
Leonardo Senatore
Associate Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Bio
Leonardo Senatore began a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics (PPA) at SLAC, with primary appointment in Physics, in September, 2010.
As an undergraduate in Italy, Senatore completed three years of a program in Aerospace Engineering at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna of Pisa, before switching to Physics and receiving his Laurea in Theoretical Physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 2003. Senatore received his PhD from MIT in April 2006, and then was a postdoctoral researcher jointly at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Physics
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Associate Professor, Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Administrative Appointments
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Associate Professor, Physics Department and SLAC, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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New Horizons in Physics Prize, Breakthrough Prize foundation (2015)
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Early Career Award, Department of energy (2012)
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Terman Award, Stanford (2010)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Reviewer, Grants for DOE, NSF, NASA, ERC, Swiss National Foundation, Netherlands Science Organization (2010)
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Peer reviewer, PRL, PRD, JHEP, JCAP (2007)
Professional Education
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Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Theoretical Physics (2006)
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University, Theoretical Physics (2006)
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Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics (2006)
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University Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Physics (2003)
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Laurea, University of Pisa, Physics (2002)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Professor Senatore is a theoretical physicist working to try to understand how the universe began and evolved to its present form. While this is a very interesting and fundamental question per se, from the understanding of how the universe evolved in the first few moments we can infer more about the laws of physics at the smallest distances and highest energies. Cosmological observations are providing us with a huge amount of data, which allows us to test our theories about inflation, eternal inflation and its alternatives, and about the growth of structures in our universe, to an unprecedented level. Senatore tries to bridge the gap between the speculative ideas about the early universe and their possible confirmation in the data.
Current areas of focus:
- Effective field theory of inflation
- Primordial non-Gaussianities
- Effective field theory of cosmological large scale structures
- Eternal inflation and quantum effects in inflation
- Analysis of cosmological data
2020-21 Courses
- Quantum Field Theory I
PHYSICS 330 (Aut) - Quantum Field Theory II
PHYSICS 331 (Win) -
Independent Studies (2)
- Independent Research and Study
PHYSICS 190 (Aut, Win) - Research
PHYSICS 490 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Independent Research and Study
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Quantum Field Theory I
PHYSICS 330 (Aut)
2018-19 Courses
- Quantum Field Theory I
PHYSICS 330 (Aut)
2017-18 Courses
- Quantum Field Theory I
PHYSICS 330 (Aut)
- Quantum Field Theory I
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
George Panagopoulos -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Diogo Braganca, Adel Rahman
All Publications
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Biased tracers in redshift space in the EFTofLSS with exact time dependence
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/039
View details for Web of Science ID 000590148200041
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Gravitational-wave constraints on an effective-field-theory extension of general relativity
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2020; 102 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.044056
View details for Web of Science ID 000564048900009
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Efficient cosmological analysis of the SDSS/BOSS data from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/001
View details for Web of Science ID 000551875400021
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Asymptotic Behavior of Cosmologies with Lambda > 0 in 2+1 Dimensions
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2020; 376 (2): 1155–70
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-020-03706-3
View details for Web of Science ID 000536053300008
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The cosmological analysis of the SDSS/BOSS data from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/005
View details for Web of Science ID 000535391600006
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An analytic implementation of the IR-resummation for the BAO peak
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/018
View details for Web of Science ID 000528029100019
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Very massive tracers and higher derivative biases
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/009
View details for Web of Science ID 000528025800010
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Tree-level bispectrum in the effective field theory of large-scale structure extended to massive neutrinos
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2019
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/02/038
View details for Web of Science ID 000459147200001
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Black Holes in an Effective Field Theory Extension of General Relativity
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
2018; 121 (25): 251105
Abstract
Effective field theory methods suggest that some rather general extensions of general relativity include, or are mimicked by, certain higher-order curvature corrections, with coupling constants expected to be small but otherwise arbitrary. Thus, the tantalizing prospect to test the fundamental nature of gravity with gravitational-wave observations, in a systematic way, emerges naturally. Here, we build black hole solutions in such a framework and study their main properties. Once rotation is included, we find the first purely gravitational example of geometries without Z_{2} symmetry. Despite the higher-order operators of the theory, we show that linearized fluctuations of such geometries obey second-order differential equations. We find nonzero tidal Love numbers. We study and compute the quasinormal modes of such geometries. These results are of interest to gravitational-wave science but also potentially relevant for electromagnetic observations of the galactic center or x-ray binaries.
View details for PubMedID 30608822
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Light Particles with Spin in Inflation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2018
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/10/013
View details for Web of Science ID 000446884800001
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On the IR-resummation in the EFTofLSS
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2018
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/05/019
View details for Web of Science ID 000431788400001
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EFT of large scale structures in redshift space
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2018; 97 (6)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.063526
View details for Web of Science ID 000428391000001
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On the bispectra of very massive tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2018
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/02/058
View details for Web of Science ID 000426511900001
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The Supersymmetric Effective Field Theory of Inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2017
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP03(2017)063
View details for Web of Science ID 000397674000008
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Boost breaking in the EFT of inflation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2017
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/02/034
View details for Web of Science ID 000399455000034
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Inhomogeneous anisotropic cosmology
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2016
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/10/022
View details for Web of Science ID 000394578400027
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Beginning inflation in an inhomogeneous universe
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2016
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/010
View details for Web of Science ID 000389772300016
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Linear response to long wavelength fluctuations using curvature simulations
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2016
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/007
View details for Web of Science ID 000389772300006
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Precision comparison of the power spectrum in the EFTofLSS with simulations
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2016
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/027
View details for Web of Science ID 000378041500028
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The EFT of Large Scale Structures at all redshifts: analytical predictions for lensing
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2016
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/033
View details for Web of Science ID 000393286400027
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Bias in the effective field theory of large scale structures
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2015
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/11/007
View details for Web of Science ID 000365821200008
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The one-loop matter bispectrum in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2015
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/10/039
View details for Web of Science ID 000365804000040
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The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2015
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)174
View details for Web of Science ID 000361976200001
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On the statistics of biased tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2015
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/09/029
View details for Web of Science ID 000365690000029
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Analytic prediction of baryonic effects from the EFT of large scale structures
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2015
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/019
View details for Web of Science ID 000355794800019
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Inflation after false vacuum decay: Observational prospects after Planck
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2015; 91 (8)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083527
View details for Web of Science ID 000353286900002
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Inflation physics from the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2015; 63: 55-65
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.05.013
View details for Web of Science ID 000344824400005
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Gravitational waves and the scale of inflation
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2015; 91 (6)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.063518
View details for Web of Science ID 000351344100002
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The IR-resummed Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2015
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/013
View details for Web of Science ID 000351502100014
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Inflation after false vaccuum decay: new evidence from BICEP2
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2014
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/12/019
View details for Web of Science ID 000346298800019
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New natural shapes of non-Gaussianity from high-derivative interactions and their optimal limits from WMAP 9-year data
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2014
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/11/035
View details for Web of Science ID 000346105300036
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New sources of gravitational waves during inflation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2014
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/016
View details for Web of Science ID 000341848800016
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The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures at two loops
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2014
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/057
View details for Web of Science ID 000339802700058
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The 2-loop matter power spectrum and the IR-safe integrand
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2014
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/07/056
View details for Web of Science ID 000339802700057
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The Lagrangian-space Effective Field Theory of large scale structures
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2014
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/022
View details for Web of Science ID 000336092200024
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The physical squeezed limit: consistency relations at order q(2)
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/015
View details for Web of Science ID 000327843900016
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Anomalous dimensions and non-gaussianity
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)171
View details for Web of Science ID 000326084600002
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Optimal analysis of azimuthal features in the CMB
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/001
View details for Web of Science ID 000326979500001
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The constancy of zeta in single-clock Inflation at all loops
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)148
View details for Web of Science ID 000325024800006
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On loops in inflation II: IR effects in single clock inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)109
View details for Web of Science ID 000315583600028
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(Small) resonant non-gaussianities: signatures of a discrete shift symmetry in the effective field theory of inflation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/036
View details for Web of Science ID 000312959800036
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The effective field theory of cosmological large scale structures
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)082
View details for Web of Science ID 000310341200058
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A note on the consistency condition of primordial fluctuations
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/001
View details for Web of Science ID 000308800700002
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Cosmological non-linearities as an effective fluid
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/051
View details for Web of Science ID 000307079600004
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On loops in inflation III: time independence of zeta in single clock inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)166
View details for Web of Science ID 000307299800044
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Universality of the volume bound in slow-roll eternal inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP05(2012)035
View details for Web of Science ID 000305236000035
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The effective field theory of multifield inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)024
View details for Web of Science ID 000304146600024
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Dissipative effects in the effective field theory of inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2012
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)075
View details for Web of Science ID 000300181800075
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Galaxy bias and non-linear structure formation in general relativity
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2011
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/10/031
View details for Web of Science ID 000296767600031
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Scale-invariance and the strong coupling problem
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2011
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/004
View details for Web of Science ID 000291264100004
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Primordial non-Gaussianity in the bispectrum of the halo density field
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2011
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/006
View details for Web of Science ID 000291259000006
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A naturally large four-point function in single field inflation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2011
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/01/003
View details for Web of Science ID 000286802900003
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On loops in inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2010
View details for DOI 10.1007/JHEP12(2010)008
View details for Web of Science ID 000285964400038
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Contributions to the dark matter 3-Point function from the radiation era
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2010
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/05/004
View details for Web of Science ID 000279490800036
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Spherical collapse in quintessence models with zero speed of sound
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2010
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/03/027
View details for Web of Science ID 000276103000007
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Non-Gaussianities in single field inflation and their optimal limits from the WMAP 5-year data
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2010
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/01/028
View details for Web of Science ID 000289245200018
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Optimal limits on f(NL)(local) from WMAP 5-year data
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2009
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/006
View details for Web of Science ID 000270659900006
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Non-gaussianities from perturbing recombination
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2009
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/038
View details for Web of Science ID 000270659900038
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Trapped inflation
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2009; 80 (6)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.063533
View details for Web of Science ID 000270385200052
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Cosmological perturbations at second order and recombination perturbed
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2009
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/031
View details for Web of Science ID 000270036800031
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The volume of the universe after inflation and de Sitter entropy
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2009
View details for DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/118
View details for Web of Science ID 000266428300118
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Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization
CMB Polarization Workshop
AMER INST PHYSICS. 2009: 10–120
View details for Web of Science ID 000270939500002
- CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization AIP Conf. Proc 2009: 10
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The phase transition to eternal inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2008
View details for Web of Science ID 000259699700101
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(No) Eternal inflation and precision Higgs physics
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2008
View details for Web of Science ID 000254765800001
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The effective field theory of inflation
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2008
View details for Web of Science ID 000254765800062
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On the consistency relation of the three-point function in single-field inflation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2008
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/02/021
View details for Web of Science ID 000254151100021
- The Phase Transition to Slow-roll Eternal Inflation JHEP 2008; 0809: 036
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A smooth bouncing cosmology with scale invariant spectrum
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2007
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/11/010
View details for Web of Science ID 000251993300022
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Estimators for local non-Gaussianities
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2007
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/03/019
View details for Web of Science ID 000245945000003
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Limits on f(NL) parameters from Wilkinson microwave Anisotropy Probe three-year data
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2007
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/03/005
View details for Web of Science ID 000245945000017
- Limits on fNL parameters from WMAP 3yr data JCAP 2007; 0703: 005
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Starting the Universe: stable violation of the null energy condition and non-standard cosmologies
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
2006
View details for Web of Science ID 000244081100081
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Limits on non-gaussianities from WMAP data
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2006
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/05/004
View details for Web of Science ID 000238060100004
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Hierarchy from baryogenesis
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2006; 73 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.043513
View details for Web of Science ID 000235669800025
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Minimal model for dark matter and unification
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2006; 73 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.043510
View details for Web of Science ID 000235669800022
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Isocurvature constraints on gravitationally produced superheavy dark matter
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2005; 72 (2)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.023511
View details for Web of Science ID 000230889600021
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Tilted ghost inflation
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2005; 71 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.043512
View details for Web of Science ID 000227319800021
- How heavy can the fermions in split SUSY be? A study on gravitino and extradimensional LSP Phys. Rev. D 2005; 71: 103510