High Energy Theory Seminar

New Developments in Massive Gravity

The idea that the graviton may be massive has seen a resurgence of interest due to recent progress which has overcome its traditional problems. I will review this recent progress, which has led to a consistent ghost-free effective field theory of a massive graviton, with a stable hierarchy between the graviton mass and the cutoff, and how this theory has the potential to resolve the naturalness problem of the cosmological constant.

Date & Time

February 17, 2012 | 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Location

Jadwin Hall, Room A08

Speakers

Kurt Hinterbichler

Affiliation

University of Pennsylvania

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