Published April 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Curvaton decay into relativistic matter

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku (Finland)

Description

We consider an inflationary curvaton scenario, where the curvaton decays into two noninteracting relativistic fluids and later during the cosmological evolution one of them becomes nonrelativistic, forming a dark matter component of the Universe. We study the thermic properties and the generation of non-Gaussianity in this three-fluid curvaton model. By solving the evolution of the system and using several cosmological conditions we find that the allowed parameter space is strongly constrained. The naturalness of this curvaton scenario is also discussed.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 083516-083516.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42002733
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE DECAY; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SIMULATION; SPACE; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
DECAY; ENERGY RANGE; MATTER

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