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Standard Model Background of the Cosmological Collider

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-07-03 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The inflationary universe can be viewed as a "Cosmological Collider" with energy of Hubble scale, producing very massive particles and recording their characteristic signals in primordial non-Gaussianities. To utilize this collider to explore any new physics at very high scales, it is a prerequisite to understand the background signals from the particle physics Standard Model. In this paper we describe the Standard Model background of the Cosmological Collider.

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@article{arxiv.1610.06597,
  title  = {Standard Model Background of the Cosmological Collider},
  author = {Xingang Chen and Yi Wang and Zhong-Zhi Xianyu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.06597},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures. PRL accepted version