Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2021)098
Keywords
Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
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- NASA [80NSSC20K0506]
- DOE [DE-SC0013607]
- Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1607611]
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The study focuses on observable signals of missing scalar fields, particularly looking at how they distort the oscillatory features in the squeezed bispectrum and differentiate between induced thermal mass and intrinsic mass.
Light scalar fields typically develop spatially varying backgrounds during inflation. Very often they do not directly affect the density perturbations, but interact with other fields that do leave nontrivial signals in primordial perturbations. In this sense they become missing scalars at the cosmological collider. We study potentially observable signals of these missing scalars, focusing on a special example where a missing scalar distorts the usual oscillatory features in the squeezed bispectrum. The distortion is also a useful signal distinguishing the de Sitter background induced thermal mass from a constant intrinsic mass.
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