52 min
Seminar, Hosted by Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive
Tropical Geometry for the Cosmological Collider
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Recording
Abstract
Cosmological-collider research seeks traces of heavy primordial particles in non-Gaussian fluctuations produced during inflation. This seminar adapts tropical-geometry techniques to loop calculations in de Sitter spacetime, where certain particle interactions first contribute at one loop. Bubble and triangle bispectrum templates are computed across general masses and kinematics and compared with CMB observations.