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How much will we learn from the CMB ?

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to give a brief account of what we hope to learn from the future CMB experiments, essentially from the point of view of primordial cosmology. After recalling what we have already learnt, the principles of parameter extraction from the data are summarized. The discussion is then devoted to the information we could gain about the early universe, in the framework of the inflationary scenario, or in more exotic scenarios like brane cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201075,
  title  = {How much will we learn from the CMB ?},
  author = {David Langlois},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201075},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Invited Talk at "The Early Universe and Cosmological Observations: a Critical Review", UCT, Cape Town, July 2001; to appear in Class. Quant. Grav