[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in inflation

SD Odintsov, VK Oikonomou, I Giannakoudi… - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review recent trends in inflationary dynamics in the context of viable modified gravity
theories. After providing a general overview of the inflationary paradigm emphasizing on …

Modified gravity theories on a nutshell: Inflation, bounce and late-time evolution

S Nojiri, SD Odintsov, VK Oikonomou - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
We systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of
modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time …

Flat energy spectrum of primordial gravitational waves versus peaks and the NANOGrav 2023 observation

VK Oikonomou - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work we present several characteristic examples of theories of gravity and particle
physics scenarios that may yield an observable energy spectrum of stochastic primordial …

Cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves

C Caprini, DG Figueroa - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early
universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by …

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case

S Alekhin, W Altmannshofer, T Asaka… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP
(search for hidden particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely …

The origin, evolution and signatures of primordial magnetic fields

K Subramanian - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The universe is magnetized on all scales probed so far. On the largest scales, galaxies and
galaxy clusters host magnetic fields at the micro Gauss level coherent on scales up to ten …

Mechanism for thermal relic dark matter of strongly interacting massive particles

Y Hochberg, E Kuflik, T Volansky, JG Wacker - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We present a new paradigm for achieving thermal relic dark matter. The mechanism arises
when a nearly secluded dark sector is thermalized with the standard model after reheating …

Testing primordial black holes as dark matter with LISA

N Bartolo, V De Luca, G Franciolini, M Peloso, D Racco… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The idea that primordial black holes (PBHs) can comprise most of the dark matter of the
Universe has recently reacquired a lot of momentum. Observational constraints, however …

A white paper on keV sterile neutrino dark matter

R Adhikari, M Agostini, NA Ky, T Araki… - … of cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive review of keV-scale sterile neutrino Dark Matter, collecting
views and insights from all disciplines involved—cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear, and …

[HTML][HTML] Inflationary cosmology in modified gravity theories

K Bamba, SD Odintsov - Symmetry, 2015 - mdpi.com
We review inflationary cosmology in modified gravity such as R 2 gravity with its extensions
in order to generalize the Starobinsky inflation model. In particular, we explore inflation …