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In this paper we will analyze generic predictions of an inflection-point model of inflation with Hubble-induced corrections and study them in light of the Planck data. Typically inflection-point models of inflation can be embedded within…

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The constraints on a general form of the power-law potential and the dissipation coefficient in the framework of warm single field inflation imposed by Planck data will be investigated. {By Considering a quasi-static Universe, besides a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-03 Zahra Ghadiri , Abdollah Refaei , Ali Aghamohammadi , Haidar Sheikhahmadi

We present three non-parametric Bayesian primordial reconstructions using Planck 2018 polarization data: linear spline primordial power spectrum reconstructions, cubic spline inflationary potential reconstructions and sharp-featured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Will J. Handley , Anthony N. Lasenby , Hiranya V. Peiris , Michael P. Hobson

We present cosmological constraints from Planck 2015 data for a universe that is kinetically dominated at very early times. We perform a Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis to estimate parameters and use nested sampling to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 L. T. Hergt , W. J. Handley , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby

Recent results from the Planck satellite combined with earlier observations from WMAP, ACT, SPT and other experiments eliminate a wide spectrum of more complex inflationary models and favor models with a single scalar field, as reported by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-11 Anna Ijjas , Paul J. Steinhardt , Abraham Loeb

Future research studies of cosmic microwave background polarization seems likely to provide a more improved upper bound of $r \le 0.03$ on the tensor-to-scalar ratio(r). In our work, we have done the reheating study of mutated hilltop…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Sudhava Yadav , Dhwani Gangal , K. K. Venkataratnam

Using the most recent data from the WMAP, ACT and SPT experiments, we update the constraints on models with oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum of scalar perturbations. This kind of features can appear in models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Micol Benetti , Stefania Pandolfi , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri

We investigate the impact of different choice of prior's range for the reheating epoch on cosmic inflation parameter inference in light of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements from the {\em Planck} 2018 legacy release…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Mario Ballardini

We propose a single field inflationary model by generalizing the inverse power law potential from the intermediate model. We study the implication of our model on the primordial anisotropy of cosmological microwave background radiation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Zhun Lu

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations results reported by {\it Planck} satellite suggest a plateau characteristic in the flat potential of the inflaton field is favored to drive the Universe's early acceleration. On that note,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yogesh , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay

The advancement in the observational cosmology of the early universe such as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations, puts severe constraints on the inflationary models. Many inflationary models have been ruled out by CMB,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Yogesh , Mehnaz Zahoor , Kashif Ali Wani , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat

A correction to the Quartic Hilltop inflationary model is proposed to account for stabilising terms in the potential. We derive analytical predictions for the spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-scalar ratio $r$ which lie within the Planck 2018…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Josh Hoffmann , David Sloan

We explore the relationship between features in the Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data, shifts in the cosmological parameters, and features from inflation. Residuals in the temperature data at low multipole $\ell$, which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 Georges Obied , Cora Dvorkin , Chen Heinrich , Wayne Hu , V Miranda

If a coupling between the inflaton and the Gauss-Bonnet term is introduced, many models of inflation that were ruled out by the most recent Planck data can be made viable again. The predictions for the scalar spectral index and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-22 Kamil Mudrunka , Kazunori Nakayama

Constraining inflationary models with high precision bispectra across broad parameter ranges is a challenging task, requiring intensive computations at all stages, first, predicting the primordial inflation bispectrum from quantum field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Bowei Zhang , E. P. S. Shellard , James R. Fergusson

We identify examples of single field inflationary trajectories beyond the slow-roll regime which improve the fit to Planck 2018 data compared to baseline $\Lambda$CDM model with power law form of primordial spectrum and at the same time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Akhil Antony , Fabio Finelli , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo

We present new constraints on possible features in the primordial inflationary density perturbations power spectrum in light of the recent Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies measurements from the Planck satellite. We found that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Micol Benetti

We have studied the paradigm of cosmic inflation using the simplest model based on the idea of supersymmetric hybrid inflation with non-minimal coupling to gravity, specially under the slow-roll approximation following the superconformal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Umananda Dev Goswami

The topic of this talk is a new inflationary model in the context of Type IIB string compactifications called Loop Blow-Up Inflation, presented in arXiv:2403.04831. The original Blow-Up Inflation model, whose potential was purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Luca Brunelli

We emphasize that the estimation of cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data, such as the recent high resolution maps from BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1, requires assumptions about the primordial spectra. The…

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