14–16 Apr 2025
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Echoes of the Higgs: Gravitational Waves and the Fate of the Electroweak Vacuum

15 Apr 2025, 11:30
15m
Auditorium C.1

Auditorium C.1

Department of Physics (University of Coimbra)

Speaker

Dr JAVIER RUBIO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Description

We explore a minimal scenario where the Standard-Model Higgs is responsible for reheating the Universe after inflation and produces a significant background of gravitational waves. The characteristic features of such signal can be directly correlated to the classical stability of the electroweak vacuum, thus offering a novel connection between the inflationary scale and the top quark mass at energies scales inaccessible by current particle accelerators.

Authors

Giorgio Laverda Dr JAVIER RUBIO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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