Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-07-31
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 123512
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.123512
We study the dynamics and perturbations during inflation and reheating in a multi-field model where a second scalar field $\chi$ is nonminimally coupled to the scalar curvature $(\frac12 \xi R\chi^2$). When $\xi$ is positive, the usual inflationary prediction for large-scale anisotropies is hardly altered while the $\chi$ fluctuation in sub-Hubble modes can be amplified during preheating for large $\xi$. For negative values of $\xi$, however, long-wave modes of the $\chi$ fluctuation exhibit exponential increase during inflation, leading to the strong enhancement of super-Hubble metric perturbations even when $|\xi|$ is less than unity. This is because the effective $\chi$ mass becomes negative during inflation. We constrain the strength of $\xi$ and the initial $\chi$ by the amplitude of produced density perturbations. One way to avoid nonadiabatic growth of super-Hubble curvature perturbations is to stabilize the $\chi$ mass through a coupling to the inflaton. Preheating may thus be necessary in these models to protect the stability of the inflationary phase.
Tsujikawa Shinji
Yajima Hiroki
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