English

Creating perturbations from a decaying field during inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-04-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Typically the fluctuations generated from a decaying field during inflation do not contribute to the large scale structures. In this paper we provide an example where it is possible for a field which slowly rolls and then decays during inflation to create all the matter perturbations with a slightly red-tilted spectral index, with no isocurvature perturbations, and with a possibility of a departure from Gaussian fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7818,
  title  = {Creating perturbations from a decaying field during inflation},
  author = {Anupam Mazumdar and Lingfei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7818},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, revision accepted by PRD

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