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We investigate a constraint on reheating followed by alpha-attractor-type inflation (the E-model and T-model) from an observation of the spectral index n_s. When the energy density of the universe is dominated by an energy component with…

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We present new limits on the amplitude of potential primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) using temperature and polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Planck, BICEP2/Keck Array, POLARBEAR, and SPTpol. We reduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Dylan R. Sutton , Chang Feng , Christian L. Reichardt

We present a detailed calculation of the light element production in the framework of Scalar-Tensor (ST) theories of gravitation. The coupling function \omega has been described by an appropriate form which reproduces all the possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Arturo Serna , Jean-Michel Alimi

It is plausible that the scalar density perturbations are created by a relatively low scale model of inflation which predicts the CMB anisotropy and excites Standard Model baryon and cold dark matter, but negligible gravity waves.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-03 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Anupam Mazumdar , Tuomas Multamaki

We consider the inference of the cosmic radiation density, traditionally parameterised as the effective number of neutrino species N_eff, from precision cosmological data. Paying particular attention to systematic effects, notably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Hamann , Steen Hannestad , Georg G. Raffelt , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We present a sample-variance-limited measurement of the temperature power spectrum ($TT$) of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using observations of a $\sim\! 1500 \,\mathrm{deg}^2$ field made by SPT-3G in 2018. We report multifrequency…

Upcoming measurements of the small-scale primary cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra ($TT$/$TE$/$EE$) are anticipated to yield transformative constraints on new physics, including the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Fiona McCarthy , J. Colin Hill , Mathew S. Madhavacheril

The study of reheating in inflationary models is crucial for understanding the early universe and gaining insights into inflationary dynamics and parameters. The reheating temperature $T_{re}$ and the duration of the reheating phase,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Gabriel German , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Luis E. Padilla

In this paper, we suppose that the universe begins in a holographic thermal equilibrium phase with the diverged correlation length, and the phase transition to the radiation phase of standard cosmology goes with the abrupt reducing of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yun-Song Piao

We construct non-linear inflaton potential energy densities that describe not-necessarily very-slowly-rolling closed and open inflation models, and compute tilted primordial spatial inhomogeneity power spectra that follow from quantum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Bharat Ratra

Warm inflationary universe models in the context of generalized chaplygin gas, modified chaplygin gas, generalized cosmic chaplygin gas are being studied. The dissipative coefficient of the form $\Gamma\propto T$, weak and strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 Abdul Jawad , Sadaf Butt , Shamaila Rani

A period of early matter domination can give rise to the correct dark matter abundance for a broad range of dark matter annihilation rate $\langle \sigma_{\rm ann} v \rangle_{\rm f}$. Here, we examine this scenario for situations where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Koushik Dutta , Anshuman Maharana

We compute the full one-loop corrections to the primordial tensor power spectrum in an inflationary scenario with a non-minimally coupled spectator field, using the in-in formalism. We derive semi-analytic results for the scalar-sourced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Zhe Li , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

In this paper, we revisit the estimation of the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves originated from inflation, particularly focusing on the effect of thermodynamics in the Standard Model of particle physics. By collecting recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-18 Ken'ichi Saikawa , Satoshi Shirai

The simplest inflationary models predict a primordial power spectrum (PPS) of the curvature fluctuations that can be described by a power-law function that is nearly scale-invariant. It has been shown, however, that the low-multipole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Eleonora Di Valentino , Stefano Gariazzo , Martina Gerbino , Elena Giusarma , Olga Mena

Inspired by quantum gravitational physics, the approach of non-commutative (NC) phase space leads to a modified dispersion relation of gravitational waves. This feature, if applied to the very early universe, gives rise to a modified power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Yi Wang

If the seed magnetic fields exist in the early Universe, tensor components of their anisotropic stresses are not compensated prior to neutrino decoupling and the tensor metric perturbations generated from them survive passively.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-10 Maresuke Shiraishi , Daisuke Nitta , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi

We investigate the constraints on early dark energy (EDE) by combining the most recent CMB observations available, ACT DR4, SPT-3G, and Planck2018 ($\ell_\text{TT,max}=1000$) data. This combined CMB dataset favors non-zero EDE fractions and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao

%The content of this replacement paper is identical to the original. %We have attempted to fix the postscript so that it will print out on %a larger number of printers. Using recent experimental limits on $\mu$ distortions from COBE FIRAS,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Wayne Hu , Douglas Scott , Joseph Silk

We discuss a constraint on the scale $\Lambda_{\rm NC}$ of noncommutative (NC) gauge field theory arising from consideration of the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) of light elements. The propagation of neutrinos in the NC background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Raul Horvat , Josip Trampetic