Thesis

Fundamental Physics with Euclid

• Call:

  IDPASC Portugal - PHD Programme 2014

• Academic Year:

  2014 /2015

• Domain:

  Cosmology

• Supervisor:

  Carlos Martins

• Co-Supervisor:

• Institution:

  Universidade do Porto

• Host Institution:

  CAUP

• Abstract:

  Euclid is an ESA medium-class mission, due to be launched in 2020, whose main goal is to understand the physical origin of the accelerated expansion of the universe. CAUP is an affiliated institute of the Euclid Consortium and is actively involved both in the technical preparation and in the scientific exploitation of the mission. This project will contribute to the latter. Its main goal will be to carry out a detailed assessment of Euclid as a precision tool for consistency tests of the LambdaCDM paradigm and for searches for new physics. Inter alia, some attention will be given to tests of the stability of fundamental couplings a special attention to the variation of fundamental constants, and we will explore possible synergies with ground-based spectrographs such as ESPRESSO and HIRES (a proposed CODEX-like spectrograph for the E-ELT). The work will be done in the context of the Euclid Science Working Groups.