Quantum Cosmological Correlations in an Inflating Universe: Can fermion and gauge fields loops give a scale free spectrum?

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory

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52 pages,v2:changed local report-no,v3 added references, corrected typos, clarified contents, accepted for publication in Phys

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10.1103/PhysRevD.75.063522

This paper extends the calculation of quantum corrections to the cosmological correlation $<\zeta\zeta>$, which has been done by Weinberg for a loop of minimally coupled scalars, to other types of matter loops and a general and realistic potential. It is shown here that departures from scale invariance are never large even when Dirac, vector, and conformal scalar fields are present \emph{during} inflation. No fine tuning is needed, in the sense that effective masses or coupling constants can have arbitrary values. Even when the mass is as large as $M_{Pl}$, the one-loop result is still naturally smaller than the classical one. Thus, the results show that the existence of these fields \emph{during} inflation may not be ruled out and is consistent with natural reheating.

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