BICEP2 Discussion Session

Name: BICEP2 Discussion Session
Start: 2014-03-31T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-03-31T19:20:00+02:00
Location: CERN

Monday 31 Mar 2014, 17:00 → 19:20 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Description

i) Review on the signal
a) Why B-modes at these scales are so relevant for cosmology
b) Other possible sources + systematics
c) Other experiments
Discussion leaders: Jan Hamann, Julien Lesgourgues

ii) Primordial gravity waves and theory
a) Robustness of the Lyth bound
b) Large field inflation in string-inspired models
c) Is it possible to obtain blue tilt of gravity waves ?
d) Alternative ways to generate primordial gravity waves
Discussion leaders: Sergey Sibiryakov, Subodh Patil

- 17:00 → 18:00
  
  i) Review on the signal 1h
  
  ) Why B-modes at these scales are so relevant for cosmology b) Other possible sources + systematics c) Other experiments
  
  Speakers: Jan Hamann (CERN), Julien Lesgourgues (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))
  
  Video in CDS
- 18:00 → 19:15
  
  i) Primordial gravity waves and theory 1h 15m
  
  Speakers: Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN), Subodh Patil (CERN)
  
  Video in CDS