Searching for new physics in the primordial density perturbation
Higgs Centre colloquium
Searching for new physics in the primordial density perturbation
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 1st March 2013
- Speaker: David Seery (University of Sussex)
- Location: CSEC Seminar Room, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Abstract
Over the last decade, considerable effort has been expended to understand how subtle correlations in the pattern of hot- and cold-spots in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, or the details of galaxy clustering, can teach us about physics at very high energies. I will review this effort and explain how it enables us to use large-scale structure in the universe as a particle detector, before looking forward to the prospects for near- and medium-term observations.
Tea and coffee from 14.00
About Higgs Centre colloquia
The Higgs Centre Colloquia are a fortnightly series of talks aimed at a wide-range of topical Theoretical Physics issues..