15-16 July 2026
Kashiwa
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Cosmic String in Multi-step Symmetry Breaking

16 Jul 2026, 11:40
20m
Large Seminar Room 601 (Kashiwa) (Kashiwa)

Large Seminar Room 601 (Kashiwa)

Kashiwa

277-0882, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Speaker

Aken Bun

Description

Cosmic strings are promising sources of a stochastic gravitational wave background that can be probed by pulsar timing arrays and future interferometers. In this talk, I discuss metastable cosmic strings formed through multi-step symmetry breaking, focusing on their internal structure and its implications for gravitational wave observation.

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