Conveners
Beyond III
- Zygmunt Lalak
Weyl conformal geometry may play a role in early cosmology where effective theory at short distances becomes conformal. We consider the original Weyl gravity action, quadratic in the scalar curvature and in the Weyl tensor of Weyl conformal geometry; this action is invariant under Weyl scaling gauge transformations. In the absence of matter fields, we show that Weyl action has...
Global and local Weyl invariant theories can solve the hierarchy problem and generate all mass scales spontaneously, initiated by a dynamical process of “inertial spontaneous symmetry breaking” that does not involve a potential. I will discuss how inflation readily occurs in a scale invariant version of Starobinsky (R2) inflation and how an hierarchy of mass scales may be generated, stable...
Einstein gravity cannot be quantised using standard Quantum Field Theory techniques. Hence to describe gravity on quantum level then either a new, special quantisation prescription should be proposed or General Relativity should be replaced by another theory which can be properly quantised. If the first option is true, then General Relativity should possess an interacting UV fixed point (as an...
I will review flavor models based on non-Abelian discrete symmetries, motivated by neutrino oscillation data. I will discuss how CP violation, a necessary condition for baryogenesis, can be entirely group theoretical in origin in certain class of the non-Abelian discrete groups. I will then describe a proposal where successful baryogenesis can be achieved through flavon decays.
I will review the mechanism of cosmological relaxation of the electroweak scale and will discuss relaxion particle production during the evolution of the relaxion field, an effect which had been so far ignored in the relaxion literature. I will present its implications on the relaxion mechanism in general.
Over the past decades, the high-precision cosmological data have significantly improved our understanding of the Universe, contributing greatly to the establishment of the standard model of cosmology. However these results have also opened new questions in both fundamental physics and astrophysics. One of the great mystery of the universe is that more than 80% of the matter in our Universe is...
