- Accepted Paper
Galaxy power spectrum at two-loop order: Implications for weak lensing surveys and new physics
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 4 November, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/1nvh-twns
Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 4 November, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/1nvh-twns
We compute the galaxy power spectrum at two-loop order in cosmological perturbation theory (effective field theory, EFT). We derive galaxy bias operators through the fifth order and obtain two-loop renormalization conditions for their bias coefficients. We also derive the relevant higher-derivative and stochastic contributions, and implement IR resummation using . We obtain complete dark-matter and galaxy renormalization conditions for the higher-derivative operators at the power spectrum, bispectrum, and trispectrum level. Having identified the redundant operators, we find that the two-loop galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter power spectra require 28 additional bias, higher derivative, and stochastic parameters per galaxy sample relative to the one-loop model. We compare our computation with the galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter power spectra from the PT Challenge N-body simulation at and find a per mille-level agreement up to Mpc. We show that even with conservative priors on all EFT parameters, the two-loop model produces an unbiased measurement of the mass fluctuation amplitude with three times narrower error-bars than the linear theory model. The improvement over the one-loop model is . This suggests significant gains in the two-loop EFT analyses of galaxy clustering and galaxy–lensing two-point functions (`` pt’’) from CMB lensing maps and imaging surveys like Euclid, LSST, and Roman. In addition, our two-loop computation offers a probe of new physics scenarios that modify the shape of the matter power spectrum at wavenumbers Mpc such as the presence of ultra-light axion dark matter sub-components with masses eV.
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