Gravitation and Cosmology: Perturbation, Phenomenology and Exact Results
| Grant number: | 14/10748-5 |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants |
| Start date: | January 01, 2015 |
| End date: | December 31, 2017 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields |
| Principal Investigator: | Rafael Alejandro Porto Pereira |
| Grantee: | Rafael Alejandro Porto Pereira |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| City of the host institution: | São Paulo |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 14/25212-3 - An effective field theory approach to cosmology, BP.JP |
Abstract
Precision cosmological observations from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large scale structures (LSS) during the last few decades have re-shaped our attempts at understanding the universe we inhabit.Physicists today are thus combining top down ideas such a string theory, with bottom up routes or effective field theories (EFTs), similar to those used in particle physics. This proposal is mostly about the latter, and implementing a systematic EFT approach to the physics of the early and late universe. This program resembles the uses of EFTs in particle physics which play a crucial role in elucidating the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking at the Large Hadron Collider. My research group will thus contribute to position ICTP-SAIFR as a leading centre for EFT applications in cosmology in the advent of a new generation of experimental probes of the universe. (AU)
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