"The Quantum Critical Higgs"

Speaker: 
John Terning
Institution: 
UC Davis
Date: 
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Time: 
3:00 pm
Location: 
FRH 4135

 

ABSTRACT:

After a brief review of quantum phase transitions, I will discuss models where the electroweak phase transition is near a quantum critical point, with non-trivial critical exponents, and how the LHC experiments can discover this type of physics.


 

Host: 
Flip Tanedo