THiNKiNG STRONG - CP3-Origins

3rd Black Book 

Thinking strong 

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Third Black Book 

April 2012

Table of Contents 

Preface! 1 

Bright and Dark Origins! 5 

O’ Higgs where art Thou?! 9 

Dark Origins! 19 

Strong Matters! 25 

Architecture! 31 

Core Researchers! 33 

Excellence with Impact! 37 

Outreach! 41 

Posters & Comics! 49 

Posters! 50 

CP³-Comics! 57 

Photo Gallery! 65

Preface 

A bubble chamber track. (Courtesy of Fermilab Visual Media Services). 

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The Centre for Excellence in Cosmology and Particle Physics 

Phenomenology – CP³-Origins has been established by the 

Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) and opened 

on the 1st of September 2009 at the University of Southern 

Denmark in Odense. 

At the end of every year, we summarize some of the centre’s 

highlights and research visions in the CP³-Origins Black 

Books. These books are for colleagues and physics students, 

but can also be of interest for the general public who wishes 

to be kept up-to-date in one of the most fascinating areas of 

research. The previous two books can be downloaded from 

our webpage, www.cp3-origins.dk/a/7046. 

For the third report we introduce the interactive Black Book 

(iBlack Book), directly downloadable for free on iTunes, 

featuring enriched content for more fun and effective reading. 

You can access, for example, selected parts of scientific 

keynote presentations on high energy physics. 

The report has been prepared by the Director of CP³-Origins, 

Prof. Francesco Sannino. 

We thank the University of Southern Denmark, the Danish 

National Research Foundation, the members of CP³-Origins 

and the board for providing the local and international 

support. A special thank goes to our young 

researchers for their continuous enthusiasm 

which is helping our center to be at the 

cutting edge in so many competitive research 

fields. 

Lone Charlotte Nielsen, Claudio Pica, and 

Jens Svalgaard Kohrt deserve our gratitude 

for their help with the past and present 

editions of the Black-Book. 

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CHAPTER 1 

Bright and Dark Origins 

Particle Collision, Michael Taylor, ShutterStock 

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Universe’s pie versus the known forces 

Keynote slide taken from Francesco Sannino’s presentations given at 

different international meetings. The standard model, i.e. the 

electromagnetic, weak and strong force can account only for 4% of the 

universe. Gravity allows us to feel the rest of the universe which is not 

made by the same stuff which makes us. 

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Mankind’s greatest achievements have come from the inner 

curiosity to know how the world works. Everything we see 

and even things we do not see are combinations of a handful 

of elementary particles. We live in a particle universe. 

Explorations of the innermost structure of nature is leading to 

unprecedented heights in scientific discovery, invention and 

technological advancement. The Large Hadron Collider 

(LHC) at CERN is the most ambitious scientific experiment in 

the world and is setting the agenda for particle physics for, at 

least, the next decade. It is accelerating two beams of protons 

in opposite directions around a 27km underground tunnel, 

until they reach almost the speed of light. The particles are 

then collided creating energies higher than ever before. The 

primary goal of the LHC is to nail the mechanism responsible 

for giving all the known elementary particles, such as the 

electron, mass. This is the Higgs mechanism and the known 

elementary particles belong to the universe's bright side. The 

bright side amounts to, at most, a few percent of the universe, 

the remaining 96% is made of unknown forms of matter and 

energy. These are known as dark matter and dark energy 

since they are invisible to us. LHC and several other earth 

and space experiments are simultaneously trying to shed 

light on the dark side. 

We aim to exploit the synergy between experimental results 

and our theoretical and phenomenological expertise, as well 

as supercomputers to help making a quantitative impact on 

the next big leap in particle physics and cosmology: 

Uncovering the origins of the bright and dark side of the universe. 

These are considered among the most important problems in 

physics and the project is acutely primed to raise Danish 

research to the very top 

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SECTION 1.1 

O’ Higgs where art Thou? 

Artistic representation of the Higgs field. Francesco Sannino. 

Circa 96% of the universe is made by unknown forms of 

matter and energy, and to describe the remaining 4% one 

needs at least three fundamental forces, i.e. Quantum 

Electrodynamics (QED), Weak Interactions and Quantum 

Chromodynamics (QCD). At times QCD is also referred to as 

strong dynamics or interactions. Together these forces 

constitute the standard model (SM) of particle interactions. 

Strong dynamics, alone, is responsible for creating the bulk of 

the bright mass, i.e. the 4%. It is therefore natural to expect 

that to correctly describe the rest of our universe, while 

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providing a sensible link to the visible component, new forces 

will soon be discovered. 

There are at least three primary areas of research where new 

strong dynamics provide natural solutions to outstanding 

problems in physics. The first is the sector responsible for 

spontaneously breaking the electroweak symmetry. The SM 

Higgs in this scenario is expected to be replaced by new 

strongly interacting dynamics. The second application is in 

the use of strongly interacting dynamics to construct (near) 

Standard model particles versus theoretical blah blah to reach 

the Planck scale 

Keynote slide taken from Francesco Sannino’s graduate lectures given at 

Schladming 2012. Quote from Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Laureate in Physics 

in 1984 together with Simon van der Meer “for their decisive 

contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field 

particles W and Z, communicators of weak interactions”. 

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stable dark matter candidates. Last but not the least we 

envision the possibility that even the mechanism behind 

inflation emerges from new strong dynamics. 

Origin of Bright Matter 

It is a fact that the energy scale of the Large Hadron Collier 

(LHC), known as the Fermi scale, is determined by the need 

to understand the origin of the elementary particle masses. 

This is associated to the Higgs mechanism. In fact, the two 

missions of the Higgs sector of the SM are to break the 

electroweak gauge symmetry spontaneously and then give 

mass to the SM fermions, such as electron and quarks, via 

Yukawa interactions. Without a mass for the known 

fundamental elementary particles (i.e. the bright matter) 

atoms, chemical compounds and ultimately life could not 

exist. Therefore, the experimental validation of this sector of 

the SM is of tremendous importance. However, even if this 

sector of the SM were to be validated, the SM cannot be the 

ultimate description of nature. From our everyday experience 

we know that there is very little bright antimatter in the 

universe. The SM fails to predict the observed excess of 

matter. One can also show that the dark matter (DM) and 

energy problems cannot be resolved within the SM. One of 

the ambitious aims of the center is to provide well motivated 

and experimentally falsifiable extensions of the SM having 

the needed theoretical and phenomenological requisites to 

solve simultaneously several of these theoretical and 

experimental problems. 

One intriguing option for explaining some of these 

experimental and theoretical puzzles is the emergence of a 

new strong force near the Fermi scale. This new force, 

commonly called Technicolor (TC), leads to a natural 

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explanation of the origin of the Fermi scale per se, as well as, 

the origin of mass of the intermediate vector boson 

responsible, for example, for the slow burning of our Sun. 

These are models in which the Higgs sector of the SM is 

composite, i.e. made by some more fundamental matter. 

Another interesting possibility is that the SM admits a 

supersymmetric extension. This is a new symmetry which 

Experimental status of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard 

Model (MSSM), other extensions and Technicolor 

Keynote slides from the presentation of Francesco Sannino delivered at 

several international meetings. The red vertical bar denotes the TeV scale. 

You will note that, within given MSSM type models, the much expected 

sparticle spectrum has not been seen. A similar faith is shared by other 

interesting extensions such as the flat extra dimensional worlds. It is also 

shown, on the other hand, the large parameter space yet to be uncovered 

for Technicolor extensions of the Standard Model. 

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does not commute with the space-time ones. The simplest 

extension is known as Minimal Supersymmetric Standard 

Model (MSSM). According to this extension each particle of 

the SM acquires a partner which, depending on the scale of 

supersymmetry breaking, could be either soon discovered at 

the LHC or hide at some higher scale. 

Many more or less exotic SM extensions have been put 

forward in the literature, from the introduction of extra 

dimensions to quirks, the possibility of a heavy fourth SM 

fermion family, little Higgs and Unparticle models. 

The research projects we envision are aimed at a deeper 

understanding of the theoretical foundations of the origin of 

Standard Model (SM) representation 

Sannino’s keynote slide diagrammatically summarizing the Standard 

Model matter and gauge interactions. 

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electroweak symmetry breaking and its experimental 

validation. 

O’ Higgs where art Thou? 

A careful analysis of the different decay modes, and 

scattering amplitudes allowing to determine the nature of the 

Higgs is in order. We will use the effective Lagrangian 

approach in which a singlet state is added to the non-linearly 

realized SM Lagrangian featuring only the already 

discovered fields. We will then consider different limits, e.g. 

the case of the SM Higgs. This analysis is extremely 

important especially in view of the recent tantalizing 

experimental results released by the ATLAS and CMS 

collaborations. In fact, combining different channels ATLAS 

reported 3.6 standard deviations excess for a reference Higgslike 

state with a mass around 126 GeV. This analysis will help 

elucidate the nature of this state. 

By the end of 2012, depending on LHC performance, we 

might know if a particle similar to the SM Higgs boson has 

been discovered or excluded. Whatever the experimental 

outcome will be novel dynamics can play a fundamental role. 

This is so since there are a number of theoretical drawbacks 

with accepting the existence of a SM Higgs. For example a 

SM Higgs with a mass around 126 GeV might render the 

vacuum of the electroweak sector unstable at high energies, 

implying that the SM is an inconsistent theory. 

Higgs: Elementary or Composite? 

We will investigate a near-conformal (composite) nature of 

the Higgs. Here the Higgs is naturally identified with the 

state saturating the dilatonic current of the fundamental 

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theory. We are interested in being able to differentiate the SM- 

Higgs from a dilatonic object using as templates models of 

Minimal Walking TC (MWT). We will also explore the 

theoretical and phenomenological impact of the pseudo- 

Goldstone sector of different MWT models. Their discovery, 

as it was for the octet of pions and kaons for QCD, will help 

pin-down the fundamental theory underlying the dynamical 

breaking of the electroweak symmetry. 

Furthermore we also plan to investigate the 

phenomenological implications of our recent ultraviolet 

complete extensions of TC capable to endow the SM fermion 

with a mass. These extensions respect the new paradigm of 

Higgs Status at the LHC and relevant discovery processes 

Keynote slide from the presentation of Francesco Sannino given at the 

meeting on the Light Dilaton in Nagoya, Japan 2012. 

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ideal walking and can feature supersymmetry at an energy 

higher than the electroweak symmetry. We will also 

investigate the strong CP problem within models of TC and 

its extensions. This study will lead to potentially new 

phenomenological constraints on extensions of TC needed to 

give masses to the SM fermions. 

Is the Standard Model Natural? 

We plan to further explore the intriguing possibility, put 

forward arXiv:1102.5100v2, according to which the SM can be 

viewed as the magnetic dual of a gauge theory featuring only 

fermionic matter content. Within this new framework the 

Graphical representation of electro-magnetic gauge-gauge 

duality and a toy example 

Keynote slides taken from Francesco Sannino’s Schladming 2012 

graduate lectures. 

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entire SM could be already a natural theory. The challenge is 

to put this idea on a firmer ground using, for example, 't 

Hooft anomaly conditions, flavor decoupling arguments and 

the study of the renormalization group flow. Ultimately we 

plan on constructing an effective theory approach to test this 

idea experimentally. 

These projects have multiple purposes: they will lead to a 

deeper understanding of the origin of bright matter, both 

theoretically and phenomenologically while allowing to be on 

the front in understanding the LHC complex phenomenology 

and potential discoveries. We will, of course, adapt the 

project and scientific strategy in order to be always on the top 

of any experimental and theoretical breakthrough. 

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SECTION 1.2 

Dark Origins 

Artistic representation of the Inflaton and Dark Matter fields. Picture 

taken from Francesco Sannino’s presentations. 

Origin of Dark Matter 

Experimental observations strongly indicate that the universe 

is flat and predominantly made of unknown forms of matter. 

Defining with " the ratio of the density to the critical density, 

observations indicate that the fraction of matter amounts to 

"matter ~ 0.3 of which the normal baryonic one is only "baryonic 

~ 0.044. The amount of non-baryonic matter is termed dark 

matter (DM). The total " in the universe is dominated by DM 

and pure energy (dark energy) with the latter giving a 

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contribution "! ~ 0.7. Most of the DM is cold (i.e. nonrelativistic 

at freeze-out) and significant fractions of hot DM 

are hardly compatible with data. What constitutes DM is a 

question relevant for particle physics and cosmology. A 

WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) can be the 

dominant part of the non-baryonic DM contribution to the 

total ". Axions can also be DM candidates but only if their 

mass and couplings are tuned for this purpose. 

It would be theoretically very pleasing to be able to relate the 

DM and the baryon energy densities in order to explain the 

ratio "DM/"baryonic ~ 5. We know that the amount of baryons in 

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Dark Energy 

70% 

Atoms 

4% 

Dark Matter 

26%

the universe is determined solely by the cosmic baryon 

asymmetry. If the ratio above is not accidental, then the 

theoretical challenge is to define a consistent scenario in 

which the two energy densities are related. Since the baryonic 

component is a result of an asymmetry, then relating the 

amount of DM to the amount of baryon matter can very well 

imply that also the dark matter part is related to the same 

asymmetry. Such a condition is straightforwardly realized if 

the asymmetry for the DM particles is fed in by the nonperturbative 

electroweak sphaleron transitions, that at 

temperatures much larger than the temperature of the 

electroweak phase transition (EWPT) equilibrates the baryon, 

lepton and dark matter asymmetries. 

In any event a composite origin of DM constitutes an 

intriguing possibility given that the bright side of the 

universe is also composite. Models of composite DM could 

also support the possibility of generating the experimentally 

observed baryon and DM asymmetry. 

We will further investigate models of mixed and asymmetric 

DM and their phenomenological consequences for heavy and 

light DM with respect to the potential discovery at 

experiments. We will construct natural extensions of the SM 

of particle interactions able to simultaneously break the 

electroweak symmetry while yielding candidates of DM. The 

resulting dark sectors will be tested against collider 

signatures. 

Another interesting avenue to explore, both analytically and 

via first principle lattice simulations, is the order of the 

electroweak phase transition in models of dynamical 

electroweak symmetry breaking. We will use these 

investigations to determine whether it is possible to provide a 

common mechanism for baryogenesis and DM genesis. 

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We will also continue developing model-independent 

frameworks for analyzing the DM problem using effective 

Lagrangians or a clever combination of experimental results. 

In particular we will continue exploring the constraints 

coming from Charge Asymmetric Cosmic Rays which can lead 

to a direct probe of Flavor Violating Asymmetric Dark Matter. 

We were the first to observe that the cosmic-ray experiments 

still allow for a sizable charge asymmetry. Before our 

observation all models of DM were not allowing for any 

charge symmetry. The importance in experimentally 

observing a charge asymmetry is that whatever the source is 

made of, it must be asymmetric in nature and violate flavor. 

Pinning down generic properties of DM is essential for a solid 

construction of the future new SM featuring also DM. 

Unifying Dark Matter, Bright Matter and Inflation via new 

strong interactions. 

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Origin of Inflation 

Another prominent physics problem is inflation, the 

mechanism responsible for an early rapid expansion of our 

universe. Inflation, similar to the SM Higgs mechanism, is 

also modeled traditionally via the introduction of new scalar 

fields. As mentioned above, however, field theories featuring 

fundamental scalars are unnatural. We have recently shown 

one can envision a new natural strong dynamics underlying 

the inflationary mechanism. One can therefore explore the 

non-gaussianities in the temperature fluctuations of the 

Cosmic Microwave Background within these new strongly 

coupled theories for inflation. By coupling the composite 

inflaton to the SM fields we can determine, in a consistent 

way, the reheating properties of the models. 

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SECTION 1.3 

Strong Matters 

Phase diagram of strongly interacting theories, Francesco Sannino. 

Strong Dynamics Matters 

Strong dynamics constitutes one of the pillars of the standard 

model (SM), and it accounts for the bulk of the visible matter 

in the universe. Quarks and gluons constitute the building 

blocks of ordinary matter and their interaction is governed by 

QCD. At low energies QCD is strongly coupled while it is 

weak at high energies. This phenomenon is known as 

asymptotic freedom. The knowledge of the perturbative 

regime of the theory is relevant, for example, to disentangle at 

the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments the proper SM 

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ackground from signals of new physics. However, it is 

almost always the nonperturbative regime which has 

fascinated generation of physicists while still remaining 

unconquered. The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, dual models, 

string theory, strong coupling expansion, lattice field theory, 

non-relativistic quark model, MIT bag-model, large number 

of colors limit, heavy quark limits, effective Lagrangians, 

Skyrmions, 't Hooft anomaly matching conditions, Dyson- 

Schwinger approximation, and more recently the holographic 

approach have been devised to tackle different nonperturbative 

aspects of this fundamental theory of nature. All 

these methods have limitations being either rough 

approximations or, if precise, at best able to explore certain 

dynamical or kinematical regimes of the theory. It is for this 

reason that some of the most hunted properties of the theory 

remain still unexplained. To mention a few: Is there a relation 

between confinement and chiral symmetry breaking?; What 

happens when we squeeze or heat up strongly interacting 

matter? Are there magnetic-like descriptions in terms of 

alternative weakly coupled theories? Are there higher 

dimensional gravitational dual descriptions of strong 

interactions? Although these are fundamental questions 

deserving answers there are several new fundamental areas 

of research craving for an even broader understanding of 

strongly interacting theories. 

A generic non-abelian gauge theory displays several distinct 

potential-behaviors when varying, temperature, matter 

density, the number of flavors and colors. This makes them a 

unique laboratory to unveil strong dynamics. The collection 

of all these different behaviors, when represented, for 

example, in temperature-matter density or flavor-color space, 

constitutes the corresponding Phase Diagram of the probed 

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gauge theory. In arXiv:0911.0931v1 the reader will find an upto-date 

review and definition of the phases which can be 

discovered when investigating a generic gauge theory. 

We pioneered the first analytic and numerical explorations of 

the phase diagram for nonsupersymmetric strongly coupled 

theories as function of the number of colors, temperature, 

flavors and matter representation. Studying this phase 

diagram is fundamental for constructing realistic models 

generating the electroweak scale dynamically, creating 

sensible models of composite DM, and last but not the least 

start investigating the highly nature potential composite 

nature of inflation. 

Different types of dynamics for different underlying gauge 

theories. 

Slide from Francesco Sannino’s presentation given as keynote speaker at 

several international meetings. 

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When varying the number of flavors for a fixed number of 

colors gauge theories can undergo phase transitions. A 

particularly relevant one is the transition from a phase in 

which quarks and gluons make protons and neutrons to the 

one in which the quarks and gluons are still strongly 

interacting but protons and hadrons cannnot form. 

Technically the theory is said to develop large distance 

conformality. In this region an important quantity to 

determine, for theoretical and phenomenological reasons, is 

the scaling anomalous dimension of the mass operator. 

Recently Pica and Sannino, as well as Ryttov and Shrock have 

determined the four-loops determination of the anomalous 

dimension of the fermion mass operator for any nonsupersymmetric 

gauge theory of fundamental interactions 

constitutes an important result used virtually by any lattice 

group trying to determine this fundamental quantity via first 

principle lattice simulations. 

Pica and Sannino have also discovered an interesting new 

large number of flavors phase for any non-supersymmetric 

gauge theory featuring fermionic matter. The interest resides 

in the fact that this new phase corresponds to an ultraviolet 

fixed point. If the phase persists at finite number of flavors 

several new phenomenological possibilities can be 

envisioned. 

New analytic and geometric tools to tackle nonperturbative 

dynamics will be developed in the future by our research 

group. These include string inspired extradimensional 

approaches as well as alternative large number of colors 

limits. We will also expand our study of the phase diagram at 

nonzero temperature, matter density, with and without 

fundamental scalar matter. 

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Minimal Walking on Supercomputers 

Slide from Claudio Pica’s presentation given at several international 

meetings. 

We will, of course, continue studying gauge theories with 

different gauge groups and matter representation also via 

first-principle supercomputer computations. In particular we 

will be studying the effects of the four fermi interactions and 

the emergence of the ideal walking (iWalk) scenario put 

forward by Fukano and Sannino. 

The projects naturally integrate with several grants awarded 

to CP³-Origins by the former Danish Center of 

Supercomputers for hardware entitled Origin of Mass on 

Supercomputers. The knowledge of the phase diagram is the 

key to unlock the secrets of many sensible extensions of the 

SM. Cosmology can be impacted via a better understanding 

of models of strong inflation and composite DM. Last but not 

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the least, charting out the phase diagram is of the utmost 

importance for QCD and hence for the heavy ion program at 

the LHC. Our group together with its close collaborators 

unite unique expertise also relevant for studying the theory 

and phenomenology of nucleus-nucleus collisions, and to 

explore matter in extreme conditions 

The projects naturally integrate with several grants awarded 

to CP³-Origins by the former Danish Center of 

Supercomputers for hardware entitled Origin of Mass on 

Supercomputers. The knowledge of the phase diagram is the 

key to unlock the secrets of many sensible extensions of the 

SM. Cosmology can be impacted via a better understanding 

of models of strong inflation and composite DM. Last but not 

the least, charting out the phase diagram is of the utmost 

importance for QCD and hence for the heavy ion program at 

the LHC. Our group together with its close collaborators 

unite unique expertise also relevant for studying the theory 

and phenomenology of nucleus-nucleus collisions, and to 

explore matter in extreme conditions 

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CHAPTER 2 

Architecture 

From ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project, Stéphane Guisard, ESO 

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SECTION 2.1 

Core Researchers 

The Sombrero Galaxy, ASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/ 

AURA) 

The Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics 

Phenomenology – CP³-Origins has been established by the 

Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) and opened 

on the 1st of September 2009 at the University of Southern 

Denmark in Odense. 

We employ a chess-like strategy where every individual piece 

(postdoc, student and staff-member) plays a fundamental role 

while functioning together towards the successful common 

goal. The key to becoming a better player in chess is to never 

get stuck on one level of play. We continually add to our 

game by learning and trying new strategies. 

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Since its opening, CP³-Origins has been pursuing very 

challenging scientific goals while keeping in mind the 

important aspiration to assume the leading role in the Nordic 

countries in one of the most important areas of research 

worldwide. We have initiated several concrete initiatives to 

form a new generation of particle physicists excelling 

internationally. We keep building basic strategic research 

infrastructure to serve nationally while being able to lead 

internationally. 

The list of researchers, students as well as our PhD hiring 

strategy, constituting the backbone of CP³-Origins, are 

summarized in the interactive keynote presentation. 

People 

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Communication Strategy 

Recruiting Elite Researchers 

Having around highly intellectually stimulating individuals 

is of the utmost importance to have fun while working on 

cutting-edge research. 

Some of the recently hired experienced researchers as well as 

the prizes awarded are summarized in the interactive keynote 

presentation. 

Concentrical Communication 

Our research and administrative communication strategy has 

a concentrical structure. This structure allows for maximum 

efficient training at every level and helps establishing an 

ultra-active and highly competitive research center. It has also 

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shown to stimulate the people at the centre to contribute with 

new ideas. 

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SECTION 2.2 

Excellence with Impact 

Ultraviolet and infrared zeros of a given beta function, Francesco 

Sannino. 

Centre members have already produced, since the opening of 

the centre, over 130 research preprints. Some of the work has 

been published in prestigious physics journals such as 

Physical Review Letters. Others have been reported by 

science news magazines such as the magazine “Wired”. 

Lectures & Tubes 

The CP³-Origins Lecture series, mini-courses, as well as the 

weekly journal club provide the food for our brain. The invited 

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lecturers are internationally known scientists from Europe, 

the US and Asia. 

The lectures and mini-courses are fully available on our 

webpage insuring transparence, allowing the centre members 

traveling the possibility to watch and listen to the lecturers, 

and serves as a courtesy to the entire scientific community. 

We have in mind the smaller research groups which want to 

remain updated with respect to the latest developments in 

particle physics. Finally it will, in time, be a precious 

historical record. We have also launched a large number of 

successful and innovative outreach activities meant to 

propagate the centre’s activities to students and teachers in 

high schools, to researchers in other fields and to the general 

public. 

Publications 

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Postdoc statistics and requests 

Fermi Visiting Professor Program 

We have introduced the Fermi Visiting Professor Program @ 

CP³-Origins for a visit of up to 2-6 months sponsored by the 

centre for outstanding scientists wishing to join the centre’s 

activities in the area of particle physics, astroparticle and 

cosmology. Several well known scientists have and are 

visiting our centre as Fermi visitor professors, among these 

we count Profs S. Brodsky, S. Catterall and J. Schechter. 

Interactive Black Book (iBlack Book) 

In 2010 we launched the CP³-Black-Books summarizing to the 

public and scientific community the highlights of the centre. 

The third black book (the current one) of the series will be the 

first iBlack-Book featuring interactive movies, presentations, 

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as well as selected slides from keynote presentations for an 

content enriched reading experience. 

Black Report 

In 2011 we launched the first CP³-Black Report entitled 

Discovering Technicolor. The Black Reports are scientific 

reports on highly topical research areas investigated at the 

centre. The reports are written in collaboration with relevant 

scientists worldwide. The first first black report was an 

instant success. It was chosen as the front cover of the 

European Physics Journal and was promoted by the 

European Physics News. 

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SECTION 2.3 

Outreach 

Angels and Demons Lecture Night. The science revealed. 

As a bright scientific beacon, the CP³-Origins centre at the 

University of Southern Denmark is both enriching and 

serving the research community. It puts Denmark at the 

forefront of research in this field and creates the potential for 

achieving substantial global recognition. 

Being in the frontline, our approach is one of transparency, 

accountability and a real commitment to engaging citizens. 

Value to the community can be measured qualitatively in 

terms of the centre becoming a household name in Odense 

and in the Region, and by generating greater interest in the 

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public arena, and quantitatively in its effect on the numbers 

of young people choosing to study physics at higher levels. 

We have launched a large number of extremely successful 

and novel outreach activities that will harness the energy 

generated by the fascination of young and old alike for 

particle physics, to further fuel our work and to give 

something tangible and of quality in return. 

Geniuses from the Genius program 

Helene Gertov and Martin Zangenberg’s presentation in January 2012 

CP³-Genius Program 

We launched in February 2010 a novel initiative meant to 

allow the brightest young minds at the bachelor and high 

school level to join the research activities at our centre. 

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Here is the way it works: 

For Bachelor Students: If you are enrolled as a bachelor student 

in physics at the University of Southern Denmark, and you 

think you are not challenged enough, you have top grades 

and are burning for understanding the fundamental laws of 

the universe, you are perfect for the genius program. The 

selected students will: 

Keep following your standard bachelor curriculum in physics 

and, at the same time, you will be able to join the advanced 

research programs at our centre. 

Geniuses 

Geniuses from the opening of the program in 2010 

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Be part of a mini unit consisting of a graduate student 

(master and/or PhD student), an experienced researcher 

(typically a postdoc), and a staff member. 

Be assigned a research topic on which you will have to report 

regularly and possibly do research work on it. 

Be able to acquire the required skills ranging from the use of 

supercomputers, advanced theoretical physics concepts and 

mathematics in order to address the challenging problems 

you will encounter. 

For High School Students: High school students with excellent 

grades in mathematics and physics can be hosted for one or 

two days at our centre. Here the student will be assigned to a 

mini unit like the one above and will be able to learn about 

some of the basic topics in cosmology, high energy physics 

and more generally learning about the fundamental laws of 

the universe and why they must be amended to explain yet 

the many open questions in cosmology and particle physics. 

For High School Teachers: We will be happy to have high 

school teachers and their classes visiting our centre and get 

up-to-date information about the fundamental laws of the 

universe. They will learn about the latest news from the 

Large Hadron Collider experiment at the European Centre of 

Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. We will let 

them know also about the latest news on dark matter and 

energy obtained via cosmological observations. We will 

introduce in lay terms new theories and ideas which might 

help solve some of the fundamental puzzles posed by nature. 

The program has been a great success and the centre counts 

already several CP³-genius bachelor students. We hosted also 

several classes from different Gymnasiums. 

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CP³-World 

In 2012 we introduced the CP³-World program. It provides 

the opportunity to apply for funding for a research visit of 

one to two months to the centre. The goal is to give 

international researchers the opportunity to keep abreast of 

developments in particle physics, astroparticle, lattice field 

theory, and cosmology. Priority will be given to excellent 

researchers from Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia, South 

Africa, and South Korea. However nominations from other 

countries will also be considered. The chosen researchers can 

be asked to give a one week mini-course in their main 

research topic at the graduate level, a lecture, or a public 

lecture. 

DR Danskernes Akademi January 18, 2012 

Francesco Sannino’s presentation of the Dark & Bright Universe on 

national TV 

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Art & Science 

From the presentation of Francesco Sannino given in January 2012 

Out of this World 

The deepest mysteries of the universe inspire scientists and 

artists in trying to capture their essence. Scientists use 

mathematics while artists their expressive skills to 

communicate their perception of the universe. Our centre is 

very sensitive to any form of 

art to tell the story of the 

universe. We learn, in this way, 

how to better express ourselves 

and communicate our ideas. 

For example the Sannino’s 

“Out of this world” short story 

was used in July 2011 for art 

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exhibitions in Denmark. The interplay between science and 

liberal arts plays a deep role in the way we think about the 

universe, we visualize, describe and communicate it. 

Physics in Thai & Italian 

A relevant sign that our 

centre is truly international, 

highly innovative and is 

forming a new generation of 

researchers aware of the 

need to communicate to the 

public is that our student 

Phongpichit Channuie (CP³- 

Origins), in collaboration 

with Arunee Shunava (Foreign Language Department, 

Phunphin Pitthayakom School, Thailand) recently wrote an 

article What do we know about the Universe that has now 

appeared in the Thai Journal of Physics (published by the 

Thai Physics Society). The article discusses the basic 

constituents of our Universe – Ordinary matter, Dark Matter 

and Dark Energy – at a level accessible to students and nonexperts. 

The Thai Journal of Physics aims mainly 

to propagate current knowledge and 

issues to both teachers and students in 

high schools, and also for the general 

public. 

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Our PhD student Eugenio Del Nobile has 

given a public lecture on Dark Matter in 

Italy: Vedere l’invisibile: materia grigia 

contro materia oscura (Looking at the 

invisible: grey matter vs. dark matter). 

The seminar has been given at the 

cultural centre Briciole (italian for 

“crumbs”), named after the work of the 

famous Danish philosopher Søren 

Kierkegaard. In the words of Eugenio: 

Quantum Mechanics is the physics of things that are far too small 

to be seen, even with microscopes. In order to look at such small 

distances, scientists have built and keep building machines and 

detectors, that are our “eyes” on the invisible. Radios, cell phones 

and microwave ovens all work with invisible light. In the last 

decades physicists were also able to detect the most elusive particle 

among the known ones, the neutrino. One of the challenges is now 

to detect Dark Matter, a still unknown kind of particles whose 

contribution to the energetic balance of the Universe is five times 

larger than the one of all the known particles together. This is one of 

the new frontiers in seeing the invisible. 

Eugenio and Phongpichit have both already their future 

secured! Eugenio will join the University of California at Los 

Angeles for his first postdoctoral experience, and Phongpichit 

has already a permament faculty position waiting him in 

Thailand. 

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CHAPTER 3 

Posters & Comics 

Silent Effigy, Brad Goldpaint, Goldpaint Photography, 

www.goldpaintphotography.com 

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Posters 

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Review Talks 

Steven Abel (Durham) 

Laura Baudis (Zürich) 

Origin of Mass 2011 & 

LHC Training School 

Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC & CP³-Origins) 

Simon Catterall (Syracuse) 

Nicolao Fornengo (INFN-Torino) 

Piergiorgio Picozza (INFN-Rome) 

Robert Shrock (Stony Brook) 

Steinar Stapnes (Oslo) 

Bryan Webber (Cambridge) 

Experimental Overviews 

ATLAS: Stefano Giagu (Roma I) 

Tevatron: Marc Besancon (CEA) 

Local Organizing Committee 

Jeppe R. Andersen 

Chris Kouvaris 

Isabella Masina 

Claudio Pica 

Francesco Sannino 

May 9-13, 2011 

CP³-Origins 

University of Southern Denmark 

More information at 

cp3-origins.dk/mass2011 

Photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video 

http://goo.gl/icLae 

cp3-origins.dk/mass2011/school

DIAS Inauguration 


September 30 in U155 

Program 

11.00 Refreshments 

DIAS – Stepping into the Future 

11.15 DIAS – Culture: 

! David Nye Origins and transformation of cultures 

11.30 DIAS – Organization: 

! Thorbjørn Knudsen Origins and evolutions of social organizations 

11.45 DIAS – Universe: 

! Francesco Sannino Origins of the Universe 

12.15 Lunch at the restaurant 

13.30 Coffee in U155 

The future of DIAS 

Future of DIAS – Culture 

14.00 Stephanie Christine Aziz American Modes of Memorialization in the 20th Century 

14.10 Thomas Ærvold Bjerre Authenticity as Ideology? The New American War Film 

14.20 Niels Bjerre-Poulsen The Transatlantic Exchange of Ideas: The case of the Mont Pelerin Society 

Future of DIAS – Organization 

14.30 Nils Stieglitz Markets for Lemons 

14.40 Stephan Billinger Rugged Landscapes Put to the Lab 

14.50 Murali Swamy Expeditions without Maps 

Future of DIAS – Universe 

15.00 Jeppe Andersen Liberating Nature by Smashing Protons 

15.10 Chris Kouvaris Dark Side of Stars 

15.20 Claudio Pica Universe on Video Games 

15.30 Concluding remarks 

Strategic 

Organization Design 

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CP 3 - Origins 

Particle Physics & Origin of Mass 

CP3-Origins � DESY � Göttingen 

Autumn School on Particle Physics 

and Cosmology 

11-15 October 2011, DESY Hamburg 

Invited speakers and topics: 

J. R. Andersen „QCD Phenomenology/MC“ 

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A. Hebecker „String Phenomenology“ 

S. Heinemeyer „Higgs and BSM Phenomenology“ 

W. Porod „Neutrino and Flavour Physics“ 

F. Sannino „Technicolor and strongly coupled theories“ 

C. Scrucca „SUSY and SUGRA“ 

A. Weiler „Beyond the SM Models“ 

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P. Ullio „Dark Matter“ 

Organizing Committee: L. Covi (Göttingen), F. Sannino (CP3-Origins), G. Weiglein (DESY) 

www.desy.de/CDG_AutumnSchool11

CP³-Origins welcomes the first year students 

We are pleased to organize a meeting to introduce the first 

year students to the activities of the centre. Refreshments 

will be served and the presentations will be followed by the 

projection of the movie “Angels and Demons”. 

When: Friday, November 25, at 14:30 

Where: U47 

Program: 

• Introduction to CP³-Origins 

• The known fundamental laws of Nature 

• Dark & Bright mysteries of the Universe 

• CP³-Genius program 

• Movie: Angels & Demons 

More information at cp3-origins.dk 

Please sign up by sending an email to cp3@cp3.sdu.dk not 

later than Monday, November 21. 

We look forward to seeing you! 

CP³ Staff & Students 

Welcome Students 

The Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics Phenomenology 

The Revolutions to Come 

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Uncovering the origins of bright 

and dark mass in the universe. 

Angels & Demons, Courtesy of Sony Pictures 

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4th Odense Winter School on 

Geometry and Theoretical Physics 

Main speakers 

Frédéric Hélein (Paris Diderot) 

Biagio Lucini (Swansea) 

Paul-Andi Nagy (Greifswald) 

Carlos Nunez (Swansea) 

Thomas A. Ryttov (Harvard) 

Urs Schreiber (Utrecht) 

Local Organizing Committee 

David Brander 

Claudio Pica 

Francesco Sannino 

Martin Svensson 

Andrew Swann 

More information at 

cp3-origins.dk/ws2011 

Photo credit: Darren Hester, Openphoto.net 

December 19-20, 2011 



GEOMAPS 

www.geomaps.dk

D I A S - Public Lectures 

Prof. C. Nuñez 

Swansea 

String Theory: 

How is it useful? 

Dr. T. Ryttov 

Harvard 

Origin of Mass 

in the Universe 

University of Southern Denmark, Tue. 20-Dec-2011 at 7 pm Auditorium O100 

Organizers: Claudio Pica & Francesco Sannino Program: http://cp3-origins.dk/a/6168 

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"Join "CP 3 -World 

The Centre of excellence for Particle 

Physics Phenomenology (CP³-Origins), 

dedicated to the origins of the dark and 

bright side of the Universe, in 

collaboration with the Danish Institute 

for Advanced Study (DIAS) introduces 

the CP³-World program. 

The CP³-World program provides the 

opportunity to apply for funding for a 

research visit of one to two months to 

the centre. The goal is to give 

international researchers the Photo credit: MichaelTaylor, Shutterstock 

opportunity to keep abreast of 

developments in particle physics, 

astroparticle, lattice field theory, and cosmology. The researchers awarded 

with funding for travel expenses and local accommodation will be part of a 

strong and scientifically alive research environment. 

Priority will be given to excellent researchers from Brazil, China, India, 

Japan, Russia, South Africa, and South Korea. However nominations from 

other countries will also be considered. The chosen researchers can be asked 

to give a one week mini-course in their main research topic at the graduate 

level, a lecture, or a public lecture. 

Information on how to apply can be found here: 

cp3-origins.dk/r/cp3-world 

Particles Collide 

For more information, please contact: 

Prof. Francesco Sannino, sannino@cp3.dias.sdu.dk 

Image: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

CP³-Comics 

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CHAPTER 4 

Photo Gallery 

The Sombrero Galaxy, ASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/ 

AURA) 

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Physics Faculty 

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Jeppe Andersen Ari Hietanen Chris Kouvaris 

Arne Lykke 

Larsen 

Niels Kjær 

Nielsen 

Claudio Pica

Francesco Sannino Martin S. Sloth Mads T. Frandsen 

Adjunct Professors 

Isabella Masina Roman Zwicky 

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Geometry and Computer Science Faculty 

Rolf Fagerberg Martin Svensson Andrew Swann 

Technical and Adm. Staff 

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Jens Svalgaard 

Kohrt 

Lone Charlotte 

Nielsen

Postdocs 

Oleg Antipin Stefano Di Chiara Marco Nardecchia 

Paolo Panci Jussi Virkajärvi 

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PhD Students 

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Valentin Aliev 

Tuomas Hapola 

Phongpichit 

Channuie 

Jakob Jark 

Jørgensen 

Eugenio Del 

Nobile 

Matin Mojaza

Esen Mølgaard 

Graduate Students 

Jens Frederik 

Colding Krog 

Ulrik Ishøj 

Søndergaard 

Ole Svendsen 

Martin 

Zangenberg 

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Board Members 

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Stanley J. Brodsky Paolo Di Vecchia Paul Hoyer

Michelangelo L. 

Mangano 

Finn Ravndal Torbjörn Sjöstrand 

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Telephone: +45 6550 2316 

Email: cp3@cp3.dias.sdu.dk

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