23–26 Sept 2014
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Higher Derivative Supergravity and Implications for Moduli Stabilization and Inflation

24 Sept 2014, 16:10
15m
Seminar room 1 (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 1

DESY Hamburg

Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg

Speaker

David Ciupke (DESY)

Description

We investigate a particular class of scalar field theories with higher-derivative corrections in the context of N=1 supergravity. Special attention is paid to the proper understanding of such theories within the language of effective field theory. Finally the relevance to moduli stabilization as well as inflation is discussed. Specifically the sensitivity of the inflaton potential to the presence of the higher-derivative operator is assessed.

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