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We compute the spectral index for scalar perturbations generated in a primordial inflationary model. In this model, the transition of the inflationary phase to the radiative era is achieved through the decay of the cosmological term leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Julio C. Fabris , Philippe Spindel

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of primordial curvature perturbation in the modulated reheating scenario where the primordial perturbation is generated due to the spacial fluctuation of the inflaton decay rate to radiation. We use the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Teruaki Suyama , Masahide Yamaguchi

The presence of additional particles during inflation leads to non-Gaussianity in late-time correlators of primordial curvature perturbations. The shape and amplitude of this signal depend on the mass and spin of the extra particles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-16 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Cora Dvorkin

All cosmological observations to date are consistent with adiabatic, Gaussian and nearly scale invariant initial conditions. These findings provide strong evidence for a particular symmetry breaking pattern in the very early universe (with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Jens Chluba , Jan Hamann , Subodh P. Patil

In this paper we operate under the assumption that no tensors from inflation will be measured in the future by the dedicated experiments and argue that, while for single-field slow-roll models of inflation the running of the spectral index…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Matteo Biagetti , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We show in this paper that it is possible to attain very high, {\it including observable}, values for the level of non-gaussianity f_{NL} associated with the bispectrum B_\zeta of the primordial curvature perturbation \zeta, in a subclass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-02 Heiner R. S. Cogollo , Yeinzon Rodriguez , Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo

Primordial non-Gaussianities (PNGs) are imprints in the initial density field sourced by the dynamics of inflation. These dynamics can induce scale dependence, oscillations, and other features in the primordial bispectrum. We analyze a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Dhayaa Anbajagane , Hayden Lee

We study a model where two scalar fields, that are subdominant during inflation, decay into radiation some time after inflation has ended but before primordial nucleosynthesis. Perturbations of these two curvaton fields can be responsible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-05 Jussi Valiviita , Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

We study a simple extension of quasi-single field inflation in which the inflaton interacts with multiple extra massive scalars known as isocurvatons. Due to the breaking of time translational invariance by the inflaton background, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Michael McAneny , Alexander K. Ridgway

We investigate non-Gaussianity in the modulated reheating scenario where fluctuations of the decay rate of the inflaton generate adiabatic perturbations, paying particular attention to the non-linearity parameters $f_{\rm NL}, \tau_{\rm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Teruaki Suyama , Tomo Takahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi

We analytically derive a more accurate formula for the power spectrum of the biased objects with the primordial non-Gaussianity parameterized not only by the non-linearity parameter fNL, but also by gNL and tauNL which characterize the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Takahiko Matsubara

A sudden small change in the second derivative of the inflaton potential can result in a universal local feature in the spectrum of primordial perturbations generated during inflation. The exact solution describing this feature \cite{minu}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Minu Joy , Arman Shafieloo , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We study the off-equilibrium effects of inflaton on the dynamics of primordial perturbations in the O(N) model. A self-consistent off-equilibrium formalism is employed to investigate the evolution of the inflationary background field and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Da-Shin Lee , Li-Zhi Fang , Wolung Lee , Yeo-Yie Charng

We calculate the scale dependence of the bispectrum and trispectrum in (quasi) local models of non-Gaussian primordial density perturbations, and characterize this scale dependence in terms of new observable parameters. They can help to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Christian T. Byrnes , Mischa Gerstenlauer , Sami Nurmi , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

We show that inflationary models with broken rotational invariance generate testable off-diagonal signatures in the correlation between the $\mu$-type distortion and temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background. More…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Maresuke Shiraishi , Michele Liguori , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

This contribution gives an overview on primordial non-Gaussianities from a theoretical perspective. After presenting a general formalism to describe nonlinear cosmological perturbations, several classes of models, illustrated with examples,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 David Langlois

We discuss how primordial (e.g. inflationary) non-Gaussianity in the cosmological perturbations is left imprinted in the Large-Scale Structure of the universe. Our findings show that the information on the primordial non-Gaussianity set on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We investigate the statistical power of higher-order statistics and cross-correlation statistics to constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity from the imaging surveys. In particular, we consider the local-type primordial non- Gaussianity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Ichihiko Hashimoto , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiko Matsubara , Toshiya Namikawa , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We analyse models of inflation in which isocurvature perturbations present during inflation are converted into the primordial curvature perturbation during instant preheating. This can be due to an asymmetry between the fields present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Christian T. Byrnes

We provide a general formalism to calculate the infrared correlators of multiple interacting scalar fields in the de Sitter space by means of the stochastic approach. These scalar fields are treated as test fields and hence our result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama