Peeking into the next decade in Large-Scale Structure Cosmology with its Effective Field Theory
Jul 10, 2023
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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 12 () evidence for non-vanishing neutrino masses, bound the curvature to 0.0012 (0.012), and primordial inflationary non-Gaussianities as follows: to (3.3), to (92), to (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
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