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High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Tevong You (CERN) "Self-Organised Localisation"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Physics
Virtual
Virtual event
Date
Nov 12, 2021   10:00 am  
Speaker
Tevong You (CERN)
Contact
Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail
BKOEBBE@ILLINOIS.EDU
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Originating Calendar
Physics - High Energy Physics Seminar

We describe a new phenomenon in quantum cosmology: self-organised localisation. When the fundamental parameters of a theory are functions of a scalar field subject to large fluctuations during inflation, quantum phase transitions can act as dynamical attractors. As a result, the theory parameters are probabilistically localised around the critical value and the Universe finds itself at the edge of a phase transition. We illustrate how self-organised localisation could account for the observed near-criticality of the Higgs self-coupling, the naturalness of the Higgs mass, or the smallness of the cosmological constant.

 
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