1. Inflation and Dark Energy from spectroscopy at $z > 2$
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Ferraro, Simone, Wilson, Michael J, Abidi, Muntazir, Alonso, David, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Armstrong, Robert, Asorey, Jacobo, Avelino, Arturo, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bandura, Kevin, Battaglia, Nicholas, Bavdhankar, Chetan, Bernal, José Luis, Beutler, Florian, Biagetti, Matteo, Blanc, Guillermo A, Blazek, Jonathan, Bolton, Adam S, Borrill, Julian, Frye, Brenda, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Bull, Philip, Burgess, Cliff, Byrnes, Christian T, Cai, Zheng, Castander, Francisco J, Castorina, Emanuele, Chang, Tzu-Ching, Chaves-Montero, Jonás, Chen, Shi-Fan, Chen, Xingang, Balland, Christophe, Yèche, Christophe, Cohn, JD, Coulton, William, Courtois, Helene, Croft, Rupert AC, Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, D'Amico, Guido, Dawson, Kyle, Delabrouille, Jacques, Dey, Arjun, Doré, Olivier, Douglass, Kelly A, Yutong, Duan, Dvorkin, Cora, Eggemeier, Alexander, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Ferreira, Pedro G, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Foreman, Simon, García-Bellido, Juan, Gerbino, Martina, Gluscevic, Vera, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Green, Daniel, Guy, Julien, Hahn, ChangHoon, Hanany, Shaul, Handley, Will, Hathi, Nimish, Hawken, Adam J, Hernández-Aguayo, César, Hložek, Renée, Huterer, Dragan, Ishak, Mustapha, Kamionkowski, Marc, Karagiannis, Dionysios, Keeley, Ryan E, Kehoe, Robert, Khatri, Rishi, Kim, Alex, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kollmeier, Juna A, Kovetz, Ely D, Krause, Elisabeth, Krolewski, Alex, L'Huillier, Benjamin, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, Liguori, Michele, Linder, Eric, Lukić, Zarija, Macorra, Axel de la, Plazas, Andrés A, Marshall, Jennifer L, Martini, Paul, Masui, Kiyoshi, McDonald, Patrick, Meerburg, P Daniel, Meyers, Joel, Mirbabayi, Mehrdad, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Newburgh, Laura, Newman, Jeffrey A, Niz, Gustavo, and Padmanabhan, Hamsa
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astro-ph.CO ,astro-ph.GA - Abstract
The expansion of the Universe is understood to have accelerated during twoepochs: in its very first moments during a period of Inflation and much morerecently, at $z < 1$, when Dark Energy is hypothesized to drive cosmicacceleration. The undiscovered mechanisms behind these two epochs representsome of the most important open problems in fundamental physics. The largecosmological volume at $2 < z < 5$, together with the ability to efficientlytarget high-$z$ galaxies with known techniques, enables large gains in thestudy of Inflation and Dark Energy. A future spectroscopic survey can test theGaussianity of the initial conditions up to a factor of ~50 better than ourcurrent bounds, crossing the crucial theoretical threshold of$\sigma(f_{NL}^{\rm local})$ of order unity that separates single field andmulti-field models. Simultaneously, it can measure the fraction of Dark Energyat the percent level up to $z = 5$, thus serving as an unprecedented test ofthe standard model and opening up a tremendous discovery space.
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- 2019