Scale invariance, hierarchy generation and inflation

by Graham Ross (Oxford)

Thursday 16 Jul 2020, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/843685110?pwd=TEFqOEdOZ1FJWjBYa0lURFpmT09mZz09 (HS3, Physikdepartment)

Global and local Weyl invariant theories may solve the hierarchy problem and generate all mass scales
spontaneously, initiated by a dynamical process of “inertial spontaneous symmetry breaking” that does not involve
a potential. I will discuss how viable inflation readily occurs in a scale invariant version of Starobinsky (R 2 )
inflation and how an hierarchy of mass scales may be generated, stable against Standard Model radiative
corrections. The stability against gravitational corrections is also discussed