Special Theory HEP Seminar

On Phase Transitions in Classically Scale Invariant Models

Ville Vaskonen

King's College London

Within classically scale invariant models, the spontaneous breaking of scale invariance is usually associated to a strong first order phase transition. In this talk I will describe this phase transition and the resulting gravitational wave signal, showing that the future gravitational wave observatories can probe large parts of the parameter space of these models. Moreover, I will discuss the generation of magnetic fields and baryon asymmetry in this phase transition.