Publications related to Inflation, LHC and the Higgs boson

Chiral Anomaly and Dynamos from Inhomogeneous Chemical Potential Fluctuations

In the standard model of particle physics, the chiral anomaly can occur in relativistic plasmas and plays a role in the early Universe, protoneutron stars, heavy-ion collisions, and quantum materials. It gives rise to a magnetic instability if the number d ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part II-Analysis Based on Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

Marcos Rubinstein

In Part I of this paper, an inequality satisfied by the vacuum energy density of the universe was derived using an indirect and heuristic procedure. The derivation is based on a proposed thought experiment, according to which an electron is accelerated to ...

2024

CosmoLattice: A modern code for lattice simulations of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe

Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Adrien Florio, Wessel Valkenburg, Francisco Torrenti

This paper describes CosmoGattice, a modern package for lattice simulations of the dynamics of interacting scalar and gauge fields in an expanding universe. CosmoGattice incorporates a series of features that makes it very versatile and powerful: i) it is ...

ELSEVIER2023

Scale invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity and flat space conformal symmetry

Georgios Karananas, Sebastian Zell

We find the conditions under which scale-invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity with scalar matter fields leads to an approximate conformal invariance of the flat space particle theory up to energies of the order of the Planck mass. In the minimal setup, these ...

New York2023

Preheating in Palatini Higgs inflation on the lattice

Andrey Shkerin, Inar Timiryasov, Juraj Klaric, Adrien Florio

We study preheating following Higgs inflation in the Palatini formulation of gravity. We numerically evolve perturbations of the radial mode of the Higgs field and that of three scalars modeling the gauge bosons. We compare the two non-perturbative mechani ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field

Sebastian Zell

General relativity (GR) exists in different formulations. They are equivalent in pure gravity but generically lead to distinct predictions once matter is included. After a brief overview of various versions of GR, we focus on metric-affine gravity, which a ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Standard model meets gravity: Electroweak symmetry breaking and inflation

Andrey Shkerin, Sebastian Zell

We propose a model for combining the Standard Model (SM) with gravity. It relies on a nonminimal coupling of the Higgs field to the Ricci scalar and on the Palatini formulation of gravity. Without introducing any new degrees of freedom in addition to those ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Higgs inflation in Einstein-Cartan gravity

Andrey Shkerin, Inar Timiryasov, Sebastian Zell

We study inflation driven by the Higgs field in the Einstein-Cartan formulation of gravity. In this theory, the presence of the Holst and Nieh-Yan terms with the Higgs field non-minimally coupled to them leads to three additional coupling constants. For a ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Extended Scalar Sectors

Jan Steggemann

Extended scalar sectors appear in various extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, such as supersymmetric models. They are also generic extensions of the Standard Model and can address a number of its shortcomings. Direct searches for addition ...

ANNUAL REVIEWS2020

Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector

Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli

New massive long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted by multiple beyond the Standard Model theories. This thesis presents the search of such long-lived particles decaying leptonically in the

e \mu \nu

final state. The search is performed using 2.31 fb$^{ ...

EPFL2020

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Chiral Anomaly and Dynamos from Inhomogeneous Chemical Potential Fluctuations

Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part II-Analysis Based on Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

CosmoLattice: A modern code for lattice simulations of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe

Scale invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity and flat space conformal symmetry

Preheating in Palatini Higgs inflation on the lattice

Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field

Standard model meets gravity: Electroweak symmetry breaking and inflation

Higgs inflation in Einstein-Cartan gravity

Extended Scalar Sectors

Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector

Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part II-Analysis Based on Frequency Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

CosmoLattice: A modern code for lattice simulations of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe

Chiral Anomaly and Dynamos from Inhomogeneous Chemical Potential Fluctuations

Extended Scalar Sectors

Scale invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity and flat space conformal symmetry

Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field

Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector

Preheating in Palatini Higgs inflation on the lattice

Standard model meets gravity: Electroweak symmetry breaking and inflation

Higgs inflation in Einstein-Cartan gravity