The one-loop correction to gravitons in de Sitter space induced by massive scalars

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Prokopec, T.
dc.contributor.author	Kavanagh, Riley
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-26T00:00:50Z
dc.date.available	2023-09-26T00:00:50Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/45224
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
dc.language.iso	EN
dc.subject	The status of understanding quantum loop corrections of cosmological perturba- tions is in its infancy. In this Master’s thesis we investigate the graviton self-energy one-loop corrections induced by a massive, non-minimally coupled scalar field during an Inflationary period produced by a de Sitter background. We fully renormalize this result by the addition of four counterterms, two of which, the Ricci scalar square and the Weyl tensor square, agree with the massless renormalization performed b
dc.title	The one-loop correction to gravitons in de Sitter space induced by massive scalars
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.courseuu	Theoretical Physics
dc.thesis.id	24715