Inflation & the Cosmic Microwave Background

Publications

Talks:

• What have we learnt about inflation from WMAP? (Quantum Theories ... in Gravity & Cosmology, 11-15 Jul 2006, Barcelona)
• Inflation after WMAP (Cosmology: A Reality Check, 14-17 Dec 2005, Copenhagen)
• Inflation and the cosmological density perturbation (Dark energies, Dark matters, 28-29 Apr 2005, Paris)
• Evidence for an inflationary phase transition from the LSS and CMB anisotropy data (Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, 30 Sep-5 Oct 2000, San Feliu de Guixols)

Reviews:

• Measuring the cosmological density perturbation (DPU 2004, Athens)
• New results in cosmology (EPS-HEP'01, Budapest)
• Supersymmetric inflation and large scale structure (APCTP'96, Seoul)
• Successful supersymmetric inflation (EPS-HEP'95, Brussels)

Papers:

• Reconstructing the EFT of inflation from cosmological data (2019)
• Reconstruction of a direction-dependent primordial power spectrum from Planck CMB data (2017)
• Search for features in the spectrum of primordial perturbations using Planck and other datasets (2017)
• Fingerprints of Galactic Loop I on the cosmic microwave background (2014)
• Reconstruction of the primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbations using multiple data sets (2014)
• Non-Gaussianity from violation of slow-roll in multiple inflation (2010)
• Fine tuning and the ratio of tensor to scalar density fluctuations from cosmological inflation (2008)
• Racetrack inflation and assisted moduli stabilisation (2005)
• Multiple inflation and the WMAP 'glitches' (2004)
• Low-scale inflation (2001)
• Thermalisation after inflation (2001)
• On the APM power spectrum and the CMB anisotropy: Evidence for a phase transition during inflation? (2000)
• Implementing quadratic supergravity inflation (1999)
• Multiple inflation (1997)
• Natural supergravity inflation (1997)
• Successful supersymmetric inflation (1996)
• The cosmology of decaying gravitinos (1985)

Tools

• COSMICS - Ed Bertschinger (updated July 1996)
• CMBFAST - Uros Seljak & Matias Zaldariagga (updated Dec 2003)
• CAMB - Anthony Lewis & Antony Challinor (updated Sep 2006)
• CosmoMC - Antony Lewis (updated Oct 2006)
• CMBEASY - Michael Doran, Georg Robbers & Christian M. Müller (updated May 2008)

Links

• The Virgo Consortium (Durham)
• The Cosmic Microwave Background (Douglas Scott, Vancouver)
• The Physics of Microwave Background Anisotropies (Wayne Hu, Chicago)
• CMB experiments (Max Tegmark, MIT)

Meetings

• Strings@CERN, Geneva, 5-7 July 2004
• The density perturbation in the universe: Beyond the inflaton paradigm, Athens, 25-26 June 2004
• The world according to WMAP: implications for particle physics, Abingdon, 7-8 June 2003
• Newton Institute Programme: "Structure Formation in the Universe", Cambridge, Jul-Dec 1999