Abstract: Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves can potentially open a window on extremely high energies, giving us information on phase transitions at the GUT scale and many other BSM phenomena. In this talk I will discuss simple heuristic arguments that allow to establish the smallest detectable energy density in a primordial gravitational wave background. I will focus mainly on what...
Gravitational wave detectors provide a chance to observe the state of the very early universe and have important sensitivities for studies of early universe cosmology and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. In this talk, I will discuss the production of potentially detectable stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds in early matter dominated eras in the linear and nonlinear...
Abstract: We propose a novel baryogenesis scenario where the baryon asymmetry originates directly from a hierarchy between two fundamental mass scales: the electroweak scale and the Planck scale. Our model is based on the neutrino-portal Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism, which generates the asymmetry of the AD sector during the radiation-dominated era and subsequently transfers it to the baryon...
Kinetic misalignment enables axion DM at low axion axion decay constant, which is particularly relevant for the whole experimental programme af axion searches. I’ll discuss its distinctive features such as axion fragmentation and its signatures, as well as
UV implementations of rotating axions.
Energy correlators do live at the crossroads between theory and phenomenology. I will briefly review developments on both fronts that explain the resurgence of interest on these old observables. Then, I present how to compute high point correlators from recursion relations, what can be learned from low point ones, and how to go beyond energies.
Many attractive ideas on BSM physics involve strong gauge dynamics we do not understand well. I present recent attempts to gain better understanding of strong gauge dynamics using supersymmetry and anomaly mediation of supersymmetry breaking. Then I speculate on areas of BSM model building that they may open up.
The standard representation theory for SU(N) and O(N) groups are defined at positive integer N. However, cases of non-integer N are often encountered, e.g. when studying dimensional regularization, evanescent operators, conformal bootstrap, etc. A natural continuation to non-integer N (such as N=3.99) is to take the one at infinitely large integer N. This contains representations with...
It is usually assumed that 4D instantons can only arise in non-Abelian theories. In our recent work arXiv:2406.13738, we re-examine this conventional wisdom by explicitly constructing instantons in an Abelian gauge theory: $QED_4$ with $N_f$ flavors of Dirac fermions, in the background of a Dirac monopole. This is the low-energy effective field theory for fermions interacting with a 't...
