Published August 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Full trispectrum in single field DBI inflation

  • 1. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
  • 2. Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
  • 3. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD (United Kingdom)
  • 4. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG (United Kingdom)

Description

We compute the tree-level connected four-point function of the primordial curvature perturbation for a fairly general minimally coupled single field inflationary model, where the inflaton's Lagrangian is a general function of the scalar field and its first derivatives. This model includes K inflation and DBI inflation as particular cases. We show that, at the leading order in the slow-roll expansion and in the small sound speed limit, there are two important tree-level diagrams for the trispectrum. One is a diagram where a scalar mode is exchanged and the other is a diagram where the interaction occurs at a point, i.e. a contact interaction diagram. The scalar exchange contribution is comparable to the contact interaction contribution. For the DBI-inflation model, in the so-called equilateral configuration, the scalar exchange trispectrum is maximized when the angles between the four momentum vectors are equal and in this case the amplitude of the trispectrum from the scalar exchange is 1 order of magnitude higher than the contact interaction trispectrum.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043527-043527.14
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41063578
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONFIGURATION; DISTURBANCES; EXPANSION; INTERACTIONS; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; PERTURBATION THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; SOUND WAVES; SPEED LIMIT
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; SIMULATION

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