Primordial non-Gaussianities as a particle collider

  • Event Date: 2018-11-29
  • Particle/String/Cosmology
  • Speaker: Prof. Toshifumi Noumi (Kobe University)  /  Host: Prof. Chong-Sun Chu (NTHU)
    Place: R521, 5F, 2nd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.

The energy scale of inflation could be as high as 10^14 GeV, hence it is a phenomenon at the highest energy scale we may explore. Primordial non-Gaussianities can then be thought of as a 10^14 GeV collider (dubbed the cosmological collider), which may be used to probe new particles at the inflationary scale. In this talk I will review recent progress in such a cosmological collider program including our own works. In particular I will discuss how to read of the mass and spin of new particles at various scales from non-Gaussianities.