Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-03-18
Pramana62:749-752,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, 4 figures; presented at PASCOS 03, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Scientific paper
10.1007/BF02705362
We investigate the possibility that fields coupled to the inflaton can influence the primordial spectrum of density perturbations through their coherent motion. For example, the second field in hybrid inflation might be oscillating at the beginning of inflation rather than at the minimum of its potential. Although this effect is washed out if inflation lasts long enough, we note that there can be up to 30 e-foldings of inflation prior to horizon crossing of COBE fluctuations while still giving a potentially visible distortion. Such pumping of the inflaton fluctuations by purely conventional physics can resemble transPlanckian effects which have been widely discussed. The distortions which they make to the CMB could leave a distinctive signature which differs from generic effects like tilting of the spectrum.
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