Pheno Journal Club
Gray Room 3 Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) -C. Nicolás Cabrera, 13-15, Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid, SpainEvery Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.
Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.
Title: 'Asymmetric Dark Matter induced by Baryogenesis' Speaker: Miguel Escudero (CERN) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: We live in a Universe where structures are made out of baryons but not of antibaryons. Could the dark matter be made of particles and not antiparticles? This is an old question and many asymmetric dark matter scenarios […]
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.
Speaker: Shunsuke Neda (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Title: Primordial black holes from Q-balls Abstract: We discuss primordial black holes (PBHs) originating from Q-balls, which are non-topological solitons arising in complex scalar field theories with a global U(1) symmetry. Depending on the cosmic expansion history, Q-balls can source PBH formation in […]
Speaker: Marta Florido Llinás (MPQ) Title: 'Generalizing the framework of translationally invariant MPS' Abstract: In this talk I will present our recent work on developing a canonical form for uniform matrix product states (MPS) with a boundary matrix (https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.11968). Starting from the standard canonical description of uniform MPS with periodic boundary conditions, I will explain […]
Gravity, Supergravity and Superstrings (GRASS) Seminar Speaker: David Pereñiguez (Johns Hopkins U.) Title: 'Gravitational Duality at the Lightring, QNM isospectrality, and Ringdown Nonlinearities from Penrose Limits' Abstract: At high frequencies, the physics near a black hole’s lightring can be captured by Penrose-limit plane waves adapted to the photon sphere. In this talk, I will solve […]
Strings, Pheno and the Swampland Journal Club (SPS) Speaker: Michelangelo Tartaglia (IFT) Title: 'Anomaly-induced vanishing of brane partition functions' Abstract: In the presence of 't Hooft anomalies, backgrounds for the symmetries of a quantum field theory can lead to non-conservation of Noether currents, or more generally, to the presence of charged insertions in the path […]
Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.
Title: 'Sub-PeV gamma-ray astronomy and its physics' Speaker: Sei Kato (Sorbonne Université, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: This talk will focus on the physics that can be explored with sub-PeV gamma-ray astronomy (E > 10^14 eV), particularly on the Galactic diffuse gamma rays and the dark matter. Also, our project […]
Miquel Aparici Domingo (IFT) will present Generalized Global Symmetries by Davide Gaiotto, Anton Kapustin, Nathan Seiberg, Brian Willett, JHEP 02 (2015) 172 Abstract: A q-form global symmetry is a global symmetry for which the charged operators are of space-time dimension q, e.g. Wilson lines, surface defects, etc., and the charged excitations have q spatial dimensions, e.g. […]