Probing the Physics of Inflation

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• Neil Barnaby (DAMTP)
• Monday 21 January 2013, 13:00-14:00
• CMS, Pav.B, CTC Common Room (B1.19).

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The next few years will bring a wealth of new information about the primordial cosmological fluctuations. In this talk, I will discuss how observable non-Gaussianities and gravitational wave signals encode the physics of the early universe. First I will discuss signatures of global symmetries in the early universe, arguing that even the simplest slow roll inflation models can lead to observable non-Gaussianity and primordial gravity waves. Next, I will consider more generally the possibility to probe how the inflaton couples to radiation.

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