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De Sitter Quantum Loops as the origin of Primordial Non-Gaussianities

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-03-27 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It was pointed out recently that in some inflationary models quantum loops containing a scalar of mass mm that couples to the inflaton can be the dominant source of primordial non-Gaussianities. We explore this phenomenon in the simplest such model focusing on the behavior of the primordial curvature fluctuations for small m/Hm/H. Explicit calculations are done for the three and four point curvature fluctuation correlations. Constraints on the parameters of the model from the CMB limits on primordial non-Gaussianity are discussed. The bi-spectrum in the squeezed limit and the tri-spectrum in the compressed limit are examined. The form of the nn-point correlations as any partial sum of wave vectors get small is determined.

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@article{arxiv.1806.05194,
  title  = {De Sitter Quantum Loops as the origin of Primordial Non-Gaussianities},
  author = {Haipeng An and Mark B. Wise and Zipei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05194},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, discussions about the quantum corrections to the two-point function added