BNL Physics Colloquia

Leona Woods Colloquium: How gravity can shape the low-energy frontier of particle physics. By Lena Funke (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Canada)

Name: Leona Woods Colloquium: How gravity can shape the low-energy frontier of particle physics. By Lena Funke (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Canada)
Start: 2021-03-25T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-03-25T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Zoom meeting

Thursday 25 Mar 2021, 11:00 → 12:00 US/Eastern

Zoom meeting

Description

Leona Woods Lecture. (Will be held remotely.)

Abstract:

The most popular directions of model building beyond the Standard Model focus on new phenomena at the high-energy scales of the early Universe. As an alternative direction, we have developed late-Universe solutions to the neutrino mass and strong CP problems at a new low-energy gravitational scale, which is numerically coincident with the scale of dark energy. In my talk, I will focus on the neutrino mass model and discuss some of its phenomenological implications, in particular the weakening of the cosmological neutrino mass bounds and the distinction between Majorana and Dirac neutrinos through astrophysical neutrino decays. This talk is based on 1602.03191, 1608.08969, 1811.01991, 1905.01264, and 2102.13618.

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Leona Woods Committee

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Leona Woods Colloquium: How gravity can shape the low-energy frontier of particle physics. By Lena Funke (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Canada)

Zoom meeting