Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

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Cosmological probes of BSM - from the Big Bang to the LHC

2018, May 06 -- May 12

Organizers:
K. Blum (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot & CERN, Geneva)
C. Grojean (DESY, Hamburg & Humboldt University, Berlin)
A. Juste (ICREA/IFAE, Barcelona), O. Pujolās (IFAE, Barcelona)

Monday, May 07
  • 09:00 :09:30h
  • Registration
     
  • 10:00 :10:15h
  • Welcome and Introduction
     Aurelio Juste Rozas et al.
  • 10:15 :10:45h
  • R^2 dark energy in the laboratory
     Philippe Brax
  • 11:15 :11:45h
  • Femtolensing revisited
     Andrey Katz
  • 12:15h
  • Nucleophobic Axions
     Robert Andreas Ziegler
  • 15:00 :16:30h
  • Informal Discussions
     
  • 17:00 :17:15h
  • Ultra-light scalar dark matter: Motivation, dynamics and probes
     Sergey Sibiryakov
  • 17:30 :17:45h
  • Higgs relaxation without inflation
     Nayara Fonseca

    Tuesday, May 08
    • 10:00 :13:00h
    • Overview Talks: Inflation, Phase transitions
       
    • 15:00 :16:30h
    • Informal Discussions
       
    • 17:00 :18:00h
    • Contributed Talks
       

      Wednesday, May 09
      • 09:30 :13:00h
      • Contributed Talks
         
      • 15:00 :15:30h
      • Creation of Topological Defects and Magnetic Fields
         Tanmay Vachaspati
      • 16:00 :16:30h
      • Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings
         Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado
      • 17:30 :18:00h
      • Decay rate of electroweak vacuum
         Takeo Moroi
      • 18:30 :18:45h
      • Phase transitions from Inflation (and production of gravitational waves)
         Alessio Notari
      • 19:00 :19:15h
      • Observable windows of the QCD axion through N_eff
         Ricardo Ferreira Zambujal

        Thursday, May 10
        • 10:00 :13:00h
        • Overview Talks: Primordial Black Holes
           
        • 15:00 :16:30h
        • Informal Discussions
           
        • 17:00 :18:30h
        • Contributed Talks
           

          Friday, May 11
          • 10:00 :10:30h
          • Super-cool dark matter
             Thomas Hambye
          • 11:00 :11:30h
          • Flavoured Dark Sectors
             Pedro Klaus Schwaller
          • 12:00 :12:30h
          • 21cm from Dark Photons
             Joshua Thomas Ruderman
          • 15:00 :18:00h
          • Informal Discussions
             

            This session has received financial support from the following institutions:

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            • Gobierno de Aragón
            • Ministerio de educación y ciencia
            • DPH
            • Universidad de Zaragoza
            • Ayuntamiento de Benasque

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