Oscillations in the inflaton potential?

Details Oscillations in the inflaton potential? Oscillations in the inflaton potential?

2008-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/0807.0322v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages RevTeX4 with 6 figures incorporated

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.083503

We consider a class of inflationary models with small oscillations imprinted on an otherwise smooth inflaton potential. These oscillations are manifest as oscillations in the power spectrum of primordial perturbations, which then give rise to oscillating departures from the standard cosmic microwave background power spectrum. We show that current data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe constrain the amplitude of a sinusoidal variation in the inflaton potential to have an amplitude less than 3 x 10^{-5}. We anticipate that the smallest detectable such oscillations in Planck will be roughly an order of magnitude smaller, with slight improvements possible with a post-Planck cosmic-variance limited experiment.

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