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Quantum Corrections to the Cosmological Evolution of Conformally Coupled Fields
Jose A. R. Cembranos, Keith A. Olive, Marco Peloso +1
Because the source term for the equations of motion of a conformally coupled scalar field, such as the dilaton, is given by the trace of the matter energy momentum tensor, it is co…
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization
Daniel Baumann, Mark G. Jackson, Peter Adshead +56
We summarize the utility of precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurements as probes of the physics of inflation. We focus on the prospects for using CMB measu…
Instability of anisotropic cosmological solutions supported by vector fields
Burak Himmetoglu, Carlo R. Contaldi, Marco Peloso
Models with vector fields acquiring a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value along one spatial direction have been proposed to sustain a prolonged stage of anisotropic accelerated…
Gravity Waves Signatures from Anisotropic pre-Inflation
A. E. Gumrukcuoglu, Lev Kofman, Marco Peloso
We show that expanding or contracting Kasner universes are unstable due to the amplification of gravitational waves (GW). As an application of this general relativity effect, we co…
The nonperturbative decay of SUSY flat directions
A. E. Gumrukcuoglu, Keith A. Olive, Marco Peloso +1
We compute the nonperturbative decay of supersymmetric flat directions due to their D-term potential. Flat directions can develop large vacuum expectation values (vevs) during infl…
Dangerous Angular KK/Glueball Relics in String Theory Cosmology
J. F. Dufaux, L. Kofman, M. Peloso
The presence of Kaluza-Klein particles in the universe is a potential manifestation of string theory cosmology. In general, they can be present in the high temperature bath of the…