Conveners
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
- gianluca inguglia
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
- gianluca inguglia
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Maura Graziani (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Maura Graziani (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are mostly protons and heavier nuclei arriving on Earth from space and producing particle cascades in the atmosphere, ”extensive air showers”. As of today, the most precise and high-statistics data set of the rare (≤ 1 particle per square km per year above 10 EeV) UHECR events is obtained by the Pierre Auger Observatory, a large area (~3000 square km)...
We study single field slow-roll inflation in the presence of $F(R)$ gravity in the Palatini formulation. In contrast to metric $F(R)$, when rewritten in terms of an auxiliary field and moved to the Einstein frame, Palatini $F(R)$ does not develop a new dynamical degree of freedom. However, it is not possible to solve analytically the constraint equation of the auxiliary field for a general...