January 31, 2022 to February 1, 2022
Europe/Zurich timezone

Hunting Inflaton at FASER

Jan 31, 2022, 7:45 PM
15m

Speakers

Digesh Raut Digesh Raut (University of Delaware)

Description

We consider the nonminimal quartic inflation in a classically conformal $U(1)_X$ extended SM. We show that if the inflaton mass and its mixing angle with the SM Higgs field lie in a suitable range, the FASER experiment can search for the inflaton at the High Luminosity (HL)-LHC. Also because of the classical conformal invariance, the inflationary predictions and the LHC search for the $U(1)_X$ gauge boson ($Z^\prime$) resonance are complementary. Therefore, three independent experiments, namely, the inflaton search at the FASER, the $Z^\prime$ boson resonance search at the HL-LHC and the precision measurement of the inflationary predictions, are complementary to test our inflation scenario.

Authors

Digesh Raut Digesh Raut (University of Delaware)

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