Kavli Affiliate: Wayne Hu
| First 5 Authors: David Zegeye, Keisuke Inomata, Wayne Hu, ,
| Summary:
Single field inflationary models that seek to greatly enhance small scale
power in order to form primordial black holes predict both a squeezed
bispectrum that is enhanced by this small scale power and a potentially
detectable enhancement of CMB spectral distortions. Despite this combination,
spectral distortion anisotropy on CMB scales remains small since the squeezed
bispectrum represents an unobservable modulation of the scale rather than local
amplitude for the short wavelength acoustic power that dissipates and forms the
$mu$ spectral distortion. The leading order amplitude effect comes from the
local modulation of acoustic dissipation at the beginning of the $mu$ epoch at
the end of thermalization by a long wavelength mode that is correlated with CMB
anisotropy itself. Compensating factors from the suppression by the square of
the ratio the comoving horizon at thermalization to the smallest detectable
primary CMB scales ($sim 0.0005$) and maximal allowed enhancement of $mu$
($sim 5000$) leaves a signal in the $mu T$ cross spectrum that is still well
beyond the capabilities of PIXIE or LiteBIRD due to sensitivity and resolution
while remaining much larger than in single field slow roll inflation and
potentially observable.
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