Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of November 11th through November 17th, 2018
Monday, November 12th, 2018
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
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Thursday, November 15th, 2018
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Friday, November 16th, 2018
- Dynamical field range and mass hierarchies
- Time: 2:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Aitor Landete, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Abstract: Several swampland conjectures suggest that there is a critical field range beyond which the effective field theory description breaks down in quantum gravity. In this talk we will review applications of these conjectures to axion monodromy models. We argue that the field range of interest is the field space distance traced by the physical trajectory that solves the equations of motion. A sufficiently large mass hierarchy can delay the breakdown of the effective field theory and allow simple techniques of moduli stabilization. In absence of such hierarchy multi-field techniques should be used. We illustrate these subtleties in Type II string compactifications.