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Primordial non-Gaussianity generated by additional fields during inflation offers a compelling observational target. Heavy fields imprint characteristic oscillatory signals in non-Gaussian correlation functions of the inflaton, a process…

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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

The 3D distribution of galaxies encodes detailed cosmological information on the expansion and growth history of the Universe. We present the first cosmological constraints that exploit non-Gaussian cosmological information on non-linear…

The presence of additional particles during inflation leads to non-Gaussianity in late-time correlators of primordial curvature perturbations. The shape and amplitude of this signal depend on the mass and spin of the extra particles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-16 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Cora Dvorkin

We use redshift-space galaxy clustering data from the BOSS survey to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPNG). This is of particular importance due to the consistency relations, which imply that a detection of LPNG would rule out…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Giovanni Cabass , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present the first cosmological constraints from analyzing higher-order galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. We use ${\rm S{\scriptsize IM}BIG}$, a forward modeling framework for galaxy clustering analyses that employs simulation-based…

We study the imprints of massive particles with spin on cosmological correlators. Using the framework of the effective field theory of inflation, we classify the couplings of these particles to the Goldstone boson of broken time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-23 Hayden Lee , Daniel Baumann , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We look for oscillating signals in the primordial bispectrum from new physics heavy particles which are visibly large for next generation large scale structures (LSS) survey. We show that in ordinary inflation scenarios where a slow-rolling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Lian-Tao Wang , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Cosmological Collider Physics gives us the opportunity to probe high-energy physics from observing the spacetime fluctuations generated during inflation imprinted on the cosmic microwave background. In other words, it is a method to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-29 Nobuhito Maru , Akira Okawa

We present a new, model-independent measurement of the clustering amplitude of galaxies and the growth of cosmic large-scale structures from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) 12th data release (DR12). This is achieved by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Konstantinos Tanidis , Stefano Camera

We reanalyse the anisotropic galaxy clustering measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), demonstrating that using the full shape information provides cosmological constraints that are comparable to other…

We analyze the power spectrum and the bispectrum of BOSS galaxy-clustering data using the prediction from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure at one-loop order for $\textit{both}$ the power spectrum $\textit{and}$ the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Guido D'Amico , Matthew Lewandowski , Leonardo Senatore , Pierre Zhang

In this paper, we present the first comprehensive CMB data analysis of cosmological collider physics. New heavy particles during inflation can leave imprints in the primordial correlators which are observable in today's cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Wuhyun Sohn , Dong-Gang Wang , James R. Fergusson , E. P. S. Shellard

Could new physics break the mirror symmetry of the Universe? Utilizing recent measurements of the parity-odd four-point correlation function of BOSS galaxies, we probe the physics of inflation by placing constraints on the amplitude of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-17 Giovanni Cabass , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Signatures of heavy particles during inflation are exponentially suppressed by the Boltzmann factor when the masses are far above the Hubble scale. In more realistic scenarios, however, scale-dependent features may change this conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Dong-Gang Wang , Bowei Zhang

We present cosmological parameter measurements from the publicly available Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data on anisotropic galaxy clustering in Fourier space. Compared to previous studies, our analysis has two main novel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

We show that intrinsic (not lensing-induced) correlations between galaxy shapes offer a new probe of primordial non-Gaussianity and inflationary physics which is complementary to galaxy number counts. Specifically, intrinsic alignment…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-25 Fabian Schmidt , Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin

Cosmological correlation functions contain valuable information about the primordial Universe, with possible signatures of new massive particles at very high energies. Recent developments, including the cosmological bootstrap, bring new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Guilherme L. Pimentel , Dong-Gang Wang

We present a novel simulation-based cosmological analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy redshift-space clustering. Compared to analysis methods based on perturbation theory, our simulation-based approach allows us to probe a much…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Johannes U. Lange , Andrew P. Hearin , Alexie Leauthaud , Frank C. van den Bosch , Enia Xhakaj , Hong Guo , Risa H. Wechsler , Joseph DeRose

We report a $5.3\sigma$ detection of the gravitational lensing effect of cosmic voids from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (BOSS) Data Release 12 seen in the $Planck$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence map. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Seshadri Nadathur , Blake D. Sherwin , Nathan Whitehorn
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