Gravitational Probes of the Early Universe

Superstring Phases in the Early Universe

Not scheduled

20m

TBC (Strand Campus King's College London)

Speaker

Joseph Conlon (Oxford University)

Description

I describe how evolving moduli and kination epochs in the early universe can lead to a novel post-inflationary string tracker solution, in which 75% of the energy density of the universe is in the form of a gas of fundamental string loops.