Research:

My research interests lie in applications of field theory and particle physics to cosmology. Currently I am studying effective potentials and a scalar singlet extension of the standard model which has implications for dark matter and the electroweak phase transition. In this model, as in the standard model, the vacuum stability requirement on the effective potential gives rise to bounds on the Higgs mass. The bounds from the scalar singlet model will depend on whether or not the singlet has a vev and on the additional parameters in the singlet potential. With the Higgs on the verge of discovery at the LHC, its mass may tell us something about physics beyond the standard model.

Recent Papers:

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Link to personal page: 
http://www.physics.wisc.edu/people/students/mgonderinger/