Departmental Colloquium
- Title
- SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Guest Speaker
- Prof. James Gates, Jr.
- Guest Affiliation
- Department of Physics, Brown University
- Host
- Prof. Yohannes Abate
- When
- Thursday, September 3, 2020 3:55 pm - 4:55 pm
- Location
- Zoom Meeting
- Details
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We speculate about the imprint of higher spin supermultiplets on cosmological correlators, i.e., the non- Gaussianity of the cosmic microwave background. Supersymmetry is used as a guide to introduce the contribution of fermionic higher spin particles, which have been neglected thus far in the literature. We compute the curvature perturbation 3-point function for supersymmetric higher-spin particle exchanges and find the known P(cos) angular dependence is accompanied by superpartner contributions.
Thursday, September 3, at 3:55 PM. Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99808158494