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GPPU Seminar

First order phase transitions in the early universe and cosmological consequences

Miguel Vanvlasselaer
(Brussels U., IIHE)


Date

10:00-12:00, September 22nd, 2023

Place

(hybrid) Room 743, Science Complex B (H-03), Zoom registration map

Abstract

We know very little about the first few seconds of the universe, beyond the very successful Big Bang nucleosynthesis. In those first instants, First Order phase transitions in the early plasma could have taken place and reshape the content of the plasma and spacetime. In this talk, we will explore the different consequences of such a strong first order phase transition. We will see that it can lead to particle production, possibly Dark Matter, to baryogenesis and, perhaps more importantly, to the generation of observable stochastic background of gravitational waves.

Point

GSP 1

Contact: Yusuke Tanimura (tanimura [at] nucl.phys.tohoku.ac.jp)