Nongaussianity from Tachyonic Preheating in Hybrid Inflation

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2006-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611750v3

Phys.Rev.D75:086004,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 2 figures. Comments added to introduction

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.086004

In a previous work we showed that large nongaussianities and nonscale-invariant distortions in the CMB power spectrum can be generated in hybrid inflation models, due to the contributions of the tachyon (waterfall) field to the second order curvature perturbation. Here we clarify, correct, and extend those results. We show that large nongaussianity occurs only when the tachyon remains light throughout inflation, whereas n=4 contamination to the spectrum is the dominant effect when the tachyon is heavy. We find constraints on the parameters of warped-throat brane-antibrane inflation from nongaussianity. For F-term and D-term inflation models from supergravity, we obtain nontrivial constraints from the spectral distortion effect. We also establish that our analysis applies to complex tachyon fields.

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