Relaxions

by Lorenzo Ubaldi (SISSA)

Monday 5 Nov 2018, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room 2 (building 2A)

The relaxion has been proposed three years ago as a dynamical solution to the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. I will briefly review the original construction, discuss the possibility that the relaxion is also the inflaton, and comment on a more recently proposed mechanism in which particle production is responsible for relaxing the electroweak scale.