# PASCOS 08

14th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS '08)

## Large Scale Structure as a Probe of Gravitational Slip

Thursday Jun 05, 2008
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Many modified gravity schemes predict a non-zero difference (gravitational slip\'\') between the Newtonian and longitudinal perturbed metric potentials. Such a slip would affect the growth of large scale structure without altering the expansion history of the universe. We quantify the slip with a new parameter varpi, show the effect of non-zero varpi on the growth of cosmic overdensities, and constrain its value using CMB and weak lensing data.

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## The anthropic solution to the strong CP problem and its cosmological implications.

Thursday Jun 05, 2008
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We point out that the strong CP problem can be resolved by the anthropic principle. The key ideas are to allow explicit breaking(s) of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry which connects the problem to the cosmological constant problem, and to conjecture that the probability distribution of the vacuum energy in the landscape is hierarchical. The axion acquires a large mass from the explicit breaking, and does not contribute to the dark matter abundance.

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## Moduli stabilization and flavor structure in 5D SUGRA with multi moduli

Thursday Jun 05, 2008
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Moduli stabilization, SUSY breaking and flavor structure are discussed in 5D gauged supergravity models with two vector-multiplet moduli fields. One modulus field makes the fermion mass hierarchy while the other is relevant to the SUSY breaking mediation. We analyse the potential for the moduli from the viewpoint of the 4D effective theory to obtain the stabilized values of the moduli and their F-terms.

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## Cosmology from CFHTLS-Wide Weak Lensing on Large Scales

Thursday Jun 05, 2008
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I will discuss recent results from the Cosmic Shear component of the CFHT Legacy Survey. These results reach very large scales, allowing a measurement of poper spectrum of matter fluctuations in the linear regime, and of cosmological parameters.

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## Transport Properties on Holographic Defects

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## CMB Cosmic String B-Modes

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## Cosmic Rays Through the Higgs Portal

Thursday Jun 05, 2008
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An electroweak singlet coupling through the Higgs portal has a natural mass scale $m_Ssim m_h$. In this mass range its annihilation cross section is dominated by proximity to the $W$, $Z$ and Higgs peaks. Analysis of the $gamma$ ray signal from electroweak singlet annihilation in the mass range $80,mathrm{GeV} Collection/Series: Scientific Areas: ## LARGE Volume Scenarios and String Loops Thursday Jun 05, 2008 Speaker(s): We study the necessary and sufficient topological conditions for general Calabi-Yaus to get a non-supersymmetric AdS exponentially large volume minimum of the scalar potential in flux compactifications of IIB string theory. It turns out that string loop corrections play a crucial role to realise exponentially large volume minima for fibration Calabi-Yaus and to stabilise 4-cycles which support chiral matter. Collection/Series: Scientific Areas: ## Features in the CMB Thursday Jun 05, 2008 Speaker(s): We briefly discuss the potential cosmological implications of our results. Collection/Series: Scientific Areas: ## High Q^2 physics at HERA Thursday Jun 05, 2008 Speaker(s): Proton structure measurements at high$Q^{2}$performed by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at the HERA collider, are reviewed. Neutral and charged current deep inelastic scattering cross sections and structure functions are presented. The review also discusses improvements to the parton density measurements using jet cross section data and recent high$Q^{2}\$ inclusive cross section measurements.

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## RECENT PUBLIC LECTURE

### Mario Livio: Brilliant Blunders

Speaker: Mario Livio