Speaker
Bibhushan Shakya
Description
Vacuum decay through runaway first order phase transitions presents a unique opportunity for particle physics and cosmology: collisions of vacuum bubbles can act as cosmic scale high energy colliders close to the Planck scale, providing access to high energy physics far beyond any temperature or energy scale ever reached in the history of our Universe. This talk will cover recent developments and challenges in the physics for understanding such frameworks, as well as their broad applications for particle physics and cosmology, from dark matter to leptogenesis to gravitational waves.
