Theorie-Palaver

July 12, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. in Lorentz room

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

A relaxing inflaton
Lorenzo Ubaldi (Tel Aviv University)


The relaxion is potentially a new class of solutions to the Higgs hierarchy problem. I first briefly review the main ingredients of the original relaxion proposal, and then report work in progress about attempts to have the relaxion play also the role of the inflaton.