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Here, to get an idea what he's like, is video of his talk at the 2013 Moriond meeting
http://webcast.in2p3.fr/videos-scalar_potential_and_stability
Here, is something new, a paper that just came out relating to the BICEP2 finding.
"Agravity" is short for "Adimensional gravity" (non-dimensional couplings make it renormalizable)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4226
Agravity
Alberto Salvio, Alessandro Strumia
(Submitted on 17 Mar 2014)
We explore the possibility that the fundamental theory of nature does not contain any scale. This implies a renormalizable quantum gravity theory where the graviton kinetic term has 4 derivatives, and can be reinterpreted as gravity minus an anti-graviton. We compute the super-Planckian RGE of adimensional gravity coupled to a generic matter sector. The Planck scale and a flat space can arise dynamically at quantum level provided that a quartic scalar coupling and its β function vanish at the Planck scale. This is how the Higgs boson behaves for Mh≈125 GeV at Mt≈171 GeV. Within agravity, inflation is a generic phenomenon: the slow-roll parameters are given by the β-functions of the theory, and are small if couplings are perturbative. The predictions ns≈0.967 and r≈0.13 arise if the inflaton is identified with the Higgs of gravity. Furthermore, quadratically divergent corrections to the Higgs mass vanish: a small weak scale is natural and can be generated by agravity quantum corrections.
24 pages
Here is the Inspire record and the author profile:
http://inspirehep.net/record/1286134?ln=en
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Strumia.1
Born Dec. 1969, papers go back to 1993
Some 140 published with average number of citations over 100 cites per paper.
Mainly in Phenomenology, with emphasis on numerical calculation.
In case of interest, here's an old CV http://www.df.unipi.it/~astrumia/CVitaliano2004.pdf
http://webcast.in2p3.fr/videos-scalar_potential_and_stability
Here, is something new, a paper that just came out relating to the BICEP2 finding.
"Agravity" is short for "Adimensional gravity" (non-dimensional couplings make it renormalizable)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4226
Agravity
Alberto Salvio, Alessandro Strumia
(Submitted on 17 Mar 2014)
We explore the possibility that the fundamental theory of nature does not contain any scale. This implies a renormalizable quantum gravity theory where the graviton kinetic term has 4 derivatives, and can be reinterpreted as gravity minus an anti-graviton. We compute the super-Planckian RGE of adimensional gravity coupled to a generic matter sector. The Planck scale and a flat space can arise dynamically at quantum level provided that a quartic scalar coupling and its β function vanish at the Planck scale. This is how the Higgs boson behaves for Mh≈125 GeV at Mt≈171 GeV. Within agravity, inflation is a generic phenomenon: the slow-roll parameters are given by the β-functions of the theory, and are small if couplings are perturbative. The predictions ns≈0.967 and r≈0.13 arise if the inflaton is identified with the Higgs of gravity. Furthermore, quadratically divergent corrections to the Higgs mass vanish: a small weak scale is natural and can be generated by agravity quantum corrections.
24 pages
Here is the Inspire record and the author profile:
http://inspirehep.net/record/1286134?ln=en
http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Strumia.1
Born Dec. 1969, papers go back to 1993
Some 140 published with average number of citations over 100 cites per paper.
Mainly in Phenomenology, with emphasis on numerical calculation.
In case of interest, here's an old CV http://www.df.unipi.it/~astrumia/CVitaliano2004.pdf
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