The first three seconds: a review of possible expansion histories of the early universe

R Allahverdi, MA Amin, A Berlin, N Bernal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation
between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later …

Spectral distortions from promising single and multifield inflationary models

A Baur, MAG García, R Henríquez-Ortiz… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Forthcoming missions probing the absolute intensity of the CMB are expected to be able to
measure spectral distortions, which are deviations from its blackbody distribution. As cosmic …

Spectral distortions from axion monodromy inflation

R Henríquez-Ortiz, J Mastache… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
With the advent of new missions to probe spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave
background with unprecedented precision, the study of theoretical predictions of these …

Primordial magnetic non-Gaussianity with generic vacua and detection prospects in CMB spectral distortions

A Bhaumik, S Pal - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Assuming a slow-roll inflationary model where conformal invariance of the Maxwell action is
broken via a nonminimal kinetic coupling term, we investigate the non-Gaussian three-point …

Testing kinetically coupled inflation models with CMB distortions

R Dai, Y Zhu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Inflation scenarios kinetically coupled with the Einstein tensor have been widely studied.
They can be consistent with current observational data. Future experiments on the …

Modeling cosmological perturbations of thermal inflation

JM Bae, SE Hong, H Zoe - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider a simple system consisting of matter, radiation and vacuum components to
model the impact of thermal inflation on the evolution of primordial perturbations. The …

Probing the running of primordial bispectrum and trispectrum using CMB spectral distortions

R Emami - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We compute the impact of the running of higher order density correlation functions on the
two point functions of cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectral distortions (SDs). We …