Gravitational wave backgrounds of cosmological origin

by Dr Chiara Caprini (IPhT, France)

Thursday 18 Nov 2010, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Brussels

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

This seminar presents an overview of the main characteristics of gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds from the early universe: the typical frequency and amplitude one can expect, the present observational upper bounds, a summary of the possible sources. The second part of the seminar focusses on the gravitational wave background possibly arising from a first order phase transition in the early universe, describing its spectral shape and detection prospects.

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