High Energy / Nuclear Theory / RIKEN Seminars

[HET Seminar] Phase transitions in the early Universe

Name: [HET Seminar] Phase transitions in the early Universe
Start: 2020-01-30T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2020-01-30T15:20:00-05:00
Location: No location set

by Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)

Thursday 30 Jan 2020, 14:30 → 15:20 US/Eastern

Description

In anticipation of the next generation of gravitational wave experiments, I will discuss the opportunities for phenomenological studies of particle physics in the Early Universe. The focus of the talk will be on first order phase transitions in confining gauge theories. Such phase transitions may play an important role in explanations of the strong CP-problem, as well as in models of baryogenesis. I will discuss several such examples and their phenomenology.