SearcharxivSearch

arXiv subjects

Akira Okawa

Publications and source records attributed to Akira Okawa.

2 recordsLinked to original sources

Cosmological Collider Signals of Non-Gaussianity from Higgs boson in GUT

Cosmological Collider Physics gives us the opportunity to probe high-energy physics from observing the spacetime fluctuations generated during inflation imprinted on the cosmic microwave background. In other words, it is a method to investigate physics on energy scales that cannot be reached by terrestrial accelerators by means of precise observations of the universe. In this paper, we focus on the case where the GUT scale is close to the energy scale of inflation, and calculate three point function of inflaton by exchanging the Higgs boson in GUT at tree level. The results are found to be consistent with the current observed restrictions on non-Gaussianity without a drastic fine tuning of parameters, and it might be possible to detect the signature of the Higgs boson in GUT by 21cm spectrum, future LSS and future CMB depending on our model parameters.

hep-ph

Non-Gaussianity from $X, Y$ gauge bosons in Cosmological Collider Physics

Heavy fields of Hubble scale order present during inflation contribute to the non-Gaussian signature for the three-point function of the inflaton. Taking into account that Hubble scale is around the scale of grand unified theory (GUT), this opens a possibility that the GUT scale signatures, which are very hard to be discovered at collider, might be detectable by using information from the precise observations of cosmic microwave background. We discuss a detactability of the $X, Y$ gauge boson present in any GUT in a framework of cosmological collider physics. Calculating one-loop contributions of $X, Y$ gauge bosons to the inflaton three-point functions, we find a remarkable result that one-loop diagram with interactions originated from the mass terms of $X, Y$ gauge bosons provides an enhancement factor expressed by the ratio between the $X, Y$ gauge boson mass and Hubble scale as $(m_X/H)^4$. In an estimation of the non-Gaussianity, this factor is crucial and its impact on the detactability of $X, Y$ gauge bosons is discussed.

hep-ph