Continuous Spectrum on Cosmological Collider
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-04-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the effects of a massive field with a continuous spectrum (continuum isocurvaton) on the inflationary bispectrum in the squeezed limit. As a concrete example, we extend the quasi-single field inflation model to include a continuum isocurvaton with a well-motivated spectral density from extra dimensions and focus on a contribution to the bispectrum with a single continuum isocurvaton exchange. In contrast to the usual case without the continuous spectrum, the amplitude of the bispectrum has a damping feature in the deep squeezed limit, which can be strong evidence for the continuous spectrum.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.07920,
title = {Continuous Spectrum on Cosmological Collider},
author = {Shuntaro Aoki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07920},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
23 pages, 3 figures; v2: references added, to be published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics