Cosmological Implications of Theories Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics

Doctoral Dissertation uoadl:2959453 145 Read counter

Unit:
Department of Physics
Library of the School of Science
Deposit date:
2021-08-06
Year:
2021
Author:
Gialamas Ioannis
Dissertation committee:
Βασίλειος Σπανός, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Κωνσταντίνος Σφέτσος, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Νικόλαος Τετράδης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Γεώργιος Διαμάντης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Βασίλειος Γεωργαλάς, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Παναγιώτα Καντή, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φυσικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων
Αλέξανδρος Κεχαγιάς, Καθηγητής, Σχολή Εφαρμοσμένων Μαθηματικών και Φυσικών Επιστημών, Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο
Original Title:
Cosmological Implications of Theories Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Languages:
English
Greek
Translated title:
Cosmological Implications of Theories Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics
Summary:
In this thesis, we first calculate the gravitino production rate, computing its one-loop thermal selfenergy and we provide a convenient formula for it and its thermal abundance, as a function of the reheating temperature of the Universe. The gravitino yield is compared to the observed dark matter.

In the second part we consider quadratic gravity in the Palatini formulation of gravity assuming the existence of scalar fields coupled to gravity in the most general manner. Once the scalar fields develop vacuum expectation values the Planck scale is dynamically generated. The effect of the quadratic in curvature terms is to reduce the value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio.
The inflationary predictions of all the models under consideration are found to comply with the latest bounds set by the Planck collaboration for a wide range of parameters.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
Supergravity, Dark matter, Palatini formulation of gravity, Cosmic Inflation
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
473
Number of pages:
165
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