STARS2013 - 2nd Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics / SMFNS2013 - 3rd International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars

Thermal and magnetic effects on the warm inflationary scenario

6 May 2013, 16:15

30m

Habana Libre Hotel

Talk STARS2013

Speaker

Gabriella Piccinelli (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico D.F., Mexico)

Description

We discuss the possible effects that primordial magnetic fields and finite temperatures can have on the warm inflation scenario. This work is motivated by two considerations: first, In view of the accumulating observational evidence for their presence on all scales, the idea of a truly primordial origin of cosmic magnetism gains strength; second, the recent emergence of inflationary models where the inflaton is not assumed to be isolated but instead it is taken as an interacting field during the whole inflationary process.

Presentation materials

Slides

Piccinelli.pdf