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Vuk Mandic (Minnesota U.)02/08/2022, 09:30
The upcoming space-borne gravitational wave detector Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a window into the milliHertz band of the gravitational wave spectrum. Among the many sources in this band is the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), arising as an incoherent superposition of many uncorrelated gravitational wave sources. The SGWB could be of cosmological origin,...
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Nancy Agarwal (Northwestern U.)02/08/2022, 10:00
Gravitational waves (GWs) at frequencies higher than the LIGO band can bring us completely new information about the universe. Besides being the most-interesting frequency region for looking at cosmological phenomena, they can also convey signatures of ultralight bosons through blackhole superradiance and light primordial blackholes (PBHs). I will introduce a new global initiative to study GW...
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Yuto Minami (Osaka U.)02/08/2022, 10:30
Polarised light of the cosmic microwave background, the remnant light of the Big Bang, is sensitive to parity-violating physics, cosmic birefringence. In this presentation I report on a new measurement of cosmic birefringence from polarisation data of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Planck satellite released in 2018. The statistical significance of the measured signal is 2.4 sigma. Recently,...
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Jae Hyeok Chang (Maryland U.)02/08/2022, 15:00
Asteroid-mass primordial black holes (PBHs) can explain the observed dark matter abundance while being consistent with the current indirect detection constraints. These PBHs can produce gamma-ray signals from Hawking radiation that are within the sensitivity of future measurements by the AMEGO and e-ASTROGAM experiments. PBHs which give rise to such observable gamma-ray signals have a cosmic...
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Anson Hook (Maryland U.)02/08/2022, 15:30
The causal tail of stochastic gravitational waves can be used to probe the energy density in free streaming relativistic species as well as measure gstar and beta functions as a function of temperature. In the event of the discovery of loud stochastic gravitational waves, we demonstrate that LISA can measure the free streaming fraction of the universe down to the 10^-3 level, 100 times more...
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Kai Schmitz (CERN)03/08/2022, 09:30
Cosmic strings are predicted by many Standard Model extensions involving the cosmological breaking of an Abelian symmetry and represent a potential source of primordial gravitational waves (GWs). In many Grand Unified Theories (GUTs), cosmic strings especially turn out to be metastable, as the nucleation of GUT monopoles along strings after a finite lifetime eventually leads to the collapse of...
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Oliver Gould (Nottingham U.)03/08/2022, 10:00
Phase transitions are driven by thermal loop fluctuations, which modify background fields at leading order. This breaks the loop expansion and leads to large theoretical uncertainties in typical calculations, especially for gravitational wave predictions. I will give an overview of our present understanding of these uncertainties, and of the tools that have been developed to overcome them....
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Isabel Garcia Garcia (KITP)03/08/2022, 10:30
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David Dunsky (Berkeley U.)03/08/2022, 15:00
The symmetry breaking of grand unified gauge groups in the early universe often leaves behind relic topological defects such as cosmic strings, domain walls, or monopoles. For some symmetry breaking chains, hybrid defects can form where cosmic strings attach to domain walls or monopoles attach to strings. In general, such hybrid defects are unstable and can leave behind unique gravitational...
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Yanou Cui (UC Riverside)03/08/2022, 15:30
In this talk I will discuss important aspects of cosmology and particle physics that can be probed with GW signals from cosmic strings: probing the pre-BBN primordial dark age and axion physics. Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from the dynamics of a cosmic string network have the ability to probe many otherwise inaccessible properties of the early universe. In particular, I will discuss...
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Michael Nee (Oxford U.)03/08/2022, 16:00
First order phase transitions play an important role in the cosmology of many theories of BSM physics. In this talk I will discuss how a population of magnetic monopoles present in the early universe can seed first order phase transitions, causing them to proceed much more rapidly than in the usual case. The field profiles describing the decay do not have the typically assumed O(3)/O(4)...
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Yikun Wang (Caltech)04/08/2022, 09:30
Electroweak symmetry non-restoration up to high temperatures well above the electroweak scale has intriguing implications for (electroweak) baryogenesis and early universe thermal histories. In this talk, I will discuss such a possible fate of the electroweak symmetry in the early universe and a new approach to realize it, via an inert Higgs sector that couples to the Standard Model Higgs as...
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Soubhik Kumar (Berkeley U.)04/08/2022, 10:00
Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds are expected to be anisotropic. While such anisotropies can be of astrophysical origin, a cosmological component of such anisotropies can carry rich information about primordial perturbations. Focusing on the case of a cosmological phase transition, I will talk about how such anisotropies can give us a powerful probe of primordial non-Gaussianities,...
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Jessica Howard (UC Irvine)04/08/2022, 10:30
We explore the possibility that dark matter is a pair of SU(2)_L doublets and propose a novel mechanism of dark matter production that proceeds through the confinement of the weak sector of the Standard Model. This phase of confinement causes the Standard Model doublets and dark matter to confine into pion-like objects. Before the weak sector deconfines, the dark pions freezeout and generate a...
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Juven Wang (Harvard U.)04/08/2022, 11:00
Ideas developed from the quantum matter and quantum field theory frontier may guide us to explore new physics beyond the 4d Standard Model. I propose a few such ideas. First, new physics for neutrinos: right-handed neutrinos carry a Z_{16} class mixed gauge-gravitational global anomaly index, which could be replaced by 4d or 5d topological quantum field theory, or 4d interacting conformal...
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Stephen R. Taylor (Vanderbilt U.)04/08/2022, 13:30
The nanohertz-frequency band of gravitational waves should be awash with signals from supermassive black-hole binaries, as well as cosmological signatures of phase transitions, cosmic strings, and other relics of the early Universe. Pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs) like the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) and the International Pulsar Timing Array are poised...
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Ofri Telem (Cornell U.)05/08/2022, 09:30
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Sungwoo Hong (Chicago U.)05/08/2022, 10:00
In the last few years, the notion of symmetry has been enlarged to “generalized symmetry” or “higher-form symmetry” and these more generalized symmetries have played a critical role in deepening our understanding of QFT, notably IR phases of QFT. In this talk, I will discuss a various ways of coupling the axion-Maxwell theory to a topological field theory (TQFT). Contrary to a common wisdom, I...
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Eleanor Hall (Berkeley U.)05/08/2022, 10:30
Gravitational waves from phase transitions in the early universe are one of our most promising signal channels of BSM physics; however, existing methods for predicting these signals are limited to weakly-coupled theories. In this talk, I present the quasi-stationary effective action, a new non-perturbative formalism for false vacuum decay that integrates over local fluctuations in field space...
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Mrunal Korwar (Wisconsin U., Madison)05/08/2022, 13:30
Electroweak symmetric balls are macroscopic objects with electroweak symmetry restored inside. Such an object can arise in models where dark sectors contain monopole or non-topological soliton with a Higgs portal interaction to the Standard Model. It could be produced in the early universe via phase transition or parametric resonance, accounting for all dark matter. In a scenario where the...
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Seth Koren (Chicago U.)05/08/2022, 14:00
We study the baryon minus lepton number gauge theory broken by a scalar with charge six. The infrared discrete vestige of the gauge symmetry demands the existence of cosmic string solutions, and their production as dynamical objects in the early universe is guaranteed by causality. These topological defects can support interactions which convert three protons into three positrons, and we argue...
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Yann Gouttenoire (Chicago U.)05/08/2022, 14:30
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Seth Koren (EFI, UChicago)
We propose the infrared gauge symmetry of our sector includes an unbroken discrete gauged subgroup of baryon minus lepton number of order $2 \times 3 \text{ colors} \times 3 \text{ generations}$. We UV complete this at a scale $\Lambda$ as the familiar $U(1)_{B-N_cL}$ Abelian Higgs theory, and the early universe phase transition forms cosmic strings which are charged under an emergent...
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Yikun Wang (California Institute of Technology)
Electroweak symmetry non-restoration up to high temperatures well above the electroweak scale has intriguing implications for (electroweak) baryogenesis and early universe thermal histories. In this talk, I will discuss such a possible fate of the electroweak symmetry in the early universe and a new approach to realize it, via an inert Higgs sector that couples to the Standard Model Higgs as...
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Adam Moss (Nottingham U.)
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Sungwoo Hong (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)
In the last few years, the notion of symmetry has been enlarged to "generalized symmetry" or "higher-form symmetry" and these more generalized symmetries have played a critical role in deepening our understanding of QFT, notably IR phases of QFT. In this talk, I will discuss a various ways of coupling the axion-Maxwell theory to a topological field theory (TQFT). Contrary to a common wisdom, I...
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Yuto Minami (Osaka U.)
Polarised light of the cosmic microwave background, the remnant light of the Big Bang, is sensitive to parity-violating physics, cosmic birefringence. In this presentation I report on a new measurement of cosmic birefringence from polarisation data of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Planck satellite released in 2018. The statistical significance of the measured signal is 2.4 sigma. Recently,...
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Yuto Minami (Osaka U.)
Polarised light of the cosmic microwave background, the remnant light of the Big Bang, is sensitive to parity-violating physics, cosmic birefringence. In this presentation I report on a new measurement of cosmic birefringence from polarisation data of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Planck satellite released in 2018. The statistical significance of the measured signal is 2.4 sigma. Recently,...
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Michael Nee (Oxford University)
First order phase transitions play an important role in the cosmology of many theories of BSM physics. In this talk I will discuss how a population of magnetic monopoles present in the early universe can seed first order phase transitions, causing them to proceed much more rapidly than in the usual case. The field profiles describing the decay do not have the typically assumed O(3)/O(4)...
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