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NPAC (Nuclear/Particle/Astro/Cosmo) Forum
Echoes of Supersymmetry: Baryon Asymmetry, Relic Q-balls, and Gravity Waves
Date: Thursday, April 2nd
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: 4274 Chamberlin
Speaker: Alex Kusenko, UCLA
Abstract: If supersymmetry is realized in nature, even at some very high energy scales, it has important cosmological consequences. A generic prediction of supersymmetry is the flat directions in the potential, along which a scalar condensate can form at the end of inflation. This condensate is generically unstable; its evolution and its fragmentation into Q-balls can generate the baryon asymmetry, dark matter, and the gravity waves that can be observed by upcoming detectors.
Host: M J Ramsey-Musolf
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