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

Thursday Apr 27, 2023, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Europe/Brussels

G/0-G.0.20 - Neutrino Room (Building G)

External Speaker: Oriol Pujolas (IFAE, Barcelona)

The seminar will be done in person and it will be accompanied by sandwiches provided by the VUB.

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Domain wall networks in the early universe

Domain wall (DW) networks are interesting probes of new physics. They arise from the spontaneous breaking of any discrete symmetry and they have a strong impact on cosmology. The details of the DW network evolution are crucial for their phenomenological impact, but they also represent a computational challenge. I will present a new analytic method that captures DW networks from formation to annihilation, in a certain regime. I will commemt on implications for gravitational wave and primordial black hole production.

Speaker: Oriol Pujolas (IFAE)