Primordial non-Gaussianity from two curvaton decays

Details Primordial non-Gaussianity from two curvaton decays Primordial non-Gaussianity from two curvaton decays

2007-08-01

arxiv.org/abs/0708.0223v1

Phys.Rev.D76:103003,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

20 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.103003

We study a model where two scalar fields, that are subdominant during inflation, decay into radiation some time after inflation has ended but before primordial nucleosynthesis. Perturbations of these two curvaton fields can be responsible for the primordial curvature perturbation. We write down the full non-linear equations that relate the primordial perturbation to the curvaton perturbations on large scales, calculate the power spectrum of the primordial perturbation, and finally go to second order to find the non-linearity parameter, fNL. We find large positive values of fNL if the energy densities of the curvatons are sub-dominant when they decay, as in the single curvaton case. But we also find a large fNL even if the curvatons dominate the total energy density in the case when the inhomogeneous radiation produced by the first curvaton decay is diluted by the decay of a second nearly homogeneous curvaton. The minimum value min(fNL)=-5/4 which we find is the same as in the single-curvaton case.

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