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Inflation and Dark Energy from spectroscopy at $z > 2$
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Ferraro, Simone; Wilson, Michael J; Abidi, Muntazir; Alonso, David; Ansarinejad, Behzad; Armstrong, Robert; Asorey, Jacobo; Avelino, Arturo; Baccigalupi, Carlo; Bandura, Kevin; Battaglia, Nicholas; Bavdhankar, Chetan; Bernal, José Luis; Beutler, Florian; Biagetti, Matteo; Blanc, Guillermo A; Blazek, Jonathan; Bolton, Adam S; Borrill, Julian; Frye, Brenda; Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth; Bull, Philip; Burgess, Cliff; Byrnes, Christian T; Cai, Zheng; Castander, Francisco J; Castorina, Emanuele; Chang, Tzu-Ching; Chaves-Montero, Jonás; Chen, Shi-Fan; Chen, Xingang; Balland, Christophe; Yèche, Christophe; Cohn, JD; Coulton, William; Courtois, Helene; Croft, Rupert AC; Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan; D'Amico, Guido; Dawson, Kyle; Delabrouille, Jacques; Dey, Arjun; Doré, Olivier; Douglass, Kelly A; Yutong, Duan; Dvorkin, Cora; Eggemeier, Alexander; Eisenstein, Daniel; Fan, Xiaohui; Ferreira, Pedro G; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Foreman, Simon; García-Bellido, Juan; Gerbino, Martina; Gluscevic, Vera; Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A; Green, Daniel; Guy, Julien; Hahn, ChangHoon; Hanany, Shaul; Handley, Will; Hathi, Nimish; Hawken, Adam J; Hernández-Aguayo, César; Hložek, Renée; Huterer, Dragan; Ishak, Mustapha; Kamionkowski, Marc; Karagiannis, Dionysios; Keeley, Ryan E; Kehoe, Robert; Khatri, Rishi; Kim, Alex; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Kollmeier, Juna A; Kovetz, Ely D; Krause, Elisabeth; Krolewski, Alex; L'Huillier, Benjamin; Landriau, Martin; Levi, Michael; Liguori, Michele; Linder, Eric; Lukić, Zarija; Macorra, Axel de la; Plazas, Andrés A; Marshall, Jennifer L; Martini, Paul; Masui, Kiyoshi; McDonald, Patrick; Meerburg, P Daniel; Meyers, Joel; Mirbabayi, Mehrdad; Moustakas, John; Myers, Adam D; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Newburgh, Laura; Newman, Jeffrey A; Niz, Gustavo; Padmanabhan, Hamsa
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The expansion of the Universe is understood to have accelerated during twoepochs: in its very first moments during a period of Inflation and much morerecently, at $z < 1$, when Dark Energy is hypothesized to drive cosmicacceleration. The undiscovered mechanisms behind these two epochs representsome of the most important open problems in fundamental physics. The largecosmological volume at $2 < z < 5$, together with the ability to efficientlytarget high-$z$ galaxies with known techniques, enables large gains in thestudy of Inflation and Dark Energy. A future spectroscopic survey can test theGaussianity of the initial conditions up to a factor of ~50 better than ourcurrent bounds, crossing the crucial theoretical threshold of$\sigma(f_{NL}^{\rm local})$ of order unity that separates single field andmulti-field models. Simultaneously, it can measure the fraction of Dark Energyat the percent level up to $z = 5$, thus serving as an unprecedented test ofthe standard model and opening up a tremendous discovery space.