Published December 1, 2012
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Journal article
Curvaton and the inhomogeneous end of inflation
- 1. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX (United Kingdom)
- 2. School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
- 3. Yukawa Institute for theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
Description
We study the primordial density perturbations and non-Gaussianities generated from the combined effects of an inhomogeneous end of inflation and curvaton decay in hybrid inflation. This dual role is played by a single isocurvature field which is massless during inflation but acquire a mass at the end of inflation via the waterfall phase transition. We calculate the resulting primordial non-Gaussianity characterized by the non-linearity parameter, fNL, recovering the usual end-of-inflation result when the field decays promptly and the usual curvaton result if the field decays sufficiently late
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/12/024Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2012
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 024
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45100936
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; DENSITY; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; INFLATONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PARTICLE DECAY; PERTURBATION THEORY; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; REST MASS
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; POSTULATED PARTICLES