HIGH ENERGY THEORY / RELATIVITY / COSMOLOGY SEMINARS
Fall 2007
Monday December 3 Seminar at 2.30pm :
John Giblin (Yale U.)
Title : Gravitational Radiation from Preheating
Abstract:
| Parametric resonance, also known as preheating, is a plausible mechanism for bringing about the transition between the inflationary phase and a hot, radiation dominated universe. This epoch results in the rapid production of heavy particles far from thermal equilibrium and has the potential to source a significant stochastic background of gravitational radiation. Here, I present a numerical algorithm for computing the contemporary power spectrum of gravity waves generated in this post-inflationary phase transition for a large class of scalar-field driven inflationary models. I will present the results of this calculation for a number of inflationary models and discuss the (potential) observability of these models. |
Host : Trodden