Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

From the eV to the Planck scale: living on the edge of a precipice

Date: 
29. January 2016 - 11:30
Speaker: 
Alfredo Urbano (CERN)
In this talk I will discuss the stability of the electroweak vacuum in the Standard Model. After a brief review, I will discuss 
in detail (i) the impact of non-zero neutrino masses and (ii) the importance of thermal corrections in the early Universe,
with a special emphasis on their cosmological role. If time permits, I will comment on the importance of vacuum stability
in the presence of a new scalar resonance at 750 GeV.

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