Recent results and perspectives on cosmology and fundamental physics from microwave surveys

Carlo Burigana, Elia Stefano Battistelli, Micol Benetti, Giovanni Cabass, Paolo De Bernardis, Sperello Di Serego Alighieri, Eleonora Di Valentino, Martina Gerbino, Elena Giusarma, Alessandro Gruppuso, Michele Liguori, Silvia Masi, Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen, Piero Rosati, Laura Salvati, Tiziana Trombetti, Patricio Vielva

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    Abstract

    Recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) data in temperature and polarization have reached high precision in estimating all the parameters that describe the current so-called standard cosmological model. Recent results about the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from CMB anisotropies, galaxy surveys, and their cross-correlations are presented. Looking at fine signatures in the CMB, such as the lack of power at low multipoles, the primordial power spectrum (PPS) and the bounds on non-Gaussianities, complemented by galaxy surveys, we discuss inflationary physics and the generation of primordial perturbations in the early universe. Three important topics in particle physics, the bounds on neutrinos masses and parameters, on thermal axion mass and on the neutron lifetime derived from cosmological data are reviewed, with attention to the comparison with laboratory experiment results. Recent results from cosmic polarization rotation (CPR) analyses aimed at testing the Einstein equivalence principle (EEP) are presented. Finally, we discuss the perspectives of next radio facilities for the improvement of the analysis of future CMB spectral distortion experiments.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1630016
    JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics D
    Volume25
    Issue number6
    Number of pages27
    ISSN0218-2718
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Keywords

    • Cosmology
    • Background radiations
    • Radio
    • Microwave
    • Origin and formation of the universe
    • Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early universe
    • Observational cosmology
    • Large scale structure of the universe
    • Dark matter
    • Dark energy
    • Elementary particle processes

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