HEP@VUB meetings

Thursday 19 May 2016, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Brussels

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003) (Universe)

Jean Sacton seminar room (1G003)

Universe

Description

External speaker: Germano Nardini (Bern University)

Participants

Alberto Mariotti
Camilo Alfredo Garcia Cely
Daniele Teresi
Dries Coone
Gwen
Isabelle De Bruyn
Isis Van Parijs
Jorgen D'Hondt
Kevin Deroover
Kevin Deroover
Krijn de Vries
Laura
Lieselotte Moreels
Lucien Heurtier
Matthias Vereecken
Quentin Python
Seth Moortgat
Shimaa Abu Zeid
Steven Lowette
Thomas Hambye
Yongchao Zhang

- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Probing BSM physics at eLISA 1h
  
  A first-order phase transition produces gravitational waves and such a transition only occurs if there is physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this sense gravitational wave experiments can be considered as detectors of new physics. In this talk we review the status of the eLISA experiment and we analyse its capabilities for probing first-order phase transitions. We demonstrate that in some cases eLISA is able to discover new physics arising at the electroweak scale or even much above. In particular, by considering an illustrative supersymmetric model with a first-order electroweak phase transition, we determine the detection potential of eLISA in parameter regions that are hard to probe at the LHC.
  
  Speaker: Germano Nardini