Theory Division

Axion-photon transition/conversion at dielectric interfaces, immersed in a near-homogeneous magnetic field, is the basis for the dielectric haloscope method to search for axion dark matter. In analogy to transition radiation, this process is possible because the photon wave function is modified by the dielectric layers (“Garibian wave function”) and is no longer an eigenstate of... More »

We analyze the impact of anisotropic EoS, due to the presence of a magnetic field, in the structure equations of  magnetized quark stars. We assume a cylindrical metric and an anisotropic energy momentum tensor for the source. We found that there is a maximum magnetic field that a quark star can sustain, closely related to... More »

Interpreting LHC data requires a few assumptions, even from an Effective Field Theory approach. I will put a question mark on a few on them and study their effects: considering triple Higgs coupling in single Higgs observables gives a complementarity between single and double Higgs; adding anomalous fermion-vector boson couplings in diboson data ends up... More »

In this seminar, I’ll discuss recent results from lattice simulation of a candidate model of physics beyond the Standard Model. In systems of interest, the Higgs arises as a Goldstone boson of a new strongly coupled sector in the UV, while the top quark obtains its large mass through the mechanism of partial compositeness. This... More »