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We calculate the two-loop corrections in primordial power spectrum in models of single field inflation incorporating an intermediate USR phase employed for PBHs formation. Among the total eleven one-particle irreducible Feynman diagrams, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-16 Hassan Firouzjahi

We derive the power spectrum $\mathcal P(k)$ of the density perturbations produced during inflation up to second-order corrections in the standard slow-roll approximation for an inflaton with more than one degree of freedom. We also present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jin-Ook Gong , Ewan D. Stewart

We investigate the one-loop quantum correction to the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations in the ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflationary scenario, incorporating the backreaction effect from curvature perturbations. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Cheng-Jun Fang , Zhen-Hong Lyu , Chao Chen , Zong-Kuan Guo

The ability to infer properties of primordial inflation relies on the conservation of the superhorizon perturbations between their exit during inflation, and their re-entry during radiation era. Any considerable departure from this property…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Markus B. Fröb , Dražen Glavan , Paolo Meda , Ignacy Sawicki

We consider the effects of fields with suddenly changing mass on the inflationary power spectra. In this context, when a field becomes light, it will be excited. This process contributes to the tensor power spectrum. We compute these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-17 Daniel Carney , Willy Fischler , Ely D. Kovetz , Dustin Lorshbough , Sonia Paban

In this paper we study slow-roll inflation with holonomy corrections from loop quantum cosmology. Both tensor and scalar power spectra of primordial perturbations are computed up to the first order in slow-roll parameters and $V/\rho_{c}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Jakub Mielczarek

We consider the dynamics of a quantum scalar field in the background of a slow-roll inflating Universe. We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the field and Friedmann equation of motion, in both a 1PI and a 2PI expansion, to leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Matti Herranen , Tommi Markkanen , Anders Tranberg

We compute the one loop corrections from quantum gravity to the self-mass-squared of a massless, minimally coupled scalar on a locally de Sitter background. The calculation was done using dimensional regularization and renormalized by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. O. Kahya , R. P. Woodard

The linear and quadratic perturbations for a scalar-tensor model with non-minimal coupling to curvature, coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant and non-minimal kinetic coupling to the Einstein tensor are developed. The quadratic action for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-24 L. N. Granda , D. F. Jimenez

We investigate perturbations in power-law monomial potentials within inflationary models driven by a single scalar field. By introducing a second term to the original potential, we study how this perturbation influences the slow-roll…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Maria E. S. Antunes , Micol Benetti , Eduardo Bittencourt , Fernando A. Franco

We exploit a new numerical technique for evaluating the tree order contributions to the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra for scalar potential models of inflation. Among other things we use the formalism to develop a good analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 D. J. Brooker , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

The primordial power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations during slow-roll inflation are usually calculated with the method of Bessel function approximation. For constant-roll or ultra slow-roll inflation, the method of Bessel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-09 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong

Recently, we have shown that scalar spectra with lower power on large scales and certain other features naturally occur in {\it punctuated inflation}, i.e. the scenario wherein a brief period of rapid roll is sandwiched between two stages…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Rajeev Kumar Jain , Pravabati Chingangbam , L. Sriramkumar , Tarun Souradeep

We demonstrate that there are no scale-invariant one-loop corrections to the superhorizon tensor perturbations from small-scale (potentially enhanced) scalar perturbations, irrespective of the details of inflationary background time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yohei Ema , Muzi Hong , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida

We calculate the expectation value of the coincident product of two field strength tensors at two loop order in scalar electrodynamics on de Sitter background. The result agrees with the stochastic formulation which we have developed in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomislav Prokopec , Nicholas C. Tsamis , Richard P. Woodard

We propose a general inverse formula for extracting inflationary parameters from the observed power spectrum of cosmological perturbations. Under the general slow-roll scheme, which helps to probe the properties of inflation in a model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Minu Joy , Ewan D. Stewart , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Hyun-Chul Lee

We employ a fully renormalized computation of the one loop contribution to the self-mass-squared of the conformally coupled (CC) scalar interacting with gravitons during inflation to study how inflationary produced gravitons affect the CC…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-12 Sibel Boran , Emre Onur Kahya , Sohyun Park

We exploit a previous computation of the self-mass-squared from quantum gravity to include quantum corrections to the scalar evolution equation. The plane wave mode functions are shown to receive no significant one loop corrections at late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. O. Kahya , R. P. Woodard

We compute the universal generic corrections to the power spectrum in slow-roll inflation due to unknown high-energy physics. We arrive at this result via a careful integrating out of massive fields in the "in-in" formalism yielding a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Mark G. Jackson , Koenraad Schalm

We consider the classical attractor regime of the spectator Abelian Higgs model in power-law inflation, and compute the one-loop corrections to its evolution. For computations we utilize dimensional regularization and the propagators in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Dražen Glavan , Tomislav Prokopec