Epstein Secrets

d Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA, and Mount Stromlo Observatory, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston, ACT, Australia, 2611 Harsh Mathur Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079 The surprisingly lar

mo- tivated source of such primordial waves (e.g. [4-7], it is important to demonstrate that other possible sources cannot account for the current BICEP2 data before def- initely claiming Inflation has been proved. A surprisingly large value of r, the ratio of power in tensor modes to scalar density

arth and Space Exploration Arizona State University. Tempe. AZ 85827-1404 2Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2611 (Dated: March 19, 2014) We consider the status of Higgs Inflation in light of the recently announced detection of B-modes

lar- ization of the cosmic microwave background radiation by the BICEP2 collaboration. In order for the primordial B-mode signal to be observable by BICEP2, the energy scale of inflation must be high. lint x 2 x 1016 GeV. Higgs Inflation generally predicts a small amplitude of tensor perturbations. and

d Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA, and Mount Stromlo Observatory, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston, ACT, Australia, 2611 Harsh Mathur Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland. Ohio 44106-7079 The surprisingly lar

mo- tivated source of such primordial waves (e.g. [4-7], it is important to demonstrate that other possible sources cannot account for the current BICEP2 data before def- initely claiming Inflation has been proved. A surprisingly large value of r, the ratio of power in tensor modes to scalar density