Cosmological probes of BSM - from the Big Bang to the LHC

from Monday 7 May 2018 (09:00) to Friday 11 May 2018 (21:00)
Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 May 2018
8 May 2018
9 May 2018
10 May 2018
11 May 2018
AM
09:00 --- Registration ---
09:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Welcome and Introduction (until 10:15) ()
10:00 Welcome and Introduction - Frederic Teubert (CERN) Aurelio Juste Rozas (ICREA and IFAE (ES)) Gilad Perez (CERN & Weizmann) Christophe Grojean (DESY (Hamburg) and ICREA/IFAE (Barcelona))   ()
10:15
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
10:15 R^2 dark energy in the laboratory - Philippe Brax (CEA)   ()
11:15 Femtolensing revisited - Andrey Katz (CERN)   ()
12:15 Nucleophobic Axions - Robert Andreas Ziegler (CERN)   ()
09:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
10:00 Pole N-flation - Alexander Westphal (DESY Hamburg)   ()
11:00 Cosmological Implications of Higgs Vacuum Metastability - Jose Ramon Espinosa Sedano (ICREA / IFAE Barcelona (ES))   ()
12:00 The baryon asymmetry from a composite Higgs - Oleksii Matsedonskyi (INFN Padua/Padua University)   ()
09:00 --- Coffee Break ---
09:30
Free time (until 13:00) ()
09:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
10:00 Primordial Black Holes in the era of Planck and LIGO - Yacine Ali-Haimoud (New York Univ.)   ()
11:00 Primordial black holes from inflation - Jaume Garriga (Unknown)   ()
12:00 PBHs from inflation and their implications - Kyohei Mukaida Kyohei Mukaida (Kavli IPMU)   ()
09:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00
Overview Talks (until 13:00) ()
10:00 Super-cool dark matter - Thomas Hambye (Univ. L. Brussels)   ()
11:00 Flavoured Dark Sectors - Pedro Klaus Schwaller (Mainz University)   ()
12:00 21cm from Dark Photons - Joshua Thomas Ruderman (NYU)   ()
PM
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:00) ()
17:00 Ultra-light scalar dark matter: Motivation, dynamics and probes - Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN & EPFL & INR RAS)   ()
17:30 Higgs relaxation without inflation - Nayara Fonseca (DESY)   ()
19:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:00) ()
17:00 Supercooling in Extra-dimensional Models: a QCD-induced exit - Pietro Baratella (IFAE)   ()
17:30 Very light dilaton and naturally light Higgs - Deog Ki Hong (Pusan National University (KR))   ()
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Overview Talks (until 17:00) ()
15:00 Creation of Topological Defects and Magnetic Fields - Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State U. & Maryland U.)   ()
16:00 Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings - Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado (IKERBASQUE & UPV/EHU)   ()
17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
17:30
Overview Talks (until 18:30) ()
17:30 Decay rate of electroweak vacuum - Takeo Moroi (The University of Tokyo)   ()
18:30
Contributed Talks (until 19:30) ()
18:30 Phase transitions from Inflation (and production of gravitational waves) - Alessio Notari (University of Barcelona)   ()
19:00 Observable windows of the QCD axion through N_eff - Ricardo Ferreira Zambujal (University of Barcelona)   ()
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 16:30) ()
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Contributed Talks (until 18:30) ()
17:00 Primordial Black Holes from Axions? - Fabrizio Rompineve (IFAE)   ()
17:30 SIMP dark matter with dark resonances - Hyun Min Lee (CAU - Chung-Ang University (KR))   ()
18:00 Extended EFT of Inflation - Amjad Ashoorioon (INFN, Bologna)   ()
13:00
Lunch Break (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Informal Discussions (until 18:00) ()
18:00 --- Farewell Drink ---