PIRSA:15120013

On the Statistics of Biased Tracers and BAO in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures

Vlah, Z. (2015). On the Statistics of Biased Tracers and BAO in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/15120013

Vlah, Zvonimir. On the Statistics of Biased Tracers and BAO in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 01, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15120013 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:15120013,
            doi = {10.48660/15120013},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15120013},
            author = {Vlah, Zvonimir},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {On the Statistics of Biased Tracers and BAO in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2015},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:15120013 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Zvonimir Vlah

Stanford University

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Abstract

With the completion of the Planck satellite, in order to continue collecting cosmological information it is
important to gain a precise understanding of the formation of Large Scale Structures (LSS) of the universe.
The Effective Field Theory of LSS (EFTofLSS) offers a consistent theoretical framework that aims to develop
an analytic understanding of LSS at long distances, where inhomogeneities are small. We present the recent
developments in the field covering topics of biased tracers in the EFTofLSS including the effects of baryonic
physics and primordial non-Gaussianities, finding that new bias coefficients are required. We discuss the EFT
framework for dark matter clustering in Lagrangian formalism and present its consequences on baryon acoustic
oscillations (BAO). We present analytic results and compare them with the output of N-body simulations.