Dilaton Dynamics - from Theory to Applications

Europe/London
Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics

School of Physics and Astronomy James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305 Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD
Description

The dilaton is a hypothetical particle that emerges in the long-distance description of dynamical theories in which approximate scale invariance is spontaneously broken. Can this statement be made more precise?

The classification of theories that give rise to such a particle is an ongoing challenge, for which new tools, both analytical and numerical, have become available only in recent years. In a parallel development, the exploration of the phenomenological signatures of such a particle has advanced significantly during the past ten years, thanks to the progress achieved in the study of the effective field theory description of the dilaton.

This workshop will bring together world experts on the subject, to share knowledge, propose new ideas, and discuss common goals for future research on the dilaton, connecting and integrating ongoing formal, numerical, phenomenological and experimental work

We would like to say thank you to our generous sponsors, this includes The UK Virual Centre in Lattice Field Theory , IPPP (Durham University), PPCT (Swansea University) and The UK Virual Centre in Fundamental Physics. 

 

 

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Registration
Registration
    • 09:30
      Coffee Break
    • Welcome and Opening Remarks
    • 1
      Christoph Englert - Hunting dilatons with Hefty Higgs
    • 2
      Roman Zwicky - QCD with an Infrared Fixed Point and a Dilaton
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • 3
      Geraldine Servant - Electroweak phase transition & baryogenesis driven by the dilaton in Composite Higgs models
    • 4
      Discussion
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 5
      Sebastian Zell - Scale Invariance in General Relativity: Coupling the Dilaton to Einstein-Cartan Gravity
    • 6
      Giacomo Cacciapaglia - Composite Inflation: dilaton and waterfall pions
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break
    • 7
      Charlie Cresswell-Hogg - Spontaneous breaking of scale invariance in Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theories
    • 8
    • 9
      Discussion
    • 09:30
      Coffee Break
    • 10
      Gabriele Rigo - a-Anomalous Interactions of the Holographic Dilaton
    • 11
      Francesco Sannino - Scaling Results for Charged Sectors of Near Conformal QCD
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • 12
      Bernardo Zan - Lessons about walking theories from complex CFTs
    • 13
      Discussion
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 14
      Nick Evans - AdS/Yang Mills and the dilaton at the edge of the conformal window
    • 15
      Deog Ki-Hong - Holographic light dilaton at the conformal edge
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break
    • 16
      Javier Subils - Holographic light dilatons near quantum phase transitions
    • 17
      Alex Pomarol - Lessons from holography of the conformal transition
    • 18
      Discussion
    • 19:00
      Dinner
    • 09:30
      Coffee Break
    • 19
      Anna Hasenfratz - The phase structure an infrared properties of SU(3) gauge with 8 fundamental fermions
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • 20
      James Ingoldby - Dilaton forbidden dark matter from the lattice
    • 21
      Discussion
    • 12:00
      Lunch and Finish