Probing P and CP Violations on the Cosmological Collider

In direct analogy to the 4-body decay of a heavy scalar particle, the 4-point correlation function of primordial fluctuations carries P and CP information. The CP violation appears as a P-odd angular dependence in the imaginary part of the trispectrum in momentum space. We construct a model with axi...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-05
Main Authors: Liu, Tao, Tong, Xi, Wang, Yi, Zhong-Zhi Xianyu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Angular momentum
Couplings
CP violation
Dependence
Particle decay
Particle production
Variation
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Summary:In direct analogy to the 4-body decay of a heavy scalar particle, the 4-point correlation function of primordial fluctuations carries P and CP information. The CP violation appears as a P-odd angular dependence in the imaginary part of the trispectrum in momentum space. We construct a model with axion-like couplings which leads to observably large CP-violating trispectrum for future surveys. Furthermore, we show the importance of on-shell particle production in observing P- and CP-violating signals. It is impossible to observe these signals from local 4-scalar EFT operators that respect dS isometries, and thus any such observation can rule out single-field EFT with sufficiently small slow-roll parameters. This calculation opens a new frontier of studying P and CP at very high energy scales.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1909.01819