EPFL/CERN/UNIGE Discussion Sessions

Wednesday 29 Jan 2014, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

To prompt collaboration among the different groups in cosmology in the Léman area, we hold a common discussion session every month and a half. In those, recent news in the field are addressed by experts at a level that we can all understand. Please, suggest papers/subjects to the local organizers. The papers to discuss are:
i) Quantum corrections in Higgs inflation: the real scalar case http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2157
ii) Are peculiar velocity surveys competitive as a cosmological probe?http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.1022.pdf
iii) Exclusion of the remaining mass window for primordial black holes as the dominant constituent of dark matter
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3025.pdf
The suggested papers (excluding the previous ones) have been

CMB
Planck Data Reconsidered
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3313
CMB constraints on mass and coupling constant of light pseudoscalar particles
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3558
LSS
Biases on cosmological parameter estimators from galaxy cluster number counts
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.4430.pdf
PkANN  II. A non-linear matter power spectrum interpolator developed using artificial neural networks
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.2101.pdf
The MICE Grand Challenge Lightcone Simulation I: Dark matter clustering
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.1707.pdf
Using correlations between CMB lensing and large-scale structure to measure primordial non-Gaussianity
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5154.pdf
Large-Scale Structure and Gravitational Waves III: Tidal Effects
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5616.pdf
MODIFIED GRAVITY
Observable physical modes of modified gravity
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5309.pdf
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Testing gravity with redshift-space distortions using the power spectrum multipoles
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.4611.pdf
21 CM
A new light on 21 cm intensity fluctuations from the dark ages
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.4948.pdf
MAGNETIC FIELDS
Effects of non-linearities on magnetic field generation
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6504.pdf