Speaker: |
Rupert Coy (U. Montpellier) |
Title: |
Dynamical Clockwork axions |
Date (JST): |
Fri, Apr 21, 2017, 13:30 - 14:30 |
Place: |
Seminar Room A |
Abstract: |
The clockwork mechanism is a novel method for generating a large separation of scales naturally through a pattern of symmetry breaking. I shall outline how the mechanism can arise from strongly-coupled theories at the TeV scale. This provides a nice way to connect (nearly) EW-scale physics with UV physics, such as axions, GUTs, and inflation. Using the composite axion as a specific example, I will describe some of the interesting phenomenology that emerges from this realisation of the clockwork mechanism. |