes and Attractors
The Project
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first-order formalism for non-BPS black-hole flows and “fake superpotential”
classification of charge orbits
attractors in gauged supergravity
black-hole inspired techniques used to classify 4d AdS vacua
2) Supersymmetry Breaking and Moduli Stabilization
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non-perturbative effects generated by unoriented D-brane instantons
stringy instantons corrections to N=2 gauge couplings
brane supersymmetry breaking, climbing scalars and the CMB power spectrum
classical and quantum stability of N=8 supergravity vacua
Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields
3 Key Directions:
3) Higher-Spin Gauge Fields
The Project
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action principles for free Fermi fields of mixed symmetry
string lessons for higher spin interactions
causal propagation in external fields and non-minimal higher-spin couplings
breaking of higher-spin symmetries in the Vasiliev system due to boundary effects
stable higher-spin states in superstring spectra
About 110 publications so far
(1/4 co-authored by two or more Team Members and Fellows)
PISA , October 2009
M. Schnabl, Status report on String Field Theory
S. Shatashvili, Susy gauge theories and quantization of integrable systems
P.K. Townsend, Massive Supergravity in 3D
PADOVA, December 2009
Jan de Boer, Quantum aspects of Black Holes
Iosif Bena, Multicenter BPS and non BPS black holes and the information paradox
R. Emparan, Blackfolds :fluid dynamics for higher dimensional black holes
The Joint
Seminars
FRASCATI, February 2010
M.J. Duff, Super q-bits
K.S. Stelle, Horava-Witten origin of Salam-Sezgin: Supergravity and boundaries in 7 & 6 dimensions
P. Vanhove, Structure of gauge and gravity amplitudes in String and Field Theory
ROMA Tor Vergata, May 2010
M.B. Green, String theory dualities and supergravity divergences
C. Kounnas, Superstring Cosmology from massive supersymmetric vacua
A. Sen, Black Holes and discrete symmetry
TORINO, November 2010
L. Dixon, Scattering amplitudes in maximal supersymmetry and for backgrounds to supersymmetry at LHC
E. Sokatchev, Scattering amplitudes: symmetries and dualities
A. Tomasiello, Phases of massive IIA string theory
PADOVA, March 2011
D. Luest, Non-commutative closed string geometry
H. Nicolai, Gauging extended supergravities in three dimensions
I. Antoniadis, Mass hierarchies in String Theory and holography
The Joint
Seminars
ROMA Tor Vergata, September 2011
A. Hanany, Trivertices and SU(2)s
G. Bossard, Interacting non-BPS Black Holes
T.N. Tomaras, Gravitational bremsstrahlung in ultra-Planckian collisions
L. Martucci, Magnetized instantons in F-theory
C. Angelantonj, A new look at modular integrals in String Theory
G. Dall'Agata, New vacua of M-theory reductions
TORINO, March 2012
L. Rolandi, Search for the Higgs Boson at LHC
V. Mukhanov, From quantum fluctuations to the large-scale structure of the Universe
Z. Bern, Gravity as a double copy of gauge theory and implications for ultraviolet properties
Thanks to:
- Scuola Normale Superiore
• Hospitality, logistics ( and Collegio Puteano ! )
• Efficient cooperation (Valeria GIULIANI, Riccardo GRECO, Elisa GUIDI)
• Technical support (Francesco CASACCI, Silvia MARTINELLI)
• Web pages and video recording (Michele FIASCHI, Mario VENTRELLI)
The Workshop
- INFN – Sezione di Pisa
• Efficient cooperation (Patrizia BENFATTI, Simona PETRONICI, Oriana BENEDETTINI)
- MIUR - PRIN 2009 - KHZKRX
- Local Organizing Committee
(D. FRANCIA, E. JOUNG, L. LOPEZ, K. MKRTCHYAN, M. TARONNA, A. SAGNOTTI)
WELCOME!