Conveners
Inflation1
- Nicolas Bernal (University of New York, Abu Dhabi)
Description
Gravitational Waves from Inflationary Sources (Nicolas Bernal)
I will present an overview of recent developments in using gravitational wave experiments to probe the physics of inflation, with a focus on how gravitational wave signals can test fundamental aspects of early-universe cosmology.
In multi-field inflationary models, couplings between fields are not limited to the potential of the model, but can also be present in kinetic terms. In such a case, they can be interpreted as a non-trivial structure of the space of fields. Non-vanishing curvature of this space can lead, if negative, to a new phenomenon called geometrical destabilization.
α-attractors are a very promising...
We explore the production of gravitational waves resulting from a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a non-minimally coupled "Dark Higgs Inflation" model. Utilizing a single scalar field both as the inflaton and as the Dark Higgs breaking the gauge symmetry in the dark sector, we demonstrate the feasibility of a unified framework for inflation and observable gravitational waves from a FOPT.
