Speaker
Fedor Bezrukov
(UConn & CERN & BNL)
Description
Experimental results of the past several years favor the very minimal inflationary models. I will discuss some realizations of inflation in minimal extensions of the Standard Model, where no new scales are present between the Electroweak scale and inflationary scale and the amount of new particles is minimal -- Higgs inflation, $R^2$ inflation, non-minimally coupled inflation with light inflaton. I'll discuss the advantages and problems with the models, and experimental features predicted for cosmology and particle physics.
Author
Fedor Bezrukov
(UConn & CERN & BNL)
