Parity-violating scalar trispectrum from axion inflation

開催日時

2024/01/12(金) 16:00~17:00

開催場所

ハイブリッド:研究本館 セミナールーム、オンライン(Zoom)

講演者

小幡 一平 氏(東京大学 カブリ数物連携宇宙研究機構)

言語

English

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お問い合わせ

伊藤 飛鳥 / asuka.ito-AT-kek.jp


概要

We study a mechanism of generating the trispectrum (4-point correlation) of curvature perturbation through the dynamics of a spectator axion field and U(1) gauge field during inflation. Owing to the Chern-Simons coupling, only one helicity mode of the gauge field experiences a tachyonic instability and sources scalar perturbations. Sourced curvature perturbation exhibits parity-violating nature which can be tested through its trispectrum. We numerically compute the parity-even and parity-odd components of the sourced trispectrum. It is found that the ratio of parity-odd to parity-even mode can reach O(10%) in an exact equilateral momentum configuration. We also investigate a quasi-equilateral shape where only one of the momenta is slightly longer than the other three, and find that the parity-odd mode can reach, and more interestingly, surpass the parity-even one. This may help us to interpret a large parity-odd trispectrum signal extracted from BOSS galaxy-clustering data.