Theory Seminar (High Energy/Cosmology) |
Events During the Week of April 10th through April 17th, 2016
Monday, April 11th, 2016
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
- D6-branes, axion monodromy inflation and moduli backreaction
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Place: 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Aitor Landete, Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Madrid
- Abstract: We develop new scenarios of large field inflation in type IIA string compactifications in which the key ingredient is a D6-brane that generates a bilinear superpotential which couples the brane position modulus to a Kahler modulus. This feature allows us to construct two different models where the inflaton candidate could be the B-field axion or the D6-brane Wilson Line where all the remaining moduli are stabilized supersymmetrically. The scalar potential has the multi-branched structure typical of F-term axion monodromy models and, near its supersymmetric minima, it is described by a 4d supergravity model of chaotic inflation with a stabilizer field. Finally we analyze the effects, in our model, of integrating out the relevant closed string moduli consistently.
- Host: Pablo Soler