PIRSA:24020049

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https://pirsa.org/24020049

Galaxy Surveys: A Precision Primordial Probe

Philcox, O. (2024). Galaxy Surveys: A Precision Primordial Probe. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/24020049

Philcox, Oliver. Galaxy Surveys: A Precision Primordial Probe. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Feb. 14, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24020049 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:24020049,
            doi = {10.48660/24020049},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/24020049},
            author = {Philcox, Oliver},
            keywords = {Other Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Galaxy Surveys: A Precision Primordial Probe},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2024},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:24020049 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/24020049}}
          }

Oliver Philcox Columbia University

Talk numberPIRSA:24020049
DOI10.48660/24020049
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

What happened in the earliest moments of the Universe? Despite decades of theoretical and observational work, a detailed understanding of the primordial Universe has remained elusive. In this talk, I will show how surveys of millions of galaxies can shed new light on these issues by constraining the statistics of the Universe just after inflation. By combining robust perturbative models with novel numerical techniques, I have placed some of the first (non-Gaussian) constraints on the dynamics and field content of inflation from galaxy surveys; these will sharpen considerably in the next decade as the volume of observational data grows. Through a combination of traditional perturbative approaches and new symmetry-based techniques, I will demonstrate how current and future galaxy surveys can be used to search for a wealth of new physics, including primordial scattering processes and parity violation, opening the door to constraining ultra-high-energy physics with low-energy data.

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