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Challenges in probing inflation with primordial gravitational waves
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It is still not yet understood how structure in the Universe was seeded. The theory of inflation provides a framework to understand the origins of structure as quantum fluctuations of the vacuum, whilst maintaining an attractive simplicity, and giving a natural explanation of how the Universe is so flat, homogeneous, and isotropic. If inflation occurred, it would have produced a gravitational wave background, indirectly observable today through its effect on the polarization of the cosmic ...
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+ Science and Technology Facilities Council
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http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000271
Grant:
1662894
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Deposit date:
- 2021-06-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Thorne, BL
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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