BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//chikkutakku.com//RDFCal 1.0//EN X-WR-CALDESC:GoogleカレンダーやiCalendar形式情報を共有シェ アしましょう。近所のイベントから全国のイベントま で今日のイベント検索やスケジュールを決めるならち っくたっく X-WR-CALNAME:ちっくたっく X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar\, Junxuan Xu (TDLI) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260723T043000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260723T053000Z UID:169747849415 DESCRIPTION:Title: Deconstructing the Extra-Dimensional Axion\n\nAbstract: \nWe present a four-dimensional deconstruction of the extra-dimensional ax ion arising from a $U(1)$ gauge theory in a five-dimensional orbifold\, wh ere the axion is identified with the Wilson line of the $U(1)$ gauge field and its coupling to QCD is generated by a 5D Chern-Simons (CS) term. We c onstruct the corresponding 4D moose (quiver) gauge theory with link scalar fields\, in which the axion emerges as a collective pseudo-Nambu-Goldston e boson. The axion-gluon coupling is described by a gauged Wess-Zumino-Wit ten term\, providing the 4D counterpart of the 5D CS term. We further anal yze non-perturbative effects from zero-mode and ``fractional'' instanton c onfigurations. While the latter is exponentially suppressed in the regime corresponding to the 5D description\, ensuring consistency with the higher -dimensional picture\, we point out that this suppression can break down f or smaller instantons whose inverse size exceeds the 5D cutoff scale\, lea ding to a potentially significant effect. We also study axion potentials i nduced by bulk matter fields and boundary-localized symmetry-breaking oper ators\, reproducing the characteristic nonlocal suppression associated wit h propagation in the extra dimension. Our construction provides a renormal izable 4D framework with a transparent understanding of the axion shift sy mmetry and its quality. LOCATION:721 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar\, Ziwen Yin (TDLI) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260730T043000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260730T053000Z UID:127391149246 DESCRIPTION:Titile :\nProbe exotic energy injection from dark sectors thro ugh cosmic reionization\n\nAbstract :\nAxions and primordial black holes ( PBHs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates that can inject energy int o the intergalactic medium (IGM) via decay or evaporation over cosmic hist ory\, leaving imprints on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In recent work\, we have derived a model-independent ionization history after recom bination from CMB power spectra using a Gaussian process approach\, allowi ng new physics to be constrained directly from the high-redshift optical d epth. Applying this framework\, we investigate the decay of multi-string a xions and place the first constraints on the corresponding geometrical par ameter space. We also compute the redshift-dependent energy injection from Hawking evaporation using BlackHawk\, we obtain upper limits on the initi al PBH abundance that are robust against reionization modeling uncertainti es and systematically more conservative than existing bounds. Our results demonstrate the power of reionization observables as a precise probe of PB H evaporation and other late-time energy-injection scenarios. LOCATION:721 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR