PIRSA:16110091

Probing inflation with the space-based interferometer LISA

Sakellariadou, M. (2016). Probing inflation with the space-based interferometer LISA. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/16110091

Sakellariadou, Mairi. Probing inflation with the space-based interferometer LISA. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 29, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16110091 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:16110091,
            doi = {10.48660/16110091},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16110091},
            author = {Sakellariadou, Mairi},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Probing inflation with the space-based interferometer LISA},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2016},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:16110091 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Mairi Sakellariadou King's College London

DOI 10.48660/16110091
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

I will discuss the potential for the LISA space-based interferometer to detect the stochastic Gravitational Wave (GW) background produced from different mechanisms during inflation. In particular, I will present the GW contributions from particle production during inflation, inflationary spectator fields with varying speed of sound, effective field theories of inflation with specific patterns of symmetry breaking and models leading to the formation of primordial black holes. I will show that LISA is able to probe these inflationary scenarios beyond the irreducible vacuum tensor modes expected from any inflationary background.