18th International Symposium on Particles Strings and Cosmology | |
Density perturbations from curvatons revisited | |
Kobayashi, Takeshi^1,2 | |
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada^1 | |
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada^2 | |
关键词: Density perturbation; Key feature; Non-uniform; Nongaussianity; Second orders; Systematic framework; | |
Others : https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/485/1/012018/pdf DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/485/1/012018 |
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来源: IOP | |
【 摘 要 】
We investigate density perturbations sourced by a curvaton with a generic energy potential. The key feature of a curvaton potential which deviates from a quadratic is that the curvaton experiences a non-uniform onset of its oscillation. This sources additional contributions to the resulting density perturbations, and we especially find that curvaton potentials that are flatter compared to a quadratic lead to enhancement of the linear and second-order density perturbations, while steepened potentials can generate strongly scale-dependent non-Gaussianity. As such examples, we study pseudo-Nambu- Goldstone curvatons and self-interacting curvatons. Our analyses are analytic, and thus provide a systematic framework for studying curvatons in general. The discussion in this paper are based on [1, 2].
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