Speaker
Michele Cicoli
(Università di Bologna)
Description
I will describe several features of type IIB Fibre Inflation models like:
(i) how to construct a chiral global embedding into consistent Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications;
(ii) the presence of an inflaton upper bound from the Kahler cone conditions;
(iii) the details of perturbative reheating and the associated production of dark radiation;
(iv) the generation of primordial black holes during inflation and their contribution to dark matter;
(v) open issues with light axionic spectator fields during inflation.
