How the scale dependence of fundamental couplings can be exploited in new ways to search for theories beyond the Standard Model? What are the prospect and challenges for scale invariance in quantum theories of gravity?
Date: 17 MAY 2022 from 17:30 to 19:00
Event location: In presence and online event
Type: Lectures
The concept of scale (in-)dependence has become a fruitful paradigm across the natural and social sciences with many applications ranging from mathematics to finance and biology. In physics, one of the fascinating lessons in a quantum world is that the strength of interactions between particles becomes scale-dependent. Curiously, regimes where interactions become scale-independent offer the most direct link between microscopics and the macroscopic world. In this talk, I explain how the scale dependence of fundamental couplings can be exploited in new ways to search for theories beyond the Standard Model. I also discuss the prospect and challenges for scale invariance in quantum theories of gravity.
If you prefer to attend this lecture in presence, you should write to segreteria.isa@unibo.it within May 17th, 12 p.m. and book your place. The places will be assigned on “first come first served” basis.
PhD students and researchers who are interested may request an attendance certificate.