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We initiate a systematic study of precision calculation of the inflation correlators at the 1-loop level, starting in this paper with bosonic 1-loop bispectrum with chemical-potential enhancement. Such 1-loop processes could lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Lian-Tao Wang , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu , Yi-Ming Zhong

In the framework of effective field theories with prominent helicity-0 and helicity-1 fields coupled to each other via a dimension-3 operator, we study the dynamics of inflation driven by the helicity-0 mode, with a given potential energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Lavinia Heisenberg , Héctor Ramírez , Shinji Tsujikawa

Massive particles produced during inflation impact soft limits of primordial correlators. Searching for these signatures presents an exciting opportunity to uncover the particle spectrum in the inflationary epoch. We present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Samuel Goldstein , Oliver H. E. Philcox , J. Colin Hill , Lam Hui

Motivated by cosmological observations, we push the cosmological bootstrap program beyond the de Sitter invariance lamppost by considering correlators that explicitly break scale invariance, thereby exhibiting primordial features. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Sadra Jazayeri , Xi Tong , Yuhang Zhu

We consider the dynamics of massive spinning fields during inflation and the resulting signatures in the cosmological correlators of inflaton perturbations computed in the Poincar\'e patch of de Sitter space. There are (at least) two ways…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Trevor Cheung , David Stefanyszyn

We explore the possibility to make use of cosmological data to look for signatures of unknown heavy particles whose masses are on the order of the Hubble parameter during the time of inflation. To be more specific we take up the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Ryo Saito , Takahiro Kubota

The quantum fluctuations of the Higgs field during inflation could be a source of primordial density perturbations through Higgs-dependent inflaton decay. By measuring primordial non-Gaussianities, this so-called Higgs-modulated reheating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Shiyun Lu , Yi Wang , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

In this work, for the first time in literature, we study the predictions of non-minimally coupled Natural and Coleman-Weinberg potentials in the $n_s-r$ plane, and an extended $\Lambda$CDM model where we include non-standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Nilay Bostan , Shouvik Roy Choudhury

We study the theory and phenomenology of massive spin-2 fields during the inflation with nonzero background chemical potential, and extend the cosmological collider physics to tensor modes. We identify a unique dimension-5 and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Xi Tong , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Massive particles leave imprints on primordial non-Gaussianity via couplings to the inflaton, even despite their exponential dilution during inflation: practically, the Universe acts as a Cosmological Collider. We present the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Giovanni Cabass , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Kazuyuki Akitsu , Shi-Fan Chen , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

We compute the model-independent contributions to the primordial bispectrum and trispectrum in de Sitter space due to high-energy physics. We do this by coupling a light inflaton to an auxiliary heavy field, and then evaluating correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-22 Mark G. Jackson , Koenraad Schalm

We derive the general formulae for the the scalar and tensor spectral tilts to the second order for the inflationary models with non-minimally derivative coupling without taking the high friction limit. The non-minimally kinetic coupling to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Nan Yang , Qin Fei , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong

We consider solitons in a nonlinear optical fiber with a single polarization in a region of parameters where it carries exactly two distinct modes, the fundamental one and the first-order helical mode. From the viewpoint of applications to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Boris Malomed , G. D. Peng , P. L. Chu

We propose an extension of the Higgs inflation to the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity, where we introduce non-minimal couplings between Higgs and both the metric-type and the Palatini-type Ricci scalars. We study the inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Minxi He , Yusuke Mikura , Yuichiro Tada

We study the generation of helical magnetic fields during single field inflation induced by an axial coupling of the electromagnetic field to the inflaton. During slow roll inflation, we find that such a coupling always leads to a blue…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ruth Durrer , Lukas Hollenstein , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We consider models of chaotic inflation driven by the real parts of a conjugate pair of Higgs superfields involved in the spontaneous breaking of a grand unification symmetry at a scale assuming its Supersymmetric value. Employing Kaehler…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 C. Pallis

Primordial non-Gaussianities from multi-field inflation are a leading target for cosmological observations, because of the possible large correlations generated between long and short distances. These signatures are captured by the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dong-Gang Wang , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Ana Achúcarro

Recent experiments at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have indicated that hadrons containing strange quarks produced in non-central heavy ion collisions can be polarized. We investigate in detail the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz

The inflation model with non-minimal coupling scalar field in the context of the hybrid metric Palatini is studied in this paper. We derive the Einstein's field equations, the equations of motion of the scalar field. Furthermore,the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Brahim Asfour , Aatifa Bargach , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

We investigate the cosmological collider (CC) signal arising from the tree-level exchange of a scalar spectator particle with a non-Bunch Davies (BD) initial state. We decompose the inflaton correlators into seed integrals, which we compute…

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