Large Field Inflation - String Theory & Phenomenology

by Alexander Westphal (DESY)

Thursday 16 Apr 2015, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

3344 (Physikdepartment)

The recent combined the results from the Planck satellite and the Keck/BICEP2 telescopes have left a visibly reduced but still sizable windowfor large-field inflation. We will discuss its status in the context ofstring theory, looking both at the underlying structure visible in recent progress, and the more generic phenomenological consequences. We will also comment on very recent progress towards explicit local constructions for the more 'rigid' versions of axion monodromy in warped throats.