A Clockwork Tale

by Dr Daniele Teresi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Wednesday 11 Oct 2017, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Brussels

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

The clockwork mechanism is an elegant and economical way to generate small numbers or large hierarchies in a theory with only order-one couplings. I will introduce its key aspects by discussing clockwork dark matter as a working example. After presenting the related phenomenology I will also discuss the possible extra-dimensional setup from which the clockwork could emerge and the embedding of gravity in it, which provides a new mechanism to solve the hierarchy problem. Finally, I will discuss recent theoretical developments and the related debate in the community.

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