Cutting Rule for Cosmological Collider Signals: A Bulk Evolution Perspective

TL;DR

This paper introduces a cutting rule based on bulk evolution to efficiently identify and classify cosmological collider signals, distinguishing local and nonlocal origins, and facilitating analytical extraction in model building.

Contribution

It presents a novel cutting rule derived from bulk evolution dynamics for extracting cosmological collider signals, enhancing analytical and computational efficiency.

Findings

Classified collider signals into local and nonlocal categories.

Developed a practical cutting rule for signal extraction.

Proposed implementation as symbolic computational packages.

Abstract

We show that the evolution of interacting massive particles in the de Sitter bulk can be understood at leading order as a series of resonant decay and production events. From this perspective, we classify the cosmological collider signals into local and nonlocal categories with drastically different physical origins. This further allows us to derive a cutting rule for efficiently extracting these cosmological collider signals in an analytical fashion. Our cutting rule is a practical way for extracting cosmological collider signals in model building, and can be readily implemented as symbolic computational packages in the future.