Puigdomènech Bourgon, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-11-06)
In this thesis a viable theory of gravity resulting from the spontaneous symmetry breaking of some more fundamental theory is developed. This fundamental theory does not include any notion of a metric ...
Planells Noguera, Xumeu (Date of defense: 2014-11-06)
In this thesis we study the possibility that QCD breaks parity at high temperatures and densities, a scenario that may be tested in heavy ion collisions. We present two different approaches to this ...
Renau Cerrillo, Albert (Date of defense: 2015-11-11)
In this thesis we study axions, a byproduct of the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem, which are also a viable candidate for the dark matter content of the Universe. In the first part ...