English
Related papers

Related papers: Non-Gaussianity in multi-field inflation

200 papers

Multiple inflation is a model based on N=1 supergravity wherein there are sudden changes in the mass of the inflaton because it couples to 'flat direction' scalar fields which undergo symmetry breaking phase transitions as the universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Shaun Hotchkiss , Subir Sarkar

Non-Gaussianities of the primordial density perturbations have emerged as a very powerful possible signal to test the dynamics that drove the period of inflation. While in general the most sensitive observable is the three-point function in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga

We study the bispectrum of the curvature perturbation on uniform energy density hypersurfaces in models of inflation with two scalar fields evolving simultaneously. In the case of a separable potential, it is possible to compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Filippo Vernizzi , David Wands

We have studied modulated inflation that generates curvature perturbation from light-field fluctuation. As discussed in previous works, even if the fluctuation of the inflaton itself does not generate the curvature perturbation at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomohiro Matsuda

We compute analytic expressions for the non-linearity parameters characterizing the bi- and tri-spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations generated during an inflationary epoch of the early universe driven by an arbitrary number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-04 Diana Battefeld , Thorsten Battefeld

The generation of non-gaussianity is studied in a three fluid curvaton model. By utilizing second order perturbation theory we derive general formulae for the large scale temperature fluctuation and non-gaussianity parameter, $f_{NL}$, that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Tuomas Multamaki , Jani Sainio , Iiro Vilja

Using the "$\delta N$-formalism", We obtain the expression of the non-Gaussianity of multiple-field inflationary models with the nontrivial field-space metric. Further, we rewritten the result by using the slow-rolling approximation.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Y. Sun , D. H. Zhang

These notes present a detailed introduction to Maldacena's calculation of the three-point function generated by the simplest class of inflationary models: those with a single inflaton field whose potential satisfies the slow-roll conditions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-02 Hael Collins

We perform a general study of the primordial scalar non-Gaussianities in multi-field inflationary models in Einstein gravity. We consider models governed by a Lagrangian which is a general function of the scalar fields and their first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Xian Gao

Inflating curvaton can create curvature perturbation when the curvaton density is slowly varying. Using the delta-N formalism, we discuss the evolution of the curvature perturbation during curvaton inflation and find analytic formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-26 Seishi Enomoto , Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Matsuda

This contribution discusses isocurvature modes, in particular the non-Gaussianities of local type generated by these modes. Since the isocurvature transfer functions differ from the adiabatic one, the coexistence of a primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 David Langlois

We explore the superhorizon generation of large fnl of the local form in two field inflation. We calculate the two- and three-point observables in a general class of potentials which allow for an analytic treatment using the delta N…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Joel Meyers , Navin Sivanandam

We consider a class of multi-component hybrid inflation models whose evolution may be analytically solved under the slow-roll approximation. We call it multi-brid inflation (or $n$-brid inflation where $n$ stands for the number of inflaton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Misao Sasaki

Interactions between the inflaton and any additional fields can lead to isolated bursts of particle production during inflation (for example from parametric resonance or a phase transition). Inflationary particle production leaves localized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 Neil Barnaby

We clarify the role of gauge invariance for the computation of quantum non-Gaussian correlators in inflation. A gauge invariant generating functional for n-point functions is given and the special status of the spatially flat gauge is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-11 Gerasimos Rigopoulos

We characterise the primordial perturbations produced due to both inflaton and curvaton fluctuations in models where the curvaton has a quadratic, cosine or hyperbolic potential, and the inflaton potential is characterised by the usual…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 José Fonseca , David Wands

Non-attractor inflation is known as the only single field inflationary scenario that can violate non-Gaussianity consistency relation with the Bunch-Davies vacuum state and generate large local non-Gaussianity. However, it is also known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 Yi-Fu Cai , Xingang Chen , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Misao Sasaki , Dong-Gang Wang , Ziwei Wang

The effect of self-interactions of heavy scalar fields during inflation on the primordial non-Gaussianity is studied. We take a specific constant-turn quasi-single field inflation as an example. We derive an effective theory with emphasis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

In the present paper, we study the non-Gaussianity of multiple-field inflation model using the method of the field equation. We start from reviewing the background and the perturbation theory of multiple-field inflation, and then derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-04 Shi-Wen Li , Wei Xue

Two-field slow-roll inflation is the most conservative modification of a single-field model. The main motivations to study it are its entropic mode and non-Gaussianity. Several years ago, for a two-field model with additive separable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-24 Tower Wang