An Early Period of QCD Confinement for Fun and Profit

by Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

Wednesday 6 May 2020, 14:00 → 16:00 America/New_York

Zoom

I’ll discuss the possibility that QCD, the SU(3) encapsulating the strong nuclear force in the Standard Model, undergoes a period in the early history of the Universe in which it confines with a much larger confinement scale than is observed today. I’ll talk about the mechanics of how one can realize such a phenomenon, what the Universe would look like during this period and phenomenological implications, and potential applications to realize the observed baryon asymmetry or a modified picture for dark matter freeze out.

050620_Tait_PANDEMIC.mp4

Tait-PANDEMIC.pdf