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As a doctoral student of
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Baumann, Daniel; Beutler, Florian; Flauger, Raphael; Green, Daniel; Slosar, Anže; Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Wallisch, Benjamin; Yèche, Christophe (2019). "First constraint on the neutrino-induced phase shift in the spectrum of baryon acoustic oscillations".
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Elley, Matthew; Aurrekoetxea, Josu C.; Clough, Katy; Flauger, Raphael; Giannadakis, Panagiotis; Lim, Eugene A. (2024). "Robustness of inflation to kinetic inhomogeneities".
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Clough, Katy; Lim, Eugene A.; Dinunno, Brandon S.; Fischler, Willy; Flauger, Raphael; Paban, Sonia (2017). "Robustness of inflation to inhomogeneous initial conditions".
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Flauger, Raphael; Paban, Sonia; Robbins, Daniel; Wrase, Timm (2009). "Searching for slow-roll moduli inflation in massive type IIA supergravity with metric fluxes".
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Flauger, Raphael; Paban, Sonia; Robbins, Daniel; Wrase, Timm (2009). "Searching for slow-roll moduli inflation in massive type IIA supergravity with metric fluxes".
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Flauger, Raphael; Gorbenko, Victor; Joyce, Austin; McAllister, Liam; Shiu, Gary; Silverstein, Eva (2022). "Snowmass White Paper: Cosmology at the Theory
Frontier".
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Flauger, Raphael; Hellerman, Simeon; Schmidt-Colinet, Cornelius; Sudano, Matthew (2012). "The One-Loop
Effective Kähler Potential. I: Chiral Multiplets".
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scale. According to
Flauger and colleagues, this also opened up the possibility of testing string theory with CMB data. For example, he searched with
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previously it was generally assumed that such B-modes would not be predicted in string theory models because the associated energies are close to the
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Flauger, Raphael; Mirbabayi, Mehrdad; Senatore, Leonardo; Silverstein, Eva (2017). "Productive interactions: Heavy particles and non-Gaussianity".
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in August 2000. He continued to study physics at the
University of Würzburg until July 2001. In 2001 he joined the Weinberg Theory Group at the
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Aloni, Daniel; Blum, Kfir; Flauger, Raphael (2017). "Cosmic microwave background constraints on primordial black hole dark matter".
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Flauger, Raphael; Hill, J. Colin; Spergel, David N. (2014). "Toward an understanding of foreground emission in the BICEP2 region".
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Caceres, Elena; Flauger, Raphael; Wrase, Timm (2009). "Hagedorn
Systems from Backreacted Finite Temperature N_f=2N_c Backgrounds".
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Microwave Background Fluctuations for Large Multipole Order, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 75, 2007, 123505,
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Easther, Richard; Flauger, Raphael; Gilmore, James B. (2011). "Delayed reheating and the breakdown of coherent oscillations".
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Amin, Mustafa A.; Easther, Richard; Finkel, Hal; Flauger, Raphael; Hertzberg, Mark P. (2012). "Oscillons after
Inflation".
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collaboration (2nd generation of
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Dubovsky, Sergei; Flauger, Raphael; Gorbenko, Victor (2012). "Solving the simplest theory of quantum gravity".
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Dubovsky, Sergei; Flauger, Raphael; Gorbenko, Victor (2012). "Effective string theory revisited".
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