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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna

Covariant Lagrangians for (twisted) self-duality equations of (non-)chiral p-forms and their Abelian interactions
Speaker:Karapet Mkrtchyan (Imperial College, London)
Abstract:We present a covariant Lagrangian formulation for p-form fields in Minkowski spaces of arbitrary dimensions that treat electric and magnetic degrees of freedom on equal footing. This formulation allows the inclusion of arbitrary abelian self-interactions. In d=4k+2,we cover all abelian self-interactions of a chiral (self-dual) 2k-form, the most interesting example being d=6 (we also comment on d=2 and 10), where the general abelian self-interactions are parametrized by a function of one variable. For d=4k, we cover all abelian self-interactions of (2k-1)-forms, including those with SO(2) duality symmetry. For d=4, we give a simple democratic actionfor arbitrary non-linear electrodynamics involving an arbitrary function of two variables and its duality symmetric subclass manifesting SO(2)symmetry, parametrized by a function of one variable.
Date: Tue, 09.05.2023
Time: 14:00
Duration: 60 min
Location:TU Sem.R. DA gruen 05 (Freihaus, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8)
Contact:S. Fredenhagen, D. Grumiller, E. Battista, R. Ruzziconi

Production of matter in the early Universe
Speaker: Yann Mambrini (IJCLab, Orsay)
Abstract:I will present in this seminar recent works concerning the production of particles in the earliest stage of the Universe, between the preheating phase and the reheating time. I will insist on the subtleties of backreactions from scattering of the inflaton and apply it to the mechanism to the dark matter production in minimal extensions of the Standard Model, especially gravitational production.
Date: Tue, 09.05.2023
Time: 16:15
Duration: 60 min
Location:Fakultaet fuer Physik, Erwin Schroedinger-HS, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock
Contact:A. Hoang, J. Pradler

Stability of Classical Chromodynamic fields
Speaker:Sylwia Bazak (Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, Poland)
Abstract: At the earliest phase of relativistic heavy-ion collisions there is generated a system of gluon fields which can be treated as classical. Numerical simulations show that the system is unstable but a character of the instability is not well understood. We perform a stability analysis of the initial chromoelectric and chromomagnetic fields which are parallel to the beam direction. While a configuration of the chromoelectric field is essentially Abelian with the single-color potential linearly depending on coordinates, the chromomagnetic is genuinely nonAbelian generated by the multicolor noncommuting potential components. We derive a spectrum of small fluctuations around the background fields which obey the linearized Yang-Mills equations and we argue that the nonAbelian chromomagnetic field is mostly responsible for the system's instability.
Date: Thu, 11.05.2023
Time: 15:00
Duration: 60 min
Location:TU Wien, Freihaus, Seminar room 10th floor; Zoom: Meeting ID: 950 0240 9522, Password: please ask via e-mail
Contact:Kirill Boguslavski, Iva Lovrekovic