7–11 Dec 2020
Palais des Papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

Probing pre-BBN era with Primordial Gravitational Waves: Modified Gravity and Non-Standard Cosmology

10 Dec 2020, 14:50
20m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des Papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des Papes, Avignon

Speaker

Anish Ghoshal (L)

Description

We will talk about Primordial Gravitational Waves (PGW): particularly we discuss the PGW spectrum in non-standard cosmology and in modified gravity theories, in early Universe cosmology, specifically in scalar-tensor and extra dimensional gravity scenarios, investigating the detection prospects in current and future GW observatories which can be potentially observed by laser interferometers operating in the high-frequency range and at low frequencies with pulsar timing arrays respectively. We will see that data from the planned network of several GW detectors operating across various frequency ranges will be able to distinguish between various modified gravity and non-standard cosmological history scenarios.

Author

Anish Ghoshal (L)

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