Charged loops at the cosmological collider with chemical potential
A bstract Cosmological collider physics allows the detection of heavy particles at inflationary scales through their imprints on primordial non-Gaussianities. We study the chemical potential mechanism applied to a pair of charged scalars. We analytically evaluate the resulting one-loop contribution to the bispectrum, using the spectral decomposition. In this way we are able to determine the parametric dependencies for both the signal and the background. We show that a signal strength $${f}_{\text{NL}}\sim \mathcal{O}(0.01)$$ can be obtained within theoretical control, potentially reachable by 21 cm tomography. As an application we consider the colored Higgs bosons in SU(5) supersymmetric orbifold grand unification with masses M ≲ 10 15 GeV.
Authors
- Arushi Bodas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4664-4277)
- Raman Sundrum
- Zhaohui Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5741-3902)
- Edward Broadberry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0652-1862)
Institutions
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-01-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2026)083
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 55.92
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- China Scholarship Council
- Office of Science
- High Energy Physics