Venue
Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden
Scope
Thirteen years after the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, its properties have proved to conform with the predictions of the Standard Model (SM), confirming its role in mass generation through electroweak symmetry breaking. In the early Universe, the Higgs field first resided in a massless phase. About a picosecond after the Big Bang, it underwent a phase transition to the massive phase, long before the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) formed. Since no light predates the CMB, this transition cannot be studied through conventional astronomy and, until recently, was only accessible indirectly through collider observables as the Higgs self-coupling. The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) changed this paradigm. Unlike photons, GWs travel freely from the earliest times, providing a new tool for cosmological archaeology. With LISA, a space-based detector to be launched in the 2030s, we may soon probe these first moments of cosmic history. To fully exploit this opportunity, the community must prepare. This means understanding physics across scales, from the hot primordial plasma, through bubble nucleation and expansion, to the large-scale dynamics that generate GWs. It will provide a forum for experts across these fields to collaborate and set the stage for discoveries once LISA data arrive.
Application/Registration
Registration to be considered for on-site participation will close TBD. Registrants will receive an on-site/remote participation confirmation from the organizers after this date.
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