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 […]
Title: 'Probing the Dark Sector with Large Scale Structure' Speaker: Ennio Salvioni (IFAE) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Precision cosmology offers opportunities to test the nature of dark matter independently of any interactions with the visible sector. I will discuss how data from galaxy surveys, including the ongoing DESI and Euclid projects, can be […]
Gonzalo F. Casas (IFT) will present 'Topological Quantization and Cohomology' by Orlando Álvarez Commun.Math.Phys. 100 (1985) 279 Abstract: The relationships between topological charge quantization,Lagrangians and various cohomology theories are studied. A very general criterion for charge quantization is developed andapplied to various physical models. The relationship betweencohomology and homotopy is discussed. More info: https://inspirehep.net/literature/206164
Title: 'F(ℓ)avoured searches: new physics in the 3rd generation' Speaker: Tamara Vázquez Schröder (IFAE) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The primary goal of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to discover the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). The discovery of the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson in 2012 was the […]
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: Albert Gasull, Leiden University Venue & Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30 Title: 'Continuous and field tensor network states' Abstract: Tensor network methods have provided us with a powerful set of tools with which to study strongly interacting many-body systems on the lattice. Understanding the limitations of this ansatz is paramount for the success […]
Speaker: Tom Rudelius (Durham U., Dept. of Math.) Title: Co-Scaling and Alignment of Electric and Magnetic States Venue & Time: Red Room / 11:30 Abstract: Towers of electrically and magnetically charged states in quantum gravity often exhibit two important properties. First, the ratio of the mass (or tension) of electrically charged states to magnetically charged […]
Every Thursday at 12:00 in Grey Room 3.
Every Thursday at 12:00 in the Red Room.
Title: 'UV completion of extended Higgs models via the confinement of SU(2) gauge' Speaker: Yushi Mura (KEK) Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: The extended Higgs sectors are often introduced to explain phenomena beyond the standard model. On the other hand, the existence of multiple scalar fields may cause the Landau pole below […]