Constraining inflation beyond the slow roll paradigm
Rachel Bean
Cornell
February 23, 2009, 4PM, LPL 308
We discuss how CMB observations can be used to investigate the properties
of inflation beyond the slow roll limit, for which observational
predictions could differ markedly from those of the standard
paradigm. Along with discussing how general inflationary models can be
linked to observations, we discuss a variety of brane inflation models
which could exhibit rich observational signatures, potentially offering
a way to distinguish the underlying microphysical properties of such an
inflationary theory.
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