Of Cookbooks and Fairy Tales: Making the Matter Excess of the Universe with Neutrinos

por Dr. Sacha Davidson (CNRS-Lyon)

viernes 19 nov. 2010 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

Observations suggest that the visible Universe contains an excess of matter over anti-matter, and that it was generated during the evolution of the Universe. The ingredients required to create this excess will be reviewed. Then, among the many possible recipes, I select "thermal leptogenesis in the hierarchical seesaw", and tell the story of matter creation in the Universe according to this scenario.