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Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Cosmological Parameters

Eleonora Di Valentino·Thejs Brinckmann·Martina Gerbino·Vivian Poulin·François R. Bouchet·Julien Lesgourgues·Alessandro Melchiorri·Jens Chluba·Sebastien Clesse·Jacques Delabrouille·Cora Dvorkin·Francesco Forastieri·Silvia Galli·Deanna C. Hooper·Massimiliano Lattanzi·Carlos J. A. P. Martins·Laura Salvati·Giovanni Cabass·Andrea Caputo·Elena Giusarma·Eric Hivon·Paolo Natoli·Luca Pagano·Simone Paradiso·Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin·Ana Achucarro·Peter Ade·Rupert Allison·Frederico Arroja·Marc Ashdown·Mario Ballardini·A. J. Banday·Ranajoy Banerji·Nicola Bartolo·James G. Bartlett·Soumen Basak·Jochem Baselmans·Daniel Baumann·Paolo de Bernardis·Marco Bersanelli·Anna Bonaldi·Matteo Bonato·Julian Borrill·François Boulanger·Martin Bucher·Carlo Burigana·Alessandro Buzzelli·Zhen-Yi Cai·Martino Calvo·Carla Sofia Carvalho·Gabriella Castellano·Anthony Challinor·Ivan Charles·Ivan Colantoni·Alessandro Coppolecchia·Martin Crook·Giuseppe D'Alessandro·Marco De Petris·Gianfranco De Zotti·Josè Maria Diego·Josquin Errard·Stephen Feeney·Raul Fernandez-Cobos·Simone Ferraro·Fabio Finelli·Giancarlo de Gasperis·Ricardo T. Génova-Santos·Joaquin González-Nuevo·Sebastian Grandis·Josh Greenslade·Steffen Hagstotz·Shaul Hanany·Will Handley·Dhiraj K. Hazra·Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo·Carlos Hervias-Caimapo·Matthew Hills·Kimmo Kiiveri·Ted Kisner·Thomas Kitching·Martin Kunz·Hannu Kurki-Suonio·Luca Lamagna·Anthony Lasenby·Antony Lewis·Michele Liguori·Valtteri Lindholm·Marcos Lopez-Caniego·Gemma Luzzi·Bruno Maffei·Sylvain Martin·Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez·Silvia Masi·Darragh McCarthy·Jean-Baptiste Melin·Joseph J. Mohr·Diego Molinari·Alessandro Monfardini·Mattia Negrello·Alessio Notari
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We forecast the main cosmological parameter constraints achievable with the CORE space mission which is dedicated to mapping the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). CORE was recently submitted in response to ESA's fifth call for medium-sized mission proposals (M5). Here we report the results from our pre-submission study of the impact of various instrumental options, in particular the telescope size and sensitivity level, and review the great, transformative potential of the mission as proposed. Specifically, we assess the impact on a broad range of fundamental parameters of our Universe as a function of the expected CMB characteristics, with other papers in the series focusing on controlling astrophysical and instrumental residual systematics. In this paper, we assume that only a few central CORE frequency channels are usable for our purpose, all others being devoted to the cleaning of astrophysical contaminants. On the theoretical side, we assume LCDM as our general framework and quantify the improvement provided by CORE over the current constraints from the Planck 2015 release. We also study the joint sensitivity of CORE and of future Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and Large Scale Structure experiments like DESI and Euclid. Specific constraints on the physics of inflation are presented in another paper of the series. In addition to the six parameters of the base LCDM, which describe the matter content of a spatially flat universe with adiabatic and scalar primordial fluctuations from inflation, we derive the precision achievable on parameters like those describing curvature, neutrino physics, extra light relics, primordial helium abundance, dark matter annihilation, recombination physics, variation of fundamental constants, dark energy, modified gravity, reionization and cosmic birefringence. (ABRIDGED)

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Eleonora Di Valentino, Thejs Brinckmann, Martina Gerbino, Vivian Poulin, François R. Bouchet, Julien Lesgourgues, Alessandro Melchiorri, Jens Chluba, Sebastien Clesse, Jacques Delabrouille, Cora Dvorkin, Francesco Forastieri, Silvia Galli, Deanna C. Hooper, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Carlos J. A. P. Martins, Laura Salvati, Giovanni Cabass, Andrea Caputo, Elena Giusarma, Eric Hivon, Paolo Natoli, Luca Pagano, Simone Paradiso, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Ana Achucarro, Peter Ade, Rupert Allison, Frederico Arroja, Marc Ashdown, Mario Ballardini, A. J. Banday, Ranajoy Banerji, Nicola Bartolo, James G. Bartlett, Soumen Basak, Jochem Baselmans, Daniel Baumann, Paolo de Bernardis, Marco Bersanelli, Anna Bonaldi, Matteo Bonato, Julian Borrill, François Boulanger, Martin Bucher, Carlo Burigana, Alessandro Buzzelli, Zhen-Yi Cai, Martino Calvo, Carla Sofia Carvalho, Gabriella Castellano, Anthony Challinor, Ivan Charles, Ivan Colantoni, Alessandro Coppolecchia, Martin Crook, Giuseppe D'Alessandro, Marco De Petris, Gianfranco De Zotti, Josè Maria Diego, Josquin Errard, Stephen Feeney, Raul Fernandez-Cobos, Simone Ferraro, Fabio Finelli, Giancarlo de Gasperis, Ricardo T. Génova-Santos, Joaquin González-Nuevo, Sebastian Grandis, Josh Greenslade, Steffen Hagstotz, Shaul Hanany, Will Handley, Dhiraj K. Hazra, Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos Hervias-Caimapo, Matthew Hills, Kimmo Kiiveri, Ted Kisner, Thomas Kitching, Martin Kunz, Hannu Kurki-Suonio, Luca Lamagna, Anthony Lasenby, Antony Lewis, Michele Liguori, Valtteri Lindholm, Marcos Lopez-Caniego, Gemma Luzzi, Bruno Maffei, Sylvain Martin, Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez, Silvia Masi, Darragh McCarthy, Jean-Baptiste Melin, Joseph J. Mohr, Diego Molinari, Alessandro Monfardini, Mattia Negrello, Alessio Notari. 2017-04-05. Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Cosmological Parameters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516%2F2018%2F04%2F017

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