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Shapes of the Cosmological Low-Speed Collider (2307.01751v1)

Published 4 Jul 2023 in hep-th, astro-ph.CO, and gr-qc

Abstract: Massive particles produced during inflation leave specific signatures in soft limits of correlation functions of primordial fluctuations. When the Goldstone boson of broken time translations acquires a reduced speed of sound, implying that de Sitter boosts are strongly broken, we introduce a novel discovery channel to detect new physics during inflation, called the cosmological low-speed collider signal. This signal is characterised by a distinctive resonance lying in mildly-soft kinematic configurations of cosmological correlators, indicating the presence of a heavy particle, whose position enables to reconstruct its mass. We show that this resonance can be understood in terms of a non-local single field effective field theory, in which the heavy field becomes effectively non-dynamical. This theory accurately describes the full dynamics of the Goldstone boson and captures all multi-field physical effects distinct from the non-perturbative particle production leading to the conventional cosmological collider signal. As such, this theory provides a systematic and tractable way to study the imprint of massive fields on cosmological correlators. We conduct a thorough study of the low-speed collider phenomenology in the scalar bispectrum, showing that large non-Gaussianities with new shapes can be generated, in particular beyond weak mixing. We also provide a low-speed collider template for future cosmological surveys.

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