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Observable Isocurvature Fluctuations from the Affleck-Dine Condensate

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

In D-term inflation models, Affleck-Dine baryogenesis produces isocurvature density fluctuations. These can be perturbations in the baryon number, or, in the case where the present neutralino density comes directly from B-ball decay, perturbations in the number of dark matter neutralinos. The latter case results in a large enhancement of the isocurvature perturbation. The requirement that the deviation of the adiabatic perturbations from scale invariance due to the Affleck-Dine field is not too large then imposes a lower bound on the magnitude of the isocurvature fluctuation of about 10210^{-2} times the adiabatic perturbation. This should be observable by MAP and PLANCK.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811412,
  title  = {Observable Isocurvature Fluctuations from the Affleck-Dine Condensate},
  author = {Kari Enqvist and John McDonald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811412},
  year   = {2009}
}

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