Cosmological Collider Signals at Strong Mixing
hep-th, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc
Submitted: 2026-07-16
Updated: 2026-08-31
Comments: 14+12 pages, 4 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We study cosmological collider signatures in a two-field inflationary system with constant-turn derivative mixing between the canonically normalized curvature fluctuation and a massive isocurvature
Terminology
Abstract
We study cosmological collider signatures in a two-field inflationary system with constant-turn derivative mixing between the canonically normalized curvature fluctuation and a massive isocurvature field. Building on recently derived exact hypergeometric solutions that treat the quadratic mixing nonperturbatively, we construct the mixed propagators constituting the cosmological correlators. A Mellin-Barnes approach helps isolate the pair of nonanalytic late-time branches carried by a heavy field. For a cubic isocurvature self-interaction, these branches contribute towards a squeezed bispectrum with a power-law envelope and logarithmic oscillations. The oscillation frequency encodes the heavy mass, while the amplitude and phase retain the full mixing dependence rather than a perturbative expansion. We perform the squeezed limit integral analytically and compare it with numerical results across representative masses and mixing strengths. At fixed mixing we derive the large-mass JWKB expansion of the squeezed correlator and its phase. We also give integral representations for the isocurvature Wightman function. The research idea was suggested by ARC, the calculation was performed by GPT, and the results were checked by the authors.
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