Brane Inflation and the Overshoot Problem (2009)
Bird, Simeon, Peiris, Hiranya V., Baumann, Daniel
We investigate recent claims that brane inflation solves the overshoot problem through a combination of microphysical restrictions on the phase space of initial conditions and the existence of the...
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization (2008)
Baumann, Daniel, Jackson, Mark G, Adshead, Peter, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Bartolo, Nicola, ...
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 measurements to...
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization (2008)
Baumann, Daniel, Jackson, Mark G., Adshead, Peter, Amblard, Alexandre, Ashoorioon, Amjad, Bartolo, Nicola, ...
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 measurements to...
Fine-tuning criteria for inflation and the search for primordial gravitational waves (2008)
Bird, Simeon, Peiris, Hiranya V., Easther, Richard
We revisit arguments that simple models of inflation with a small red tilt in the scalar power spectrum generically yield an observable tensor spectrum. We show that criteria for fine-tuning based...