The swampland: introduction and review

E Palti - Fortschritte der Physik, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Swampland program aims to distinguish effective theories which can be completed into
quantum gravity in the ultraviolet from those which cannot. This article forms an introduction …

[图书][B] Inflation and string theory

D Baumann, L McAllister - 2015 - books.google.com
The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for …

New horizons in cosmology with spectral distortions of the cosmic microwave background

J Chluba, MH Abitbol, N Aghanim, Y Ali-Haimoud… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
This Voyage 2050 paper highlights the unique science opportunities using spectral
distortions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). CMB spectral distortions probe …

CMB-S4 science book

KN Abazajian, P Adshead, Z Ahmed, SW Allen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
This book lays out the scientific goals to be addressed by the next-generation ground-based
cosmic microwave background experiment, CMB-S4, envisioned to consist of dedicated …

Probing the inflaton: Small-scale power spectrum constraints from measurements of the cosmic microwave background energy spectrum

J Chluba, AL Erickcek, I Ben-Dayan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In the early universe, energy stored in small-scale density perturbations is quickly dissipated
by Silk damping, a process that inevitably generates μ-and y-type spectral distortions of the …

Inner cusps of the first dark matter haloes: formation and survival in a cosmological context

MS Delos, SDM White - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We use very high resolution cosmological zoom simulations to follow the early evolution of
12 first-generation haloes formed from gaussian initial conditions with scale-free power …

CMB at 2× 2 order: the dissipation of primordial acoustic waves and the observable part of the associated energy release

J Chluba, R Khatri, RA Sunyaev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Silk damping of primordial small-scale perturbations in the photon–baryon fluid due to
diffusion of photons inevitably creates spectral distortions in the cosmic microwave …

Spectral distortions of the CMB as a probe of inflation, recombination, structure formation and particle physics

J Chluba, A Kogut, SP Patil, MH Abitbol… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Following the pioneering observations with COBE in the early 1990s, studies of the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) have focused on temperature and polarization anisotropies …

[HTML][HTML] Higgs inflation at the critical point

F Bezrukov, M Shaposhnikov - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
Higgs inflation can occur if the Standard Model (SM) is a self-consistent effective field theory
up to inflationary scale. This leads to an upper bound on the top Yukawa coupling, yt phys< …

Primordial black holes dark matter from inflection point models of inflation and the effects of reheating

N Bhaumik, RK Jain - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point
model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the …