18–19 Dec 2019
Centre for Particle Theory, Durham
Europe/London timezone

Detecting Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe

19 Dec 2019, 11:30
30m
CM101 (Department of Mathematical Sciences)

CM101

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Speaker

Chloe gowling

Description

Around 10 picoseconds after the Big Bang it is thought a cosmological electroweak phase transition occurred. In certain BSM theories such a transition can occur via a first order phase transition, which would lead to the production of gravitational waves. Such a source would form a stochastic background observable with the upcoming LISA mission. I will discuss this signature and the methods currently being developed to extract information relating to BSM physics from LISA data.

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