Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of February 5th through February 12th, 2023
Monday, February 6th, 2023
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
- New Physics with Gravitational Waves
- Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Jan Schuette-Engel, University of Illinois
- Abstract: The thermal plasma in the early universe produced a guaranteed stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background, which peaks today in the microwave regime and was dubbed the cosmic gravitational microwave background (CGMB). I show that the CGMB spectrum encodes fundamental information about particle physics and gravity at ultra high energies. In particular, one can determine from the CGMB spectrum the maximum temperature of the universe and the effective degrees of freedom at the maximum temperature. I point out that quantum gravity effects arise in the CGMB spectrum as corrections to the leading order result. At the end of the talk I discuss detection prospects of the CGMB.
- Host: George Wojcik
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
- No events scheduled
Friday, February 10th, 2023
- No events scheduled