Conveners
Early universe cosmology
- Jaiyul Yoo (Univ. Zurich)
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Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)20/08/2018, 14:00
The Standard Model may be a valid effective field theory all the way up to the Planck scale, still it suffers from a number of theoretical and observational shortcomings. I will overview the theoretical, phenomenological and cosmological arguments for a possible existence of new particles with masses below the Fermi scale and discuss the experimental prospects to search for them.
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Ruth Durrer Zimmermann (University of Geneva)20/08/2018, 14:30
Even though the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a photograph of the Universe when it was about 400000 years old and had a temperature of about 0.3eV, it contains information about a much earlier phase of the Universe, most notably inflation.
In my talk I shall describe the amplified quantum fluctuations which we observe in the CMB. I shall discuss what we already know and what we might... -
Michele Cicoli (Università di Bologna)20/08/2018, 15:00
I will describe several features of type IIB Fibre Inflation models like:
(i) how to construct a chiral global embedding into consistent Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications;
(ii) the presence of an inflaton upper bound from the Kahler cone conditions;
(iii) the details of perturbative reheating and the associated production of dark radiation;
(iv) the generation of primordial black...