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Large-Field Inflation and the Cosmological Collider

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arxiv 2204.11869 v1 pith:Z6A6L5GQ submitted 2022-04-25 hep-ph astro-ph.COhep-th

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Large-field inflation is a major class of inflation models featuring a near- or super-Planckian excursion of the inflaton field. We point out that the large excursion generically introduces significant scale dependence to spectator fields through inflaton couplings, which in turn induces characteristic distortions to the oscillatory shape dependence in the primordial bispectrum mediated by a spectator field. This so-called cosmological collider signal can thus be a useful indicator of large field excursions. We show an explicit example with signals from the "tower states" motivated by the swampland distance conjecture.

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