Theory Group Seminar, 27 March 2012
Dr. Daniel Green, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Signatures of Supersymmetry from the Early Universe
abstract
Supersymmetry plays a fundamental role in the radiative stability of many inflationary models. I will explain how supersymmetry and naturalness require additional scalar degrees of freedom with masses on the order of the inflationary Hubble scale. These fields lead to distinctive non-gaussian signatures that may be observable in both the CMB and large scale structure.