Published May 1, 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantum standard clocks in the primordial trispectrum

  • 1. Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong (China)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Haidian DS, Beijing 100084 (China)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)

Description

We calculate the primordial trispectrum of curvature perturbation in quasi-single field inflation, with general sound speeds for both the inflaton and the massive scalar. Special attention is paid to various soft limits of the trispectrum, where the shape function shows characteristic oscillatory pattern (known as the quantum primordial standard clock signal) as a function of the momentum ratio. Our calculation is greatly simplified by using the "mixed propagator" developed under a diagrammatic representation of the in-in formalism.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/05/049

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2018
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 049
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51061976
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; INFLATONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; PROPAGATOR
Descriptors DEC
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SIMULATION