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BICEP's bispectrum

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-07-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The simplest interpretation of the Bicep2 result is that the scalar primordial power spectrum is slightly suppressed at large scales. These models result in a large tensor-to-scalar ratio rr. In this work we show that the type of inflationary trajectory favoured by Bicep2 also leads to a larger non-Gaussian signal at large scales, roughly an order of magnitude larger than a standard slow-roll trajectory.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1407.6948,
  title  = {BICEP's bispectrum},
  author = {Jonathan S. Horner and Carlo R. Contaldi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6948},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures

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