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arxiv: 0909.0496 · v3 · pith:VY52TOBKnew · submitted 2009-09-02 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · hep-ph· hep-th

Large non-Gaussianities with Intermediate Shapes from Quasi-Single Field Inflation

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We study the slow-roll inflation models, where the inflaton slow-rolls along a trajectory whose orthogonal directions are lifted by potentials with masses of order the Hubble parameter. In these models large non-Gaussianities can be generated through the transformation from the isocurvature modes to the curvature mode, once the inflaton trajectory turns. We find large bispectra with one-parameter family of novel shapes, interpolating between the equilateral and local shape. According to the in-in formalism, the shapes of these non-Gaussianities are different from a simple projection from the isocurvature non-Gaussian correlation functions.

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