Leading loops in cosmological correlators

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2023)038arXiv2305.11228OpenAlexW4388510270MaRDI QIDQ6183369FDOQ6183369

Authors: Mang Hei Gordon Lee, Ciaran McCulloch, Enrico Pajer 

Publication date: 26 January 2024

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Cosmological correlators from inflation are often generated at tree level and hence loop contributions are bounded to be small corrections by perturbativity. Here we discuss a scenario where this is not the case. Recently, it has been shown that for any number of scalar fields of any mass, the parity-odd trispectrum of a massless scalar must vanish in the limit of exact scale invariance due to unitarity and the choice of initial state. By carefully handling UV-divergences, we show that the one-loop contribution is non-vanishing and hence leading. Surprisingly, the one-loop parity-odd trispectrum is simply a rational function of kinematics, which we compute explicitly in a series of models, including single-clock inflation. Although the loop contribution is the leading term in the parity-odd sector, its signal-to-noise ratio is typically bounded from above by that of a corresponding tree-level parity-even trispectrum, unless instrumental noise and systematics for the two observables differ. Furthermore, we identify a series of loop contributions to the wavefunction that cancel exactly when computing correlators, suggesting a more general phenomenon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11228

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zbMATH Keywords

effective field theoriescosmology of theories BSMearly universe particle physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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