Generalized G-inflation: as the most general framework of the standard model Higgs inflation

by Dr Kohei Kamada (EPFL Lausanne)

Tuesday 8 Jul 2014, 17:30 → 18:30 Europe/Berlin

3344 (TUM Physik Department)

The question what drives primordial inflation is the longstanding question for inflationary cosmology. The discovery of the SM Higgs boson made it a concrete question, "is it possible for the SM Higgs to drive inflation?", and there arise several proposals of "Higgs inflation". In this talk, I will explain the most general framework of Higgs inflation, based on the "Generalized G-inflation", which is the most general single scalar field inflation.  I will show how to distinguish these possibilities observationally and their potential problems. I also give the implication from the BICEP2 result.