Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/068
Keywords
cosmological perturbation theory; cosmological phase transitions; inflation
Funding
- ECS from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [26300316]
- GRF from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [16301917]
- JSPS KAKENHI [17F17322, 15H02082]
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
- [15H05888]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17F17322] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The decay of massive particles during inflation generates characteristic signals in the squeezed limit of the primordial bispectrum. These signals are in particular distinctive in the regime of the quasi-single field inflation, where particles are oscillating with masses comparable to the Hubble scale. We apply the investigation to a class of scalar particles that experience a so-called waterfall phase transition in the isocurvature direction driven by the symmetry-breaking mechanism based on the hybrid inflation scenario. With a time-varying mass, a novel shape of oscillatory bispectrum is presented as the signature of a waterfall phase transition during inflation.
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