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COSMOS-${\it e}'$-GTachyon from String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-05-23 v4 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this article, our prime objective is to study the inflationary paradigm from generalized tachyon (GTachyon) living on the world volume of a non-BPS string theory. The tachyon action is considered here is getting modified compared to the original action. One can quantify the amount of the modification via a power qq instead of 1/21/2 in the effective action. Using this set up we study inflation from various types of tachyonic potentials, using which we constrain the index qq within, 1/2<q<21/2<q<2, Regge slope α\alpha^{'}, string coupling constant gsg_{s} and mass scale of tachyon MsM_s, from the recent Planck 2015 and Planck+BICEP2/Keck Array joint data. We explicitly study the inflationary consequences from single field, assisted field and multi-field tachyon set up. Specifically for single field and assisted field case we derive the results in the quasi-de-Sitter background in which we will utilize the details of cosmological perturbations and quantum fluctuations. Also we derive the expressions for all inflationary observables using any arbitrary vacuum and Bunch-Davies vacuum. For single field and assisted field case we derive-the inflationary flow equations, new sets of consistency relations. Also we derive the field excursion formula for tachyon, which shows that assisted inflation is in more safer side compared to the single field case to validate effective field theory framework. Further we study the features of CMB Angular power spectrum from TT, TE and EE correlations from scalar fluctuations within the allowed range of qq for each potentials from single field set-up. We also put constraints from the temperature anisotropy and polarization spectra, which shows that our analysis is consistent with the Planck 2015 data. Finally, using δN\delta N formalism we derive the expressions for inflationary observables in the context of multi-field tachyons.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05734,
  title  = {COSMOS-${\it e}'$-GTachyon from String Theory},
  author = {Sayantan Choudhury and Sudhakar Panda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05734},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

206 pages, 26 figures, 1 table, Final version, Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal C

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