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Bispectrum at 1-loop in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-10-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper we compute 1-loop corrections to the bispectrum in the decoupling limit of the Effective Field Theory of Inflation (EFToI). We regulate the divergences by employing dimensional regularization and work in d=3+δd=3+\delta dimensions. We find that the final results feature analytic structures of the form log(ki/kT)\log{\left(k_i/k_T\right)} and log(H/μ)\log{\left(H/\mu\right)}, where HH is the Hubble parameter and μ\mu is the renormalisation scale. An interesting outcome of our calculations is that unlike the 1-loop correction to the power-spectrum computed in arXiv:0912.2734 the unrenormalised answers always produce unphysical logarithms of co-moving momenta. These unphysical logarithms are cancelled only after renormalisation. We expect this to be a generic feature for loop computations unless there is some cancellation as in the previously computed 1-loop result for the power-spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2405.10374,
  title  = {Bispectrum at 1-loop in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation},
  author = {Supritha Bhowmick and Diptimoy Ghosh and Farman Ullah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10374},
  year   = {2024}
}

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28 pages