Peeking into the next decade in Large-Scale Structure Cosmology with its Effective Field Theory

Jul 10, 2023
52 pages
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Abstract: (arXiv)
After the successful full-shape analyses of BOSS data using the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure, we investigate what upcoming galaxy surveys might achieve. We introduce a ``perturbativity prior" that ensures that loop terms are as large as theoretically expected, which is effective in the case of a large number of EFT parameters. After validating our technique by comparison with already-performed analyses of BOSS data, we provide Fisher forecasts using the one-loop prediction for power spectrum and bispectrum for two benchmark surveys: DESI and MegaMapper. We find overall great improvements on the cosmological parameters. In particular, we find that MegaMapper (DESI) should obtain at least a 12σ\sigma (2σ2\sigma) evidence for non-vanishing neutrino masses, bound the curvature Ωk\Omega_k to 0.0012 (0.012), and primordial inflationary non-Gaussianities as follows: fNLloc.f_{\text{NL}}^{\text{loc.}} to ±0.26\pm 0.26 (3.3), fNLeq.f_{\text{NL}}^{\text{eq.}} to ±16\pm16 (92), fNLorth.f_{\text{NL}}^{\text{orth.}} to ±4.2\pm 4.2 (27). Such measurements would provide much insight on the theory of Inflation. We investigate the limiting factor of shot noise and ignorance of the EFT parameters.
Note:
  • 38+14 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables
  • neutrino: mass
  • inflation: non-Gaussianity
  • effective field theory
  • DESI
  • structure
  • power spectrum
  • noise
  • bispectrum
  • benchmark
  • curvature