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Observing nulling of primordial correlations via the 21 cm signal

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-01-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The 21cm line emitted by neutral hydrogen (HI) during the Dark Ages carries imprints of pristine primordial correlations. In models of inflation driven by a single, canonical scalar field, we show that a phase of ultra-slow-roll can lead to a null in all the primordial correlations at a specific wavenumber kdipk_\textrm{dip}. We consider scenarios wherein the null in the correlations occurs over wavenumbers 1kdip10Mpc11 \lesssim k_\textrm{dip} \lesssim 10\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}, and examine the prospects of detecting such a damping in the HI signal due to the nulls at the level of power and bi-spectra in future observational missions.

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@article{arxiv.2206.06386,
  title  = {Observing nulling of primordial correlations via the 21 cm signal},
  author = {Shyam Balaji and H. V. Ragavendra and Shiv K. Sethi and Joseph Silk and L. Sriramkumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.06386},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v1: 10 pages, 5 figures; v2: 11 pages, 5 figures including supplementary material, published in Phys. Rev. Lett