Non-Gaussian perturbations in hybrid inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
We consider second order inflationary perturbations in the case of two scalar fields, and the inflaton . We derive an expression for the non-Gaussianity of perturbations and apply the results to hybrid inflation. We isolate the contributions due to and evaluate the resulting terms to show that -induced non-Gaussianities dominate over inflaton-induced non-Gaussianities when , where is the slow-roll parameter. This may provide a useful test of hybrid inflation in forthcoming CMB experiments.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0405103,
title = {Non-Gaussian perturbations in hybrid inflation},
author = {Kari Enqvist and Antti Vaihkonen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0405103},
year = {2009}
}
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30 pages, references added