Seminarium "Teoria cząstek elementarnych i kosmologia"

Observations of Cosmic Microwave Background ( CMB ) radiation appear to be consistent with the simplest realizations of inflationary paradigm: single field slow-roll inflation. In practice, CMB probes can provide us information about the inflationary dynamics only for a limited range of scales, corresponding to a small portion of the dynamics when compared with the required time span for inflation in solving the standard problems of Hot Big Bang cosmology. This situation leaves us with a large portion of the dynamics together with a vast range of scales that are pretty much uncharted and yet to be explored. In this talk, I will focus on two possible observational windows together with a simple primordial mechanism that can provide us the opportunity to probe the inflationary dynamics on scales much smaller compared to the CMB. In this context, I will show two exemplary scenarios that has potential to accomplish this goal through enhanced scalar and tensor fluctuations during inflation.