HEP@VUB meeting: 12:00 - 13:00

Europe/Brussels
Description

Invited Speaker: Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London & VUB)

The seminar will be done remotely through the platform ZOOM.

Topic: HEP@VUB meeting
Time: Jun 24, 2021 12:00 PM Brussels

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https://zoom.us/j/91792183415?pwd=MDBwNjdVYTZnaE9rcWU5Qk9jbE9Sdz09

Meeting ID: 917 9218 3415
Passcode: 0earxU

Registration
Participants
Participants
  • Alba Romero-Rodríguez
  • Alberto Mariotti
  • Alexander Sevrin
  • Andrew Miller
  • Archisman Ghosh
  • Chris Blair
  • Cristian Joana
  • Daniela Mockler
  • Federico De Lillo
  • Giacomo Bruno
  • Iason Baldes
  • Jorgen D'Hondt
  • Kevin Turbang
  • Laura Lopez Honorez
  • Matteo Lucca
  • Maxime Fays
  • Nick van Eijndhoven
  • Nick van Remortel
  • Nicolas Martin Gonzalez Pintos
  • Nicolas Stylianou
  • Pascal Vanlaer
  • Paul Coppin
  • Quentin Decant
  • Rose Stanley
  • Sam Junius
  • Sebastien Clesse
  • Sofia Zhidkova
  • Steven Lowette
    • 12:00 12:45
      Hunting for the stochastic gravitational-wave background: implications for astrophysics, high energy physics, and theories of gravity 45m

      I will first define the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) and highlight the method we are using to detect it in the presence of correlated magnetic noise. I will then discuss astrophysical (compact binary coalescences) and cosmological (cosmic strings, first-order phase transitions) sources and report on the current constraints imposed from a non-detection during the last observing run of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration. I will also address the question of a simultaneous estimation of astrophysical and cosmological SGWB. Then I will present a search for circularly polarised SGWB and its relation to early universe cosmology. Finally, I will discuss how the SGWB can provide tests for gravity theories, including quantum gravity proposals.