Probing Reheating with Primordial Spectrum

 

Dr Shi Pi
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
 

5 February 2015 (Thursday)
2:00 pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

Abstract:

The speaker studies the impacts of reheating temperature on the inflationary predictions of the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio. Assuming that reheating process is very fast, the reheating temperature can be constrained for sinusoidal oscillation within a factor of 10 - 100 or even better with the prospect of future observations. Beyond this, he finds that the predictions can also be insensitive to the reheating temperature in certain models, including the Higgs inflation.

 

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