13–14 May 2024
King's College London
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Large non-Gaussianity from vacuum decay during inflation

14 May 2024, 10:50
20m
K6.29 Anatomy Lecture Theatre (King's College London)

K6.29 Anatomy Lecture Theatre

King's College London

Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Speaker

Pulkit Ghoderao (Imperial College London)

Description

We present a general formalism to calculate the non-Gaussianity arising from vacuum decay during inflation in the presence of a light spectator field. This is shown to generate large, potentially detectable non-Gaussianity when applied to an observationally-viable model of inflaton non-minimally coupled to gravity.

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