Graceful exit from inflation and reheating with twin waterfall scalar fields

Lee, Hyun Min; Menkara, Adriana G.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.107.115019

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“…But we only remark that these kinds of terms breaking a shift symmetry of inflaton affects the inflation dynamics in general at the classical and quantum level, which requires some non-trivial extension of the setup. For example, to relax the quantum effects, one may consider supersymmetric embedding [147] or a system with a discrete symmetry [148][149][150].…”

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Analytic formulae for inflationary correlators with dynamical mass

Aoki,

Noumi,

Sano

et al. 2024

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Massive fields can imprint unique oscillatory features on primordial correlation functions or inflationary correlators, which is dubbed the cosmological collider signal. In this work, we analytically investigate the effects of a time-dependent mass of a scalar field on inflationary correlators, extending previous numerical studies and implementing techniques developed in the cosmological bootstrap program. The time-dependent mass is in general induced by couplings to the slow-roll inflaton background, with particularly significant effects in the case of non-derivative couplings. By linearly approximating the time dependence, the mode function of the massive scalar is computed analytically, on which we derive analytic formulae for two-, three-, and four-point correlators with the tree-level exchange of the massive scalar. The obtained formulae are utilized to discuss the phenomenological impacts on the power spectrum and bispectrum, and it is found that the scaling behavior of the bispectrum in the squeezed configuration, i.e., the cosmological collider signal, is modified from a time-dependent Boltzmann suppression. By investigating the scaling behavior in detail, we are in principle able to determine the non-derivative couplings between the inflaton and the massive particle.

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