4–6 May 2015
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Light Inflaton - hunting for it from CMB through the Dark Matter and down to the colliders

4 May 2015, 17:15
15m
G26 (University of Pittsburgh)

G26

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260
parallel talk Cosmology II

Speaker

Fedor Bezrukov (CERN & University of Connecticut (US) & RIKEN BNL (US))

Description

The models without additional energy scales (heavy particles) above the electroweak scale can provide relation between the low energy physics and cosmology. Probably the simplest example is the model with additional singlet scalar inflaton (with non-minimal coupling). It gets constraint simultaneously from the inflationary observations (tensor modes), dark matter production (for 7keV sterile neutrino DM), and searches in the rare decays. I will discuss the interplay of the cosmological and laboratory constraints in this model.

Author

Fedor Bezrukov (CERN & University of Connecticut (US) & RIKEN BNL (US))

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