M. Laine - Towards first principles in particle cosmology
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Mikko Laine(Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics)
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Description
Some of the important issues in cosmology (such as the existence of a matter-antimatter asymmetry) can be faithfully addressed in terms of interactions probed at terrestrial experiments, only if we know how to reliably compute with relativistic thermal quantum field theories. After outlining a few of the conceptual and technical challenges involved, I illustrate the status of the field with the example of the right-handed neutrino production rate in a very early universe.
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Mikko Laine
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Bern, Switzerland
