PIRSA ID: 19110047
Series: Quantum Fields and Strings
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Quantum Fields and Strings
End date: 2019-11-12
Speaker(s): Masahito Yamazaki Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)
It is a curious numerology that the dynamical scale associated with the instanton of the electroweak SU(2) gauge group is approximately the energy scale of dark energy. We revisit this electroweak quintessence axion scenario, taking into account observational as well as swampland constraints.