Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at Tufts:

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
2:30 pm
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

"Strings in the Background"


Levon Pogosian
Simon Fraser University

Abstract:

A significant observational effort is underway to measure the B-mode polarization of CMB, which would contain imprints of relic gravity waves produced by Inflation. Another potentially observable source of primordial B-modes are cosmic strings expected in many models of hybrid inflation. In addition to B-modes, I will discuss two other CMB signatures of strings: the excess temperature anisotropy on small scales, and a positive correlation between CMB and tracers of large scale structure.

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