Speaker
Dr
Mauro Pieroni
(Instituto de Fisica Teorica)
Description
In my talk I discuss the phenomenology of models in which a pseudoscalar inflaton is coupled to some abelian gauge fields. The coupling between the inflaton and the gauge fields induces an instability in the theory which gives rise to a wide range of potentially observable signatures. In particular, I focus on the possibility of generating chiral gravitational waves in the range of direct gravitational wave detectors and primordial black holes which can account for a part (or all) of the dark matter observed in the Universe. The results of this analysis can be used to extract information on the microphysics of inflation.
Primary author
Dr
Mauro Pieroni
(Instituto de Fisica Teorica)
Co-authors
Dr
Francesco Muia
(University of Oxford)
Dr
Lukas T. Witkowski
(APC Paris)
Dr
Valerie Domcke
(APC Paris)
