Assisting pre-big bang phenomenology through short-lived axions

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2002-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0206131v3

Phys.Lett. B543 (2002) 14-22

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

14 pages, latex, 1 figure included using epsfig. A few typos corrected, two references added, the figure slightly improved. To

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02387-0

We present the results of a detailed study of how isocurvature axion fluctuations are converted into adiabatic metric perturbations through axion decay, and discuss the constraints on the parameters of pre-big bang cosmology needed for consistency with present CMB-anisotropy data. The large-scale normalization of temperature fluctuations has a non-trivial dependence both on the mass and on the initial value of the axion. In the simplest, minimal models of pre-big bang inflation, consistency with the COBE normalization requires a slightly tilted (blue) spectrum, while a strictly scale-invariant spectrum requires mild modifications of the minimal backgrounds at large curvature and/or string coupling.

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