Mar 2 – 20, 2015
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Inflationary Tensor Fossils in CMB and LSS

Mar 12, 2015, 2:45 PM
45m
FB53 (Nordita, Stockholm)

FB53

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Dr Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Arizona State University)

Description

In some early universe scenarios, a correlation between a long wavelength tensor perturbations with two short wavelength scalar fluctuations may generate an observable signal in form of a quadrupolar power asymmetry. Alternatively, it may produce an off-diagonal contribution to the matter power spectrum which would represent a probe for primordial gravitational waves. We discuss how such intriguing possibilities comes about in specific inflationary models.

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