TY - JOUR
T1 - CFTs blueshift tensor fluctuations universally
AU - Baumgart, Matthew
AU - Heckman, Jonathan J.
AU - Thomas, Logan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - The strong constraints of conformal symmetry cause any nearly-conformal sector to blueshift tensor fluctuations in cosmology. Hidden sectors with approximate conformal symmetry, which may be quite large, are a well-motivated extension of physics beyond the Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology. They can therefore lead to a detectable shift in the tensor tilt for next-generation CMB and gravitational wave experiments. We compute the leading-order contribution to the in-in graviton two-point function from virtual loops in such sectors to demonstrate this universal effect. In units where a single conformally-coupled scalar is 1, limits from Stage-IV CMB experiments could bound the size of this extra sector to be smaller than ∼1015, under a plausible calculational assumption backed by a simple power counting argument. This would be sufficient to rule out N-Naturalness as a complete resolution of the hierarchy problem.
AB - The strong constraints of conformal symmetry cause any nearly-conformal sector to blueshift tensor fluctuations in cosmology. Hidden sectors with approximate conformal symmetry, which may be quite large, are a well-motivated extension of physics beyond the Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology. They can therefore lead to a detectable shift in the tensor tilt for next-generation CMB and gravitational wave experiments. We compute the leading-order contribution to the in-in graviton two-point function from virtual loops in such sectors to demonstrate this universal effect. In units where a single conformally-coupled scalar is 1, limits from Stage-IV CMB experiments could bound the size of this extra sector to be smaller than ∼1015, under a plausible calculational assumption backed by a simple power counting argument. This would be sufficient to rule out N-Naturalness as a complete resolution of the hierarchy problem.
KW - Inflation and CMBR theory
KW - gravitational waves and CMBR polarization
KW - power spectrum
KW - primordial gravitational waves (theory)
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U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/07/034
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/07/034
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135122143
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2022
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 7
M1 - 034
ER -