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Suppressed Non-Gaussianity in the Curvaton Model

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-06-25 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that the local type non-Gaussianity in a class of curvaton models is suppressed, i.e. the non-linearity parameters f_{NL} and those related with higher order statistics can be at most O(1), even if the curvaton energy density is subdominant at the decay. This situation is naturally realized in a very simple curvaton potential with quadratic term plus quartic term.

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@article{arxiv.1402.1856,
  title  = {Suppressed Non-Gaussianity in the Curvaton Model},
  author = {Kyohei Mukaida and Kazunori Nakayama and Masahiro Takimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1856},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures; added references; to appear in Phys.Rev.D

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