Snowmass white paper: the cosmological bootstrap

D Baumann, D Green, A Joyce, E Pajer… - SciPost Physics …, 2024 - scipost.org
This white paper summarizes recent progress in the cosmological bootstrap, an approach to
the study of the statistics of primordial fluctuations from consistency with unitarity, locality and …

NANOGrav signal from axion inflation

X Niu, MH Rahat - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Several pulsar timing arrays including NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and CPTA have recently
reported the observation of a stochastic background of gravitational wave spectrum in the …

Inflation: theory and observations

A Achúcarro, M Biagetti, M Braglia, G Cabass… - ar** multi-field inflation: non-Gaussianities from light scalars revisited
DG Wang, GL Pimentel… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Primordial non-Gaussianities from multi-field inflation are a leading target for cosmological
observations, because of the possible large correlations generated between long and short …

Linking the singularities of cosmological correlators

D Baumann, WM Chen, C Duaso Pueyo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Much of the structure of cosmological correlators is controlled by their singularities,
which in turn are fixed in terms of flat-space scattering amplitudes. An important challenge is …

Cosmological bootstrap in slow motion

S Jazayeri, S Renaux-Petel - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Speed matters. How the masses and spins of new particles active during inflation
can be read off from the statistical properties of primordial density fluctuations is well …

Helical inflation correlators: partial Mellin-Barnes and bootstrap equations

Z Qin, ZZ ** one-loop inflation correlators with the spectral decomposition
ZZ **anyu, H Zhang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Phenomenological studies of cosmological collider physics in recent years have
identified many 1-loop inflation correlators as leading channels for discovering heavy new …