Gr@v third year student Ana Carvalho has been granted a place in the prestigious GraSPA international summer school 2016 edition in Annecy-le-Vieux, France. Ana will be learning more on Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics while touching on the latest results and challenges in these fields in a research atmosphere. Well done Ana!
Abstract: In this talk I will present our recent work on a non-supersymmetric trinification GUTwith a global SU(3) flavour symmetry. The SU(3) flavour symmetry solves many of thepersistent issues of traditional trinification model building, where models typically contain anuncomfortably large number of free parameters and naturally prefers GUT scale masses forthe Standard Model (SM) fermions. In our model, the trinification symmetry group (gaugeand global) is spontaneously broken down to the standard Left-Right symmetric gauge group,together with an extra SU(2)×U(1) global symmetry. Upon integrating out the heavy statesat this scale, we obtain an effective Left-Right symmetric model which spontaneously breaksto the SM gauge group at a lower scale by means of RG running.
The kick off meeting of the RISE network StronGrHEP, took place on May 12th-13th 2016, in the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. Photo: the coordinates of the five European nodes, C. Herdeiro, E. Barausse, U. Sperhake, V. Cardoso and L. Gualtieri by the statue of the great Urbain Le Verrier.
Abstract: We consider models with an extended Higgs sector and look for signals at the LHC. By looking at a combination of three decays, involving the 125 GeV Higgs boson, the Z boson and at least one more scalar, an indisputable signal of CP-violation arises. We use a complex two-Higgs doublet model as a reference model and present some benchmark points that have passed all current experimental and theoretical constraints, and that have cross sections large enough to be probed at LHC during run 2
Gr@v's Ph.D. student Mengjie Wang successfully defended his doctoral thesis with title "Quantum and classical aspects of scalar and vector fields around black holes", on February 29th 2016. Mengjie integrated the MAP-Fis Ph.D. programme and was supported by a grant from the IDPASC doctoral programme. Congratulations Mengjie!
Abstract: The DGLAP evolution scheme offers a description of the reality which might be inaccurate at very small-x. One way to look for alternative evolution schemes, which might be able to describe that region, is looking simultaneously in the forward and central activity in the detector.
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:
