Fundamental physics in the cosmos: The early, the large and the dark Universe

Realizing the relaxion mechanism with particle production

28 Sept 2017, 16:56

17m

Seminar room 2 (DESY Hamburg)

Particle Phenomenology Parallel Session: Particle Phenomenology 1b

Speaker

Enrico Morgante (DESY)

Description

In this talk I will analyze realizations of the relaxion mechanism in which quantum excitations of an auxiliary field slow down the relaxion and fix the Higgs vev at the electro-weak scale.