CAUP Seminário - Features of heavy physics in the spectrum of primordial perturbations - 26 setembro 2012
By NelmaS on Seg, 24/09/2012 - 14:59
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Features of heavy physics in the spectrum of primordial perturbations
Ana Achúcarro
Universiteit Leiden and UPV-EHU Bilbao
Resumo
I will discuss cosmic inflation with a single light field in the presence of other, very massive fields. The inflationary trajectories are generically not straight. Whenever there is a turn inthe trajectory, very heavy fields (with masses much larger than the Hubble scale) can leave a distinctive imprint on the spectrum of primordial perturbations. The main effect is a reduction in the speed of sound of the adiabatic perturbations, which leads to features in the power spectrum correlated with an enhancement of non-gaussianity.
26 de setembro de 2012 | 13:30
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