Speaker:
Matt Reece
Institution:
Harvard University
Date:
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Time:
11:00 am
Location:
NS2 1201
*Please note the new time and location for the Spring 2018 Quarter.
Abstract:
I will explore whether a mildly fine-tuned Higgs boson, as in (mini-)split supersymmetry, can have interesting or observable cosmological consequences. As moduli fields oscillate, the Higgs can respond and perhaps acquire very large values along a D-flat direction. Possible consequences involve a burst of gravitational wave production and an altered estimate of the number of e-folds of inflation.
Host:
Felix Kling