Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies

E Abdalla, GF Abellán, A Aboubrahim, A Agnello… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The standard Λ Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model provides a good
description of a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological data. However, there are a …

[HTML][HTML] Feebly-interacting particles: FIPs 2022 workshop report

C Antel, M Battaglieri, J Beacham, C Boehm… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Particle physics today faces the challenge of explaining the mystery of dark matter, the origin
of matter over anti-matter in the Universe, the origin of the neutrino masses, the apparent …

[HTML][HTML] Inflationary interpretation of the stochastic gravitational wave background signal detected by pulsar timing array experiments

S Vagnozzi - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Various pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments (NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, CPTA, including
data from InPTA) very recently reported evidence for excess red common-spectrum signals …

Challenges for ΛCDM: An update

L Perivolaropoulos, F Skara - New Astronomy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
A number of challenges to the standard Λ CDM model have been emerging during the past
few years as the accuracy of cosmological observations improves. In this review we discuss …

Improved limits on the tensor-to-scalar ratio using BICEP and data

M Tristram, AJ Banday, KM Górski, R Keskitalo… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r using a combination of BICEP/Keck
2018 (BK18) and Planck PR4 data allowing us to fit for r consistently with the six parameters …

Footprints of the QCD crossover on cosmological gravitational waves at pulsar timing arrays

G Franciolini, D Racco, F Rompineve - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have reported evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW)
background at nanohertz frequencies, possibly originating in the early Universe. We show …

Probing cosmic inflation with the LiteBIRD cosmic microwave background polarization survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E Allys, K Arnold… - … of Theoretical and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation
from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology …

The present and future status of heavy neutral leptons

AM Abdullahi, PB Alzás, B Batell… - Journal of Physics G …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The existence of nonzero neutrino masses points to the likely existence of multiple Standard
Model neutral fermions. When such states are heavy enough that they cannot be produced …

The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys

J Schaye, R Kugel, M Schaller, JC Helly… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We introduce the Virgo Consortium's FLAMINGO suite of hydrodynamical
simulations for cosmology and galaxy cluster physics. To ensure the simulations are …

The Ups and Downs of Early Dark Energy solutions to the Hubble tension: a review of models, hints and constraints circa 2023

V Poulin, TL Smith, T Karwal - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
We review the current status of Early Dark Energy (EDE) models proposed to resolve the
“Hubble tension”, the discrepancy between “direct” measurements of the current expansion …