Probing cosmic inflation with the LiteBIRD cosmic microwave background polarization survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E Allys, K Arnold… - … of Theoretical and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation
from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology …

New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background

E Komatsu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The current cosmological model requires new physics beyond the standard model of
elementary particles and fields, such as dark matter and dark energy. Their nature is …

A novel probe of supersymmetry in light of nanohertz gravitational waves

K Murai, W Yin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract A new era of exploring the early Universe may have begun with the recent strong
evidence for the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the data reported by …

Colliders and ghosts: Constraining inflation with the parity-odd galaxy four-point function

G Cabass, MM Ivanov, OHE Philcox - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Could new physics break the mirror symmetry of the Universe? Utilizing recent
measurements of the parity-odd four-point correlation function of BOSS galaxies, we probe …

Gravitational waves from inflation

MC Guzzetti, N Bartolo, M Liguori… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2016 - Springer
The production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is a fundamental
prediction of any cosmological inflationary model. The features of such a signal encode …

Measuring the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves with CMB, PTA and Laser Interferometers

P Campeti, E Komatsu, D Poletti… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the possibility of measuring the primordial gravitational wave (GW) signal
across 21 decades in frequencies, using the cosmic microwave background (CMB), pulsar …

Do the CMB temperature fluctuations conserve parity?

OHE Philcox - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have cemented the notion that
the large-scale Universe is both statistically homogeneous and isotropic. But is it invariant …

Primordial gravitational waves from axion-gauge fields dynamics

E Dimastrogiovanni, M Fasiello… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Inspired by the chromo-natural inflation model of Adshead&Wyman, we reshape its scalar
content to relax the tension with current observational bounds. Besides an inflaton, the setup …

Gravitational waves induced by scalar-tensor mixing

P Bari, N Bartolo, G Domènech, S Matarrese - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
This paper explores the physics of second-order gravitational waves (GWs) induced by
scalar-tensor perturbation interactions in the radiation-dominated Universe. We investigate …

Finding the chiral gravitational wave background of an axion- inflationary model using CMB observations and laser interferometers

B Thorne, T Fujita, M Hazumi, N Katayama, E Komatsu… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
A detection of B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies
would confirm the presence of a primordial gravitational wave background (GWB). In the …