Axions comprise a broad class of particles that can play a major role in explaining the
unknown aspects of cosmology. They are also well-motivated within high energy physics …

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A bstract In this paper, we propose a new Swampland condition, the Trans-Planckian
Censorship Conjecture (TCC), based on the idea that in a consistent quantum theory of …

A simple cosmological model with only six parameters (matter density, Ω mh 2, baryon
density, Ω bh 2, Hubble constant, H 0, amplitude of fluctuations, σ 8, optical depth, τ, and a …

We compute the three point correlation functions for primordial scalar and tensor fluctuations
in single field inflationary models. We obtain explicit expressions in the slow roll limit where …

We forecast the scientific capabilities to improve our understanding of cosmic inflation of
CORE, a proposed CMB space satellite submitted in response to the ESA fifth call for a …

We use the power-counting formalism of effective field theory to study the size of loop
corrections in theories of slow-roll inflation, with the aim of more precisely identifying the …

All cosmological observations to date are consistent with adiabatic, Gaussian and nearly
scale invariant initial conditions. These findings provide strong evidence for a particular …

We study an inflationary model developed by Kaloper and Sorbo, in which the inflaton is an
axion with a sub-Planckian decay constant, whose potential is generated by mixing with a …

We review the particle theory origin of inflation and curvaton mechanisms for generating
large scale structures and the observed temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave …