Speaker: Matthias Carosi from Munich, Tech. U. Venue & Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: First-order phase transitions in the early universe are a unique probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, with potential implications for electroweak baryogenesis, the formation of primordial black holes, magnetogenesis and the production of dark matter. Upcoming gravitational wave detectors may […]

Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro from ICTP Venue&Time: Grey Room 1 / 11:00 Abstract: Recent years have seen an increased interest in the phenomenology of the QCD axion and axion dark matter. In this lecture, I will review astrophysical and experimental bounds on axions, as well as the basics of axion detection experiments.

Speaker: Guillem Martí-Davesa (INFN-Trieste) Venue&Time: Red Room / 15:00 Abstract: Supernovae have traditionally been invoked as the dominant cosmic ray factories within our Galaxy, capable of accelerating protons up to PeV energies. In this seminar we will discuss to what extent such a view holds today, and if alternative source populations could instead be relevant […]