Journal clubs

Speaker: Eric Madge, IFT Venue&Time: 12:00 / Grey room 3 Abstract: We present a new method to estimate terminal bubble velocities during first-order phase transitions in a plasma in local equilibrium. The method relies on calculating the extrema of a modified potential function for the scalar field undergoing the transition. The shape of this function, […]

Every Tuesday at 2:00 PM in the discussion room on the 5th floor. Join the IFT cosmology/gravity journal club at benty-fields.com to vote for papers and volunteer to present them.

Title: 'Probabilistic modeling and Bayesian inference for collider data' Speaker: Santiago Tanco (IFLP-CONICET/UNLP) Venue&Time: Gray Room 1 / 11:00  

Strings, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club Title: 'Mapping moduli across heterotic conifolds' Speaker: Christian Aoufia (IFT) Venue & Time: Red Room / 12:00 Abstract: In this work, we provide evidence for a duality between 4-dimensional Calabi-Yau compactifications of the heterotic string, in which the base manifolds are linked by a conifold transition. In recent […]

Title: 'GeV-scale QCD Axion' Speaker: Thomas Steingasser (IFT) Venue & Time: 12:00 / Gray Room 3 Abstract: In order to solve the strong CP problem, we study the possibility that the Peccei–Quinn symmetry is broken below the QCD scale. We find that a QCD axion can be above GeV, and may be among the observed […]