Published February 5, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Curvaton with nonminimal derivative coupling to gravity

  • 1. School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China)
  • 2. Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)
  • 3. Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan (China)
  • 4. Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (China)

Description

We show a curvaton model, in which the curvaton has a nonminimal derivative coupling to gravity. Thanks to such a coupling, we find that the scale-invariance of the perturbations can be achieved for arbitrary values of the equation-of-state of background, provided that it is nearly a constant. We also discussed about tensor perturbations, the local non-Gaussianities generated by the nonminimal derivative coupling curvaton model, as well as the adiabatic perturbations which are transferred from the field perturbations during the curvaton decay

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.01.008

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.01.008;
arXiv
arXiv:1307.7864v2;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00020-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
729
Journal Page Range
p. 99-107
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45063081
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COUPLING; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GRAVITATION; PERTURBATION THEORY; SCALE INVARIANCE
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES

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