WISPs in String Cosmology

Description

WISPs are a ubiquitous feature of string compactifications. Moduli, axion-like particles, hidden photons and dark sector particles are just some of the most common WISPs arising in general in the low-energy limit of string theory.  The aim of this workshop is to investigate their role in string cosmology.

Context 

This workshop is supported by the COSMIC WISPers COST Action CA21106. The aim of this Action is to study very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs) from different perspectives: theory, indirect observational consequences in astrophysics, searches at colliders and direct detection in laboratories.

Accommodation 

A list of suggested hotels with special rates can be found here. When booking, please specify "convenzione INFN".

Invited speakers 

Fien Apers

Federico Carta: "Exploring the fuzzy axiverse"

Giuseppe Dibitetto

Jacob Leedom: "From Spins to Strings"

Susha Parameswaran: "Quantum gravity meets cosmological observations at the hilltop"

Margherita Putti

Mario Ramos-Hamud: "Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation"

Filippo Revello: "Asymptotic Cosmology and the Distance Conjecture"

Nicole Righi: “Preheating axions in string cosmology”

Joao Rosa: "Primordial black holes in the string axiverse"

Andreas Schachner: “Optimisation in the String Axiverse”

Simon Schreyer: "KPV at higher order in alpha’"

Flavio Tonioni: "Hubble friction and string cosmology"

Gonzalo Villa: "Gravitational Waves from High Temperature Strings"