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Lei Ming
Position
Former member
Member from September 2019 to September 2020
Member from September 2019 to September 2020
Research statement
I am interested in the physics of the early universe and how to describe it in QFT. The projects I stay in UCL this year will be focusing on 1) constraining the inflaton couplings from the CMB within selected suitable benchmark scenarios, and 2) extending the calculation of the thermal damping rates by considering the effect of the expansion of the universe as well as the direct coupling of scalar to fermions and gauge bosons.
Projects
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Active projects
Active projects
Scalar Fields in the Early Universe
Mubarak Abdallah, Marco Drewes
We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of scalar fields in the early universe in the framework of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. We are interested in several applications, including inflation, reheating, Dark Matter production and the fate of the Higgs field in the early universe.
We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of scalar fields in the early universe in the framework of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. We are interested in several applications, including inflation, reheating, Dark Matter production and the fate of the Higgs field in the early universe.
Publications in IRMP