High Energy Phenomenology Seminar: Jim Cline (McGill) "A little theory of everything"
Speaker: |
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Jim Cline (McGill) |
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Date: | 9/17/2021 |
Time: | 12 p.m. |
Location: | Via ZOOM |
Event Contact: | Brandy Koebbe BKOEBBE@ILLINOIS.EDU |
Sponsor: | Department of Physics |
Event Type: | Seminar/Symposium |
I present a minimal model that attempts to address the main missing ingredients of the standard model: inflation, baryogenesis, dark matter, and the origin of neutrino masses. We introduce a complex inflaton that decays into three generations of GeV-scale heavy neutral leptons, creating a lepton asymmetry |