29.02.2012 (Wednesday)

Brane/Antibrane Backreaction in Axion Monodromy Inflation

Regular Seminar Joseph Conlon (Oxford)

at:
13:15 KCL
room S4.23
abstract:

TransPlanckian inflationary excursions are very interesting because they are sensitive to Planck-suppressed operators and can generate observable tensor modes. I review one proposed model generating a transPlanckian excursion and argue that consideration of antibrane backreaction renders the assumptions entering the model inconsistent.