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Tropical Geometry for the Cosmological Collider

Aidan Herderschee

Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Recording

52 min

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.