Cambridge School on Gravitational Waves
The Kavli-RISE Summer School on Gravitational Waves took place at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, University of Cambridge, on September 23-27, 2019. C. Herdeiro was one of the invited Lecturers.
Cosmology News & Events
UV completions of effective models explaining B-physics anomalies
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Werner Porod (Wurzburg U., Germany)
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Room Sousa Pinto (DM)
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In recent years several anomalies have been observed in decays of B-mesons. We give first a brief overview on the experimental situation. It is well know that these anomalies can be explained by adding leptoquarks or extra vector-bosons to the SM particle content.
Gr@v students visit Brazil
Gr@v Ph.D. students Alexandre Pombo, João Oliveira and Jorge Delgado visited Belém, Brazil as members of the FunFiCO Marie Curie RISE project. Their visit coincided with the VII Amazonian Workshop on Gravity and analogue models, where they presented their work, and the Amazonian High Studies School in Theoretical Physics where they attended courses on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Lensing.
At GR22
Current and former Gr@v members met at the 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR22) in Valencia, Spain. Great talks and great discussions!
Complementarity between gravitational waves and collider probes in extended Higgs sectors
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Maria Ramos (LIP - U. Minho)
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GAP room
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An extended scalar sector often emerges in models motivated by the electroweak hierarchy problem. In particular, a SM triplet is interesting because its decay is very constrained at the renormalizable level. Therefore, effective operators with a low cutoff make the triplet components decay promptly.
Warm Little Inflaton becomes Cold Dark Matter in Physical Review Letters
The article Warm Little Inflaton becomes Cold Dark Matter, by Gr@v members João G. Rosa and Luís B. Ventura has been published in Physical Review Letters.
The Higgs and cosmology
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Oleg Lebedev (Helsinki U.)
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I'll discuss the role of the Higgs boson as a probe of the hidden sector. The latter is of particular importance in cosmology as it may host dark matter and the inflaton. Due to its scalar nature, the Higgs boson provides a unique handle on properties of such Standard Model--singlet states.
Probing axions through the effective number of degrees of freedom
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Ricardo Zambujal Ferreira (NORDITA)
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Axions can play very important roles in cosmology. They are interesting candidates for dark matter, dark energy, inflation but also, in the case of the QCD axion, a natural solution to the strong CP problem.
A super-nova remnant in Andromeda galaxy
Gr@v member Valério Ribeiro was part of an international team of researchers studying thermonuclear eruptions in the Andromeda galaxy. The team published, in Nature magazine, the discovery of a super-nova remnant which is bigger than most supernova remnants. They found that the super-nova remnant was the consequence of yearly repeated eruptions over millions of years. Few of these systems are known in the galaxy due to the fact that we suffer from dust obscuration.
Upon a vintage conjecture
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Paulo Moniz (U. Beira Interior)
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The reduced phase space quantization of a closed Friedmann Universe is described. Its matter content is constituted by a specific perfect fluid. It is shown that, for this particular model, specific boundary conditions can be related to the algebra of Dirac observables.