Published May 1, 2018
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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/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/05/049Additional details
Identifiers
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