Conveners
Early Universe
- Seyda Ipek
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Prof. Alan Stanley Cornell (University of Johannesburg (ZA))10/12/2024, 14:00Contributed Talk
Mounting evidence suggests that planned and present gravitational-wave detectors may be sensitive to signatures from first-order phase transitions in the early universe. Here, we investigate the influence of heavy vector-like fermions on the phase transition. Specifically, we consider the recently-proposed "flavour transfer" model, where the SM flavour structure is augmented by a new...
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Tomasz Dutka (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)10/12/2024, 14:30Contributed Talk
Recently, there has been a lot of attention given to cosmological first-order phase transitions in various contexts. To achieve a strong first-order phase transition a flat symmetry-breaking potential is commonly required. For instance, a classically scale invariant potential can provide such a flat potential, $V \sim \phi^4 \log \phi$, albeit with a large dilution factor and run-away bubbles....
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Joshua Cesca10/12/2024, 14:50Contributed Talk
The mass hierarchy problem is concerned with the large differences in scale present in our universe, namely between the Higgs mass ($125$ GeV) and the Planck mass ($10^{19}$ GeV). The Standard Model currently offers no explanation for this difference which prompts the investigation of other fundamental theories. It has been argued that scale invariance of physical laws may be a solution to...
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Neil Barrie10/12/2024, 15:10Contributed Talk
We present a minimal framework that realises successful Dirac Leptogenesis through the Affleck-Dine mechanism. A single right-handed neutrino and a neutrinophillic Higgs doublet are introduced to the Standard Model, which couple via a Yukawa interaction. The inflationary setting is induced by a combination of the two Higgs doublets, with their global symmetry violating interactions leading to...
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Adam Lackner10/12/2024, 15:30Contributed Talk
Is it possible to get leptogenesis to work in the Zee Model? Come to this talk and find out!
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