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Beating the Lyth bound by resonant heavy field during inflation

05/28 2021 Seminar
  • Title Beating the Lyth bound by resonant heavy field during inflation
  • Speaker 周子涵
  • Date May 28,2021 14:00
  • Venue 南楼6620
  • Abstract

    In the recent years, more and more cosmologists began to search for heavy field imprints during inflation. Traditionally, these heavy fields decay very quickly after horizon crossing and thus its contribution to the power spectrum of curvature perturbation and gravitational waves can be neglected. In this talk, however, I will focus on the heavy scalar fields which shows resonant behaviour inside Hubble horizon. Then both of their nonlinear corrections to curvature perturbation and GWs cannot be ignored, which breaks the well-known Lyth bound and has unique imprints on CMB B-mode.