5–9 Dec 2022
Australia/Sydney timezone

CP-violating inflation

5 Dec 2022, 14:00
20m
149 (Old Main Building)

149

Old Main Building

Inflation and early Universe cosmology Early Universe

Speaker

Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS))

Description

I introduce the novel phenomena of CP-violating inflation in a non-minimal Higgs framework where the inflaton has a complex non-minimal coupling to gravity leading to CP-violation - a necessary source of the baryon asymmetry. I discuss the inflationary dynamics of such a framework and its implications for baryogenesis.

Author

Venus Keus (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS))

Co-author

Prof. Kimmo Tuominen (University of Helsinki)

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