HEP@VUB meetings

Europe/Brussels
Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003) (Universe)

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003)

Universe

Description
Speaker: Kevin Nguyen
Registration
Participants
Participants
  • Alberto Mariotti
  • Ali Seraj
  • Andrey Popov
  • Ankit Aggarwal
  • Aqeel Ahmed
  • Ben Craps
  • Charles Rabideau
  • Emil Bols
  • Krijn de Vries
  • Kévin Nguyen
  • Marine De Clerck
  • Mostafa Mahdavikhorrami
  • Pascal Vanlaer
  • Paul Coppin
  • Saereh Najjari
  • Sam Junius
  • Simon De Kockere
  • Steven Lowette
  • Turmoli Neogi
  • Vincent Luyten
  • Wout Merbis
    • 12:00 13:00
      A Graceful Exit for the Cosmological Constant Damping Scenario 1h

      I will present a simple and generic class of scalar-tensor theories that successfully realize dynamical damping of the effective cosmological constant, therefore providing a possible viable dynamical mechanism for solving the fine-tuning cosmological constant problem. In this approach, the original fine-tuning issue is traded for a hierarchy of couplings, and I will further discuss naturalness of this pattern of couplings in the context of fermion condensation and softly broken field shift symmetry.

      Speaker: Kevin Nguyen