Large slow roll parameters in single field inflation
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics and School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85827-1404 (United States)
Description
We initially consider two simple situations where inflationary slow roll parameters are large and modes no longer freeze out shortly after exiting the horizon, treating both cases analytically. By modes, we refer to the comoving curvature perturbation R. We then consider applications to transient phases where the slow roll parameters can become large, especially in the context of the common 'fast-roll' inflation frequently used as a mechanism to explain the anomalously low scalar power at low l in the CMB. These transient cases we treat numerically. We find when ε, the first slow roll parameter, and only ε is large, modes decay outside the horizon, and when δ, the second slow roll parameter, is large, modes grow outside the horizon. When multiple slow roll parameters are large the behavior in general is more complicated, but we nevertheless show in the 'fast-roll' inflation case, modes grow outside the horizon
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/028Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2016
- Journal Issue
- 03
- Journal Page Range
- p. 028
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47095875
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; DISTURBANCES; FREEZING OUT; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; RELICT RADIATION; SCALARS; TRANSIENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIONS; SEPARATION PROCESSES