Probing quantum phenomena in the early Universe with cosmological data (MFR)
Main funder
Funder's project number: 351190
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 40 000,00
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/03/2022
Project end date: 01/02/2024
Summary
Current cosmological observations indicate that our Universe is described by the so-called ΛCDM model, but the basic ingredients of this model are not understood: we do not know what dark matter consists of and what is the nature of dark energy. Also the origin the density fluctuations that seeded the observed large scale structures remains unknown. Therefore the ΛCDM model is just a paradigm of modern cosmology. Since the current standard model of particle physics (SM) offers no solutions to these problems, cosmology poses us with a direct challenge: there must be physics beyond the SM. This project concentrates on the fundamental connection between the early Universe and the fundamental theory of nature. We investigate dynamical sources for inflation starting from constituents already proved to exist: Higgs field and gravity and explore ways to confront variants of this paradigm with the observations including CMB and gravitational waves which could be detected in the future.
Principal Investigator
Primary responsible unit
Profiling area: Accelerator and Subatomic Physics (University of Jyväskylä JYU)
