3 papers
astro-ph.CO2025
Closing in on -attractors
Laura Iacconi, Sukannya Bhattacharya, Matteo Fasiello +1
Recent observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies combined with large-scale structure may point towards higher values of the scalar spectral index, . This…
astro-ph.CO2025
On the prospects of thermalization of axion-SU(2) inflation
Sukannya Bhattacharya, Matteo Fasiello, Alexandros Papageorgiou +1
Axion inflation models coupled to a gauge sector via a Chern-Simons term exhibit an array of interesting phenomenology including a chiral gravitational wave spectrum and primordial…
astro-ph.CO2025
Cosmological tests of quintessence in quantum gravity
Sukannya Bhattacharya, Giulia Borghetto, Ameek Malhotra +3
We use a suite of the most recent cosmological observations to test models of dynamical dark energy motivated by quantum gravity. Specifically, we focus on hilltop quintessence sce…