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Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: black;">The collision of high-energy particles in the early Universe can leave detectable correlations in the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: black;">I will describe recent efforts to translate scattering theory from particle physics onto expanding spacetimes.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: black;">In particular, effective field theory techniques---used to search for new physics at colliders---can now be applied on a quasi-de Sitter background and establish new connections between cosmological observations and the fundamental physics that governs inflation. </span></p><p><br></p>

Further information

Time:

07May
May 7th 2026
12:00 to 13:00

Venue:

Potter room

Speaker:

Scott Melville (Queen Mary University of London)

Series:

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars