Beyond slow-roll inflation

Event Start:
2021-11-29T15:00:00
Event End:
2021-11-29T16:00:00
Event Information:

Cosmic inflation has become an integral part of our currently best-fitting cosmological model, called LCDM for its two major contributions to the energy content, which are a cosmological constant Lambda and cold dark matter. I will start out with a broad overview of cosmic inflation, its motivation for the Hot Big Bang picture and its most simple implementation in the form of a single scalar field that slowly rolls down its potential. I will show how that relates to the phenomenological implementation with 2 or 3 primordial parameters in our current standard LCDM model.

Event Location:
Connect via zoom
Speaker:
Lukas Hergt (UBC)
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Add to Calendar Event Start: 2021-11-29T15:00:00 Event End: 2021-11-29T16:00:00 Beyond slow-roll inflation Event Information: Cosmic inflation has become an integral part of our currently best-fitting cosmological model, called LCDM for its two major contributions to the energy content, which are a cosmological constant Lambda and cold dark matter. I will start out with a broad overview of cosmic inflation, its motivation for the Hot Big Bang picture and its most simple implementation in the form of a single scalar field that slowly rolls down its potential. I will show how that relates to the phenomenological implementation with 2 or 3 primordial parameters in our current standard LCDM model. Event Location: Connect via zoom

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