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arxiv 2208.13790 v2 pith:FMVELLO6 submitted 2022-08-29 hep-th astro-ph.COhep-ph

Helical Inflation Correlators: Partial Mellin-Barnes and Bootstrap Equations

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Massive spinning particles acquire helicity-dependent chemical potentials during the inflation from axion-type couplings. Such spinning fields can mediate sizable inflaton correlators which we call the helical inflation correlators. Helical inflaton correlators are approximately scale invariant, dS boost breaking, parity-violating, and are promising observables of cosmological collider physics. In this work, we present complete and analytical results for 4-point helical inflation correlators with tree-level exchanges of massive spinning particles, including both the smooth background and the oscillatory signals. We compute the bulk Schwinger-Keldysh integrals in two independent ways, including the partial Mellin-Barnes representation and solving bootstrap equations. We also present new closed-form analytical results for 3-point functions with massive scalar or helical spinning exchanges. The analytical results allow us to concretely and efficiently explore the phenomenological consequences of helicity-dependent chemical potentials. In particular, we show that the chemical potential can exponentially enhance oscillatory signals of both local and nonlocal types, but only affects the background in a rather mild way. Our results extend the de Sitter bootstrap program to include nonperturbative breaking of de Sitter boosts. Our results also explicitly verify the recently proposed cutting rule for cosmological collider signals.

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