27–29 May 2019
Physicum
Europe/Helsinki timezone

Probing conformal symmetry through gravitational waves

27 May 2019, 12:15
20m
Auditorium E204 (Physicum)

Auditorium E204

Physicum

Physicum, Kumpula campus Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2a, Helsinki.

Speaker

Bogumila Swiezewska (Utrecht University)

Description

In this talk the electroweak and conformal symmetry-breaking phase transition is analysed within the SU(2)cSM model. It consists of the conformal standard model extended by a new gauge SU(2) group and a scalar field that is a doublet under this new symmetry. The two sectors communicate through a Higgs portal coupling. The phase transition proceeds after a large super-cooling and is thus very strong. I will present estimates of the gravitational-wave signal and show that it generically falls into the LISA sensitivity region.

Primary author

Bogumila Swiezewska (Utrecht University)

Co-authors

Tomislav Prokopec (Utrecht University) Jonas Rezacek (MPIK Heidelberg) Michael G Schmidt

Presentation materials