The Search For Primordial Tensor Modes
Astrophysics
2009-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We review the prospects for detecting tensor modes generated during inflation by CMB polarization experiments and by searching for a stochastic gravitational wave background with laser interferometers in space. We tackle the following two questions: (i) what does inflation predict for the tensor fluctuations? (ii) is it really worth building experiments that can cover only a small range of tensor amplitudes?
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0603118,
title = {The Search For Primordial Tensor Modes},
author = {George Efstathiou and Sirichai Chongchitnan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0603118},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings of YKIS 2005 meeting, `The Next Chapter in Einstein's Legacy', 27 June-1 July 2005, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto. To be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics