PIRSA:08110032

Cosmology of the Lee-Wick Model

Brandenberger, R. (2008). Cosmology of the Lee-Wick Model. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08110032

Brandenberger, Robert. Cosmology of the Lee-Wick Model. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 11, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08110032 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:08110032,
            doi = {10.48660/08110032},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/08110032},
            author = {Brandenberger, Robert},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Cosmology of the Lee-Wick Model},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2008},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:08110032 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Robert Brandenberger McGill University - Department of Physics

DOI 10.48660/08110032
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

The Lee-Wick model has recently been put forwards as an alternative to supersymmetry for solving the hierarchy problem of particle physics. I will show that, modulo important consistency questions, coupling the Lee-Wick model to cosmology leads to a bouncing universe cosmology with a scale-invariant spectrum of cosmological fluctuations emerging from quantum vacuum fluctuations in the contracting phase.