Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-06-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
28 pages; to be published in the Lev Lipatov Festschrift on the occasion of Lev's 70th birthday, `Subtleties in Quantum Field
Scientific paper
We present here the effective theory of inflation `a la Ginsburg-Landau in which the inflaton potential is a polynomial. The slow-roll expansion becomes a systematic 1/N expansion where N ~ 60. The spectral index and the ratio of tensor/scalar fluctuations are n_s - 1 = O(1/N), r = O(1/N) while the running turns to be d n_s/d \ln k = O(1/N^2) and can be neglected. The energy scale of inflation M ~ 0.7 10^{16} GeV is completely determined by the amplitude of the scalar adiabatic fluctuations. A complete analytic study plus the Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) analysis of the available CMB+LSS data showed: (a) the spontaneous breaking of the phi -> - phi symmetry of the inflaton potential. (b) a lower bound for r: r > 0.023 (95% CL) and r > 0.046 (68% CL). (c) The preferred inflation potential is a double well, even function of the field with a moderate quartic coupling yielding as most probable values: n_s = 0.964, r = 0.051. This value for r is within reach of forthcoming CMB observations. We investigate the DM properties using cosmological theory and the galaxy observations. Our DM analysis is independent of the particle physics model for DM and it is based on the DM phase-space density rho_{DM}/sigma^3_{DM}. We derive explicit formulas for the DM particle mass m and for the number of ultrarelativistic degrees of freedom g_d (hence the temperature) at decoupling. We find that m turns to be at the keV scale. The keV scale DM is non-relativistic during structure formation, reproduces the small and large scale structure but it cannot be responsible of the e^+ and pbar excess in cosmic rays which can be explained by astrophysical mechanisms (Abridged).
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