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We calculate one-loop correction to the two-point functions of curvature perturbation in single-field inflation generated by cubic self-interaction. Incorporating the observed red-tilted spectrum of curvature perturbation, the relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-05 Jason Kristiano , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We investigate the one loop effective potential of inflation in a standard model of chaotic inflation. The leading one loop corrections to the effective inflaton potential are evaluated in the quasi de Sitter background, and we estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin S. Sloth

Loop corrections to primordial correlation functions are unavoidable due to the non-linear nature of gravity. Previous works have established a robust framework for computing the renormalised one-loop power spectra of scalar and tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Matteo Braglia , Sebastián Céspedes , Lucas Pinol

Cosmological $\alpha$-attractors stand out as particularly compelling models to describe inflation in the very early universe, naturally meeting tight observational bounds from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Laura Iacconi , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Matteo Fasiello , David Wands

We analytically compute the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations in Type III hilltop inflation models under the slow-roll approximation. The model parameters are constrained using current Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Chia-Min Lin , Harish Dhananjay Nalla , Chen-Pin Yeh , Da-Shin Lee

In this paper we compute 1-loop corrections to the bispectrum in the decoupling limit of the Effective Field Theory of Inflation (EFToI). We regulate the divergences by employing dimensional regularization and work in $d=3+\delta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-11 Supritha Bhowmick , Diptimoy Ghosh , Farman Ullah

The observed power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is consistent with inflationary cosmology, which predicts a nearly scale-invariant power spectrum of quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field as they exit the Hubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonard Parker

In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced secondary gravity waves (SIGW), with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Sayantan Choudhury , M. Sami

We obtain the effective inflaton potential during slow roll inflation by including the one loop quantum corrections to the energy momentum tensor from scalar curvature and tensor perturbations as well as quantum fluctuations from light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We investigate radiative corrections to the inflaton potential from heavy fields undergoing a fast-roll phase transition. We find that a logarithmic one-loop correction to the inflaton potential involving this field can induce a temporary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Rajeev Kumar Jain , McCullen Sandora , Martin S. Sloth

We perform a thorough computation of the one-loop corrections from both scalar and tensor degrees of freedom to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations for non-canonical Lagrangians in single-field inflation. We consider models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Nicola Bartolo , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Alberto Vallinotto

Using the $\delta N$ formalism we calculate the one-loop correction to the large-scale power spectrum of the curvature perturbation in the standard scenario where primordial black holes are formed in the early universe thanks to a phase of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Hassan Firouzjahi , Antonio Riotto

Using the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework of single field inflation, we investigate the possibility of the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) in the Slow Roll (SR) to Ultra Slow Roll (USR) sharp transition. We demonstrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda , M. Sami

We provide an analytical study of the coupling of short and long wavelength fluctuation modes during the initial phase of reheating in two field models like hybrid inflation. In these models, there is - at linear order in perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-20 Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Guillaume Laporte , Robert Brandenberger

Inflation is the leading paradigm for explaining the origin of primordial density perturbations and the observed temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background. However many open questions remain, in particular whether one or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Christian T. Byrnes , Sami Nurmi , David Wands

We investigate loop corrections to the primordial fluctuations in the single-field inflationary paradigm from spectator fields that experience a smooth transition of their vacuum expectation values. We show that when the phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Yi-Peng Wu , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Recently, several papers have claimed that superhorizon curvature perturbations are not conserved at the one-loop level in single-field inflation models if there is a transient ultra-slow-roll period. In this work, we point out that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Keisuke Inomata

We examine the possibility of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation in single-field models of inflation. Using the adiabatic or wave function renormalization scheme in the short-range modes, we show that one-loop correction to the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sayantan Choudhury , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , M. Sami

We present a complete and consistent exposition of the regularization, renormalization, and resummation procedures in the setup of having a contraction and then non-singular bounce followed by inflation with a sharp transition from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Sayantan Choudhury , Ahaskar Karde , Sudhakar Panda , Soumitra SenGupta

We analyze the behavior of linear perturbations in vector inflation. In contrast to the scalar field inflation, the linearized theory with vector fields contains couplings between scalar, vector and tensor modes. The perturbations decouple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Alexey Golovnev , Vitaly Vanchurin