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Planck 2013 results. XXIII. Isotropy and statistics of the CMB

Julien Lesgourgues, Jason Douglas McEwen, Ji Hyun Kim, Fabio Finelli

The two fundamental assumptions of the standard cosmological model - that the initial fluctuations are statistically isotropic and Gaussian - are rigorously tested using maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy from the Planck satellite. Th ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

CMB power spectra and likelihood

Julien Lesgourgues, Fabio Finelli

This paper presents the Planck 2013 likelihood, a complete statistical description of the two-point correlation function of the CMB temperature fluctuations that accounts for all known relevant uncertainties, both instrumental and astrophysical in nature. ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Inflation, leptogenesis, and Yukawa quasiunification within a supersymmetric left-right model

Roberta Armillis

A simple extension of the minimal left-right symmetric supersymmetric grand unified theory model is constructed by adding two pairs of superfields. This naturally violates the partial Yukawa unification predicted by the minimal model. After including super ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Kinetic initial conditions for inflation

Sylvain Bréchet

We consider the classical evolution of the inflaton field and the Hubble parameter in homogeneous and isotropic single-field inflation models. Under an extremely broad assumption, we show that the Universe generically emerges from an initial singularity in ...

American Physical Society2014

Cosmological constraints on Lorentz violating dark energy

Julien Lesgourgues, Sergey Sibiryakov, Diego Blas Temino, Benjamin Audren

The role of Lorentz invariance as a fundamental symmetry of nature has been lately reconsidered in different approaches to quantum gravity. It is thus natural to study whether other puzzles of physics may be solved within these proposals. This may be the c ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

A naturally light dilaton

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Paolo Lodone, Lorenzo Vitale

Goldstone's theorem does not apply straightforwardly to the case of spontaneously broken scale invariance. We elucidate under what conditions a light scalar degree of freedom, identifiable with the dilaton, can naturally arise. Our construction can be cons ...

Springer2013

Investigation of field and diffusion time dependence of the diffusion-weighted signal at ultrahigh magnetic fields

Rolf Gruetter, Yohan Van de Looij, Nicolas Kunz

Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of high-magnetic-field MRI magnets. However, the exact effect of a high magnetic field strength (B0 ) on diffusion-weighted MR signals is not yet fully understood. The goal of this s ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Kagome Antiferromagnet: A Chiral Topological Spin Liquid?

Inspired by the recent discovery of a new instability towards a chiral phase of the classical Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice, we propose a specific chiral spin liquid that reconciles different, well-established results concerning both the classical ...

2012

Higgs-dilaton cosmology: From the early to the late Universe

Javier Rubio

We consider a minimal scale-invariant extension of the standard model of particle physics combined with unimodular gravity formulated in [M. Shaposhnikov and D. Zenhausern, Phys. Lett. B 671, 187 (2009).]. This theory is able to describe not only an inflat ...

2011

Primordial perturbations from multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings

Realistic models of particle physics include many scalar fields. These fields generically have nonminimal couplings to the Ricci curvature scalar, either as part of a generalized Einstein theory or as necessary counterterms for renormalization in curved ba ...

2010