5–9 Dec 2022
Australia/Sydney timezone

Quantum gravity, the strong CP problem and the companion axion solution

8 Dec 2022, 14:00
20m
229 (Old Main Building)

229

Old Main Building

Physics beyond the Standard Model BSM physics

Speaker

Archil Kobakhidze

Description

I argue that quantum gravity effects due to the coloured gravitational instantons compromise the standard axion solution to the strong CP problem. I propose a new solution within a theory that requires two axion fields and is dubbed the companion axion model. Some phenomenological and cosmological implications of this model are discussed.

Author

Archil Kobakhidze

Presentation materials