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Publications (9)

hep-th2013

Leading slow roll corrections to the volume of the universe and the entropy bound

Matthew Lewandowski, Ashley Perko

We make an extension to recent calculations of the probability density ρ(V) for the volume of the universe after inflation. Previous results have been accurate to leading order in…

astro-ph.CO2017

On the Bispectra of Very Massive Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure

Ethan O. Nadler, Ashley Perko, Leonardo Senatore

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) provides a consistent perturbative framework for describing the statistical distribution of cosmological large-scale…

astro-ph.IM2014

MITEoR: A Scalable Interferometer for Precision 21 cm Cosmology

Haoxuan Zheng, Max Tegmark, Victor Buza +34

We report on the MIT Epoch of Reionization (MITEoR) experiment, a pathfinder low-frequency radio interferometer whose goal is to test technologies that improve the calibration prec…

astro-ph.CO2016

Biased Tracers in Redshift Space in the EFT of Large-Scale Structure

Ashley Perko, Leonardo Senatore, Elise Jennings +1

The Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) provides a novel formalism that is able to accurately predict the clustering of large-scale structure (LSS) in the mi…

hep-ph2018

Dark matter amnesia in out-of-equilibrium scenarios

Joshua Berger, Djuna Croon, Sonia El Hedri +3

Models in which the dark matter is produced at extremely low rates from the annihilation of Standard Model particles in the early Universe allow us to explain the current dark matt…

astro-ph.IM2013

Mapping our Universe in 3D with MITEoR

Haoxuan Zheng, Max Tegmark, Victor Buza +33

Mapping our universe in 3D by imaging the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen has the potential to overtake the cosmic microwave background as our most powerful cosmologica…

astro-ph.CO2014

Analytic Prediction of Baryonic Effects from the EFT of Large Scale Structures

Matthew Lewandowski, Ashley Perko, Leonardo Senatore

The large scale structures of the universe will likely be the next leading source of cosmological information. It is therefore crucial to understand their behavior. The Effective F…

hep-ph2019

Lattice-Friendly Gauge Completion of a Composite Higgs with Top Partners

Helene Gertov, Ann E. Nelson, Ashley Perko +1

We give an explicit example of a composite Higgs model with a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Higgs in which the top Yukawa coupling is generated via the partial compositeness mechanism. Th…

astro-ph.CO2013

The Physical Squeezed Limit: Consistency Relations at Order q^2

Paolo Creminelli, Ashley Perko, Leonardo Senatore +2

In single-field models of inflation the effect of a long mode with momentum q reduces to a diffeomorphism at zeroth and first order in q. This gives the well-known consistency rela…