Dumping inflaton energy density out of this world
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We argue that a brane world with a warped, infinite extra dimension allows for the inflaton to decay into the bulk so that after inflation, the effective dark energy disappears from our brane. This is achieved by the redshifting of the decay products into infinity of the 5th dimension. As a consequence, all matter and CMB density perturbations could have their origin in the decay of a MSSM flat direction rather than the inflaton. We also discuss a string theoretical model where reheating after inflation may not affect the observable brane.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0403044,
title = {Dumping inflaton energy density out of this world},
author = {Kari Enqvist and Anupam Mazumdar and A. Pérez-Lorenzana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0403044},
year = {2008}
}
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16 pages