Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-15
Phys.Rev.D78:023013,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages, 11 figures. Expanded and improved version to appear in Phys Rev D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.023013
Generically,the classical evolution of the inflaton has a brief fast roll stage that precedes the slow roll regime. The fast roll stage leads to a purely attractive potential for the curvature and tensor perturbations (this potential is purely repulsive in slowroll). This attractive potential depresses the CMB quadrupole moment for the curvature and B-mode spectra. A single new cosmological parameter emerges: the comoving wavenumber k_1 characteristic scale of this attractive potential.k_1 happens to exit the horizon precisely at the transition from fast to slowroll.The fastroll stage dynamically modifies the initial power spectrum by a transfer function D(k). We compute D(k) by solving the inflaton evolution equations. D(k) suppresses the primordial power for k < k_1 and enjoys the scaling property D(k) = Psi(k/k_1) where Psi(x) is an universal function. We perform a MCMC analysis of the WMAP/SDSS data including the fast-roll stage and find k_1 = 0.266/Gpc. The quadrupole mode k_Q = 0.242/Gpc exits the horizon 1/10 of an efold before k_1. We compare the fastroll fit with a fit with a sharp lower cutoff on the primordial power. Fastroll provides a slightly better fit than a sharp cutoff for the TT,TE and EE modes.Moreover, our fits provide non-zero lower bounds for r, while for the other cosmological parameters we essentially get those of the LCDM model. The fact that k_Q exits the horizon before the slowroll stage implies an upper bound in the total number of efolds N_{tot} during inflation.Combining this with estimates during the radiation dominated era we obtain N_{tot} ~ 66, with the bounds 62 < N_{tot} < 82.We repeated the analysis with the WMAP-5/ACBAR-2007/SDSS data confirming the overall picture.
de Vega Hector J.
Destri Claudio
Sanchez Norma G.
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