Cosmological collider signals of modular spontaneous CP breaking
Abstract
We consider a modular-invariant extension of the Standard Model. Assuming that the modulus is the inflaton, the CP-violating phases of the Yukawa couplings evolve during inflation. This dynamics favours a Higgs condensate, so that Standard Model fermions mediate a one-loop cosmological collider signal enhanced by chemical potentials. Next-generation experiments can probe sub-Planckian values of the modulus decay constant. We provide precise expressions for Dirac fermions with chemical potentials in de Sitter.
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