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We study the cosmological collider phenomenology of neutrinos in an effective field theory. The mass spectrum of neutrinos and their characteristic oscillatory signatures in the squeezed limit bispectrum are computed. Both dS-covariant and slow-roll corrections are considered, so is the scenario of electroweak symmetry breaking during inflation. Interestingly, we show that the slow-roll background of the inflaton provides a chemical potential for the neutrino production. The chemical potential greatly amplifies the oscillatory signal and makes the signal observably large for heavy neutrinos without the need of fine tuning.
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Chen, X., Wang, Y. & Xianyu, ZZ. Neutrino signatures in primordial non-gaussianities. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 22 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)022
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