| Speaker: | Takeshi Kobayashi (CITA) |
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| Title: | Primordial Spikes from Wrapped Brane Inflation |
| Date (JST): | Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Related File: | 801.pdf |
| Abstract: | Cosmic inflation driven by branes wrapping the extra dimensions involves Kaluza-Klein (KK) degrees of freedom in addition to the zero-mode position of the brane which plays the role of the inflaton. As the wrapped brane passes by localized sources or features along its inflationary trajectory in the extra dimensional space, the KK modes along the wrapped direction are excited and start to oscillate during inflation. In this talk I will show that the oscillating KK modes induce parametric resonance for the curvature perturbations, generating sharp signals in the perturbation spectrum. Investigation of such resonant signals opens up the possibility of probing the extra dimensional space through cosmological observations. |
