Recent results and perspectives on cosmology and fundamental physics from microwave surveys
Abstract
Recent cosmic microwave background 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 effect from cosmic microwave background anisotropies, galaxy surveys, and their cross-correlations are presented. Looking at fine signatures in the cosmic microwave background, such as the lack of power at low multipoles, the primordial power spectrum 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 analyses aimed at testing the Einstein equivalence principle are presented. Finally, we discuss the perspectives of next radio facilities for the improvement of the analysis of future cosmic microwave background spectral distortion experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1604.03819,
title = {Recent results and perspectives on cosmology and fundamental physics from microwave surveys},
author = {Carlo Burigana and Elia Stefano Battistelli and Micol Benetti and Giovanni Cabass and Paolo De Bernardis and Sperello Di Serego Alighieri and Eleonora Di Valentino and Martina Gerbino and Elena Giusarma and Alessandro Gruppuso and Michele Liguori and Silvia Masi and Hans Ulrik Norgaard-Nielsen and Piero Rosati and Laura Salvati and Tiziana Trombetti and Patricio Vielva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03819},
year = {2016}
}
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27 pages, 9 figures. Review Article. International Journal of Modern Physics D, in press. [Will appear also on the proceedings of the Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting University of Rome "La Sapienza" - Rome, July 12-18, 2015 (http://www.icra.it/mg/mg14/), eds. Robert T. Jantzen, Kjell Rosquist, Remo Ruffini. World Scientific, Singapore]