Particle Physics Day 2019

Session

Second afternoon session

7 Nov 2019, 15:30

Hotel Arthur (Vuorikatu 19, Helsinki)

Conveners

Second afternoon session: Cosmology and dark matter

• Venus Keus (University of Helsinki)

21. Higgs inflation: connecting the electroweak scale to inflation (invited)

Syksy Räsänen (University of Helsinki)

07/11/2019, 15:30

The only scalar field in the Standard Model -the Higgs- can drive cosmological inflation. Despite being its simple and conservative construction, Higgs inflation opens up involved questions about loop corrections and renormalisation. It also offers the possibility to distinguish between different gravitational degrees of freedom using measurements of the CMB.

22. Dark matter searches outside the LHC, overview (invited)

Matti Heikinheimo (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

07/11/2019, 16:00

25. Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early universe

Chloe Gowling (University of Sussex)

07/11/2019, 16:30

26. Life after LAGUNA – the status of Pyhäsalmi Mine

jari joutsenvaara (University of Oulu)

07/11/2019, 16:40

The decision of the LAGUNA consortium to jump onboard of non-European projects (namely DUNE and JUNO) could have been the final blow to the underground physics, and the whole re-use of the Pyhäsalmi mine. However, instead, it was the beginning of something new.

Before the activities in Pyhäsalmi Mine had concentrated in underground physics, but now as the main aim fade away, it gave room...